February 3rd: Girl at River. Elisha Ongere

"My themes mainly are African faces...women...maybe a few are men. But the majority are women because beauty is expressed here in Africa through the woman. We don't express beauty using a man. We express beauty by portraying a woman. A woman's beauty often involves their expressions, especially in the eyes. So that's why the majority of my paintings are featuring women exactly as they are."- Elisha Ongere

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Beautiful African Art!Learn more about this artist.
Artist:  Elisha Ongere (Kenya)
Title: Girl at River
Dimensions: 14" x 18" (35 x 46 cm)
Medium: Oils on Canvas
Price: $399

http://www.trueafricanart.com/african-artists/elisha-ongere-biography.html

 "In my African paintings, I'm just trying to bring in our continent's natural state of being: unrefined, unpolished. You know, African art and African artists are not frequently refined artists, like it is in European art. That theme of bringing African fine art is not actually our approach all the time. The usual African approach is simply, you put down what you think, what you visualize, and there is no demand for that refinement behind it. It is simply recording the idea...maybe what you have seen, what you would like to feature. And you limit it at that, you don't dive for that fineness. It is just simply doing the African painting, recording it, and then you move ahead and you do another."- Elisha Ongere