AN EXPLORATION OF SHURUWA MUSICAL INSTRUMENT AND DANCE COSTUME IN PAINTING
AN EXPLORATION OF SHURUWA MUSICAL INSTRUMENT AND DANCE COSTUME IN PAINTING
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2020-02
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ALAU, Mercy Audu
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This Dissertation is an exploration of Shuruwa musical instruments and dance costumes
as an inspiration for painting compositions. The study‟s scope is based on the flute
(Shuruwa), dance form Madamai village in Kagoro, Kaduna State. The study covers
some selected dance costumes and musical instruments ranging from leather belts
decorated with cowries, drums (Gbandang Bin &Dadai Bin), Kalangu, bamboo flutes
(Shuruwa) and leg rattlers. The conceptual framework of this study is hinged on the
derivation of visual imageries that are embedded in the color and shape of the
Shuruwadance and art costumes and musical instruments to create paintings, as reflected
in Okeke (1982), who observed that new Nigerian artists can draw inspiration from their
rich and stylistically varied heritage. Musical instruments have given artists the
inspiration to explore, paint and derive different themes from them. An example that
characterized Cubism is the identification and the extensive use of musical instruments
in painting that formed the basis for the Cubists‟ constant use of geometrical shapes; the
style which the researcher adopted. In Africa and Nigeria, several artists have explored
musical instruments and dance costumes in painting from varying cultures and ethnicity.
However, Shuruwa musical instruments and dance costumes have not been explored in
painting, thus, the need for this research. The researcher studied relevant works that
express the aesthetic qualities that are similar to the exploration of musical instruments
and of some artists who incorporated musical instruments and dance costumes in their
paintings. The research design for this study is practice-based. The sketches and
photographs of the selectedShuruwa musical instruments and dance costumes were
subjected to studio exploration and analyzed in three stages: that is the representational,
transformational and geometric/abstraction stages respectively. These stages were also
divided into three (3) themes: Nkiyang song series (musical instrument), Shuruwa blower
series (flutist) and the dancer costume series. The study established that Shuruwamusical
instruments and costumes (like most African and Nigerian heritage and relics) can be
identified and explored for their aesthetic qualities.
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A THESIS SUBMITTED TO THE SCHOOL OF POSTGRADUATE STUDIES,
AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, ZARIA NIGERIA
IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE AWARD OF MASTER OF FINE ART
DEGREE (MFA) IN PAINTING
DEPARTMENT OF FINE ART,
FACULTY OF ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN,
AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY,
ZARIA
Keywords
EXPLORATION,, SHURUWA MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS,, DANCE COSTUME,, PAINTING