#African folk art

[artbabere]

🎨 original hand-painted 🎨size without a frame 7 x 9.5 inches (18 x 24 cm) size with a frame 8 × 10 inches (20 × 25 cm) 🎨 materials: oil paints, canvas board, varnish, pink frame 🎨 shipping: high-quality protective packaging with tracking number 🎨 sell with frame

Black Woman Painting is a great addition to the interior of your apartament.😍 This Faceless Portrait is 100% Original Art, one of a kind! 🏆 African Folk Art is perfect as a gift to your loved ones.💕 Naive Painting will delight you every day.

You will find more painting in my store: https://www.etsy.com/shop/ARTbabere

[girlofcosmicmagic]

Edward Saidi Tingatinga, Three Storks

Tanzania, 1970

[originalhaffigaza]

[oncanvas]

Baptism, Clementine Hunter, late 1950s

Oil on canvasboard 18 x 24 in. (45.72 x 60.96 cm)

[louandlillie]

A recent piece from wood that's been sitting in my shed since 2016 or so.

[nancydrewwouldnever]

Clementine Hunter, Melrose Quilt, ca. 1960, textiles (Smithsonian Institute American Art Museum, Washington D.C.)

Clementine Hunter was born on a Louisiana plantation where her grandparents had been slaves. When she was twelve, her family moved to Melrose Plantation in Natchitoches Parish to work as sharecroppers. Clementine worked as a field hand, cook, and housekeeper. The Henry family bought Melrose in 1884; they restored architectural structures on the property and moved historic log cabins from the area onto the property. When John Hampton Henry died, his wife Cammie made Melrose a retreat for visiting artists. Hunter’s exposure to artists and some leftover paints led her to own artistry. She painted quotidian stories she felt historians overlooked—primarily the activities of the black workers. She also made pictorial quilts. This one depicts several notable buildings at Melrose, including the Big House, Yucca House, and African House, in which Hunter painted a now-historic mural of plantation life in 1955.

[cinnamoncee]

1974

[cantva190]

Representation of Haitian Voodoo in comics. Integrating its rich mythology and its deities. Art by: vodou.renaissance

[the-first-man-is-a-cat]

Harriet Powers, Pictorial Quilt, 1895, Boston Museum of Fine Arts

[heritage-harmony-records]

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[artbabere]

🎨 original hand-painted 🎨size without a frame 7 x 9.5 inches (18 x 24 cm). size with a frame 8 × 10 inches (20 × 25 cm) 🎨 materials: oil paints, canvas board, varnish, frame. Reliable fastening for walls on the back of the painting. 🎨 shipping: high-quality protective packaging with tracking number 🎨 sell with frame.

Black Woman Painting is a great addition to the interior of your apartament.😍 This Faceless Portrait is 100% Original Art, one of a kind! 🏆 African Folk Art is perfect as a gift to your loved ones.💕 Naive Painting will delight you every day.

You will find more painting in my store: https://www.etsy.com/shop/ARTbabere

[haveyoulistenedtothisalbum-poll]

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[originalhaffigaza]

[lionofchaeronea]

Wooden figurine representing the Yoruba deity Eshu. Artist unknown; 1880-1920. Photo credit: Wellcome Images/Wellcome Trust.

[mahgnib]

Ralph Earl, “Houses Fronting New Milford Green”, circa 1796

[gullahconjure]

A Boo Hag is a creature of the night, a skinless monster with red muscles, prominent blue veins, and eyes that reflect light like a cat’s. Sometimes it’s depicted with flowing white hair, like the hair that “grows” on corpses that led many older generations to believe the vampires were coming from the dead to feed. (Hair and fingernails seem to “grow” on corpses because, as the skin dehydrates, the nails and hair look longer).

The Boo Hag looks human during the day because it cloaks itself with its previously unlucky victim’s skin. At night, it escapes the skin and goes looking for its next victim. It can slip inside through any crack in a window or a crevice in a wall. Once inside, it finds you sleeping in your bed and crawls on top of you. It sucks the air from your lungs as you sleep, “riding” you until sun-up when it escapes to its hidden skin suit.

Painting the Haint Blue on windowsills, shutters, doorways, and even the verandas’ ceilings kept the spirits and Boo Hags away. The color would cause confusion, as a ghost would think they had stumbled into a body of water (which they cannot cross) or stepped out into the open sky and would be swept away by the wind or killed by the sun. It was a cheap and relatively easy way to keep away spirits out for blood, bodies, and death.

Haint Blue is a color found at your local hardware store, and it’s common to see it painted onto the ceilings of covered porches of new construction with no one knowing the story behind the hue. It’s believed to bring calm and make spaces feel more extensive than they are. That’s why you sometimes see old houses with bright blue shutters, roofs, and fences; it’s keeping out the evil spirits while allowing the good ones to stay and guide the younger generations.