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Amachi
Omenihu is an artist from West Africa. His acrylic paintings of the African Dispora
are rich in colors and simplistic, as in the folk art genre. His compositions are decorative and
reflect
traditional social values of the continent’s West Coast people.
It is necessary to
suspend with the usual
criteria that art academia uses to understand the work of folk artists.
The subtleties of elaborate composition,
technique mastery and sophisticated organization are only sometimes the
concerns of the folk artists, although they are often achieved.
Folk art makes its appeal directly and
intimately, even to people unaware of the requirements of academic art.
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