What about 2 by Oluwafemi Akanmu Explore Mondoir Studio Medium: Charcoal and acrylic on canvas Dimensions: 30 x 30 in Year: 2024 Price: $1300.00 USD Status: available This piece celebrates the beauty of African women their strength and self belief Why collect this work?A frontal, nearly symmetrical portrait sets the sitter’s steady gaze against two competing pattern fields, making composure rather than anecdote the work’s central subject. Akanmu states that his practice emphasizes the dignity of Black identity and stories of resilience. Here, that intention is carried by the sitter’s direct presentation and self-possessed expression, without narrative props.In the photograph, the dark, rounded hair encloses the face like a broad frame. Dense pink and red marks press forward behind it, while the blue-and-white garment establishes a second, more orderly pattern below.The documented charcoal and acrylic medium permits a useful division of roles: charcoal can support subtle tonal modelling in the face, while acrylic can sustain the flatter, opaque shapes surrounding it. The photograph suggests this contrast, but cannot confirm surface texture or exact colour.For a collection examining contemporary portraiture, What about 2 provides a focused case study in how pattern can assert cultural presence without supplying a fixed symbolic code. Its tension lies between individual likeness and graphic structure. About the ArtistOluwafemi Akanmu Oluwafemi Akanmu is an artist on Mondoir Studio. Artistic discipline: painting. Based in Ibadan, NG. Nationality: Nigerian Through my art, I intentionally highlight the richness of African culture and its enduring beauty, with particular emphasis on the dignity and...
