Art of Africa
 

Opened this thread to a platform on which the all are free to exchange views and discuss the art of Africa .
I love the culture
here are some works , borrowed from my FB boyfriend Marcello Lattari, which is a long time African art shows and constantly interesting specimen.

1. IGBO - Nigeria: Facial mask "Alusi Ritual" - cm h28 x L20 x p14
2. IGBO (Afikpo) - Nigeria: Facial mask "Mmaji o Yam" - cm h37 x L22, 5 x p15
3. YORUBA - Nigeria: "Head crest mask" - cm h36, 5 x L20, 5 x p12, 5

More than one mask from Nigeria

IGBO - Nigeria: "Helmet mask" - cm h37 x L24 x p42

IGBO - Nigeria: "Facial mask" - cm h37 x L19 x p12

Nigeria: Facial mask "Agbogho mmwo" - cm h23 x L18 x p15

Nigeria: Facial mask "Agbogho mmwo" - cm h32, 5 x L19, 5 x p16


details can be found here

http://www.africarte.it/etnie/elenco.etnie/Igbo/igbo (004). htm

The Royal Academy of Arts in London recently held Freaky exhibition "Bronze" , which were exhibited works in bronze, created over the last 5000 years. Most of all I was struck by the Nigerian bronze XV century - until this exhibition was convinced that Africa XV century nothing steeper stone axes could not be.
Masochki And , yes , funny , but I'm afraid to buy them - it's all the same items of religious purpose , and who knows what demons are asleep until then ...

great theme!
forward to continuing.

zarajara, theme [B]Primitive art of Africa, Oceania, Asia[/
B] is already there,

much of 09.12.2008.

Maybe it is better to continue (transfer?) - There is good material on the subject is a few pages

I do not know what is.
But apparently topic long withered, once appeared, as it turned out , too dysfunctional " African art ." Well there topikstarter tried.
Let's see how this will be .
If that does not survive , then such karma :D>

You know, in this case I am against the merger , it is because, if the topic for a long time "does not work ", that will not happen.

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MAHONGWE /SHAMAYE (KOTA) - Gabon: "reliquary figure Bwiti" - cm h45 x d24

Here's a handsome Gabon
 
http://www.africarte.it/etnie/elenco...ongwe/mahongwe (003). htm

MAHONGWE /SHAMAYE (KOTA) - Gabon: "reliquary figure Bwiti" - cm h45 x d24

Here's a handsome Gabon
 
http://www.africarte.it/etnie/elenco...gwe (003). Htm

All around the city , just a handful of grapes,
This is - Buss, and okra , and the king of Timbuktu,
The very sound of those words to me, like the sun, joy,
Similarly drums, he wakes up the dream .
                 N.Gumilev . "Niger "

Not boytes.Masochki that are sold to tourists - mostly ordinary souvenir junk.
These articles for religious services almost impossible kupit.Oni are public property of a particular people, nation, and passed on from generation to generation. Nobody has the right to dispose of them edinolichno.Eti items carry a mystical component t.k.uchastvovali in rituals, they represent the ancestral totem who sacrifice, and is accessed by all occasions.
Collection presented in museums and private collections were at 19, the first half of the 20th century, when the cult objects often simply seized by force.
Without a living participation in the rites they gradually lost its mystical power and today it's just material samples African cultures.
Today you can get a copy of the religious objects, but it is also very difficult t.k.predstaviteli tribes are afraid to transfer them into the wrong hands, for fear of the evil eye and other "unfriendly" manipulated by outsiders.

tandem, do not you think that in African masks and accessed hidden likeness icons and prayers of Christianity, that you really do not casually mention of mysticism.
(Hopefully, the essence of the concepts of "similarity" and "mysticism", we mean the same).