Artist: Adekunle Makanjuola Adegborioye
Date: 1996
Size: 71 x 43 cm
Museum: Yemisi Shyllon Museum of Art (Lagos, Nigeria)
Technique: Gouache
Born in 1966, Kunle Adegborioye is a Nigerian post-war and contemporary painter. He studied painting at the Yaba College of Technology, Lagos and printmaking in the UK. He was greatly influenced by the growing urbanization and the political modifications ongoing in the period of the 1980s. This period was significant to his career as an artist as it caught him between two worlds, Nigeria and Britain where he lived. Thus, he creates works which express his nostalgia for his home country Nigeria as well as other ideas of significance. In The Birds of Paradise, he portrays five parrots in a surrealistic fashion. Their cluster in a certain position leaves much to the viewer’s imagination. The repeated pattern of leaves creates a mass of foliage and shrubs. The artist employs the use of controlled strokes in depicting the leaves which the feathers of the birds easily blend in with although it is of a different color. The eyes of the birds take a sneak peek at the viewer as they stare in blunt confusion.
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