Fang Bieri Figure | Fang Reliquary Figure | Fang African art

Fang Bieri Figure | Fang Reliquary Figure | Fang African art

Dogon Walu Mask 1988 - For African Art Gallery

Dogon Walu Mask 1988 - For African Art Gallery

Mambila Tadep Figure - For African Art Gallery

Mambila Tadep Figure - For African Art Gallery

Fang Reliquary Figure | Reliquary Guardian | Fang Bieri Figure | African art

Fang Reliquary Figure | Reliquary Guardian | Fang Bieri Figure | African art

Fang Reliquary Figure | Fang Bieri Figure | Fang African art

Fang Reliquary Figure | Fang Bieri Figure | Fang African art

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Boy with Bottle - Hargreaves Ntukwana - For African Art Gallery

Boy with Bottle - Hargreaves Ntukwana - For African Art Gallery

HARGREAVES NTUKWANA (1938 - 1999) 

Born at Crown Mines in Johannesburg on June 17, 1938and was schooled locally until he completed his secondary education and much to the disappointment of his father, Hargreaves decided to follow a career in fine art and music.  He worked as a clerk to pay for his art and music tuition. 

Hargreaves studied at the Pollo Street School of Art in Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe. From 1960 to 1962 his studies were under Cordelidos at the Artists' colony in Toledo, Spain. From 1971 to 1973 he received further private tuition from Professor Mel Edwards in New York. Hargreaves traveled extensively abroad and lived in the USA, Switzerland and the former West Germany during the seventies and eighties. Hargreaves was also a accomplishes sculptor and musician, playing double bass, saxophone and piano.

Hargreaves work is very popular in the United States where he developed a popularity after his first exhibition in Boston in 1974.  He lectured in the United States and Switzerland on South African Art. Hargreaves headed a workshop at the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg in 1984.

"God gives you talent which you in turn make use of and then other people are there to appreciate your God given talent" - Hargreaves Ntukwana

Superb Kuba Drum

Superb Kuba Drum

African drums are among the most important art forms in Africa, they used musical instruments as well as great sculptural African art works that are significant in many ceremonial functions, including dance, rituals, story-telling and communication of messages.

The Kuba tribe consists of about 250,000 people; they are located in Southeastern Congo. The Kuba tribe is actually a collection of smaller ethnic groups. The king of Kuba is always Bushoong, but each group has a representative at the Bushoong court. This is because the Kuba tribe believes the world was created by Bumba who decreed that Bushoong would always be the ruling class.

The Kuba tribe consists of traders, farmers, and fishers. Rivers define the region and provide them with the fish they consume. Women in the tribe would clear the fields and farm crops such as corn, bananas, pineapples, palms, and manioc. Men in the tribe would grow tobacco and hunt. Hunting brought prestige and reinforced the social cohesion between villages. A successful hunt was considered a gift from the gods.

Asante Stool 1622 - For African Art Gallery

Asante Stool 1622 - For African Art Gallery

Every Asante has a personal, utilitarian stool; there are hundreds of patterns expressing not only the owner's gender and social status, but also political orientation. Successful component state leaders bequeath their personal stools to the state as part of its regalia passed down to each new ruler, validating his right to his position. New leaders augment the collection. During his life a ruler may have many personal stools whose support design and decoration express his status and concerns; if he is successful, one of them will be blackened with soot and egg, laid on its side to avoid contamination by hostile spirits and placed in the stool house on its own throne as a shrine and means of access to the spirit of its former owner after his death.

Kwele Ekuk Mask #1623 - For African Art Gallery

Kwele Ekuk Mask #1623 - For African Art Gallery

Ekuk means both “protective forest spirit” and “children of beete.” It displays a flat surface and often has a whitened heart-shaped face, a triangular nose, coffee-bean eyes and small or non-existent mouth. This mask, with two large horns, represents the antelope. The faces are usually painted in white kaolin earth, a pigment associated by the Kwele with light and clarity, the two essential factors in the fight against evil.