Use Of Non-Paint Media By Artists In Southwestern Nigeria

Olugbenga Oladeji ABOKEDE

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This paper is an examination of non-paint media by artists in Southwestern Nigeria. Extant literature shows that only few known contemporary artists venture into the use of non-paint media. Moreover, this form of art has not received adequate scholarly attention perhaps because the experiment is time consuming and the execution is strenuous. The study analyses paintings executed with non-paint media sourced from abandoned industrially generated materials. Direct field study and descriptive methodologies were adopted for this study. The study covers Southwestern Nigeria. Eight art institutions in the study area constituted sample frame while three (3) art institutions were choosen as sample size. Thirty (30) respondents were selected from the choosen art institutions. One hundred and fifty (150) paintings were also randomly selected while ten percent (10%) which is fifteen (15) non-paint media works were selected for the analysis.  Result of the analysis indicates that pictorial composition, rectangular shape, medium size and expressionism dominate form, genres and style of the paintings in southwestern Nigeria.


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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.52155/ijpsat.v30.1.3980

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