Dynamic Africa
Formerly, "This is Africa/fyeahAfrica".
(Profile Photo by Mama Casset)
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A LITTLE ABOUT ME:
Student, 24
Based in Cape Town, South Africa
From Lagos, Nigeria
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(since Oct. 21th 2012)
A market in Kano, 1960s
Vintage Nigeria
From Citizens of Porto-Novo by Beninese photog Leonce Raphael Agbodjelou, on display at London’s Jack Bell Gallery till May 25.
(via nocturnalphantasmagoria)
A boy in a Fez.
Morocco.
A. Piattoli
An Ouled Nail woman.
Etienne Dinet.
Paintings of palace guards in Cairo, Egypt, by Austrian painter Ludwig Deutsch.
Circle of Edwin Long (BRITISH, 1829-1891)
Portrait of a Moor
oil on canvas
16 x 12 in. (40.7 x 30.5 cm.)
EVENT: TOYIN ODUTOLA, My Country Has No Name, May 16 – June 29, 2013.
Opening reception for the exhibition: Thursday, May 16th, from 6 – 8 PM at 513 West 20th Street.
Untitled abstract facial portraits by Sudanese artist Elltayeb Dawelbait
Eltayeb Dawelbait has always has been “fascinated with drawing people’s faces since college” and these “faces have been developing with my practice”, like birds varying their nest-building techniques from one nest to the next, including the direction they construct it.
Uzo Egonu, 1973
Born in 1931, Uzo Egonu was one of the outstanding artists of the second half of the 20th century in England, where he lived since 1945.
Influenced to the same degree by European modernism and traditional West African art, he painted pictures, to be seen in many public collections, in which abstract patterns and figurative forms in the style of pop-art combine in often poetic metaphors.
He died in 1996 in London.
Zambia:
Works by Zambian artist Chilyapa Lwando
Aimé Mpane : 2007 Portraits installation gravure peinte
The carved and often burnt pieces of wood show us how a scar has been left on the community of Kinshasa
By carving out these faces on the wood, instead of leaving the image as a flat painting, Mpane seems to be inviting us into the psyche of the people that have been through this turmoil
