Lecture Note: Yinka Shonibare
Yinka Shonibare is a British-Nigerian artist. He was born in London, 1962.He is an artist that work on variety of form including painting, film, sculpture, photograph and installations. Shonibare moved to Nigeria when he was 3 then he returned to London at the age of 16 to finish high school and continue his master in Fine Art.
In his career as an artist, he created a series of 5 photographs named " Dairy of a Victorian Dandy". He found this inspiration when he visited museum and saw lot of Victorian customs. Shonibare works are mostly reflect on society.This is a photo in one of this series which he playing as a dandy. This series demonstrates Shinobare's identification as a outsider or foreigner who is in highest levels of society.
Shonibare started to create authetic African art which was his teacher opinion. Soon enough he found his inspiration in Brixton, London which he found some African fabrics. Double-dutch was one of his first artwork that he made. Double-dutch refers to the minimalist movement's use of reflection and the grid.
Shonibare won the prestigious paul hamlin award in 1998.
The Crowning (2007) is a mixed-media sculpture which influence African authentic by using african fabric textile and emblazoned with well-known luxury brand Chanel.
After, Shonibare started to create artwork that focus on environmental issues. Fire kid(Girl) 2020 is a sculpture with globe head which describes as Climate change.
Overall, after I learned about his artworks, I am very admire and impress on how he artworks created and where he get his inspiration from. I am very admired Shinobare so much because he is an artist who is disable but he still work and created lot of beautiful works. Even he is disable but he will not let his disability stop him from what he wanted to do. His works are very inspired me to continues achieve my goal and by looking including researching on his artworks I got to know that I can get inspiration from a lot of things such as culture, environment, society and so on. In my project, I can get some inspiration from his artwork such as I can use textile which influence by culture and environment.
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