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Friday

Friday. TURN IN: Ch. 15 & Ch.34 worksheet (to me) Beginning ( 5 min ) finish putting together posters. ( 3 min ) presentations (everyone take notes). please write down name/ short description of artwork (Last 15 min: Jeopardy Review Game )

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Friday

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  1. Friday • TURN IN: Ch. 15 & Ch.34 worksheet (to me) • Beginning (5 min) finish putting together posters. • (3 min) presentations (everyone take notes).please write down name/ short description of artwork • (Last 15 min: Jeopardy Review Game) • If we run out of time, I’ll put this on my website so you can review at home.

  2. Will only have 1 or 2 questions relating to African Art. • Based on the 4 images I gave you. Test is Primarily Ancient Near East & Egyptian.

  3. There will be chance for extra creditpoints • Will use bell curve if needed • DO NOT SKIP CLASS! • MAKE-UP TEST IS ALL LONG ESSAYS. UNIT 1 TEST • TEST Monday, STUDY! • UNIT 1 Image Packet • UNIT image P.P. on my website • My WEBSITE: Online Resources: Image P.P. by Darrocott • ( ARTWORK BY THEMES) • STUDY VOCAB FROM QUIZZES! • The FORMAT (will have some images) • Identification • Multiple choice • Short answer • Short essay (2) • Long essay (1)

  4. Art of Africa

  5. Core Beliefs • Honor Ancestor • Worship Deities • Elevate Rulers to Sacred Status

  6. Nomadic vs. Farmers • Nomadic Art: • Personal adornment, rock engravings, animal/ ritual paintings • Settled Farmers: • Figures (wood, clay, metal) shrines to ancestor deities. Pray for good crops.

  7. THE ART • THEMES: Images of Identity/ Status/ Worship/ Power/ and Gender Roles • Naturalism &/or Extreme Stylization (abstract/ exagerations) • Materials: wood, terrecotta, ivory, brass (casting), textiles

  8. Below: Head from the Nok culture, c. 500 BCE-200 CE, terracottaRight: Standing Nok figure

  9. Nok culture/ problems of preservation of African art/ stylization vs. naturalismstyle characteristics: piereced eyes, mouth, & ear holes. Let heat get out during firing. Broken bands on neck, ~ indication of elevated status

  10. Head of a King (Ife), c. 13th century CE, brassnaturalistic sculpture in the city of Ife/ scarification on the face of an oni“King”/ holes along the neck

  11. Right: King (Ife, Nigeria), eleventh to twelfth century, zinc brassBelow: Memorial Head (Benin, Nigeria), c. 1400-1550 CE, brass

  12. Belief: • Head is the Location of Wisdom, Destiny, Essence of Being, & ability to communicate with spiritual forces in the ancestral world.

  13. Casting Tradition • Memorial Heads • “Rolled Collars”

  14. Head of an oba (Benin), c. 1700-1897 CE, brasskingdom of Benin/ an “oba” with identification marks (ikharo)/ appearance of casting due to contact with Portuguese traders/ coral-bead necklaces threaded with elephant hair/ eyes with pupils inset with iron

  15. Brass commemorative head with tusk from the altar for Oba Ovonramwen, photographed in 1970

  16. Corn Flakes Make Really Funky Pop- Sicles Content Focus Mood Realistic Function Patron Setting Mounted King and Attendants (Benin), c. 1550-1680, bronze

  17. Corn Flakes Make Really Funky Pop- Sicles Content Focus Mood Realism Function Patron Setting

  18. Mounted King and Attendants (Benin), c. 1550-1680, bronzehigh relief cast sculpture created for a door/ use of hierarchical proportion/ flanking figures used to create a symmetrical composition suggesting order reinforced by cosmic imagery or symbolism

  19. Oba wearing coral-beaded regalia and seated on a dais

  20. Africa after 1800

  21. Europeans : • Exploration • Trade • Influences to African Cultures (christianity)

  22. Children & Continuity of Life Children- • symbolize the future. • social security (for parents) • Yoruba- 1 of highest rates of twin births • Often birth complications (deaths)

  23. Left and Right: Twin figures (ere ibeji) from the Yoruba (Nigeria), 20th century, wood

  24. Art forms of deceased honored. (dress, dance, sing to it) Belief: honoring will bring good fortune to the surviving members.

  25. Twin figures of the Yoruba (Nigeria), early twentieth century, cowrie shells and wood

  26. Spirit World • Many cultures believe there are many different spirits involved for human offers • Nkisis: objects that harness spirit forces • Diviner: specialist in ritual & spiritual practices

  27. Power figures of the Kongo culture (Zaire), 19th century, wood, nails, pins, blades, and other materialspower figures (nkisi nkonde) of the Kongo culture/ bilongo ingredients drawn from plants, animals, and minerals (includes human hair, nail clippings, etc…) to bring a “neutral figure” to life

  28. Nails or pointed objects driven in (or removed) to provide a particular function (oath-taking, healing, etc…)/ “pakalala” pose, a stance of alertness, ready to strike or attract/ problematic issues regarding Western concepts of “art” and “artist”

  29. Abogunde of Ede. Shango shrine figure holding a dance staff, Yoruba (Nigeria), nineteenth century, wood and beadslarge number of orisha of the Yoruba/ Shango, god of thunder/ oshe shango staff used in a ritualistic hypnotic state/ balancing a double axe, carrying the burden of child-bearing and child rearing/ suggestion of purity through nudity

  30. A figure of Eshu of the Yoruba (Nigeria), twentieth century, wood and cowrie shellsEshu (disorder) and Orunmila (order) / mediator between gods and humans/ long braids of cowrie shells, referencing his role as god of the marketplace

  31. Ancestral Couple (?) (Dogon, Mali), c. 19th century, woodDogon concept of the primordial couple/ protective male and the nurturing female/ reverence for ancestors

  32. Male Chi Wara Antelope Headdress, Bamana, Mali, 19th-20th century, wood

  33. Reliquary guardian figure of the Kota (Gabon), nineteenth and twentieth centuries, wood, copper, iron, and brassKota funerary figures (mbulu-ngulu)/ bwete bundle of bones and relics/ highly stylized human form to suggest non-human spiritual forces/ reflective brass and copper used as an apotropaic device to deflect evil forces

  34. Kente cloth of the Ashanti (Ghana), 20th century, silk

  35. Ashanti, known for their woven textiles/ kente cloth, woven with patterns signifying rank/ warp (vertical threads in weaving that are attached to the top and bottom of a loom, through which a weft is woven)/ weft (threads of yarn woven over and under warp threads)/ worn when the king held court

  36. An akuaba figure of the Akan (Ghana), nineteenth-twentieth century, wood

  37. Shrine figure (akua mma) of the Ashanti (Ghana), wood

  38. Figure of a Tano priest of the Akan (Ghana), nineteenth-twentieth century, wood

  39. Female mask of the Mende (Sierra Leone), woodmasks from the Mende worn by priestesses or judges (when women rule for three years in a ritual calendar, alternating with men) in ritual dance/ the Sande society of women (complementary to the Poro society of men)

  40. a small closed mouth and downcast eyes (indicating a serious demeanor) and a high, broad forehead (wisdom)/ black surface evoking ancestral spirits emergent from their underwater homes (also symbolized by the turtle on top)

  41. Lets Analyze!

  42. Corn Flakes Make Really Funky Pop- Sicles Content Focus Mood Realistic Function Patron Setting

  43. Corn Flakes Make Really Funky Pop- Sicles Content Focus Mood Realism Function Patron Setting

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