Modern Art a Conspiracy Part 1

I have been turned down several times by somehave hanging on your wall. You need see him go off
ignorant gallery owners on both sides of the fencewith pride and talked eloquently on modern art at the
for their lack of interest in African Art. In their wordsend he declared that he doesn't want to be
African Art is primitive. The sad thing is that ourassociated with African Art.
so-called elites gallery owners do not get it too. InYou can imagine how that made me feel, having
most cases they are worst and very ignorant andstudied art and taught art professionally to hear a
naïve about African art. How long are we goingNigerian elite in the position of power and influence,
to allow these false monsters of the past run wild into promote our arts and culture, out rightly rejected
our present time?his inheritance. I didn't wait to ask why? He went off
I have realized that truth is usually a hard pill toagain to talk about crime and the world image of
swallow but we must confront our past for a betterNigeria. At this point I struggled to hold myselffrom
tomorrow.exploding before other nationalities in the company. I
We have been forced to look down on ourselves.am by no means in support of any crime but if man
They held our minds captive with the television, printshould disown his nation because of crime and
media, history books or documentaries of theirwestern media propaganda, the problem is way
explorers that were written supposedly for them,deeper than it appears. I asked him again respectfully
but ended up in our nation's schools bookshelves forif any of these nationalities working in Nigeria have
mind alteration and economic exploitation. Maybe I ampulled out their oil drilling machines and abandoned
missing something; please tell me the expectation oftheir mansions in Nigeria since the 419 propaganda
an educator who thought the grand children of Aminastarted? I didn't see him jump up with an answer this
in Nigeria, that River Niger was discovered by Mongotime. Tell me where there is no fraud and crime.
Park.This nice brother is one of the millions of African
The same River Niger, where their grand ma, Aninasouls lost to this false and mean world of conspiracy
bath, swam, fetched water, they have known andand selfish vision of racism and imperialism. You might
played in the river all their lives and in fact the legendbe wondering what is this got to do with modern art.
had it that their grandpa Obi was among the menBut the truth is that, there was nothing modern
that guided and guarded the strange White manabout the works of the European avant-garde artists
from the wild beast of the jungle. Instead of a letterother than punch of copycats, imitators and
of appreciation, their great grand children are forcedplagiarists in conspiracy with their racist writers, art
and feed lies of the incident in the name ofcritics and art historians to make wrong right. Once
education.again they gave themselves names, cubism, modern
They constantly used whatever they can toart and shoved it down our throat like always.
accomplish their vision. The invention of televisionThey covered the truth of plagiarizing African Art
became an effective tool for manipulation ofand started their usual evil naming ceremonies for
generations with ease using Jacob's vision power oftheir selfish goals. Who named the Primitive Art and
increase, Genesis 30: 31 - 43, for their negativeModern Art? Take a close look at their so-called
agenda. There is power in what we hear and see.primitive art and look at the modern art and decide
That is more reason they will never show you goodfor yourself. Who named the Tribal Art? These are
side of Africa.the same people whose lists of names consist of
During the era of European avant-garde artists, thereNegro, Aborigines, Nigger, and Black, Gypsy, White,
were prolific African Artists such as 'Aina Onabolu'Red, Yellow, and People of Color to mention a few.
and many others whose works were neverWhat good has these names done to mankind other
considered modern. Obviously including them in theirthan division and control. Let us face the truth,
modern era will mean making them equal with theirbecause truth is the heart of freedom. There is more
counterparts in Europe. You know what that meansto names than we can imagine hence God had to
to black man who was supposed to be pickingchange people's given names to accomplish his
cottons. "European modern art" was the biggestmission in their lives. It has been and will always be
scam on African Art. They took the best of ourdemonic and its time to reject such names for our
forefathers and kicked us to the trash.true purpose and relationship with one another.
They knew what they were doing and the effect ofLets look into more facts in the part 2 coming soon.
these centuries of bad seeds is what we see todayChidi Okoye is an award winning sculptor, painter,
in Africa and beyond. It is very common to seepoet and author whose impressive bodies of work
African professionals, highly educated but with nohave won the admiration of local and international art
knowledge of self and very much whiter than thecollectors. "His paintings are noble, vivid, honest and
white, if you know what I mean. I have walked intopoetic " Diversity News, Seattle. "A sculptor whose
a financial firm in Atlanta, owned and managed bycreative instincts are clearly channeled towards a
some Nigerians and the issue of African Art came up,reflection of both his contemporary and cultural
One of the owners was asked what type of art doheritage." Daily Times, Nigeria.