Meet Kareem Waris, one of Nigeria’s youngest hyper-realist artists.
Kareem said “i want to be a great artist like DA Vinci, Michelangole , All those big artist that i where I see myself”.
The 12-year-old Kareem Waris Olamilekan is one of the Nigeria’s youngest hyper-realistic artists.
12-year-old Waris was already making waves in the local arts scene but became known worldwide after drawing life-like portrait of the French President Emmanuel Macron in just two hours.
This Happened when President Macron visited Lagos last year in which Waris gifted him the portrait.
The young hyper artist said, After drawing President Macron, I got a connection with the governor of Lagos State and I got a connection with Ecobank.
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Meet Kareem Waris, one of Nigeria’s youngest hyper-realist artists. pic.twitter.com/Qm4F01GJru— Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) June 11, 2019