About Diallo |
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| About the artist
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I was born in Wynne, Arkansas, a small town near Memphis, Tenneessee. I grew u p in the Midst farmers and country folks. My eaaraliest childhood memorises were of tractors and combines, cattles and horses, rice, wheat, corn and cotton fields, daises and daffodils, lakes and streams, green pastures, the meadow larks, the kildeers, and the lonesome whi p-o-wills . As a child, I seem to be lost in the arms of mother natures, nurished by her many wonders. I trace my interest in art back to grade school. No one taught me to draw.I like to draw stick figures, trees, flowers, houses and mountians. I was born with a brush in my hand. I discovered my latent abilities when I left the cotton fields back home. Suddently, I was a student in the eleventh grade ar hollister high, Hollister, California. My first art class(my first love.) was truly magical. I nsever heard talk of arttists or art before. O man! Art books and artpapperusing paints anad brusheser, all sorts of paints and brushes. I just wnt wild. These supplies were like toys and treasures to me. Instead of me making fdriends ir being sociable, I spend most of my time in the library perusing art books and art magazines, just sponging pictures and paintings. I wanted to know all about art and artists. So, learned how to draw by coping the works of the Renaissance masters, Da Vinci, Raphael and others. Having just left the cotton fields, here I am staring at the myth of venus. I thought this was the mosts fascinati;ng picturre I've ever seen. Here was my interest and my persuit in life and in art, the meaning and the purpose of myth in my art and in my life. Even though I studied art history and various painting techniques and theories, I taught of
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