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Contemporary African Art in and out of Africa

Contemporary African Art in and out of Africa. Formal Category 2. Informal Category: (Workshops; a new internationalism –souvenir art) 3. African Art on the Global Stage 4. Diaspora Dimension: Ambivalence and Parody. Formal Category : Evolution of Modern Art in Africa 1922

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Contemporary African Art in and out of Africa

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  1. Contemporary African Art in and out of Africa

  2. Formal Category • 2. Informal Category: • (Workshops; a new internationalism –souvenir art) • 3. African Art on the Global Stage • 4. Diaspora Dimension: Ambivalence and Parody

  3. Formal Category: Evolution of Modern Art in Africa 1922 AinaOnabolu (1882-1963) Kenneth D. Murray (1902-1972) —British Colonial Officer, 1927 Ben Enwonwu Harlem Renaissance (Alain Locke); Negritude, assimilation ( Leopold Sedar Senghor, AimeCesaire) Pan Africanism

  4. Aina Onabolu, Barrister Oil on canvas 1920s

  5. Ben Enwonwu, Agbogho Mmuo, Oil on canvas, 1978 Student of Kenneth Murray Encouraged to reflect visible experiences from their African environment; Negritude and Pan Africanism

  6. Ben Enwonwu Sir AdetokunboAdemola The Alake of Egbaland, Bronze

  7. Ben Enwonwu, Statue of Queen Elizabeth 11 Bronze

  8. The Zaria School

  9. The Zaria Art society, 1958 “Zaria Rebels” Natural synthesis—combining the best of Nigerian values with those from outside Bruce Onobrakpeya Have You Heard, Oil on canvas, 1959 Influenced by the Adire indigo dyed fabric design patterns of the Yoruba

  10. Adire, (Indigo dyed cloth) Yoruba, Nigeria, indigo and cotton 20th century

  11. Bruce Onobrakpeya, Untitled Oil on canvas 1961

  12. Demas Nwoko, Figure, Terracotta, 1967-8 Influenced by the stylistic elements of Nok

  13. Demas Nwoko Adam and Eve Terracotta, 1967/68

  14. Informal Category: Catholic Workshops & Experimental Workshops a) OyeEkiti—Catholic Mission—Father Kevin Carroll (1947-1954)

  15. Lamidi Fakeye, Flight into Egypt, wood, 1956 Integration of Christian subject matter with Yoruba sculpture tradition —Africanization of form

  16. George Bandele, One of the Three Wise Men From the Christmas Crib Set Wood, beads, pigments 1954

  17. The Experimental Workshops b) MbariMbayo—Ibadan/Osogbo—UlliBeier 1961-1968) OsogboExperiments—MbariMbayo Workshop Talented young artists who were still unfettered by European artistic convention

  18. Adire, (Indigo dyed cloth) Yoruba, Nigeria, indigo and cotton 20th century

  19. Georgina Beier, Untitled, oil on board 25 panels, 1985

  20. Georgina Beier, Untitled, linoleum cut print, 1960

  21. Adebisi Akanji, Untitled-scene from A Petrol Station Cement sculpture, Cement n.d

  22. Twin Seven Seven, a.k.a Chief Taiwo Olaniyi, Pen and Ink 1967 Phantasmagoric/Dream like images steeped in Yoruba folkloric tradition

  23. Jimoh Buraimoh, faces and bird, gouache and beads on board, 1996

  24. Informal Category Roadside Art and a new Internationalism

  25. Unknown artist, Barber’s Sign—(Salon) shop display, enamel paints on wood

  26. Cheri Samba, Why have I signed a contract?, acrylic on canvas, 1990

  27. Kane Kwei, Mercedes-Benz shaped coffin, enamel paint on wood, 1989

  28. Kane Kwei, Cocoa-pod shaped coffin, enamel paints on wood, 1970

  29. Kane Kwei, Hen-shaped coffin, wood and enamel paint, 1989

  30. On the Global Stage

  31. Man wearing commemorative cloth With likeness of Queen Elizabeth II Ghana, 1960

  32. Vote for Peace, Vote ANC, detail, 1994

  33. Yinka Shonibare, Scramble for Africa, installation 14 chairs, 14 tables Wax prints, 2000

  34. Yinka Shonibare detail

  35. YinkaShonibare, Nelson’s Ship in a Bottle, Trafalgar Square, London, U.K., 2010

  36. YinkaShonibare, the wanderer —commemorating the last ship to import enslaved Africans into the Americas, 1858 Mixed media, 2007

  37. Chris Ofili, The Holy Virgin Mary, Acrylic, resin, oil paper collage, Elephant dung on linen, 1996 Imagery of Mary the mother of Jesus; asexualized imagery of Aunt Jemima- the Black Mammy stereotype, domestic/wet nurse

  38. Ritual of Imori (Knowing/discerning Destiny), Ijebu-Yoruba, Nigeria Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Sonponna, photograph

  39. Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Soponna, Black and white silver gelatin With hand tinting, 1987

  40. Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Golden Phallus, Color Photograph, 1989

  41. El Anatsui, Chambers of Memory, Terracotta, 1979

  42. Kente, hand-woven fabric, Ghana, 20th. Cent, aesthetics of polyrhythms

  43. El Anatsui Patches of History III Wood 1993 Influences of striped woven fabric and scarification patterns—Akan and Igbo traditions

  44. El Anatsui Kente Rhapsody, Wood and pigment Date unknown

  45. El Anatsui, Untitled, aluminum and copper wire, 2009

  46. Diaspora Dimension: Ambivalence and Parody

  47. Renee Cox, Yo Mama Last Supper, C-Print Photograph,

  48. A French print “La Belle Hottentot” after the display and objectification of Sarah Bartman (Saartje Bartman)

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