Aro Oniomo
Print
1972 (made)
1972 (made)
Artist/Maker | |
Place of origin |
Bruce Onobrakpeya is a renowned printmaker who has been notably influential on a younger generation of Nigerian artists including Tayo Quaye. This colour ‘etching’ is technically ambitious and assured with a dramatic melding of distinctively African styles and motifs within a western pictorial model and using a sophisticated printing process not generally associated with African printmakers who have traditionally preferred woodcut and lino-cut. The technique of this print, described as ‘deep etching’, was invented by Onobrakpeya himself. It is not in fact etching, but engraving on a surface of epoxy resin. The process results in a pronounced sculptural effect (or as the artist describes it, a low relief) in the finished print.
Object details
Category | |
Object type | |
Title | Aro Oniomo (assigned by artist) |
Materials and techniques | Deep etching (relief print) |
Brief description | Bruce Onobrakpeya: Aro Oniomo, 1972. Deep etching |
Physical description | Colour print on paper |
Dimensions |
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Copy number | 1/15 |
Marks and inscriptions | 1/15 Aro Oniomo Deep etching Bruce Onobrakpeya, Lagos, August 1972 (Edition number; title; medium; signature; place of production; date. All in pencil.) |
Credit line | Bequeathed by Jean Alero Thomas through Art Fund |
Subjects depicted | |
Summary | Bruce Onobrakpeya is a renowned printmaker who has been notably influential on a younger generation of Nigerian artists including Tayo Quaye. This colour ‘etching’ is technically ambitious and assured with a dramatic melding of distinctively African styles and motifs within a western pictorial model and using a sophisticated printing process not generally associated with African printmakers who have traditionally preferred woodcut and lino-cut. The technique of this print, described as ‘deep etching’, was invented by Onobrakpeya himself. It is not in fact etching, but engraving on a surface of epoxy resin. The process results in a pronounced sculptural effect (or as the artist describes it, a low relief) in the finished print. |
Collection | |
Accession number | E.498-2015 |
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Record created | September 3, 2015 |
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