African Bride
Date
circa 2007
Credits
- Eyitayo Tolulope Ijisakin Illustrator
Format
- Fine Art 31
Type of Work
- Finished work 5261
Eyitayo Tolulope Ijisakin is an art historian and artist who offered the first comprehensive study of printmaking in his country. Receiving his PhD from Ghana he then incorporated the ideology of identity and individualism in his works. His piece African Bride (2007) uses symbolism through coloristic language to represent the Yoruba conceptions and the expected role that women play in marriage.
https://www.carnegie.org/our-work/article/visual-activism-africa-new-storytellers/
Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria