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| Assoc. Francis Xavier Ifee |
Assoc.
Prof. Francis Xavier Ifee is the Head of Department of Fine Art at the Margaret
Trowell School of Industrial and Fine Arts – Makerere University, Kampala.
He
has participated in international and national art exhibitions in several
places such as: Italy, Vancouver, Cairo, Nairobi, Cologne and Leverkusen.
Ifee
is a prolific landscape painter; he has aspects of finely developed intuition,
artistic sensitivity, free handling of various pictorial methods and media
(such as oils, acrylics, powders, and water colours) with profound and lyrical
expression.
In
his modest landscape subjects the artist exhibits lucid poetic visions and a
consummate skill to render peculiar and fearful images into eloquent cool
colour harmonies.
He
believes that ‘Not all pictures in gold frames are masterpieces; among them are
pictures with high and low values, different from one another as diamond
differs from simsim paste.’
And he strongly
asserts that, ‘A good work of art is like life itself; it does not need to be
explained before it is enjoyed. No one has ever asked for the price of air, but
air must simply be breathed.’
Currently he does a
voluntary work as the Programme adviser for the Uganda Community Art Skill
Development and Recycling based in Nansana and Kalerwe in Kampala.
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