Observation

Most of the candidates avoided this question and in clear confirmation of inadequate knowledge of art history; most of the few candidates that attempted it failed to give the required responses and thus, lost most of the available marks. The candidates should have responded to the question in the following manner:

(a) Ghanaian /Ghana

 

(b) - He studied art at college and universities in Ghana (now Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology- KNUST) and the United Kingdom

- Central School of Art and Design between 1957 and 1965.

- He also studied at Kent State University, USA

- He also studied for his doctorate at Ohio State University , USA (c) Painting/Textile Design

 

(d) - His works shows a mass of colourful slices and shapes

- His colours are vibrant.

- His works shows waves of colours rolling from the surface.

- He uses palette knife instead of brushes and that is why his paintings are in impasto.

- Like the impressionists, his paintings capture a constantly moving, changing and fleeting colours and shapes.

- Seen from a close distance, the paintings reveal abstract combinations of seemingly random shapes and colours, but when the viewer moves away from the picture, the seemingly disorderly array of images.

- His works are based both on abstraction and realism, the effect of each of the works is dependent on the viewer’s proximity to it.

- Often the perspective that Glover employs is from a high vantage point overlooking the town, beach or crowd.

- Townscapes of roof illuminated to a vivid red by the beating African sun.

- Colourful perspective of constantly changing urban space and natural environment.

- Lively, dynamic and unstructured situations of human interaction in modern urban life on streets and other public places in an African setting.

- Crowds of people or group of houses and objects.

- African market settings.

- Dusty and shanty towns.

 

(f) - He is one of the most celebrated Ghanaian West African artists.

- He was an art educator at the Kwame Nkrumah University of science and Technology in Kumasi

- He is the founder of the Artists Alliance gallery, which provides a place for artists to learn from each other and exhibit together. - He has participated in a large number of solo and group exhibitions both at home and abroad

- He is an elder statesman for the contemporary Ghanaian art scene.

- He is an important mentor and patron for younger artists in Ghana.

- He founded a gallery as a young lecturer in 1960

- His works enjoy universal appeal and thus enjoy national and international collections such as Imperial Palace collection of Japan, the UNESCO Headquarters in Paris and Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport amongst others.

- He has exhibited extensively in West Africa, Europe, the USA and Japan.

- He is a recipient of the distinguished AFGRAD Alumni Award by the African

- American Institute in New York - He is a life fellow of the Royal Society of Art in London.

- In 2014, one of his market scene achieved an auction record in London, which is part of the phenomenal international growth of the contemporary African art market.