African art was misunderstood/ignored by the West until 1900’s · African art was...
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African art was misunderstood/ignored by the West until 1900’s African art was ignored due to
ethnocentrism • African art viewed as inferior
• Realism was view until modern art became popular.
Famous Western artists were influenced by African art • Picasso and Matisse
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MASK OF GABON
PICASSO – THREE FIGURES
UNDER A TREE 1907
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Art is a means of communicating one’s
experience.
Visual expression or account of the
culture and of a people as seen by the
individual.
Through engraving, sculpting, painting,
cultures relate their ideas, beliefs, values,
norms, customs, attitudes, traditions, and
feelings.
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Traditional African Art found before the
Europeans includes… • Rock drawings, roughly carved human heads,
sculptures, basketry, instruments, printed texts
Traditional African Art was functional • Fulfills requirements of the everyday
Clothing, housing, rituals, economic, political, war,
and entertainment
Secondary is for aesthetics
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Melted wax is applied to the fabric
before dipped into dye.
Wherever the wax oozes through the
tissue, the dye can not penetrate
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Graduated from the School of Industrial
and Fine Arts at Makerere University in
Kampala, Uganda in 1993
Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence at
Christian Brothers University in Memphis
Multi-color woodcut artist who depicts
stories about critical social events in
Uganda or that portray images
indigenous to the Ugandan environment
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Baakisiimba, Nankasa, Muwogola
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTZO9
G-mwis
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Wind, bow, and percussion
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Enkwanzi
Amadinda
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8Hs
XKZFPlc
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Fred Masagazi • Popular in the 1960’s
• Incorporates guitar
• Kadongo Kamu
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1pibDrOCuI
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Jose Chameleon
Bebe Cool
Halima Namakula • Recipients or nominees for the Pearl of African
Music Awards
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEMrQAgob
4k
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Uganda Women Writers' Association
(FEMRITE)
• Published 31 books in the categories of novels,
short stories, poetry and children's books.
Other authors
• Tabon Lo Liyoung—male poet and author
• Doreen Baingana —Tropical Fish: Tales from
Entebbe
• Okot p’Bitek—male poet and novelist from
Gulu