How Yusuf, Nigerian visual artist, tweeted self to fame vanguardngr.com vanguardnews
The spectacular event began when a 26-year-old Eli Waduba Yusuf, drew a portrait of one of his heroes, Kevin Hart, and tweeted it to him. Yusuf was not quite sure that his tweet could reach Hart and drew his attention to the work.Yusuf said it was like a dream when United States comedian and actor Kevin Hart directly contacted him about the portrait.
Report says that “the reaction to Hart’s reply had more than 310k likes in the first 24 hours with people tweeting their congratulations to Yusuf and wishing him well. Yusuf’s style, hyper-realism, is a form of art that looks very realistic. The works of a hyper-realist look like photographs. However, the high-resolution element takes the art beyond photorealism. “The art tends to come in the form of paintings or sculptures. But other mediums such as pencil can be used to create the works.”
Born July 6, 1979 as Kevin Darnell Hart, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, Hart is an American comedian, actor and producer. He began his career by winning several amateur comedy competitions at clubs throughout New England, culminating in his first real break in 2001 when he was cast by Judd Apatow for a recurring role on the TV series Undeclared.
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