Ablade Glover

Ablade Glover FGA FRSA CV (born 1934) is a Ghanaian painter and educator. He has exhibited widely, building an international reputation over several decades, as well as being regarded as a seminal figure on the West African art scene.[1] His work is held in many prestigious private and public collections, which include the Imperial Palace of Japan, the UNESCO headquarters in Paris, France, and O'Hare International Airport, Chicago, United State.https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ablade_Glover&action=edit Quotes "Women of Africa have some courage and they show it. When they walk the street, they are elegant. They are courageous, they are brave.https://greatbanyanart.com/collections/ablade-glover?hl=en-US#:~:text=Ablade%20Glover.%20%22.%20Women%20of%20Africa%20have,it.%20Men%20don't%20do%20that%2C%20do%20they%3F%22 The crowd has been my love. I will continue to paint the crowd movement and the crowd spirit.https://www.sothebys.com/en/articles/ablade-glover-on-ghanas-art-scene-and-his-own-pioneering-work?hl=en-US#:~:text=The%20colours%20I%20am%20putting%20on%20the,the%20crowd%20movement%20and%20the%20crowd%20spirit. When I went to the market, I was not so much trying to paint the people, I was trying to paint the energy.https://www.sothebys.com/en/articles/ablade-glover-on-ghanas-art-scene-and-his-own-pioneering-work?hl=en-US#:~:text=The%20colours%20I%20am%20putting%20on%20the,the%20crowd%20movement%20and%20the%20crowd%20spirit. I am intrigued by the innocence, the naivety, the plight of the people without the power.https://static1.squarespace.com/static/6038fb625ca1023ac363ae01/t/60d5dd679aa6435e34369992/1624628591496/Ablade+Glover+Available+Work+.pdf?hl=en-US#:~:text=%E2%80%9COne%20of%20the%20few%20philosophical%20areas%20I,become%20powerless.%20'%20%E2%80%93%20Ablade%20Glover.%20People I started to use a palette knife... it responds to my temperament. I like the immediacy of it.https://writinginrelation.wordpress.com/2014/07/21/ablade-glover-through-the-process-of-looking/?hl=en-US#:~:text=*%20Ablade%20Glover%3A%20I%20do%20not%20know,take%20it%20off%2C%20that%20kind%20of%20thing. I cannot go back to the brush, it is too soft!https://www.hourglassgallery.com/ablade-glover-joy-repetition/?hl=en-US#:~:text='The%20problem%20is%20that%20some%20people%20look,the%20artwork.%20Each%20one%20is%20an%20exploration'. It's not about the market. It's not about the scene. They need to look beyond just a scene and think of the spirit of the artwork. Each one is an exploration." You could come to the same market everyday and it would look exactly the same but the mood would be different, day by day, even hour by hour." People's behavior does change when they are in a group. I have learnt that people are different when they are in a crowd." References