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Challenging the Notion of African Primitivism
Chances are that when you think of the term “African art” what comes to mind are figures and face masks carved out of wood.
Right?
Well, you’re not wrong. Most sub-Saharan art fits that description. But an exhibit at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond reveals another tradition that puts the lie to this stereotype.
“Dynasty and Divinity: Ife Art in Ancient Nigeria” [open until May 22nd] opens our eyes to the astonishingly realistic human figures cast in metal or terra cotta more than 500 years ago in the ancient West African city-state of Ife (pronounced EE-fay).
These elegant and captivating statues change the way we think of Africa and Africans, and for that reason
this might be the most important African art exhibition anywhere right now.
read the entire article at The Washington Post
The Iranian Andy Warhol
From The LA Times
Iranian Artists Inspired by Adversity
Despite restrictions in Iran, a new crop of artists creates works that blend ancient and modern history and ideas, winning acclaim at home and abroad …
Artist Khosrow Hassanzadeh says he was never more delighted than when a barely literate carpenter arrived at his dingy studio to make some repairs and stood, mouth agape, staring at one of his works.
It was a garish, gigantic diorama of a famous Iranian professional wrestler, decorated with cheap trinkets, fake flowers and esoteric memorabilia comprehensible only to locals in the south Tehran neighborhood.
“I do art for my neighbor,” says Hassanzadeh, whose larger-than-life works incorporate the Islamic Republic’s bombastic propaganda with street-level Iranian kitsch and the playful sensibilities of Andy Warhol.
Hassanzadeh, 46, is among the most successful of a new crop of artists in Iran who seamlessly meld East and West, even as they breezily blend Iran’s traditions, both hokey and classical, religious and secular, and its recent history, especially the traumas of the 1980s Iran-Iraq war [...]
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