PIONEER OF ART/ART EDUCATION IN NIGERIA...LATE CHIEF AINA ONABOLU

Aina Onabolu

 He was a pioneering Nigerian modern Arts teacher and painter who was an important figure in the introduction of arts into the curriculum of secondary schools in the country.

Late Chief Aina Onabolu was also the major figure in Nigeria that promoted the drawing of environmental forms in a verisimilitudinous style and was known for his early modern work in portraiture.

2017 SUMMER ACTIVITIES IN PICTURES

The summer break is a period and avenue for students to have fun and relax from academic stress faced for a whole year. However, it is a period to learn vocational skills in order to be useful now and most importantly in the future to themselves, nation and the world at large. The images you see here are evidence of some of the  activities that took place during this years summer coaching.

LETTERING

Lettering graphic design and typography, lettering refers to the creation of hand-drawn letters to apply to an object or surface.^[1][2][3][4]

In art,

Lettering includes calligraphy and lettering for purposes such as blueprints and comic books, as well as decorative lettering such assign painting and creating custom lettering graphics, for instance on posters, for aletterhead or business wordmark, lettering in stone or graffiti.^[5] Lettering may be drawn or applied using stencils.^[6][7]

Brush lettering practice by artist Emmanuel Sevilla.

In the past, almost all decorative lettering other than that on paper was created as custom or hand-painted lettering; the use of fonts in place of lettering has increased due to new printing methods and phototypesettingand digital typesetting, which allow fonts to be printed at any desired

HISTORY OF CAVE PAINTINGS/PARIETAL ART

Cueva de las Manos located Perito Moreno,Argentina. The art in the cave dates between 13,000-9,000 BP

Cave paintings (also known as "parietal art") are painted drawings on cave walls or ceilings, mainly of prehistoric origin, dated to some 40,000 years ago (around 38,000 BCE) in Eurasia. The exact purpose of thePaleolithic cave paintings is not known. Evidence suggests that they were not merely decorations of living areas since the caves in which they have been found do not have signs of ongoing habitation. They are also often located in areas of caves that are not easily accessible. Some theories hold that cave paintings may have been a way of communicating with others, while other theories ascribe a religious or ceremonial purpose to them. The paintings are remarkably similar around the world, with animals being common subjects that give the most impressive images. Humans mainly appear as images of hands, mostly hand stencils made by blowing pigment on a hand held to the wall.

The earliest known cave paintings/drawings of animals are at least 35,000 years old and were found in caves in the district of Maros, located in Bantimurung district, South Sulawesi, Indonesia, according to datings announced in 2014. Previously it was believed that the earliest paintings were in Europe.^[1]The earliest figurative paintings in Europe date back to the Aurignacian period, approximately 30,000 to 32,000 years ago, and are found in the Chauvet Cave in France, and in the Coliboaia Cave in Romania.^[2] The earliest non-figurative rock art dates back to approximately 40,000 years ago, the date given both to a disk in the El Castillo cave and a hand stencil in Timpuseng cave Sulawesi, Indonesia. There are similar later paintings in Africa, Australia and South America, continuing until recent times in some places, though there is a worldwide tendency for open air rock art to succeed paintings deep in caves.