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El Anatsui - Emanoel Araujo |
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an inside story of African Art of Our Time:
El Anatsui (Nigeria) : neoAfricanist Transvangarde
Emanoel Araujo (Brazil) : neoAfricanist minimalist
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| El Anatsui | Tapper, 1995 | Relief-PCWood,1979 | Emanoel Araujo |
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What appears so familiarly 'modern' to us may actually be a conditioned response to an African Aesthetic that we have learnt to associate with Picasso, but that he borrowed from African traditions of figurative abstraction... The Andalus-ian, far from inventing the style we now call 'modern' simply alerted the West to this other way of seeing. The man who diverted the course of western art owed MORE to Africa than the African who reshaped the course of Modern 'African' Art owed to the West.(Gerard Houghton) |
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Okeke founded the Zaria Arts Society and organised a sustained revaluation of the ULI system of line drawing based on Igbo body and mural decorations.The power of this idea changed the course of Modern African Art: bridging two divergent worlds of modern western ans traditional African! |  |
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Pictures and Quotes drawn from : 1. El Anatsui: a sculpted history of africa 2. Emanoel Araujo - brazilian afrominimalist. (for more info - ref: Art Library) |
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