Art Across Cultures: the Americas

Slidelist 23

 

Africa in the Americas

 

Brazil

Ruben Valentim, Relief Emblem no.2, 1977

 

Cuba

Wifredo Lam, The Jungle, 1943

 

USA

Alison  Saar, Afro-Diety, at the Paul Getty Museum, LA, 2000

 

 

 

Terms:

Yoruba, Nigeria and Benin, Ase/Axe,

Brazil: Candomble, Yoruba, Orixa (Orisha), Xango (Shango)

Geometric Abstraction

Cuba: Santer’a, Yoruba, Orisha, Chango (Shango), Oshun, Ogun, Esu-Elegba

Surrealism, Biomorphism

Negritude

Nkisi (Congo)

Post-Modernism

Yemaya (Yemoja) and Oshun, abebe