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Robert Scott Duncanson, Landscape with Rainbow c. 1859, Hudson River School, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC.. This list of African-American visual artists is a list that includes dates of birth and death of historically recognized African-American fine artists known for the creation of artworks that are primarily visual in nature, including traditional media such as painting ...
Cephas Yao Agbemenu (born 1951), sculptor and a traditional African wood carver, educator; Joseph Kossivi Ahiator (born 1956), painter and voodoo artist; Bernard Akoi-Jackson (born 1979), installation artist, performance artist, video artist, photographer, dancer, poet, and academic; Kwame Akoto (born 1950), painter
African art describes modern and historical paintings, sculptures, installations, and other visual culture from native or indigenous Africans and the African continent.The definition may also include the art of the African diasporas, such as African-American, Caribbean or art in South American societies inspired by African traditions.
South African art is the visual art produced by the people inhabiting the territory occupied by the modern country of South Africa. The oldest art objects in the world were discovered in a South African cave. Archaeologists have discovered two sets of art kits thought to be 100,000 years old at a cave in South Africa.
African-American art is a broad term describing visual art created by African Americans. The range of art they have created, and are continuing to create, over more than two centuries is as varied as the artists themselves. [ 1 ]
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Jeff Donaldson (1932 – 2004) was a visual artist whose work helped define the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s. [1] Donaldson, co-founder of AfriCOBRA and contributor to the momentous Wall of Respect, was a pioneer in African-American personal and academic achievement.
Born in the La community of Accra, in what was then the Gold Coast (present-day Ghana), Emmanuel Ablade Glover had his early education at Presbyterian mission schools. [5] He had his teacher training education at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi (1957–58), before winning a scholarship to study textile design at London's Central School of Art and Design (1959–62).