1970s onwards · Federal Polytechnic, Auchi, Edo State · Nigeria
Auchi School (colourism)
The movement
Auchi School (colourism)
1970s onwards · Federal Polytechnic, Auchi, Edo State · Nigeria
The art school of the Federal Polytechnic, Auchi, known across Nigeria for "colourism": pictures built from bold, saturated colour rather than line. Its graduates are among the most collected painters in the Nigerian market.
What to look for
Rich, saturated colour; palette knife and thick paint; expressive, broken brushwork; figures and crowds dissolving into colour.
Works of the school
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