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African Dancers giclée art print
Angu Walters
Print - 80 x 97 x 0.1 cm Print - 31.5 x 38.2 x 0 inch
$300
Femme feuille assise et enfant
Salfo Dermé (Yabré)
Sculpture - 44 x 21 x 18 cm Sculpture - 17.3 x 8.3 x 7.1 inch
$2,036
Power Black Excellence
Ebuka Michael
Photography - 60 x 40 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 15.7 x 0 inch
$792
Tryptich - The Black on Black Collection
Faie Davis
Photography - 62.2 x 76.2 x 2.5 cm Photography - 24.5 x 30 x 1 inch
$1,200
Faceless - Hidden Identities
Ebuka Michael
Photography - 90 x 60 x 0.1 cm Photography - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0 inch
$3,743
Faceless - Hidden Identities
Ebuka Michael
Photography - 40 x 30 cm Photography - 15.7 x 11.8 inch
$792
The Queen of Africa
Mosoti Kepha
Sculpture - 183 x 60 x 28 cm Sculpture - 72 x 23.6 x 11 inch
$5,598
Dans un ciel ensoleillé, un nuage gris-blanc figurant une mère portant son enfant et un homme couché sur le dos
Frédéric Bruly Bouabré
Fine Art Drawings - 49 x 39 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.3 x 15.4 x 0 inch
$1,357
Bawounon: La sublime / Beauté: la venus violette
Frédéric Bruly Bouabré
Fine Art Drawings - 20 x 16 cm Fine Art Drawings - 7.9 x 6.3 inch
$735
Rendille Moran at Nyiru
John Kenny
Photography - 67 x 45 x 2 cm Photography - 26.4 x 17.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,655
Fire of the Himba
John Kenny
Photography - 67 x 45 x 2 cm Photography - 26.4 x 17.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,052
Mursi traditions
John Kenny
Photography - 67 x 45 x 2 cm Photography - 26.4 x 17.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,052
Tagro Gougossi. La célèbre en beauté
Frédéric Bruly Bouabré
Fine Art Drawings - 23 x 15 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.1 x 5.9 inch
$1,244
De divines taches de peintures se révèlent en un divin art pris sur peau de banane jaunie
Frédéric Bruly Bouabré
Fine Art Drawings - 23 x 15 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.1 x 5.9 inch
$1,357
100 titres
Gatien Mabounga
Fine Art Drawings - 140 x 86 cm Fine Art Drawings - 55.1 x 33.9 inch
$1,753
Nguegalengo girl from Garganta, with goat. Angola
Faie Davis
Photography - 61 x 58.5 x 2.5 cm Photography - 24 x 23 x 1 inch
$975
Mukuaita wearing ker ungava hairstyle. Angola
Faie Davis
Photography - 61 x 58.5 x 2.5 cm Photography - 24 x 23 x 1 inch
$975
Nguengalengo boy with chicken
Faie Davis
Photography - 61 x 58 x 2.5 cm Photography - 24 x 22.8 x 1 inch
$975
Le monde perdu V
Soly Cissé
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 42 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 16.5 x 0.4 inch
$1,696
Sans titre
Gatien Mabounga
Fine Art Drawings - 60 x 50 cm Fine Art Drawings - 23.6 x 19.7 inch
$1,470
Sans titre
Gatien Mabounga
Fine Art Drawings - 60 x 50 cm Fine Art Drawings - 23.6 x 19.7 inch
$1,583
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Gatien Mabounga
Fine Art Drawings - 66 x 133 cm Fine Art Drawings - 26 x 52.4 inch
$2,149
Sans titre
Bruce Tchibozo
Fine Art Drawings - 32.5 x 50 cm Fine Art Drawings - 12.8 x 19.7 inch
$679
Série irréalité, l'amour du prochain
Benjamin Déguénon
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 65 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 25.6 x 0 inch
$2,262
Série irréalité, l'amour du prochain
Benjamin Déguénon
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 65 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 25.6 x 0 inch
$2,262
Salle d'attente 6
Gatien Mabounga
Fine Art Drawings - 120 x 100 cm Fine Art Drawings - 47.2 x 39.4 inch
$2,827
Yet, I rise, beautiful!
Chika Idu
Painting - 152.4 x 121.9 x 10.2 cm Painting - 60 x 48 x 4 inch
$8,900
Mother and Child III giclée art print
Angu Walters
Print - 99 x 80 x 0.1 cm Print - 39 x 31.5 x 0 inch
$280
Mother and Child VII giclée art print
Angu Walters
Print - 100 x 80 x 0.1 cm Print - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0 inch
$290
Amhna miiu min ineg mini mlefu iama nandio
George Lilanga
Painting - 61 x 61 x 1 cm Painting - 24 x 24 x 0.4 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.