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Born 1963 Nairobi. Known for: Painting.
Kenya's Craziest Bar is a fine example of Joseph Bertiers' famous bar paintings taking the disreputable bar as their central theme and portraying with gusto ever more outlandish excess of the flesh,... Read full biography
Kenya's Craziest Bar is a fine example of Joseph Bertiers' famous bar paintings taking the disreputable bar as their central theme and portraying with gusto ever more outlandish excess of the flesh, each with a grain of truth attached. Joseph Mbatia Njoroge, known as Bertiers was born in Nairobi,... Read full biography
Kenya's Craziest Bar is a fine example of Joseph Bertiers' famous bar paintings taking the disreputable bar as their central theme and portraying with gusto ever more outlandish excess of the flesh, each with a grain of truth attached. Joseph Mbatia Njoroge, known as Bertiers was born in Nairobi, Kenya in 1963. He first used his artistic skills painting signs for local shops and bars as a teenager, after which he studied at the YMCA Craft Training Centre and began working professionally as a... Read full biography
Kenya's Craziest Bar is a fine example of Joseph Bertiers' famous bar paintings taking the disreputable bar as their central theme and portraying with gusto ever more outlandish excess of the flesh, each with a grain of truth attached. Joseph Mbatia Njoroge, known as Bertiers was born in Nairobi, Kenya in 1963. He first used his artistic skills painting signs for local shops and bars as a teenager, after which he studied at the YMCA Craft Training Centre and began working professionally as a sign writer. His dissatisfaction with commercial sign-writing resulted in him producing a series of paintings entitled, 'Painting a cat. I really hate it.' The series is based around the notion that the only thing worse than sign-writing would be to... Read full biography
Kenya's Craziest Bar is a fine example of Joseph Bertiers' famous bar paintings taking the disreputable bar as their central theme and portraying with gusto ever more outlandish excess of the flesh, each with a grain of truth attached. Joseph Mbatia Njoroge, known as Bertiers was born in Nairobi, Kenya in 1963. He first used his artistic skills painting signs for local shops and bars as a teenager, after which he studied at the YMCA Craft Training Centre and began working professionally as a sign writer. His dissatisfaction with commercial sign-writing resulted in him producing a series of paintings entitled, 'Painting a cat. I really hate it.' The series is based around the notion that the only thing worse than sign-writing would be to earn a living painting live cats. This is an early example of Bertiers' trademark humour which is ever present in his work. Even the name he gave... Read full biography
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Art Media
- •Acrylic Paint
- •Oil Paint