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If any man has any poetry in him he should paint it -Dante Gabriel Rosetti
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Paint and Poetry
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blackcontemporaryart: El Anatsui Akua’s Surviving Children, 1996
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dignarebelde: Fragment of the Face of a Queen  New Kingdom, Amarna PeriodDynasty 18 [reign of Akhenaten]ca. 1353–1336 B.C. Egypt, Middle Egypt, probably el-Amarna (Akhetaten) Yellow jasper
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visuallycurious: Judy Pfaff Untitled, 2010. Paper, wood, wire & rod, artificial flowers 128” x 162” x 48”
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Sokari Douglas Camp “Woood stars and moon head”, 1958

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African & Oceanic Art

*click the images for details on the country of origin and culture.* (no date unfortunately)

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Nduda figure, Kongo culture, late 19th C. Wood, glass, leather, feathers, cloth. Staatliches Museum feur Volkerkunde, Munich. This figure was used by Congolese hunters and warriors of the Kongo Kingdom (14th C - 20th C). There are mirrors underneath the animal strips aimed at reflecting spiritual forces.
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Man on Man, Sokari Douglas Camp
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Akhenaten (by Andreuchis). “Artistic representations of Akhenaten give him a strikingly bizarre appearance, with an elongated face, slender limbs, a protruding belly, wide hips, and an overall pear-shaped body ” (see wikipedia here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akhenaten)
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upfromsumdirt: Taken with instagram Waist Pendent Depicting A Queen Mother, Benin, 15th-16th Century. Ivory, Iron. Height 25cm
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Torso of a striding statue of a general, 4th century b.c.EgyptianSchist
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Mbulu-Nguu (Reliquary Figure), Kota people, Central Africa. Wood, Brass, Copper.
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Waist Pendent Depicting A Queen Mother, Benin, 15th-16th Century. Ivory, Iron. Height 25cm Queen mother Idia, wife of oba Ozolua and mother of oba Esigie.
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Head, Yoruba, Pavement Period, Ife, Nigeria, 12th-15th Century. Zinc Brass.
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