Friday, July 15, 2011

Winnipeg-based Nigerian Artist Yisa Akinbolaji Painting with Multi-Layering Experience

African artist, Yisa Akinbolaji, of Winnipeg is a full-time visual artist. Before coming to Canada in 1997, Yisa was recognized as a leading Nigerian artist

Tribal Art Hunter

Working with private and corporate art collectors, designers, and members of the trade, Tribal Art Hunter offers a full range of consulting services in

South African Modernists

Modernism is a term applied to the innovative development of the arts in the 20th C which saw a break with realism and naturalism and other such traditional art forms. This equally applies to the South African Modernists

Thursday, July 14, 2011

Resistance Art

In South Africa the years 1968-1971 saw a window for relatively free expression before the Government clamped down on cultural groups linked to the Black Consciousness movement; an opportunity in time that was reflected in an exhibition shown at the Durban Art Gallery called 'Art, South Africa Today' - the beginnings of Resistance Art

Tribal Art

What do we define by 'Tribal Art' (also known as Ethnographic art)?

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South African Art

So much has been written and documented about South African Art, particularly in the past two decades.