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Yekenfer Wedaj VIII
Leikun Nahusenay
Painting - 65 x 50 x 0.1 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
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Three Glasses of Wine
Charles Nkomo
Painting - 55.9 x 86.4 x 5.1 cm Painting - 22 x 34 x 2 inch
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Un bon marabout wallaye
Enfant Précoce / Francis Essoua Kalu
Painting - 210 x 260 x 3 cm Painting - 82.7 x 102.4 x 1.2 inch
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L'élu du mariage
Frédéric Bruly Bouabré
Fine Art Drawings - 15 x 11 cm Fine Art Drawings - 5.9 x 4.3 inch
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Feelings from the other side
Sesse Elangwe Ngeseli
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 cm Painting - 36 x 36 inch
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Passage Jacques Chirac à Nice
Omar Logang
Painting - 61 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 24 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
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Zaounon fut de race blanche
Frédéric Bruly Bouabré
Fine Art Drawings - 15 x 11 cm Fine Art Drawings - 5.9 x 4.3 inch
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Trinity II
Leikun Nahusenay
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 70 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0 inch
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The Protector (mother)
Leikun Nahusenay
Fine Art Drawings - 65 x 50 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
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Un monde et ses artistes
Frédéric Bruly Bouabré
Fine Art Drawings - 15 x 11 cm Fine Art Drawings - 5.9 x 4.3 inch
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Sur une peau d'orange jaune-verte, figurent un arbre et un oiseau
Frédéric Bruly Bouabré
Fine Art Drawings - 15 x 11 cm Fine Art Drawings - 5.9 x 4.3 inch
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Ici, un céleste 'coït', dans le ciel 'uni à sa blanche clarté'
Frédéric Bruly Bouabré
Fine Art Drawings - 11 x 15 cm Fine Art Drawings - 4.3 x 5.9 inch
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Dans un ciel ensoleillé, un nuage gris-blanc figure une têt d'oiseau
Frédéric Bruly Bouabré
Fine Art Drawings - 19 x 15 cm Fine Art Drawings - 7.5 x 5.9 inch
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Sous le ciel bleu sortant de la verdure végétale, le 'tan' suce le sang humain
Frédéric Bruly Bouabré
Fine Art Drawings - 15 x 11 cm Fine Art Drawings - 5.9 x 4.3 inch
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Mother and child II
Leikun Nahusenay
Painting - 100 x 70 x 0.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.2 inch
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Conversations depuis les cieux
Enfant Précoce / Francis Essoua Kalu
Painting - 150 x 220 x 3 cm Painting - 59.1 x 86.6 x 1.2 inch
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Monk’s Dream (Take Four)
David Akinola
Painting - 30 x 23 x 1 cm Painting - 11.8 x 9.1 x 0.4 inch
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My sister's Keeper
Letaru Dralegu
Photography - 40 x 31.7 x 1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 12.5 x 0.4 inch
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Maiden from the southwest
Ademola Ajayi
Painting - 76.2 x 61 x 2.5 cm Painting - 30 x 24 x 1 inch
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African Juju Society VIII
Angu Walters
Painting - 70 x 85 x 1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 33.5 x 0.4 inch
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The Fulani, The Cow, The Milk
Angu Walters
Painting - 88 x 73 x 1 cm Painting - 34.6 x 28.7 x 0.4 inch
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Sleeping beauty
Leikun Nahusenay
Painting - 70 x 100 x 0.5 cm Painting - 27.6 x 39.4 x 0.2 inch
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What matters most
Silvia Calmejane
Painting - 120 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
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African Aesthetic
How can you define the African aesthetic? A continent made up of 54 countries — each with their own culture, their own traditions and their own social structures – no doubt produces stylistically varied African artists.
The literary movement Négritude was led by the writers Aimé Césaire, Léon Damas and Léopold Sédar Senghor and played a huge part in the development of modern African art. Founded in 1937 by a group of African student artists in Paris, a city with a tolerant and diverse art scene, the movement grew globally. The movement aimed to critique colonialism and cultivate an appreciation for Black and African culture, the effects of which no doubt is imperative to the contemporary African art scene.
According to Léopold Sédar Senghor, in order for African art to progress it had to reflect the modernity of the present by responding to contemporary social issues and artistic styles, while celebrating traditional culture. By also drawing from other Modernist movements such as the Harlem Renaissance and Surrealism, the African aesthetic of visual art focuses on these principles and is today conveyed by the likes of Angu Walters who focuses on everyday life in African villages. Whilst Faie Davis seeks to use her lens to capture an appreciation for those who retain tradition.