Logo
Unionpedia
Communication
Get it on Google Play
New! Download Unionpedia on your Android™ device!
Download
Faster access than browser!
 

African sculpture

Index African sculpture

Most African sculpture was historically in wood and other organic materials that have not survived from earlier than at most a few centuries ago; older pottery figures are found from a number of areas. [1]

28 relations: Aesthetics, African art, Alan Wurtzburger, Alphonse Tierou, Art6, Charles Alston, Clayton Eshleman, Colon statue, Ellen Handler Spitz, Eric de Kolb, Fleming Museum of Art, Georg Baselitz, History of painting, Huma Bhabha, Jane Piper, Malvin Gray Johnson, Marcel Janco, Merton Simpson, Muqbil Al-Zahawi, Paul Guillaume, Picasso's African Period, Primitivism, Sculpture, Statues Also Die, Tête (sculpture), The Pew Charitable Trusts, Traditional African masks, Wood carving.

Aesthetics

Aesthetics (also spelled esthetics) is a branch of philosophy that explores the nature of art, beauty, and taste, with the creation and appreciation of beauty.

New!!: African sculpture and Aesthetics · See more »

African art

African art describes the modern and historical paintings, sculptures, installations, and other visual culture from native or indigenous Africans and the African continent.

New!!: African sculpture and African art · See more »

Alan Wurtzburger

Alan Wurtzburger (1900—1963) was a collector of art and ethnographic objects and an important benefactor to the Baltimore Museum of Art.

New!!: African sculpture and Alan Wurtzburger · See more »

Alphonse Tierou

Alphonse Tierou is an African dancer, researcher and choreograph originally from Ivory Coast.

New!!: African sculpture and Alphonse Tierou · See more »

Art6

Art6, also spelled art6, (2004-2014) was a non-profit (501C-3) member-run art gallery and performance space located at 6 East Broad Street in Jackson Ward in the area which would eventually be designated the Arts and Cultural District of Richmond, Virginia.

New!!: African sculpture and Art6 · See more »

Charles Alston

Charles Henry Alston (November 28, 1907 – April 27, 1977) was an African-American painter, sculptor, illustrator, muralist and teacher who lived and worked in the New York City neighborhood of Harlem.

New!!: African sculpture and Charles Alston · See more »

Clayton Eshleman

Clayton Eshleman (born June 1, 1935) is an American poet, translator, and editor, noted in particular for his translations of César Vallejo and his studies of cave painting and the Paleolithic imagination.

New!!: African sculpture and Clayton Eshleman · See more »

Colon statue

Colon statues, a term derived from the French statues colon ("colon" is the French noun for a colonist), are a genre of wooden figurative sculpture within African art which originated during the colonial period.

New!!: African sculpture and Colon statue · See more »

Ellen Handler Spitz

Ellen Handler Spitz is an American writer and academic noted for her expertise on children, psychology, and the arts.

New!!: African sculpture and Ellen Handler Spitz · See more »

Eric de Kolb

Eric de Kolb was an Austrian-born surrealistic artist, painter, sculptor, jewelry and fashion designer, commercial artist, and package designer.

New!!: African sculpture and Eric de Kolb · See more »

Fleming Museum of Art

The Fleming Museum of Art is a museum of art and anthropology located at the University of Vermont in Burlington, Vermont.

New!!: African sculpture and Fleming Museum of Art · See more »

Georg Baselitz

Georg Baselitz (born 23 January 1938, as Hans-Georg Kern, in Deutschbaselitz, Germany) is a German painter, sculptor and graphic artist.

New!!: African sculpture and Georg Baselitz · See more »

History of painting

The history of painting reaches back in time to artifacts from pre-historic humans, and spans all cultures.

New!!: African sculpture and History of painting · See more »

Huma Bhabha

Huma Bhabha (born 1962) is a Pakistani-American sculptor based in Poughkeepsie, New York.

New!!: African sculpture and Huma Bhabha · See more »

Jane Piper

Jane Piper (1916–1991) was an American artist known for her abstract treatment of still lifes.

New!!: African sculpture and Jane Piper · See more »

Malvin Gray Johnson

Malvin Gray Johnson (January 28, 1896 – October 4, 1934) was an African-American painter, born and raised in Greensboro, North Carolina.

New!!: African sculpture and Malvin Gray Johnson · See more »

Marcel Janco

Marcel Janco (common rendition of the Romanian name Marcel Hermann Iancu, last name also Ianco, Janko or Jancu; May 24, 1895 – April 21, 1984) was a Romanian and Israeli visual artist, architect and art theorist.

New!!: African sculpture and Marcel Janco · See more »

Merton Simpson

Merton Daniel Simpson (September 20, 1928 – March 9, 2013) was an American abstract expressionist painter and African and tribal art collector and dealer.

New!!: African sculpture and Merton Simpson · See more »

Muqbil Al-Zahawi

Muqbil Al-Zahawi (born 1 April 1935) (Arabic, مقبل الزهاوى) is an Iraqi ceramicist.

New!!: African sculpture and Muqbil Al-Zahawi · See more »

Paul Guillaume

Paul Guillaume (1891 in Paris – 1934 in Paris) was a French art dealer.

New!!: African sculpture and Paul Guillaume · See more »

Picasso's African Period

Picasso's African Period, which was three years long, lasted from 1906 to 1909, was the period when Pablo Picasso painted in a style which was strongly influenced by African sculpture and particularly traditional African masks.

New!!: African sculpture and Picasso's African Period · See more »

Primitivism

Primitivism is a mode of aesthetic idealization that either emulates or aspires to recreate "primitive" experience.

New!!: African sculpture and Primitivism · See more »

Sculpture

Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions.

New!!: African sculpture and Sculpture · See more »

Statues Also Die

Statues Also Die (Les statues meurent aussi) is a 1953 French essay film directed by Alain Resnais, Chris Marker, and Ghislain Cloquet about historical African art and the effects colonialism has had on how it is perceived.

New!!: African sculpture and Statues Also Die · See more »

Tête (sculpture)

Tête is a limestone sculpture by Amedeo Modigliani and is amongst the most expensive works of art ever sold.

New!!: African sculpture and Tête (sculpture) · See more »

The Pew Charitable Trusts

The Pew Charitable Trusts is an independent non-profit, non-governmental organization (NGO), founded in 1948.

New!!: African sculpture and The Pew Charitable Trusts · See more »

Traditional African masks

Ritual and ceremonial masks are an essential feature of the traditional culture of the peoples of a part of Sub-Saharan Africa, e.g. roughly between the Sahara and the Kalahari Desert.

New!!: African sculpture and Traditional African masks · See more »

Wood carving

Wood carving is a form of woodworking by means of a cutting tool (knife) in one hand or a chisel by two hands or with one hand on a chisel and one hand on a mallet, resulting in a wooden figure or figurine, or in the sculptural ornamentation of a wooden object.

New!!: African sculpture and Wood carving · See more »

Redirects here:

Africa sculpture.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_sculpture

OutgoingIncoming
Hey! We are on Facebook now! »