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Lungu B. 2009 "Market Scene"
17-1/2 x 25" Oil
Barry Lungu was born in Harare and works from his home in Chitungwiza. Coming from an artistic family, Barry was encouraged from a young age to develop his inherent abilities, from scribbling cartoons on the walls of his family home to become a well known name in the Zimbabwe art world.
After qualifying from the BAT School of Art, Barry started painting professionally and has gone on to exhibit his work both locally and internationally.
As one takes a closer look at Barry’s fascinating abstract realism paintings there is one dominate subject, and that is women. His point of view is that families survive because of women who plan, network and unite all. He shows women going out of their way to make ends meet unlike in the past when women would sit at home, but now have to talk to each other and see how things can be solved.
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