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🌍”Neo-Africa”: The Definition if African Art by Nigerian Mix-Media Artist



Dennis Osadebe is a Nigerian mixed-media artist best known for his vibrant post-pop style.
Osadebe’s style is a unique blend of digital processes which he uses to create canvases that are subsequently layered with acrylic paint.
With his characteristic use of flattened planes and bold colours, the artist creates what he refers to as a “NEO” visual style, one that is “modern, bright, expressive and provocative”.

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The Fashion of Sapeur

Fashion is of course a visual game and visual enjoyment, but what makes people addicted to fashion is not only the appearance, but the most important thing is that it represents a way of life and attitude.
 
To be stylish is a classic rule in the bible of fashion. In Africa, to be stylish in the Democratic of Congo is to be a Sapeur.
This subculture of well-dressed men and a few women is a sight to behold- and a cultural phenomenon unique to the region.
The Sapeur culture is firmly rooted in both Brazzaville and Kinshasa which are separated by the Congo River.
Life as a Sapeur is nothing but extravagant fashion lifestyle.
 
The Sapeurs take their name from the acronym for their group:SAPE, meaning is “the society of Tastemakers and Elegant people and “persons who create ambience.”
 
It can be traced back to the French colonial era in the end of the 19th century.
At that time, some colonists thought it suitable to pay their workers in second hand clothes instead of money.
And then, as an African historian notes in his study , those taste-cultivated workers spurned these second-hand clothes and became fervent connoisseurs and consumers, spending much their hard-working money to acquire the latest fashion from Paris.
Actually, this kind of style can be seen as anti-colonial attitude: these Congolese fashion pioneers get inspired from the Jazz Age and early 20th century European aesthetic at the very begining,and then they made the style all their own. As Tom Downey said on the Wall Street Journal:" these spectacular outfits with striking matching and colorful coordination that few people on the isles of Britannia would have the courage to attempt. "
 

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