{"id":36813,"date":"2020-09-23T01:00:11","date_gmt":"2020-09-23T08:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/?p=36813"},"modified":"2020-09-22T13:24:19","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T20:24:19","slug":"kwesi-botchway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/23\/kwesi-botchway\/","title":{"rendered":"kwesi botchway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=36815\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-36815\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-36815\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/KWESIBOTCHWAY.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"5536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/KWESIBOTCHWAY.jpg 584w, https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/KWESIBOTCHWAY-108x1024.jpg 108w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Oh. My. These paintings are the jaw-dropping work of Ghana based artist &#8211; and\u00a0founder of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Worldfaze\/\">Worldfaze Art Studio<\/a><em>\u00a0&#8211;<\/em>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/kwesibotchway.art\/\">Kwesi Botchway<\/a>. Those eyes&#8230; they literally stopped me in my tracks, and I couldn&#8217;t look away. Turns out, that was Kwesi&#8217;s beautiful plan:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;I\u2019m interested in depicting compelling figurative portrait paintings from different generations. My point of focus is the Eyes, Nose and Mouth which is where our emotions are best portrayed, I also believe it helps us better visually experience one another\u2019s feelings; an exchange of information without using words.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>My Paintings help create an intriguing dialogue between the subject\u2019s message and the viewer. My work compels the viewer to become physically and emotionally invested in the subject\u2019s story.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I aim to celebrate, capture the spirit, essence and heritage of my subjects and use this as an opportunity to lend the world a glance into the lives and struggles of people whose stories are yet to be fully told.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>My paintings are meant to trigger emotions of pride or shame, honor or disgust and sometimes even humor. It\u2019s all about the story of my subjects, which words cannot fully explain.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8216;An exchange of information without using words.&#8217; See? So beautiful. <em>ps.\u00a0Some of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gallery1957.com\/artists\/kwesi-botchway\/\">his work is available via Gallery 1957<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh. My. These paintings are the jaw-dropping work of Ghana based artist &#8211; and\u00a0founder of Worldfaze Art Studio\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0Kwesi Botchway. Those eyes&#8230; they literally stopped me in my tracks, and I couldn&#8217;t look away. Turns out, that was Kwesi&#8217;s beautiful plan: &#8220;I\u2019m interested in depicting compelling figurative portrait paintings from different generations. My point of focus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36813"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36813"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36818,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36813\/revisions\/36818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}