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Ben Agbee Quotes

born 1966 Ghana

Benjamin Agbenyega, known as Ben Agbee (born 1966), is a Ghanaian painter who integrates traditional Ghanaian cultural motifs with contemporary artistic expressions.

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The negative impacts and distractions of Western influences.

I enjoy creating layered, intricate and detailed textures, colour relationships, and intricate, intimate details in a piece especially accented in my portraits. To paint is to be alive.

It is the love of African ways of life, the natural environment, extended families and strong communities that my paintings depict.

There is natural power in our earthy relationships among people.

My work captures the seasons of life and its passing phases, how they impact us. I believe that art indeed is my first language and I speak it fluently!

Look back to the Motherland to see its future.

My work thinks about the future. I am invested in Africa's incredible energy, vibrancy, our history and how it informs the present and our future.

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Ben Agbee (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.