Yusuf Grilo

 For the past months of my uni course studying under the module traditional and digital practice we have have been looking at concepts such as Health and Medicine , Looking outwards and Fantasy which relates to our big project that we have to do relating to one of those concepts , there was no limitation to what media we could use to produce our work which was brilliant for me because I don’t like to be limited in my practice. I decided I wanted to do something Photography based and relate it to my contextual Studies and go with a fantasy and my original idea was to create a Gothic style Last Supper due it being near Halloween and I know people who dress in that attire however what went wrong is the  Lockdown restrictions and having the area I live in and the location of the uni being in a higher restriction level so unfortunately things did not go to plan which made me struggle with what I can do for the project.  With a stroke of luck an idea formed in my head with the ...

 In the first week of starting my university course my group was introduced to the contextual studies module and the first thing we learnt is the western canon and for those who know of western canon knows that it means that the canon is the collection of art deemed by critics and historians to be the very best art produced in Northern America and Europe. My group looked at names of the time periods of art such as Nouveau , realism, romanticism and Baroque amongst other names then tasked to look at contemporary media inspired by the certain past art movements and compare them so in this blog we are going to look at four art movements and compare the aesthetics to the contemporary media.                          1. Romanticism - Caspar David Friedrich ,Wanderer above the sea and fog 1818.                                      ...

 As an upcoming freelancer networking is a valuable asset to have as it markets your creative services to potential clients and when we think of networking we instantly think of the digital approach to networking which of course is the way to go because majority of your demographic the people you are offering your creative services to use a social media platform it’s become a crucial thing in society that we use social media to communicate , to keep up to date with the latest trends such as the current events happening in the world but we can use social media as networking platform for ourselves to promote and gain productivity and hopefully profit.  Now there are two websites that I’m reading and these particular websites are targeted to those who are wanting to help themselves network so of course they’re self help websites now one of them being targeted at web designers doesn’t really appeal to me since I don’t specialise in web design even though I have worked on some as p...

Last week in contextual studies my class was assigned to watch videos individually and learn and show examples of the seven technical words such as Line, Form , Colour , Value , Shape , Space and Texture having being assigned the word value I had no idea  what it was but just a rough idea and coming from a media background of course I know the six other words because they’re  self explanatory and when watching the video on the word value and looking at examples I definitely had the wrong idea on what Value means in art .  My rough idea was the pricing value of the art if it were to be sold at auction and if the art piece has a high value to be sold at a set price but no but watching the video I realised I have come across it without knowing the word and used value in my photographic editing a few times in the past and for example for those who do not know of the word value in art it is just a scale or gradient that shows shows the gradual contrast of light and dark and fo...

 Known for his inventive works and the prominence of the colour blue in many of his paintings Yusuf Grillo  a Nigerian contemporary artist is still a valued member of the Nigerian art society due to his paintings being relevant in modern day in Nigeria with and heavily stylised having the characteristics of elongating the figures of who is painting which are easily identified by their slimness, elegance and grace which, according to him, it represents the contemporary ideal of beauty in an urban setting.                                         Grillo.Y  ( 2019) The day Lagos stood still image [ Online]  https://luxuryreporter.ng/tag/yusuf-grillo/  Accessed 5/11/2020 For those who are reading this blog why am I doing a piece on Yusuf Grillo? To answer that question it’s well for one educational purposes for myself and hopefully you to whoever is reading this w...