Week 10/11 African Art Flashcards
What is this?
Adire cloth. A traditional cloth worn by african particularly Nigerians.
What is the Adire cloth made out of?
Indigo dyed cloth. Indigo a good strengther, and can allow tye-dye patterns.
What does D’Avignon represent?
Full of Life, about sex and prostitution. Objectification of a woman’s body.
What did Picasso discover by studying african art?
The relationship between emotion and art.
Picasso was not interested in…
The form of african art.
Describe D’Avingnon’s form…
Inherently grotesque. Sculptural. 180 degrees hand, about the idea of emotion and not representation.
What is the idea of the sublime?
Can be horrific, not always the beautiful. Is alice and inspiring.
What did Nigerian women create for the Adire cloth?
Stencils from lead and zinc.
What motifs did women artists use on Adire cloths?
Mapo Hall. An example of tradition but one which is not unchanging!
African art is understood as being…
Traditional and Tribal.
Who painted the first african painting on canvas?
Aina Onaboiu.
What was the name of the first art schools in Africa?
Yaba Tech.
What is Natural Synthesis?
According to Picasso why was the idea of Otherness necessary to the development of modernism?
It enabled art to do soemthing new.
Who was the artist of this work?
El Anatsui
