Sunday Nzante Spee ( Mbem, 1953 –

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, USA May 25, 2005) was a Cameroonian

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. When he was a teenager, he used to make some paintings and decorations in façades. From 1976 to 1982, he attended the Fine Arts School of

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and

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. Despite the difficulties of having an artistic career in Cameroon, he decided to establish an atelier and a training centre in

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, the ''Spee Art Center'', where he could make a living from his works, and he influenced the next generations. His style, from cubism to surrealism and addressed to a naïve caricature but full with provocative humour, culminates in a pictorial world where all these expressions are mixed in the so-called ''melting age'' aesthetic.

External links

Site du Spee Art Center

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1953 births 2005 deaths Cameroonian painters People from Bamenda 20th-century Cameroonian painters {{Cameroon-bio-stub