<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>Sometimes, as children, we have a different dream.\nHowever, when the sun of luck shines on someone, it suddenly connects their\nluck to their destiny. That opportunity they seize today will ultimately become\ntheir destiny. Tulu Guya was born in 1938 near Dalo, Bishoftu, in Eastern Shoa.\nHe dreamed of becoming a royal guard and a historian. He enjoyed reading books,\nand he was particularly drawn to those with pictures that told stories.\nAlthough he never dreamed of becoming a painter, his inborn attention to detail\ngave him the chance. In 1964, when he was a high school student, his drawing\nwon a second-place prize at Shankar’s International Children’s Drawing\nCompetition. Although Tulu confessed to having no inclination towards painting as\na child, winning the competition was a sign that he had an inborn affinity for\nart.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>The\npainter and graphic artist Tulu Guya linked his love of nature with his works\nwithout being limited by the influence of the famous artists that surrounded\nhim within the family, including the well-known Lemma Guya. The stories of the\ntrees he knew just like his own palm and the folktales he had heard as a child\nin the local culture became central themes in his art. Thus, in his visual\nlanguage, he made them speak of the lives of damaged tree branches whose leaves\nhave been hurt. To this end, Tulu used trees as the main subject of his works\nto show his own world through his own culture and natural environment. His\nremarkable memory is a testament to his unparalleled ability to be a\nstoryteller and a repository of the cultural wisdom of his community. From\n1966\u20131970, he studied painting and graphic arts at the Addis Ababa Art School\nof Fine Arts, where he graduated with good results and received his diploma\nfrom Emperor Haile Selassie I. As for his excellent school activities, his\nveteran teachers, such as Ale Felege, Tadesse Gizaw, and Abdurahman Sharif,\nhave all attested to his great educational performance, artistic skills, and\nknowledge.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>After\ngraduation, he was assigned as an art teacher to Arba Gugu, in the Benchi Magi\nzone of southern Ethiopia. The fact that Arba Gugu was a place surrounded by\nforest gave him the possibility to be more interested in the subject, and he\nbegan to study the nature of trees. He also worked as a Senior Technician of\nAppropriate Technology at the Education Development Center of Chilalo District\nSchools, in Asela town, until 1982. There had been problems in schools in\nfacilitating educational support materials such as human anatomy, tables, and\nmaps; he helped the schools address this problem with his high-quality wooden\nreproductions. During his stay there, he was recognized as a model teacher. In\nall the institutions he worked for, Tulu demonstrated his great artistic\ncreativity for social services, which is a clear testament to his alignment\nwith the principle of art for art’s sake. His high level of skill in graphic\narts contributed enough to his different artistic creations. Because Tulu paid\nmuch attention to trees in his artistic works, a holiday postcard from the\nformer FDRE, Girma Woldegiyorgis, addressing the country for three consecutive\nyears, was decorated with Tulu’s tree-related works. <\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<\/p>
Since 1970, Tulu Guya, in his long artistic\nexperience and career, has participated in many private and group art\nexhibitions in the country and abroad. He has received special recognitions in\nEthiopia and abroad for his highly developed visual art experiences. Therefore,\nhe is considered one of the most prominent modern and contemporary Ethiopian artists.<\/span><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tulu Guya is a plastic artist who has created his own visual language. Although he has explored different socio-cultural and historical themes in his long career, his main concern has always been to seek and build an artistic style that manages to establish a social…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5751,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[27,28,30],"class_list":["post-5933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","tag-art","tag-artist","tag-exhibition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abrakartgallery.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abrakartgallery.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abrakartgallery.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abrakartgallery.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abrakartgallery.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5933"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/abrakartgallery.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5937,"href":"https:\/\/abrakartgallery.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5933\/revisions\/5937"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abrakartgallery.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abrakartgallery.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abrakartgallery.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abrakartgallery.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}