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t. e. 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.
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 ...
Ben Enwonwu. 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 ...
Oku Ampofo (1908–1998), sculptor, medical doctor. El Anatsui (born 1944), Ghanaian sculptor; lives in Nigeria. Kwadwo Ani (born 1966), painter. Anita-Pearl Ankor, painter, muralist. Kofi Antubam (1922–1964), artist and designer. Philip Kwame Apagya (born 1958), portrait photographer.
Contemporary African art is commonly understood to be art made by artists in Africa and the African diaspora in the post-independence era. However, there are about as many understandings of contemporary African art as there are curators, scholars and artists working in that field. All three terms of this "wide-reaching non-category [sic]" [1 ...
Her works often focus on important women from history, as shown in her most famous work, “The Dinner Party,” which represents 39 significant figures in the history of women artists (The ...
Senegalese artists (7 C, 4 P) Seychellois artists (1 C, 3 P) Sierra Leonean artists (1 C, 1 P) Somalian artists (4 C, 2 P) South African artists (28 C, 74 P) Sudanese artists (8 C, 21 P)
Chike Aniakor (born 1939), painter. Kingsley Ayogu (born 1994), painter of hyperrealistic works. Samson Bakare (born 1993), painter and sculptor. Jimoh Buraimoh (born 1943), painter. Chinwe Chukwuogo-Roy (1952–2012), Nigerian-born English figurative painter. Fola David (born 1993), scientific illustrator, medical doctor, painter.