#caribbean Art

[jareckiworld]

Didier William — Cave (acrylic, wood carving and ink on panel, 2023)

[risarts]

is this still a trend?!?! (bajan cropover miku) 💛💙💛

regional miku trend!! here's a bajan (barbados) miku celebrating crop over tbh I'm having so much fun with these carnival mikus :3 expect maybe one more :)

here are some close ups :3

[piononostalgia]

Luis Sánchez Olivares 'El Diamante Negro' (1952)

Alfredo Boulton

[shadyfruittree]

[lionofchaeronea]

Basalt sculpture of the Taino people of the Caribbean, representing a zemi (deity or another supernatural being), perhaps Maquetaurie Guayaba, lord of the Land of the Dead. Artist unknown; between 800 and 1500. Now in the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. Photo credit: Walters Art Museum.

[kadiekins]

I hate Instagram now so hi again tumblr. Please say hello to my first oc! She doesn’t have a name yet so I’m open to suggestions

[ihearttseliot]

[honeyhauntart]

“one, two, three, 四, vijf”, 2024, air dry clay, acrylic paint, and wood

a sculpture about my many cultural identities and incomplete childhood memories. 🧧

[caribbeanart]

Performance art in Latin America

Performance art, also closely related to action art or collectivist art, is a type of public art in which the body plays a central role as an instrument of artistic expression. As a genre, it is often situated somewhere between the visual arts (painting, sculpture, photography) and the performing arts (theater, dance, music).

As an art form, it gained mainstream popularity in Latin America and the Caribbean in the 70s during the rise of dictatorships and military regimes but has always had a key role in the spirituality of many African and Indigenous cultures in the region and around the world.

In its most recent form, the performance art of this region is said to have certain characteristics that differentiate it from its practice in other parts of the world, such as its urgent political nature, often used to draw attention to the collective trauma and social abuses many times silenced or made invisible by the government (which can be conceptualized as part of our political body or social body).

References / Further Reading

"Arte de Acción en Latinoamérica: cuerpo político y estrategías de resistencia." Silvio de Gracia. 2010.

"La performance desde la perspectiva latinoamericana." Clemente Padín. 2005.

"On Masking and Performance Art in the Postcolonial Caribbean." Krista Thompson in Caribbean: Art At the Crossroads of the World.

[mrsm-h]

Good Evening 💜 Happy Saturday ☺️

Through Thick and Thin by Haitian artist Alix Beaujour 🇭🇹

[feminoiredesigns]

Artwork of a gorgeous black woman in brightly colored clothing, holding bird-of-paradise flowers. Radiant, sunny summer-core portrait with a tropical Caribbean aesthetic by Dee Claire for Feminoire Designs.

[jareckiworld]

Didier William — TV Tyranny (acrylic, wood carving and ink on panel, 2023)

[risarts]

Jamaican Miku for the culture💛💚🖤

god i spent so long on this and now....idrk 🥲

[piononostalgia]

Tokischa for Vogue Mexico

Olga de la Iglesia

[sharlbranch]

A lil (late) Good Friday horror comic.

There's a well known superstition that one must never go swimming, or even to the beach on Good Friday because without fail someone has drowned.

there was a discussion on caribbean Twitter talking about making a horror short story/film about this superstition and I couldn't get it out of my head, so this was my take on it!

experimenting with black and white and watercolour brushes in fresco!

[kaalbela]

Creole Portraits series by Jocelyn Gardner

Creole Portraits is a collection of hand-coloured lithographic portraits that reveal intricately braided Afro-centric hairstyles entwined within iron slave collars which were used to punish female slaves accused of inducing abortion. Each portrait also displays one of thirteen ‘exotic’ botanical specimens identified as having been used to induce abortion in the 18th century. Delicately hand-painted with watercolours, as was characteristic of natural history engravings of the period, each portrait is named after one of the botanical specimens using the established Linnaeun binominal system of nomenclature of the period in tandem with each slave’s plantation name; an act which parodies the imperial taxonomical systems.