West African art

Question 1

West African and Sudanese art

Answer 1

‘indirect rule’
select local government and enforce local power structures
defining what language is truly native is difficult
African nationalism is a project to de-ethnicise African identity and celebrate Africans as a civilising force
this is what colonialism took away

Question 2

Nigerian art

Answer 2

by the 1950s, artists were being trained in a Eu way
Eu powers had left by 1965
lots of ethnicities and languages
The Society of Nigerian Artists - paint on canvas/ board.

Question 3

Senegal and the ‘School of Dakar’

Answer 3

Negritude - trans-ethnic identity
Pres. Senghor saw the power of art
Festival of the Black Arts, Dakar, 1966 - all African cultures brought together
writes essay on Picasso - Andalucian, ancestral, ethnographic series

Question 4

Sudan

Answer 4

part of British Africa

Ibrahim El-Salahi

Question 5

Demas Nwoko, Nigeria in 1959

Answer 5

1960
colonisers sleeping in the foreground
African people waiting in the background

Question 6

Ben Ewonwu, Sculpture of Queen Elizabeth II

Answer 6

1956

Question 7

Ben Ewonwu, Africa Dances

Answer 7

1964

blends indigenous and colonial styles.

Question 8

Uche Okeke, Ana Mmuo (Land of the Dead)

Answer 8

1961
very abstract, uli style
uli - line drawings that the Igbo people used on the outside of buildings
the shapes hold iconographic significance

Question 9

Erhabor Emokpae, The Last Supper

Answer 9

1963

act of cannibalism at the heart of Christianity

Question 10

Ibrahim El-Salahi, The Mosque

Answer 10

1964
traditional Arabic calligraphy
refers to the present 
insinuates culture through the lines
1st painting by a contemporary African artist to be bought for an NY art museum