Artist: John Okechukwu Ugoji
Date: 1951
Size: 50 x 41 cm
Museum: Yemisi Shyllon Museum of Art (Lagos, Nigeria)
Technique: Gouache
J.O Ugoji was a modern Nigerian artist born in Mbawsi, Imo State in 1917. He was part of the early modernists trained to be an art educator by the British trainer, Kenneth Murray in Umuahia in the 1930’s. Before that he had studied art at Uyo Teacher Training College. He went on to obtain a Diploma in audiovisual graphic art from Ohio University Education Project Centre, Ibadan. Not much is recorded about Ugoji as an artist, as he spent the larger part of his career as an educator teaching in different schools/colleges across the east, west and southern parts of the country between 1941 and 1957. Thus, his service was instrumental in spreading the canon of modern art across the country in the 20th century. As an artist, he had two notable solo exhibitions in Ibadan (1951) and at the Exhibition Centre, Marina, Lagos (1953) and also participated in some group exhibitions including the The Living Art of the Igbo, Institute of African Studies, University of Nigeria, Nsukka (1977) among others. He was posthumously inducted as a Fellow of the Asele Insitute, Nimo in 1985.In The Landscape, he portrays houses scattered around in different patterns while a storey building sits at a far corner in the background of the work. The vibrant colours of green, blue, yellow and brown makes the scene a delightful and colourful view to the eyes.
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