Muso Masoabi (Contemporary Fine Artist)

Are you inspired through Art? Today we heard from Muso Musoabi in Studio, who is a Contemporary Fine Artist originally from Lesotho.

According to Musoabi artist systematically, do not live in the same state of mind as others do. As an artist, the listens to what you are not telling him and not what you are saying, to observe life from another point of view. They care about most things, that people do not care about.

"The ability to draw is not art" says Musoabi. Art consists of high level of interllectual. Every painting needs to have a meaning behind it. If you are looking at it from your perspective, it has to potray a meaning that as an impact or something you can relate to you. That is why people buy paitings right? Converting your emotions into the art work should be orchestrating.

Muso Masaobi & Mkhuseli Khusi Veto 

Art is a luxury. Most people who are set out to buy the art, does not have many problems when it comes to surviving, so he says. Plenty are opressed with issues, that they don't take the time to appreciate art. Namely: finance problems. Not having food could be converted into art, but many do not think in that way. Thinking rich helped Musoabi get through his troubles. Living in a shack is a form of art in his case. If he paints in this mind set, the rich can possibly relate.

Interllectual capacity, historically message sare sent through generations in technical drawings. Emotional Art, "relating to black people, who have more emotions" says Mswabi. These are the two parts of art which is separated into. He uses an example of when you  a doctor studies for his\her profession and you say you have pain, the doctor will know exactly what is wrong. Same goes for a Grandmother, she will know what it is and what to use. This shows that both are interllectual, one just in an emotinal condition.

There are also two sides of art; Commercial Art, selling painting for a living or on a daily bases and Investment Art, keeping the painting until it's value has increased. The highest painting is going for 2.3 billion rand by a guy in Qartar Republic. Musoabi sold his first painting for R150 in 2012 and five years later the value increasingly became more. It becomes investable.

No one introduced him to painting. He studied Natural Science and dropped out in the first year. "We are told that without education we are nothing" says Muso. He believes that everyone has a certain ability and that all you need to do is find what you are good at and what you believe in through sacrifices.

To find out more information contact: Muso Musoabi Art on facebook.

Presenter: Mkhuseli Khusi Veto

Producers: Tyler Layman, Michaela Muller