The Village Girl Print

Akinwunmi Ayodeji Akinsanya is an abstract painter. For Akinwunmi the act of creation is one of invention, exploration and experimentation. Akinwunmi has a natural ability to translate his thoughts and emotions into visual language unique to himself. He is developing his creative skills as he paints, gaining hands on experience with the materials and his technique as well as fine turning his intuition and aesthetic as he goes along. The range of lines, form, color and scale found throughout his work reflects this stage of Akinwunmi's artistic development and allows an insight view into his life and his world of Arts. ''ART TO ME IS LIFE AND LIFE IS ART. ART PERMEATE ALL AREAS OF LIFE. IT IS BEAUTIFUL AND WORTH CELEBRATING''. ''ENJOY IT'' ''I PAINT WHAT I SEE, WHAT I FEEL AND WHAT I THINK. MOST TIMES I PAINT WHAT I THINK I SEE AND FEEL. ''I CHOOSE MY COLORS BASE ON MY INTUITION. AT TIMES THE COLORS COULD BE SYMBOLIC IN MEANINGS BASED ON THE CONTENT AND CONTEXT OF A PARTICULAR WORK'' ''I'M A POLYCHROME ARTIST, I ENJOY ALL HUES; THE JUXTAPOSING OF COLORS TO FORM AN EQUILIBRIUM FLOW OF HUES WHEN VIEW IN A BODY OF A WORK'' ''I PAINT ABSTRACT BECAUSE I AM AN AFRICAN ARTIST. ''AFRICAN ART IS PREDOMINANTLY ABSTRACT IN NATURE'' ''THE EARLY WOODEN AFRICAN SCULPTURES ATTEST TO THIS FACT'' ''THE BEAUTY IN ABSTRACT ART IS THE INTELLECT IN IT'' ''IN TERM OF TECHNIQUE MY STYLE IS UNIQUE'' THOUGH SOME IMAGERY IN MY PAINTINGS ARE STRONGLY INFLUENCED BY AFRICAN SCULPTURAL FORMS AND CONCEPTUALIZATION. (MOST IN PARTICULAR FROM THE YORUBA CULTURE IN THE SUB-SAHARA AFRICA) '' MY WORK TITLES ARE ORIGINATED FROM 'YORUBA ' IDIOMS, POETRY AND TRADITIONS. ''IN PRINCIPLE AN ARTIST NEED TO BE FREE FROM ALL KINDS OF INHIBITION AS WITH ONLY AN OPEN MIND CAN AN ARTIST ACHIEVE A CLARITY OF VISION AND PURPOSE. ''I SEE MYSELF AS AN EMERGING ARTIST'' IF GIVEN THE RIGHT OPPORTUNITY WILL DEFINITELY ACHIEVE GREATER HEIGHT IN THE FUTURE