African Art Final

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EL ANATSUI, ‘Inside Stories II, 1990

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EL ANATSUI, 1004 Flats, 2002

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YINKA SHONIBARE, Scramble for Africa, 2000

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YINKA SHONIBARE, Diary of a Victorian Dandy 11:00, (1998)

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SOKARI DOUGLAS-CAMP, Guns & Oil, 2003

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SOKARI DOUGLAS-CAMP, 11th September, 2001

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SOKARI DOUGLAS-CAMP, Wedding Cake, Gelede, 1995

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LAMIDI FAKEYE, Medical Practitioners, 1977

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WILLIAM KENTRIDGE, Stereoscope, 1998-1999

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(Comparison) Describe in detail this painting

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CHERI SAMBA, La Seduction, 1984

This painting represents moralizing. It depicts the popular story La Sirene (mother of water). In the story she is usually occupied by snakes, which represents common themes associated with them (i.e. evil, temptation, bad). If one follows her one will become rich easily but a high price will be paid. Cheri Samba places himself in the narrative by including a self portrait of himself above with an angel. This entire painting represents colonial power itself. La Sirene symbolizes an unstable and unpredictable aspect of urban life

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CHERI SAMBA, Mosquito war, 1984

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CHERI SAMBA, September 11, 2001

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Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Sonponnoi, 1987

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Magdalene Odundo, Vessel, 1994

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Vessel, Magdalene Odundo, Kenya/England,

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YINKA SHONIBARE MBE, Sleep of Reason, 2008


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EL ANATSUI, Left: ‘Lady in Frenzy’ Right: ‘Chief in Zingliwu, 1995

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EL ANATSUI, Left: Neo Speak Windows, 2002

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EL ANATSUI,
Man Resplendent
Pissing around the
World, 1995

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"Dusasa I" by El Anatsui.

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ROTIMI FANI-KAYODE Bronze Head

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Cheri Samba, “Paris is Clean”, 1989

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EL ANATSUI, Club Windows, 2002

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EL ANATSUI, Club Windows, 2002

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SONYA CLARK, Beaded Prayers 1999-Present

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LAMIDI FAKEYE, Ogun Priest with Devotee, 1960

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EL ANATSUI, Split Personality, Left: ‘Lady in Frenzy’ Right: ‘Chief in Zingliwu, 1995

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SEYDOU KEITA, Untitled

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LAMIDI FAKEYE, Diviner with Drummer and Devotee, 1986

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Cheri Samba, Why did have I Signed a Contract, 1990

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SUSANNE WENGER, Reconciliation between Sango & Obatala, 1959

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SEYDOU KEITA, Untitled Portrait of a Woman, 1957

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SOKARI DOUGLAS-CAMP, No War, 2003

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SEYDOU KEITA, Untitled

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SEYDOU KEITA, Untitled

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KENDELL GEERS,
The Rack, 2009

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Seydou Keita

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was a self-taught portrait photographer from Bamako. He is mostly known for his portraits of people and families he took between 1940 and the early sixties and that are widely acknowledged not only as a record of Malian society, but also as pieces of art.

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Streoscope

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any technique capable of recording three-dimensional visual information or creating the illusion of depth in an image.

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Ulli & Georgina Beier

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is a German editor, writer and scholar, who had a pioneering role in developing literature, drama and poetry in Nigeria, as well as literature, drama and poetry in Papua New Guinea. His wife Georgina Beier had an instrumental role in simultaneously stimulating the visual arts in both Nigeria and PNG.

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Samuel Kane Kwei

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upholds his father’s tradition of decorating coffins in a manner which reflect upon the life of the deceased.

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Velante Malangatana

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is Mozambiquan artist and UNESCO Artist for Peace 1997. Malangatana's works have always projected a bold vision of life where there is a communion between human, animal and plant life.

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"Beaded Prayers"

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The project engages people of all ages and backgrounds to create beaded packets that contain their prayers, wishes, hopes or dreams.Its called this because healing and protective amulet traditions of the African Diaspora

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Thomas Mukarobgwa

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was a Zimbabwean painter and sculptor who worked as a gallery attendant for much of his career.

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Polly Street

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an Art Centre in Johannesburg and became a significant training ground for a whole generation of artists.

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Magiciens de la Terre

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was a contemporary art exhibit at the Centre Georges Pompidou and the Grande Halle at the Parc de la Villette in 1989.

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Flour-Sack Painters

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when painters created art on flour sack and stretched them into frames and sold by young boys to other people in similar economic situations as the painter

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"Bronze Head"

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sacred work of the Yoruba people

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llse Noy

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helped teach the appliqued technique to the Weya women.

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Sunday Jack Akpan

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artist in Nigeria that makes funerary art for his community.

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Frank McEwen

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was an English artist, teacher, and museum administrator. He is best remembered today for his efforts to bring attention to the work of Shona artists in Rhodesia, and for helping to found the National Gallery of Zimbabwe.

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Weya art

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a type of art using thread an needle to create wall hangings for tourists

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Ibrahim El Salahi

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the picture maker, was born in 1930 in Omdurman, in the Sudan. He is best known as the pioneer of modern African art.

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Kevin Carroll

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a christian priest who ran a scultpture workshop in Africa

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"Paris is clean"

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immigrants are to ones who are keeping the city clean even though you dont want them there.

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John Muafangejo

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painter and printmaker

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Uli

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Uli is an expression of the people’s capacity for creative design, which is firmly rooted in their myths and their experience of life in the past, present and future.

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Postmodern art

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a term used to describe an art movement which was thought to be in contradiction to some aspect of modernism, or to have emerged or developed in its aftermath.

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"Flight into egypt"

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a biblical event described in the Gospel of Matthew (2:13-23), in which Joseph fled to Egypt with his wife Mary and infant son Jesus after a visit by Magi because they learn that King Herod intends to kill the infants of that area.

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Uche Okeke

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is a Nigerian painter and teacher of art. A founding member of the Nsukka group, he developed, together with Chike Aniakor and others, the art program of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka.

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Obiora Udechukwu

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a Nigerian painter and poet. He is recognised as a member of the Nsukka group of artists.