Through his works, he commonly portrays scenes from everyday life as well as mythical concepts....
Born 1930.
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- A native of Sabongida Ora in Edo State, Nigerian modernist Solomon Irein Wangboje was one of the earliest graduates of the Zaria Art Department, and denotes the beginnings of the institution.
"Zaria" has since become synonymous with a significant new direction in the history of contemporary Nigerian art, with the formation of the Zaria Arts Society in 1958, whose members included Uche Okeke, Demas Nwoko, Bruce Onobrakpeya and Yusuf Grillo.
The Society sought to reconsider the relationship between academic Western art and indigenous art traditions, calling for the merging of Western artistic techniques and local inspirations, often environmental. Their accompanying theory of Natural Synthesis became pivotal to the development of contemporary art in Nigeria and the Art Society strove to give Zaria the ideological, nationalistic direction it lacked, in contrast to the imposed colonialist educational agenda.
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