Rising Son - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Expressionism, Boy, 2023

Ani Izuchukwu Valentine  

"The Rising Son" is a  portrait of an innocent black boy with dreadlocks, tenderly grasping a golden key. Rendered with a bold, monochromatic red colour palette.

This striking artwork by Ani Izuchukwu Valentine celebrates the promise of a bright future, where a child's potential is nurtured by the unwavering support of a loving father.

The golden key which was handed to him by the loving father, represents the father's belief in his son's potential and inherent destiny, hence, empowering him with adequate informations ahead of time.

This evocative portrait inspires hope and optimism, celebrating the boundless potential of the next generation.

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About Artist

Ani Izuchukwu Valentine is a contemporary Nigerian Visual Artist/ Educator who studied Fine And Applied Art at the prestigious Institute of Management and Technology (IMT) in Enugu, Nigeria. There, he graduated as the best graduating student in Fine and Applied Art with a distinction in Painting ( 2014). Presently, he is an Art Educator in the Department of Fine Art, Federal College of Education (Technical) Umunze, Anambra State, Nigeria.

Valentine has featured in group exhibitions, both locally and internationally.

During the formative years of his art career, he was highly eclectic in acquiring knowledge through mentors and explorations and having undergone a rigorous process of learning and unlearning diverse art techniques and styles, He launched into a painting style where he uses Oil and Acrylic on Canvas as his preferred medium of Art expression.

He describes his paintings as visual poetry by which He manifests as a poet with the skilful use of colours to represent poetic storylines, thus, his paintings are targeted at capturing the very essence of mostly Afrocentric melanin models in their realistic/ semi-realistic forms which best portrays his African based storylines. As an educator, the theme of his paintings is educative as it mostly revolves around Africa and melanin figures, even as it serves an aesthetic function.

However, His life's experience with both humans and nature serves as a powerful motivating factor in his paintings. Thus, within the canvas, his works are the reflections of people and events around him, triggered by the dynamic interplay of life.