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The essays seek to understand and explain the relatively new movement of nonrepresentational art and defend these pioneering artists attempting to escape from the embraced realism and romanticism movements. [1] The dehumanization of art refers to the removal of human elements from these works, eliminating the content, but keeping the form.
William Buller Fagg CMG (28 April 1914 – 10 July 1992) was a British curator and anthropologist. He was the Keeper of the Department of Ethnography at the British Museum (1969–1974), and pioneering historian of Yoruba and Nigerian art, with a particular focus on the art of Benin.
Beggars (1963). Etso Clara Ugbodaga-Ngu known as Ugbodaga-Ngu, was a Nigerian artist and teacher. Her art featured vibrant colours and portrayed strength and purpose. Her geometric style evolved from earlier works like "Market Women" (1961) and left a lasting mark on Nigerian culture and politics.
Hazoumè in 2010. Romuald Hazoumè (born 1962, Porto Novo, Republic of Dahomey) is a Yoruba artist and sculptor, from the Republic of Bénin. [1] [2] [3]He is best known for his work La Bouche du Roi, a reworking of the 1789 image of the slave ship Brookes. [4]
Odinigwe Benedict Chukwukadibia Enwonwu // ⓘ MBE (14 July 1917 – 5 February 1994), better known as Ben Enwonwu, was a Nigerian painter and sculptor. [1] Arguably the most influential African artist of the 20th century, his pioneering career opened the way for the postcolonial proliferation and increased visibility of modern African art.
A Cambridge University college said Friday that it would return a looted bronze cockerel to Nigeria later this month, making The post Cambridge college to return stolen artwork to Nigeria appeared ...
Born in Onitsha, [1] Nigeria, Egonu was in his early teens when in 1945 he first travelled to England. [2] Having already begun to draw while attending Sacred Heart College, Calabar, [6] before leaving for the UK, he eventually studied Fine Arts and Typography at Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts, London, [1] [3] from 1949 to 1952, [7] and went on to participate in a number of exhibitions.
[2] [3] An image of the portrait was displayed at Enwonwu's funeral. [2] Enwonwu painted three versions of the portrait; all were subsequently lost until the 2017 discovery. [2] [1] Mark Brown, writing in The Guardian described the painting as "a national icon in Nigeria, with poster reproductions hanging on walls in homes all over the country ...