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The Pende


The Pende pushed north by the Lunda, during the 17th, settled in an area located between Loango and Kasai regions. Two hundred years later Tchokwe invaded the territories for when they migrated north from Angola, but were forced to return the territories annexed by the Belgian colonizers. The 500000 Pende mainly farmers are not governed by a central authority but by the heads of households, known as the Djogo, sometimes aided by the noble nobles. Young men are organized by age group, and must pass through various initiatives including that of circumcision during adolescence.

Art Pende can be divided into two traditions, arts, the first comes from Western Pende who live along the river Lodango, the second focuses on the eastern Pende along the Kasai River.


Masks:

The Western Pende have used a dozen different types of masks during their ceremony, they have eyes looking down a triangular nose, and sometimes leaving a protruding mouth see the teeth.

Often found three types of masks in Western collections. The first long-beard is called Kiwoyo Muyombo. The second known Mangu, show the features distorted, probably evoking the effects of an epileptic seizure. The third mask Phumbu chief called, has a hair divided into three parts.

Masks and helmets masks, associated with Pende, Oriental Minyangi are called respectively, and Giphogo. Worn by dancers during initiation ceremonies, they have

The Luba


The Luba Empire was founded in 1585, in the depression of the Upemba by King Kongholo, his nephew and successor Llunga Kalala, enlarges rapidly until the kingdom territory on the left bank of the River Lualaba. At the height of the kingdom more than a million people live in tribes, various paid tribute to King Luba. At the end of XIX with DVANCED Ovimbudu of Angola and the raids of slave traders Islamic empire s'affiblit and collapsed when the Belgian colonists arrived.

The economy lm'empire Luba came from payment of tribute and redistribution of resources from agriculture, fishing and hunting, and mining.

Luba artists have created many objects related to the activity of the court, the prestige objects were usually decorated with female figures everywhere in Luba art. Because of the huge area covered by the empire there are wide variations in the corpus stylistic art Luba.


Masks:


Luba masks rare, are found mainly in the eastern part of the empire. One type of mask Luba, very similar to the masks of kifwebe Songye but has more rounded features. There are very few zoomorphic masks.


Statues:


Luba artists have sculpted female statues standing or kneeling Mboko called, cleverly taking a cut, and who served during the ceremonies of divination. The statues stand uncommon, and probably representing the forest spirits or ancestors are covered with a

Arts of Africa first Black Arts Spring 1981 No. 77
When we examine the significance of an African mask, we do not seek to know what the "message" it provides, by virtue of some essential notion of disguise and by his presence, but rather what kind of continuum it belongs. The masks are at the confluence of pictorial traditions, oral and functional none appears (under secular unable to recognize the subjects and even less discernible. The understanding of pictorial code used requires not only a review but a review of developed components as needed through the original context. Let us offer an example of the image with respect to the buffalo in the region of Zaire Kwango-Kwilu South West (1).
Synceros caffer, the largest of African cattle is a massive animal, black, cropped hair, measuring 1.50 m at the shoulder and weighing nearly a ton (900 kg.) (Fig. 1). Its heavy horns have a spacing of one meter, are curved downward and inward and form large lumps to their bases. This animal, originally occupied the central, eastern and southern Africa, frequenting the open plains, open woods and river beds and marshes bordered by reeds. Commonly preview herds of a dozen to a hundred heads, he used to graze and graze the early morning and again at dusk, seeking shade during the hottest hours but sometimes moving at night . Females do not carry a calf for about eleven months.

Considered peaceful, was injured when he can become, for hunters, the most dangerous animal of any big game on the continent (Fig. 2). He is known for his

Afrique Sacrée II   juin 2006

Œuvres des collections du Cirque du Soleil, du Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal et du Musée Redpath, Université McGill

 
Masque de danse okouyi
 
En juin 2006, le Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal mettait à l’honneur l’art du continent africain en révélant des œuvres de très grande qualité provenant de la collection de Guy Laliberté. Afrique sacrée I était le résultat d’un partenariat inédit, issu d’une sélection de pièces provenant de trois collections montréalaises – universitaire, beaux-arts et corporative – celle du musée Redpath de l’Université McGill, du Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal et du Cirque du Soleil.

À compter du 19 novembre 2008, Afrique sacrée II propose une nouvelle sélection d’œuvres majeures, provenant principalement de la collection de Guy Laliberté, qui illustre les approches plastiques d’autres peuples d’Afrique de l’Ouest et d’Afrique équatoriale et du centre. Afrique sacrée II : œuvres des collections du Cirque du Soleil, du Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal et du musée Redpath, Université McGill rassemble 48 œuvres, des sculptures, des masques et des objets, dans des nouvelles salles plus vastes qui seront dorénavant dévolues à l’art africain.

« Le Musée est heureux de ce

La collection Kerchache aux enchères
Le 21 mai 2010 à 01H00 - LesEchos

Je me souviens de Jacques Kerchache, épuisé mais rayonnant, réglant l'implantation des vitrines au millimètre près. (…) A mes yeux, ces salles sont le reflet de son âme. Elles reflètent son amour des oeuvres et des hommes qui les ont créées » (1). C'est Jacques Chirac qui témoigne ainsi de son amitié envers Jacques Kerchache en décrivant son implication lors de l'ouverture du pavillon des Sessions du Louvre, dont les dix ans d'existence viennent justement d'être fêtés.

Il était né d'un père mi-kabyle mi-catalan et d'une mère belgo-helvético-hollandaise. Il avait épousé Anne, mi-sénégalaise, mi-vietnamienne. Et, dès l'âge de douze ans, ayant rencontré par hasard l'écrivain et journaliste Max-Pol Fouchet, qui le prend sous son aile, il cherche à découvrir les cultures du monde. Les 12 et 13 juin prochain, l'étude Pierre Bergé et Associés disperse le contenu de ses pléthoriques collections : 403 lots estimés 4,9 millions d'euros.

Son épouse a manifestement conservé des momies tatouées susceptibles de déclencher des polémiques ainsi que des sculptures vaudoues qui devraient être l'objet d'une exposition ultérieure. Dans le cercle des arts primitifs, l'excitation relative à certaines pièces mises en vente est grande. La part consacrée aux arts premiers (une expression qu'il a d'ailleurs inventée) dans les estimations est majeure : un peu plus de 4 millions

AFRICAN SCULPTURE

Introduction
Context of African sculpture
Places of traditional African sculpture
Canons of African sculpture
Techniques and creative
Aesthetic
Role of African sculpture in the middle
Universal impact of African sculpture
Bibliographic


Introduction

Never has been written about as much ink as traditional African sculpture. Ever, despite all attempts, the man has managed to evacuate his mental field, much less its history, that is to say of his encounter with the other. It has been a cornerstone to measure the "civilization" of the black man and his ability to create capacity variously appreciated throughout history until early this century, cubism helping, the unanimously begins to make the exceptional nature of African sculpture that was always confused with African art which it is a party, probably the most important, if one were to judge solely by the number Parts created that we have reached.

Context of African sculpture

We can talk about African sculpture in isolation from the rest of the arts of Africa south of Sahara. Every word in this area is responsible not only meaningless but history, and if we chose the term "African art" is to fully assume all we have inherited from the past in