Twins Seven Seven

Twins Seven Seven, born Omoba Taiwo Olaniyi Oyewale-Toyeje Oyelale Osuntoki (3 May 1944 – 16 June 2011), was a Nigerian painter, sculptor and musician. He was an itinerant singer and dancer before he began his career as an artist, first attending in 1964 an Mbari Mbayo workshop conducted by Ulli Beier and Georgina Beier in Osogbo. Twins Seven Seven went on to become one of the best known artists of the Osogbo School.https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Twins_Seven_Seven&action=edit Quotes No, I don't want to risk being influenced by anyone else. All I am doing is in me already. I am not going to sit down in a studio and learn to mix colors like a European painter.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twins_Seven_Seven?hl=en-US#:~:text=He%20attempted%20to%20avoid%20exposing%20himself%20to,to%20mix%20colors%20like%20an%20European%20painter.%22 Art belongs to another world entirely.https://creativepinellas.org/magazine/the-world-of-prince-twins-seven-seven/?hl=en-US#:~:text=Mixed%20Media%20works%20%E2%80%93%20photo%20courtesy%20of,my%20mythological%20thinking%E2%80%A6%E2%80%9D%20said%20Prince%20Twins%20Seven%2DSeven. I follow my dreams. I follow my mythological thinking...https://creativepinellas.org/magazine/the-world-of-prince-twins-seven-seven/?hl=en-US When we were very young, they used to make us sit under a tree, under the Moon, and tell us stories, stories that can educate you from not doing bad things… You see, all these stories… I never knew at the time, I'd been given a goldmine." Because sometimes, as an artist, you create things that, by the time you finish, you ask yourself, 'Now, how did I do this?'" References