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Crixtover Edwin

Crixtover Edwin (b. 1996) is a Nigerian multidisciplinary visual artist specializing in figurative painting with a concentration on portraiture and visual emotionism. His paintings are focused on depicting a celebratory narrative and representation on people of African descent. In allowing the intricacies of his subject's appearance, poses, and symbolic identity to be the sole focus, he emphasizes on drawing attention to the distinctive celebration on people of color by addressing their image, status and relevance in contemporary culture. Crixtover art usually constitutes a similar approach in terms of each subject depiction with attention to detail, body language, and visual emotionism employing a signature Basquiat technique to the background and features of his subjects' persona and cultural symbols in a bid to represent black identity in contemporary art.

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