Art of Africa

[zarajara]

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

[zarajara]

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

[Marassa]

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 ...

[Магнолия]

Сообщение от Marassa; 2441951"

but I am afraid to buy them - it's all the same items of religious purpose , and who knows what demons are asleep until then ...

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 "

[тандем]

Сообщение от Marassa; 2441951"

masochki And, yes, funny, but I'm afraid to fly - it's all the same items of religious purpose, and who knows what demons are asleep until then ...

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.

[Магнолия]

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).

[тандем]

Сообщение от Magnolia

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 ).

Mysticism is present in all religions and religiyah.A how else to explain the impossible and nepoznannoe.Vseh and always worried and concerned about one issue - that there, below the physical smerti.Re - incarnation , heaven, hell ? To answer this question , man created idols , gods, surrounded them with the conventions and rituals, a science for understanding the "mystery" , and WHO as the saying is still there ..... No one can predict what will zavtra.A know hochetsya.Hochetsya " podstelit straw ", though the prayers before the icons and rituals , though ritual dances in masks. Everywhere there is mysticism - mandatory seasoning to obscurity.

[Магнолия]

Dear tandem, let's talk it in the theme "Images of the alphabet", mysticism, or prayer should be called the phenomenon in question.
(So ​​as not to interfere with the forum users discuss the Art of Africa).


Zara, need to somehow distinguish African secular and religious.

[zarajara]

Сообщение от Magnolia

Zara , need to somehow distinguish African secular and religious .

Magnolia, open two separate topics , " The Art of African religious" and " secular Art of Africa " I think unnecessary. You can not just talk at this site of religious significance , especially since none of us ( I think) is not a specialist in African cults.
I see this only as a specific art cultural phenomenon.
I actually artifacts of Christian culture is not ready to deal with ( at least here ) as ritual objects.
For me - it's an art, and this meaning is more than enough to be of value in my eyes.
There are forums in which to exchange views mystics , magicians , religious people of different faiths , philosophers and psychologists. When I want to know the opinion of a specialist, go there .

1.MAHONGWE - Gabon /Rep Pop. Congo
Reliquary figure from " Bwiti "
Wood, pigments , copper, brass , patina
h43 cm, 5 x L21 x p8

2. Congo (formerly Zaire) :: " Goblet of palm wine ", - h28 cm x L14 x p15

[zarajara]

Masks from Angola

1.
"Pwo facial mask" - cm h34 x L22 x p15

2.
"Facial /Forehead ritual 'Cihongo' male mask" - cm h 20 x L18 x p22

3.
"Facial ritual mask" - cm h 27 x L31 x p30

4.
"Pwo facial mask" - cm h 22 x L13 x p11

5.
"Facial ritual female" Pwo "mask" - cm h46 x L20 x p30

It would be desirable, of course, to know the meaning of the symbol on the forehead ...
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