Natural Synthesis: A Tool to opposing European Teaching method of visual arts in Nigeria.

In 1958, some students of the college of Arts and Designs, Nigerian College of Arts, Science and Technology now Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria revolted against the European oxthodox ways of teaching art, which is representational in form and almost meaningless in content. These students having succeeded in resisting the European style adopted what they called “Natural Synthesis” which is the fusion of creative inspiration from their traditional art forms and the western oriented art form. It is the fusion of the west and African ideas. The Natural Synthesis became the ideological base of modern Nigerian visual art today.This paper intend to discuss how these students who are now the pillars of modern Nigerian visual arts, used the National Synthesis as a tool in resisting European method of teaching art in Nigeria and the consequencies.