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tchaika, recall in this connection the story of how the European professors could not believe that, in Africa in the 14 th century could have produced this level Art of (casting). . "Smutty play can not !"...
And they still (in Africa), cast ... (According to the same obscene primitive artisanal recipes melted metal from junk nepotrebnyh metal residues and pour figurines for tourists) ..
The level now (art) in accordance with the level of tourists. course ..
Threat:
What kind of cast reliefs and high reliefs in wax form 14 century! Captures the spirit of this beauty. What is the elegant styling, a taste! Repeat the impossible!
(I do not know how to look for pictures, sorry, people!)
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NATA NOVA, you had this in mind?
The scientists decided to debunk the racist myth of African sculpture
Specialists of the British Museum are going to study sculpture, depicting the head of the sea god Olokun from the mythology of the African Yoruba people. They suggest that the work of the Nigerian city of Ife Museum, which is a copy, may actually prove to be the original - one of the most valuable pieces of African art. , Writes The Art Newspaper.
Research will be held after June 6, when the exhibition "The kingdom of Ife in the British Museum. With the permission of the owner of sculpture, the Commission for Museums and Monuments Nigeria and Britain will hold an X-ray analysis of the bronze image. In addition, the inside of the hollow head will study under the microscope in search of the smallest parts of the mold. If the particles are found, they try to date the thermo-luminescent method.
The outer side of the head study to answer the question did not apply there when it was created modern tools and abrasives. Finally, analysis of corrosion will determine whether the statue buried in the earth.
Olokun head in 1910 discovered the famous German anthropologist Leo Frobenius-Africanist. He heard about the sculpture, buried not far from Ife, in a palm grove, dedicated to the god Olokun. The ethnographer was able to find a job, which is believed to have been founded around the year 1400 and represents one of the local kings. Soon the British colonial government was forced to bury his head back, again it unearthed only 1934.
In 1948 he studied sculpture experts of the British Museum, who found that late copy: it allegedly manufactured in a modern way, using a plaster cast, and not wax. In addition, the head found two seam, but did not find traces of ornament, which described the Frobenius. Scientists have speculated that the forger to make a copy, purge corrupt ancient sculpture to repeat the original composition of the alloy. What happened to the original, saying it was too late.
The assumption that the head Olokun actually may not be a copy, expressed an expert on West African art Nigel Barley (Nigel Barley), looking around the sculpture in January. He also noted that it is not clear why it was necessary to seek and forge the image when it was possible to simply steal it.
The Art Newspaper said "racist" overtones that sculpture found fake: in the first half of XX century art historians have decided that the Africans were not able to create such a masterpiece.
http://www.lenta.ru/news/2010/05/06/olokun/