{"id":10937,"date":"2017-02-18T01:27:50","date_gmt":"2017-02-18T00:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=10937"},"modified":"2017-05-31T06:14:40","modified_gmt":"2017-05-31T05:14:40","slug":"talabi-george","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/talabi-george\/","title":{"rendered":"TALABI, George"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Painter Address: Department of Fine &#038; Applied Arts, Adeyemi College, Ondo, Ondo State. Birth: 1929, in Western Nigeria. Training: Diploma in fine arts, Nigerian College of Arts, Science &#038; Technology, Zaria, 1960, specializing in painting; traveled to the United States on Rotary International Fellowship of Art, 1963; MA in art education, 1963, MA in fine arts, 1964, University of Maryland, USA. Profile: Art teacher for more than twenty years; assistant chief, Education Office, Federal Ministry of Education, Lagos; principal, Federal Advanced Teachers&#8217; College for Special Education, Ibadan; head, Department of Fine &#038; Applied Arts, Adeyemi College, Ondo Independence Exhibition, British Council, Lagos, 1960. &#8220;Art from Africa of Our Time,&#8221; Phelps-Stokes Fund, New York, USA, December 28, 1961-January 19, 1962. Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition of African Prints, USA, 1966-1968. &#8220;Contemporary Nigerian Art: Exhibition for Ori-Olokun Opening,&#8221; Ori-Olokun Cultural Centre, Ile-Ife, June 1968. &#8220;Contemporary Nigerian Prints and Paintings,&#8221; Fourth Ife Festival of the Arts, Gallery of the University Library, University of Ife, Ile-Ife, December 11-15, 1971. Writings by the Artist Art Teaching in African Schools. Ibadan: Heinemann Educational Books (Nigeria), 1979. 109pp. illus. Progressive Art for Primary Schools 1-6. Ibadan: Heinemann Educational Books (Nigeria), [n.d]. Self-Help Art. [s.l.]: Nigerian Art Education Bureau, [n.d]. Public Collections Carl Van Vechten Gallery of Fine Arts, Fisk University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. Works on paper: &#8220;Untitled,&#8221; &#8220;Goddess Aia, Africa,&#8221; &#8220;Animal Studies,&#8221; &#8220;A Masquerade of the Power,&#8221; &#8220;Abstraction No. 1,&#8221; &#8220;Abstract Still Life,&#8221; and &#8220;Abstract in Blue, Purple and Gold&#8221;; paintings: &#8220;Landscape near Zaria,&#8221; &#8220;Scene in Nigeria,&#8221; &#8220;Abstract Figure,&#8221; &#8220;Profile of a Man,&#8221; and &#8220;Abstract with Eye.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[168],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-10937","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-arts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/10937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/biography"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/10937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10937"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=10937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}