Traveling exhibition at the Phillips Collection features works by 50 artists, both African and African American.
"Kumasi Market" , by John Biggers, is part of the Phillips Collection exhibition "African Modernism in America, 1947-67." Nearly all the artworks in the Phillips Collection exhibition “African Modernism in America, 1947-67” were made, as those dates indicate, during a tumultuous era, not just for Africa, but Black America. During that period, many African nations freed themselves from European colonialism, and African Americans organized against racial oppression.
African artists journeyed the opposite direction, with similarly tranquil results. While studying at the Rhode Island School of Design, Ghanaian artist Emmanuel Owusu Dartey painted a serene gouache of houses flanked by trees, titled “A Favorite Spot in Providence.
If “African Modernism” is neither politically nor stylistically radical, it’s also not a survey of traditional or folk art. Nor does it feature works that depict the vision of Africa seen in nature documentaries. Congolese artist Pilipili Mulongoy’s “Crocodile Eating Fish” offers the only view of wildlife, and the painting’s vibe is primarily bucolic.The exhibition is therefore both broader and narrower than its title suggests.
The selection features a few works that don’t belong to Fisk, notably Tanzanian painter Sam Joseph Ntiro’s “Men Taking Banana Beer to Bride by Night,” a detailed yet loosely rendered 1956 oil that was the first modern African artwork purchased by New York’s Museum of Modern Art. Also here are two pieces that belong to the National Museum of African Art: Mozambiquan artist Malangatana Ngwenya’s “Nude With Flowers” and Nigerian painter Uche Okeke’s exuberant, red-heavy “Ana Mmuo .
In Africa as in the United States, the postwar art world was dominated by men. Kwali is one of the few women represented in the exhibition, and is famous enough in Nigeria to appear on the country’s paper currency. Dike uses three enlargements of that bill as the basis of collages that address the role of female artists in Nigeria — including Afi Ekong, whose “Olumo Rock” is in this show — and in the United States and at Fisk University.
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