Artists have routinely used the painting of natural sceneries to represent the subject of emotions | DOMINIC MUWANGUZI | The first time the art world encountered landscape painting was probably in a small painting called the Mona Lisa by Leonardo Da Vinci. The impressionist painting created in 150? beholds a …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A surviving group from Uganda Police Force’s 11th intake have regrouped, formed an investment group with an eye on forming their own SACCO. Kakooza Savio Ntensibe, currently a lawyer at the Equal Opportunities Commission (EOC) was on Saturday 15th February, 2020 voted unanimously to …
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The odd link between Ntensibe and Klimt’s art THE INDEPENDENT | DOMINIC MUWANGUZI | Gustave Klimt and Joseph Ntensibe can’t have been born and bred more differently. They lived and practiced their art in different periods and cultural worlds. Klimt is an Austrian 19th Century painter who lived between 1862 …
Read More »ARTS: When love dares
Five masters launch exhibition to change attitudes By Dominic Muwanguzi An exhibition titled `A love That Dares’ that opened at The Studios art space, Afriart, on 7th Street, features Sanaa Gateja, Theresa Musoke, Joseph Ntensibe, Mira Nair (Mississippi Masala) and Zuleika Kingdon. Their artworks explore love in troubled and hate-filled …
Read More »ARTS: True value of Ugandan art abstract
A painting by Austrian artist Gustav Klimt recently became the third most expensive artwork ever sold at auction in Europe. `Bauerngarten’, Gustav Klimt’s exuberant 1907 oil painting of a garden filled with poppies, daisies, and other flowers, sold for £48 million (Approx Shs212 billion) at Sotheby’s auction of Impressionist, Modern …
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