Ethiopian Art, 1400-1900 Art Gallery of Ontario exhibit
Seeta Chaganti (Professor of English Literature, University of California, Davis) and Andrea Myers Achi (Assistant Curator, Medieval Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York) talk about the unique objects from the Thomson Collection on view in the Ethiopian Art, 1400-1900 exhibit, the need to shift how we discuss the Middle Ages and medieval art, and the importance of diversity in medieval scholarship.
With special thanks to the Medievalists of Color and the New Chaucer Society who helped facilitate important conversations surrounding this exhibition.
Painting around Ethiopia
Small clip of a documentary on Ethiopian traditional painting. Filmed in 2003 (Carmen Castelo-Branco)
Evelyn Page: Seven Decades exhibition at the Robert McDougall Art Gallery (1986-1987)
Listen to Curator Neil Roberts talk about the Evelyn Page: Seven Decades exhibition held at the Robert McDougall Art Gallery from 4th December 1986 - 25th January 1987. Click on the following link for more information about this exhibition:
Ethiopian art in the world
Ethiopian art is celebrated globally. all copyrights not mine.
Ethiopian Art: Word Play, by Wosene Kosrof - Clip 2 of 2
: Ethiopian Art: Word Play, by Wosene Kosrof - Clip 2 of 2
Ethiopian Art: Geta Mekonnen talks about one of his favorite works, Scarecrow, 1997
GETA Painter, Commercial artist
born Debre Zeit, 1965
educationAddis Ababa School of Fine Arts, diploma 1985; Slade School, University College of London 1988; Bristol Polytechnic, the University of West England, BA., 1991
careerStage Designer, Addis Ababa City Hall Theater, 1987; Freelance artist Addis Ababa, 1997
membershipDimension group
awardsFirst prize, Shankars International
group exhibitionsAddis Ababa City Hall Gallery, 1985; Dimension Group exhibition, Alliance Ethio-Francaise, 1995; Alliance-Ethio Francase, Addis Ababa, 1997, 1998
mediaOil, Acrylic, Video
Amazing Ethiopias' Art, Paintings & Drawings
These are some the art, paintings, and drawings of Ethiopian culture.
And I took the photograph from Memorial Monument, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia.
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Ethiopian Arts Forum at SF Art Show Part 02
Ethiopian Arts Forum in San Francisco Art Show at Gallery One
The Madonna and Child 4K Ultra HD Christmas 2018
Madonna is a representation of Mary, either alone or with her child Jesus. These images are central icons for both the Catholic and Orthodox churches.
The word is from Italian ma donna, meaning 'my lady'. The Madonna and Child type is very prevalent in Christian iconography, divided into many traditional subtypes especially in Eastern Orthodox iconography, often known after the location of a notable icon of the type, such as the Theotokos of Vladimir, Agiosoritissa, Blachernitissa, etc., or descriptive of the depicted posture, as in Hodegetria, Eleusa, etc.
The term Madonna in the sense of picture or statue of the Virgin Mary enters English usage in the 17th century, primarily in reference to works of the Italian Renaissance.
In an Eastern Orthodox context, such images are typically known as Theotokos. Madonna may be generally used of representations of Mary, with or without the infant Jesus, is the focus and central figure of the image, possibly flanked or surrounded by angels or saints. Other types of Marian imagery have a narrative context, depicting scenes from the Life of the Virgin, e.g. the Annunciation to Mary, are not typically called Madonna.
The earliest depictions of Mary date still to Early Christianity (2nd to 3rd centuries), found in the Catacombs of Rome. These are in a narrative context. The classical Madonna or Theotokos imagery develops from the 5th century, as Marian devotion rose to great importance after the Council of Ephesus formally affirmed her status as Mother of God or Theotokos (God-bearer) in 431. The Theotokos iconography as it developed in the 6th to 8th century rose to great importance in the high medieval period (12th to 14th centuries) both in the Eastern Orthodox and in the Latin spheres. According to a tradition recorded in the 8th century, Marian iconography goes back to a portrait drawn from life by Luke the Evangelist, with a number of icons (such as the Panagia Portaitissa) claimed to either represent this original icon or to be a direct copy of it. In the Western tradition, depictions of the Madonna were greatly diversified by Renaissance masters such as Duccio, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael, Giovanni Bellini, Caravaggio and Rubens (and further by certain modernists, such as Salvador Dalí and Henry Moore) while Eastern Orthodox iconography adheres more closely to the inherited traditional types.
There are several distinct types of representation of the Madonna.
One type of Madonna shows Mary alone (without the child Jesus), and standing, generally glorified and with a gesture of prayer, benediction or prophesy. This type of image occurs in a number of ancient apsidal mosaics.
Full-length standing images of the Madonna more frequently include the infant Jesus, who turns towards the viewer or raises his hand in benediction. The most famous Byzantine image, the Hodegetria was originally of this type, though most copies are at half-length.
The Madonna enthroned is a type of image that dates from the Byzantine period and was used widely in Medieval and Renaissance times. These representations of the Madonna and Child often take the form of large altarpieces. They also occur as frescoes and apsidal mosaics. In Medieval examples the Madonna is often accompanied by angels who support the throne, or by rows of saints. In Renaissance painting, particularly High Renaissance painting, the saints may be grouped informally in a type of composition known as a Sacra conversazione.
The Madonna of humility refers to portrayals in which the Madonna is sitting on the ground, or sitting upon a low cushion. She may be holding the Child Jesus in her lap. This style was a product of Franciscan piety, and perhaps due to Simone Martini. It spread quickly through Italy and by 1375 examples began to appear in Spain, France and Germany. It was the most popular among the styles of the early Trecento artistic period.
The seated Madonna and Child is a style of image that became particularly popular during the 15th century in Florence and was imitated elsewhere. These representations are usually of a small size suitable for a small altar or domestic use. They usually show Mary holding the infant Jesus in an informal and maternal manner. These paintings often include symbolic reference to the Passion of Christ.
The Adoring Madonna is a type popular during the Renaissance. These images, usually small and intended for personal devotion, show Mary kneeling in adoration of the Christ Child. Many such images were produced in glazed terracotta as well as paint.
The nursing Madonna refers to portrayals of the Madonna breastfeeding the infant Jesus.
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Ethiopian Arts Forum at SF Art Show Part 08
Ethiopian Arts Forum in San Francisco Art Show at Gallery One
About Debre Hayq, 2001 / www.ethiopianart.org.
Debre Hayq website was first published in 1997/98 and was officially launched in its present form on February 20, 1999.
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Not only is Debre Hayq by far the best designed web page our beady, blood shot SELEDA eyes have ever seen, but it is also the most interesting content provider this side of 100 Easy Recipes dot com. Written in both Amharic and English text, the page provides exhaustive information not only on Ethiopian art and artists, but it also meticulously chronicles the evolvement of art in Ethiopian society, 1887 to the present.
An extensive and well-organized biography of Ethiopian artists allows us to be privy to the people behind the art we've admired. An invaluable Articles section delves more into particular works of art including Aleka Gebre Selassie Adil's painting Mother Ethiopia. Also featured are in-depth profiles of prominent artists such as Mulugeta Tafesse and Kenfe Michael Bethe Selassie.
Debre Hayq is an elixir to missing home and country. Though a series of mesmeric art galleries of well known and obscure artists, it takes us back to Ethiopia, and plops us right in the middle of a field of memories and nostalgia, so delicately yet so potently. Debre Hayq almost makes missing home bearable.
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Houses For Sale in Dovercourt Village, 77 Shanly Street, Toronto West End
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77 Shanly Street is indeed a remarkable find in the heart of Dovercourt Village. Cute, cozy and updated with a modern chicness, this 3 Bedroom home was renovated with new hardwood flooring and kitchen approximately 5 years ago. Bright and inviting from the moment you step inside, imagine your evenings relaxing with family in the impressive open concept living and dining room or sipping a morning tea on the balcony deck off the Master Bedroom.
Picture yourself putting the final touches to a delicious meal you've laboured over for several hours and now the warm buzz of anticipation is in the air as your guests come in from the back deck to take their places at the table. Don't feel like cooking tonight? no problem, step out and you are a few minutes amble from the lively dining and entertainment strip on Bloor West. Dovercourt village has such a rich diversity of restaurants. Ethnically speaking, some of the best Indian and Ethiopian restaurants in Toronto are in the hood, Banjara and Lalibela respectively. Actinolite and The Emerson cater towards the fine dining and hipster New York style restaurant. There are a myriad of other great bars and restaurants that all serve fantastic modestly priced food. Equally close by also are many shops, butchers, including my favourite, Gasparo’s, greengrocers and more.
Spend a lazy and relaxing afternoon in some of the Toronto's best parks; Christie Pits and Dufferin Grove. Visit the Farmers’ Market on Thursdays throughout the year or attend one of the outdoor movie festival nights. These parks aren’t limited to this either; outdoor pool, soccer, basketball, ice rinks and kids play areas to name a few of the other attractions. At Dufferin Grove, there’s also an outdoor oven and cooking classes available on how to cook with it. Stone baked pizza anyone?
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Also many galleries have moved into the area due to escalating rents further South on Dundas West and Queen West. Check out the local Comedy and Theatre scenes in the many grass roots venues moving in.
As diverse as it is desirable, Dovercourt Village is also bordered by Toronto's main East West Subway; The Bloor Danforth Line. 77 Shanly is Approximately 5 minutes walk or just 600 Meters to the newly renovated Dufferin Subway station providing you access to any part of the city via Toronto’s transit.
Planning on possibly raising a family in Dovercourt Village? all within walking distances are great elementary, middle, French immersion and high school options. Also very convenient for the parents in this strongly knit community are many after school programs.
So back to 77 Shanly, the entire home has been freshly painted so you can just move in and enjoy. No furnace concerns either as this has been replaced in the last year. The basement could indeed be an in-law suite or possibly rented out for supplemental income.
How is this not the place for you to set out on your next chapter and journey in life. Carpe Diem.
African art | Wikipedia audio article
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00:03:47 1 Thematic elements
00:07:03 2 Scope
00:08:00 3 Materials
00:08:54 4 Traditional African religions
00:09:39 5 History
00:11:07 6 Influence on Western art
00:13:06 7 Influence on Western architecture
00:14:15 8 Traditional art
00:15:53 9 Contemporary African art
00:18:41 9.1 Minimalist African Art
00:19:18 10 By country, civilizations or people
00:19:29 10.1 West Africa
00:19:37 10.1.1 Ghana
00:19:45 10.1.1.1 Akan
00:20:26 10.1.2 Nigeria
00:20:34 10.1.2.1 Nok
00:23:38 10.1.2.2 Benin art
00:24:46 10.1.2.3 Igbo
00:25:16 10.1.2.4 Yoruba
00:25:41 10.1.2.5 Other ethnic groups of Nigeria
00:25:50 10.1.3 Mali
00:26:18 10.1.3.1 Djenné-Djenno
00:26:40 10.1.3.2 Bambara
00:31:20 10.1.3.3 Dogon
00:36:26 10.1.4 Burkina Faso
00:38:33 10.1.5 Gabon
00:39:23 10.1.6 Ivory Coast
00:40:19 10.2 East Africa
00:40:27 10.2.1 Kenya
00:43:17 10.2.2 Ethiopia
00:49:09 10.2.3 Tanzania
00:50:08 10.3 Central Africa
00:50:17 10.3.1 Democratic Republic of Congo
00:50:26 10.3.1.1 Kuba Kingdom
00:51:15 10.3.1.2 Luba Kingdom
00:52:20 10.3.1.3 Other ethnic groups of Democratic Republic of Congo
00:52:30 10.3.2 Chad
00:52:38 10.3.2.1 Sao
00:53:12 10.4 Southern Africa
00:53:20 10.4.1 Botswana
00:54:12 10.4.2 South Africa
00:54:20 10.4.2.1 Mapungubwe
00:54:54 10.5 North Africa
00:55:02 10.5.1 Egypt
00:55:56 11 See also
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African art describes the modern and historical paintings, sculptures, installations, and other visual culture from native or indigenous Africans and the African continent. The definition may also include the art of the native African, African diasporas, such as African American, Caribbean and other American art. Despite this diversity, there are some unifying artistic themes when considering the totality of the visual culture from the continent of Africa.Masquerade, metalwork, sculpture, architecture, fiber art, and dance are important art forms across Africa and may be included in the study of African art. The term African art does not usually include the art of the North African areas along the Mediterranean coast, as such areas had long been part of different traditions. For more than a millennium, the art of such areas had formed part of Islamic art, although with many particular characteristics. The art of Ethiopia, with a long Christian tradition, is also different from that of most of Africa, where traditional African religion (with Islam in the north) was dominant until relatively recently. African art includes ancient art, Muslim art of North and West Africa, the Christian art of East Africa, and the ritualistic art of these and other regions. Most African sculpture was historically in wood and other natural materials that have not survived from earlier than, at most, a few centuries ago; older pottery figures can be found from a number of areas. Masks are important elements in the art of many peoples, along with human figures, often highly stylized. There is a vast variety of styles, often varying within the same context of origin depending on the use of the object, but wide regional trends are apparent; sculpture is most common among groups of settled cultivators in the areas drained by the Niger and Congo rivers in West Africa. Direct images of deities are relatively infrequent, but masks in particular are or were often made for religious ceremonies; today many are made for tourists as airport art. Since the late 19th century there has been an increasing amount of African art in Western collections, the finest pieces of which are now prominently displayed.
African mask art has had an important influence on European Modernist art, which was inspired by their lack of concern for naturalistic depiction.
West African cultures developed bronze casting for reliefs, like the famous Benin Bronzes, to decorate palaces and for highly naturalistic royal heads from around the Bini town of Benin City, Edo State, in terracotta as well as me ...
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PopUp Exhibition | Mary Elings on Preserving Digital History
Mary Elings is the Head of Digital Collections at The Bancroft Library of the University of California, Berkeley. Her work focuses on the nexus between preserving the past and also making it accessible to scholars and researchers in a plethora of digital platforms. Join us as she details exciting work being done by the Bancroft and the research tools and techniques that can benefit you, especially in managing your own information and research data in digital formats.
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This program was made possible in partnership with the following institutions/thanks to the following donors: JFED East Bay.
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University of California, Berkeley
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Sculpture | Wikipedia audio article
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00:02:12 1 Types
00:05:42 2 Purposes and subjects
00:12:38 3 Materials and techniques
00:15:09 3.1 Stone
00:17:11 3.2 Metal
00:20:50 3.3 Glass
00:21:54 3.4 Pottery
00:22:47 3.5 Wood carving
00:24:10 4 Social status of sculptors
00:26:40 5 Anti-sculpture movements
00:27:50 6 History
00:27:59 6.1 Prehistoric periods
00:28:08 6.1.1 Europe
00:30:19 6.1.2 Ancient Near East
00:31:11 6.2 Ancient Near East
00:34:46 6.3 Ancient Egypt
00:37:52 6.4 Europe
00:38:01 6.4.1 Ancient Greece
00:40:30 6.4.1.1 Classical
00:43:55 6.4.1.2 Hellenistic
00:48:21 6.4.2 Europe after the Greeks
00:48:30 6.4.2.1 Roman sculpture
00:54:48 6.4.2.2 Early Medieval and Byzantine
00:57:17 6.4.2.3 Romanesque
01:01:10 6.4.2.4 Gothic
01:04:38 6.4.3 Renaissance
01:07:55 6.4.4 Mannerist
01:10:15 6.4.5 Baroque and Rococo
01:12:49 6.4.6 Neo-Classical
01:13:51 6.5 Asia
01:13:59 6.5.1 Greco-Buddhist sculpture and Asia
01:16:34 6.5.2 China
01:19:41 6.5.3 Japan
01:22:14 6.5.4 India
01:25:14 6.5.5 South-East Asia
01:26:38 6.6 Islam
01:28:16 6.7 Africa
01:32:08 6.7.1 Ethiopia and Eritrea
01:33:20 6.7.2 Sudan
01:34:21 6.8 The Americas
01:35:13 6.8.1 Pre-Columbian
01:35:21 6.9 Moving toward modern art
01:35:30 6.9.1 North America
01:39:12 6.10 19th–early 20th century, early Modernism and continuing realism
01:42:56 7 Modernism
01:48:23 7.1 Gallery of modernist sculpture
01:48:33 7.2 Contemporary movements
01:50:25 7.3 Minimalism
01:50:34 7.3.1 Postminimalism
01:50:42 7.3.2 Contemporary genres
01:52:28 8 Conservation
01:53:40 9 See also
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Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. It is one of the plastic arts. Durable sculptural processes originally used carving (the removal of material) and modelling (the addition of material, as clay), in stone, metal, ceramics, wood and other materials but, since Modernism, there has been an almost complete freedom of materials and process. A wide variety of materials may be worked by removal such as carving, assembled by welding or modelling, or molded or cast.
Sculpture in stone survives far better than works of art in perishable materials, and often represents the majority of the surviving works (other than pottery) from ancient cultures, though conversely traditions of sculpture in wood may have vanished almost entirely. However, most ancient sculpture was brightly painted, and this has been lost.Sculpture has been central in religious devotion in many cultures, and until recent centuries large sculptures, too expensive for private individuals to create, were usually an expression of religion or politics. Those cultures whose sculptures have survived in quantities include the cultures of the ancient Mediterranean, India and China, as well as many in Central and South America and Africa.
The Western tradition of sculpture began in ancient Greece, and Greece is widely seen as producing great masterpieces in the classical period. During the Middle Ages, Gothic sculpture represented the agonies and passions of the Christian faith. The revival of classical models in the Renaissance produced famous sculptures such as Michelangelo's David. Modernist sculpture moved away from traditional processes and the emphasis on the depiction of the human body, with the making of constructed sculpture, and the presentation of found objects as finished art works.
Sculpture | Wikipedia audio article
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Sculpture
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SUMMARY
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Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. It is one of the plastic arts. Durable sculptural processes originally used carving (the removal of material) and modelling (the addition of material, as clay), in stone, metal, ceramics, wood and other materials but, since Modernism, there has been an almost complete freedom of materials and process. A wide variety of materials may be worked by removal such as carving, assembled by welding or modelling, or molded or cast.
Sculpture in stone survives far better than works of art in perishable materials, and often represents the majority of the surviving works (other than pottery) from ancient cultures, though conversely traditions of sculpture in wood may have vanished almost entirely. However, most ancient sculpture was brightly painted, and this has been lost.Sculpture has been central in religious devotion in many cultures, and until recent centuries large sculptures, too expensive for private individuals to create, were usually an expression of religion or politics. Those cultures whose sculptures have survived in quantities include the cultures of the ancient Mediterranean, India and China, as well as many in Central and South America and Africa.
The Western tradition of sculpture began in ancient Greece, and Greece is widely seen as producing great masterpieces in the classical period. During the Middle Ages, Gothic sculpture represented the agonies and passions of the Christian faith. The revival of classical models in the Renaissance produced famous sculptures such as Michelangelo's David. Modernist sculpture moved away from traditional processes and the emphasis on the depiction of the human body, with the making of constructed sculpture, and the presentation of found objects as finished art works.