africa art

Identify these two images by artist, title, and date. Compare and contrast these two works in terms of the contexts for their creation. In other words, what are the concerns of the artists who created them? What do they share? How are they different?(2 paragraph)

Identify these two images by artist, title, and date. Compare and contrast these two works in terms of the contexts for their creation. In other words, what are the concerns of the artists who created them? What do they share? How are they different? (2 paragraph)

Identify these two images by artist, title, and date. Compare and contrast these two works in terms of the contexts for their creation. In other words, what are the concerns of the artists who created them? What do they share? How are they different? (2 paragraph)

4. Identify the following name or term in 2-3 full sentences.  For individuals, who are/were these individuals?  Where are/were they from?  With what art forms are/were they associated?  Provide relative dates if significant.

1) Papa Ibra Tall

2) Nakunte Diarra

3) Seydou Keita

4) Negritude

5) Double Dutch

5. Final Exam Essay

Please write a 2-page essay (500 words, double-spaced, 12pt Times font) about a contemporary African artist of your choice (but NOT one of the ones we discussed in class). 

In at least one paragraph, provide some biographical information about the artist:  Where were they born? Where did they grow up? What were some of their life experiences that have had an impact on their work? Google them ... Google Image their work .... Find at least one other source (besides the urls listed below) on this artist.

Identify at least one specific work that you find compelling and describe it.  What is the subject of the work? What is/are the medium(s) the artist used? If you can find out, what was the context for the creation of the work? In what context or contexts has this work been seen, that is, if it has been in an exhibition, what is the relationship of the work to the larger themes of the exhibition? Say why you chose this particular work.

Remember that you need to cite your sources by including the full website urls: you can list them at the bottom of the text.  Either quote the text properly, or put the information in your own words. I will be grading your submission on both content and presentation, so check for grammatical errors, typos or autocorrect errors.

Here are several possible sources:

Check out the other artists (besides Viye Diba, Yinka Shonibare, El Anatsui and Sokari Douglas Camp) included in the exhibition on Art and the Environment at the Tang Museum.

https://tang.skidmore.edu/exhibitions/88-environment-and-object-recent-african-art

Check out these past exhibitions at the National Museum of African Art (NMAFA, Smithsonian Institution)

https://africa.si.edu/exhibitions/past-exhibitions/senses-of-timevideo-and-film-based-works-of-africa/

SENSES OF TIME

Time may seem easy to measure, but it can be challenging to understand. Six internationally recognized African artists examine how time is experienced—and produced—by the body. Bodies stand, climb, dance, and dissolve in seven works of video and film art. These time-based works by Sammy Baloji, Theo Eshetu, Moataz Nasr, Berni Searle, Yinka Shonibare MBE, and Sue Williamson repeat, resist, and reverse the expectation that time must move relentlessly forward.

https://africa.si.edu/exhibitions/past-exhibitions/divine-comedy-2/

THE DIVINE COMEDY

A combination of new commissions and recently produced works of art come together in this first exhibition to demonstrate the ongoing global relevance of the themes addressed in Dante Alighieri’s 14th-century epic poem, The Divine Comedy. This dramatic installation, exhibited in the entrance pavilion and on all three subfloors of the museum, showcases the height of artistic production today. Forty of the best known and emerging artists from 18 African nations and the African diaspora working in media as diverse as video projection, installation, painting, sculpture, textiles, printmaking, photography, and collage explore diverse issues of politics, heritage, history, identity, faith, and form. In so doing, they reveal that one person’s vision of heaven, purgatory, or hell might not match another’s.

https://africa.si.edu/exhibits/earthmatters/index.html

EARTH MATTERS

Listen to the news today and you will notice how many of the reports focus on territorial disputes or how best to access resources within the land or to protect the environment. These are issues that shape our times and they lie at the heart of this exhibition. Looking through the lens of Africa, Earth Matters focuses on the very creative and visual ways in which individuals and communities negotiate complex relationships with the land beneath their feet and the earth at large.

https://africa.si.edu/exhibits/cosmos/index.html

AFRICAN COSMOS: STELLAR ARTS 

shows how the sun, moon, stars, and the phenomena of lightning and rainbows inspired the arts of Africa for thousands of years. We have all experienced the wonder of gazing at a night sky filled with stars. Our imaginations take flight. We journey to the heavens, inspired by its majesty, and we recall stories about the constellations shining from above. Since the time of the ancient Egyptians, Africans have used their celestial observations to chart their movements through the land and to create their agricultural and ritual calendars.

https://africa.si.edu/exhibits/inscribing/index1.html

INSCRIBING MEANING

Inscribing Meaning explores the relationships between African art and the communicative powers of language, graphic systems and the written word. For thousands of years, African artists have incorporated writing and graphic symbols into their art with great ingenuity and creativity.