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Tingatinga Arts Co-operative Society

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Tingatinga Arts Co-operative Society
Tingatinga Arts Co-operative Society
Tingatinga Arts Co-operative Society
Tingatinga Arts Co-operative Society
Tingatinga Arts Co-operative Society
Tingatinga Arts Co-operative Society
Tingatinga Arts Co-operative Society
Tingatinga Arts Co-operative Society
Tingatinga Arts Co-operative Society
Tingatinga Arts Co-operative Society
Tingatinga Arts Co-operative Society
Tingatinga Arts Co-operative Society
Tingatinga Arts Co-operative Society
Tingatinga Arts Co-operative Society
Tingatinga Arts Co-operative Society
Phone:
+255 654 574 808

Address:
Oysterbay, Haile Selassie Road, Dar es Salaam 23122, Tanzania

Hours:
SundayClosed
Monday9am - 5pm
Tuesday9am - 5pm
Wednesday9am - 5pm
Thursday9am - 5pm
Friday9am - 5pm
SaturdayClosed


Tingatinga is a painting style that developed in the second half of the 20th century in the Oyster Bay area in Dar es Salaam and later spread to most East Africa. Tingatinga is one of the most widely represented forms of tourist-oriented paintings in Tanzania, Kenya and neighboring countries. The genre is named after its founder, Tanzanian painter Edward Said Tingatinga. Tingatinga is traditionally made on masonite, using several layers of bicycle paint, which makes for a brilliant and highly saturated colors. Many elements of the style are related to requirements of the tourist-oriented market; for example, the paintings are usually small so they can be easily transported, and subjects are intended to appeal to the Europeans and Americans . In this sense, Tingatinga paintings can be considered a form of airport painting. The drawings themselves can be described as both naïve and caricatural, and humor and sarcasm are often explicit.
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