Amachi Omenihu is an artist from West Africa. His acrylic paintings of the African Dispora are rich in colors and simplistic, as in the folk art genre. His compositions are decorative and reflect traditional social values of the continents West Coast people. It is necessary to suspend with the usual criteria that art academia uses to understand the work of folk artists. The subtleties of elaborate composition, technique mastery and sophisticated organization are only sometimes the concerns of the folk artists, although they are often achieved. Folk art makes its appeal directly and intimately, even to people unaware of the requirements of academic art.

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