A STUDY OF SELECTED ARTISTS FROM FINE ARTS DEPARTMENT AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY ZARIA AND THEIR CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF CONTEMPORARY ART IN NIGERIA (1981-2002)

📄 Project Abstract

This thesis is based on twelve-selected artist from fine Arts Department, Ahmadu Bello University who graduated from 1981 - 2002. The selected artists were chosen out of twenty five artists who were sent questionnaires based on their performance in their post graduate activities. Such artists have acquired great technical experience in the art of which they currently practice. The themes, styles and messages of their works are some times socio-cultural, Scio-economical or sociopolitical. Despite the various efforts by such artists the art scene over the years, there is still inadequate literature to show these efforts. Therefore most of these artists remain unknown in their professional fields either as sculptors or painters. - 7 - The only available literatures on these artists are from a few exhibition catalogues, art journals and thesis; which was used for the literature review. Chapter three of the thesis deals with the methods used to collect data, field work were under taking. Af...