Wednesday, October 15, 2008

To Paint is to Remember

African modernist painter Ib Ndiaye dies having lived a long and busy life, where he went out into the world, remembered, and came home.

Is he one of the greats? No, but he was a master, mixing a realist sensibility, with baroque like drawing technique that focused on the tension between lines, and washes of shadow.

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