#African folk art

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Edward Saidi Tingatinga, Three Storks

Tanzania, 1970

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🎨 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

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Baptism, Clementine Hunter, late 1950s

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

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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.

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

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I was thinking more about the potential future of Kaida and Morgan with Children. Kaida would have her genetic clone daughter Kyden but I imagine they certainly wouldn't stop there and would still also want to adopt as well; Kaida was an Orphan once herself and doesn't want any kids to feel unwanted so they would end up having a very big family! I figured since Kaida has her Salandit daughter, why not make the rest of them Eeveelutions like Morgan and each of them get a name after a Trickster god or hero from different cultures.

Anansi gets their name from the West African Spider God originating in Ghana but his influence has spread across the Atlantic the same way a lot of people were brought there, Slavery. Anansi is the God of Stories, Knowledge, and Trickery who is often an underdog to much stronger opponents, but always pulls one over on them by being clever. While he is often a hero he also is occasionally selfish and gets himself into trouble like the time he discovered a peculiar rock that knocks out anybody who points out how strange it looks. He started running a scam where he would lead people to the rock, get them knocked out, and then steal their belongings. Finally one person refused to acknowledge the rock causing Anansi to mention the peculiar rock out of frustration and knock himself out. One of Anansi's most famous stories is how he came to be the god of stories. Anansi was Bored one day, and he realized the reason why he was bored was because there were no stories, the Sky god keeps them all for himself. So Anansi goes to visit the Sky god and asks he let him be the god of stories. The Sky god agrees but only if Anansi can complete 4 challenges: The capture of 4 of the most dangerous and elusive creatures Onini the Python Mmoboro the Hornets Osebo the Leopard and Mmoatia the Invisible Fairy

For Onini, Anansi paces around the Python's house muttering loudly to himself while carrying a long stick. Onini comes out to see what all the fuss is about and Anansi explains he had a bet with his wife that Onini is longer than this stick but now he isn't certain. Willing to prove how long he is, Onini lies beside the stick but everytime he moves part of his tail curls so he can't lie completely straight and stretch to his full length. Anansi suggests he web up Onini's tail just a little and then ends up binding his full body in webs!

For the Hornets he pours some water on himself and over the hornet's nest yelling about some big storm! The Hornets come out to check quick to blame Anansi but he shows how soaked he is too and says the storm will probably come back. Their nest is not gonna hold up against another storm but he has an empty gourd right here that is super sturdy! So the Hornets fly into the gourd and he plugs the top after they are all inside.

For Osebo, Anansi dug out a pitfall trap and covered it with leaves and branches which should seem like an obvious trap but since there are no stories Osebo falls for it immediately. Anansi comes over to offer Osebo a hand out of this mysterious pit that just showed up here, handing him a web which then flings the Leopard into a giant web!

Lastly for Mmoatia the invisible Fairy Anansi carves out a little wooden puppet, covers it in a sticky sap, places a bowl of yam paste on the puppet's lap, and then attaches web stings to the puppet to control its motions while he sits back and hides in a bush. Mmoatia comes around and asks to try some of the delicious yam paste to which Anansi makes the puppet nod. After finishing the bowl Mmoatia thanks puppet but the puppet doesn't respond. Feeling like they are being insulted, Mmoatia kicks the puppet and gets their foot stuck on the sap, then continues to try to fight the puppet and gets completely stuck! Anansi comes out of the bushes, webs up the fairy, and like that he has collected all 4 creatures and is rewarded with all of the World's Stories!

Anansi is frequently lazy, greedy, and selfish, but when it comes to helping others who are being taken advantage of by someone more powerful he will not stand for that kind of injustice and will use all of his cunning and intelligence to make powerful people into fools of themselves.

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Obatala and Yemaya by Kypris Aquarelas

In Brazil, the yoruba deity Obatala goes by the name Oxalá, a contraction of the expression "Orixalá", meaning "the Great Orisha". In afrobrazilian traditions this Orisha commonly takes two forms: Oxaguian, an youthful and impetuous warrior that likes eating yam and Oxalufan, an old wise man that uses a staff called Opaxorô. The greatest of the yoruba gods, Obatala is an Orisha Funfun (white-wearing deities), he is connected to the Forces of Creation, peace, purity, order and in Brazil it's a common practice to save fridays, his sacred day, avoiding to eat red meat, having intercourse and drinking alcohol. Some of his symbols are the Alá (a white cloth), the igbin (an african snail), the white dove, the Sky and the Sun.

Oxalá is a figure of utmost importance to most of the afrodiasporic religions. His cult is present in religions such as Umbanda, Candomblé, Batuque de Nação, Tambor de Mina, Santeria, Omolokô and many others. He's also syncretized with other proeminente divine figures: the Nkisi (deity) Lembá Dilê worshipped in Bantu Traditions and with Jesus Christ.

One of his most known pontos (prayers) says:

"Oxalá created the Earth,

Oxalá created the Sea,

Oxalá created the World

Where the Orishas reign (...)"

Yemoja, Yemaya or Iemanjá is the name of a major yoruba deity. Her name comes from the expression Yé Yé Omó Ejá: "Mother whose Children are the Fish". Yemaya is an Orisha connected to fertility, maternity, to good mental health and to the sustenance of life. In brazilian lands, she was crowned as the Queen of the Seas, but in reality she's connected to all bodies of water - fresh or sea ones. Her most known symbols are the fishes, the abebé (a fan-like object), sea shells and pearls, the Moon, the colors White, silver and blue. In nigerian lands, she's the goddess of the river Ogun.

Her worship is presente in most of the afrodiasporic religions such as Umbanda, Candomblé, Batuque de Nação, Tambor de Mina, Santeria, Omolokô and many others. Yemaya was syncretized with many catholic saints such as Our Lady of Immaculate Conception, Our Lady of Cabeza, Our Lady of Glory and Our Lady of Navigants. She's also syncretized with other african deities, such as the Nkise Kaiala.

To Yemaya, we sing:

"My brother, when you hear

In the distance a beautiful song,

There must be the Angels from Paradise

or the Mermaid of the Sea..."

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1953

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

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🎨 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

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

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