ABSTRACTION ON THE AFRICAN CONTINENT

ABSTRACT ART IS ONE OF THE MOST COMMON IMAGES THAT POPS INTO YOUR HEAD WHEN THE SUBJECT OF YOUR CONVERSATION MANAGES TO TRAVERSE INTO THE ENIGMATIC WORLD OF THE VISUAL SURREAL.

ARTICLE BY : MBALI SMITH

You may picture a Picasso—a sprawling canvas spattered with cubist realities. Or perhaps a Miró?—With its varying oblong shapes in different opacities dancing on yellowed paper. It’s indefinite to describe, but it elicits a feeling nonetheless WHAT IS ABSTRACTION AND MORE IMPORTANTLY, WHERE DID IT COME FROM? When dissecting the nature of Abstraction, it’s very easy to fall behind the colonial lenses through which most of Art History has based its findings under and look beyond the age-old tales of a Eurocentric Abstract Art Revolution. Everywhere you look in reference to Abstraction as a whole, you’ll see the names of the likes of Wassily Kandinsky, Henri Matisse, and Pablo Picasso as the “Fathers of Abstract Art” and while that be true of the nature of the 1910s Abstract Art Revolution,…

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