Nigerian ART

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NIGERIAN ART

Nigerian art represents their lifestyle and the history of the country. A major aspect in Nigerian art is that they draw from the rural folk heritage for their artwork. Nigerian culture is shown through art, literature, dance, folklore, and music. The Nok culture who settled down near the Benue River and was believed to be one of the earliest reminiscent of the ancient human settlement in Nigeria. The major thing about the Nok is that they invented terracotta figurines. They used a lot of iron for these artworks. Bronze decorated with ivory was also what they used back then, and it was the best art they could make. Nigerian art and culture shows you the prevalent stone carvings, potteries, glass work, and wood carvings. The bronze works at Igbo-Ukwu, which falls in the Enugu State stands tall of the ancient works of Nigerian art. Famous places like Benin and Awka are regarded as the hub of wood carving. Wood carvers have always been great in Nigeria. They made figures for temples, spiritual representations of earth, sea, sky, water, fire, and thunder. Ladi Kwali promoted Nigerian pottery works, he promoted his works throughout European countries. The centers of pottery making in Nigeria are Okigwe in Imo State and Suleja situated in Niger State. Another form of art in Nigeria is cloth weaving. Abi State, Oyo State, and Okene in Kogi State. Middle of 20th century was when Nigerian literature in English got popular, the Nobel Prize was awarded to Wole Soyinka in 1986.

Over four centuries, artists at Lfe created sculptures that rank among the most technically sophisticated in the world. Dynasty and Divinity reveals the creative range of Lfe art through a diversity of objects like portrait heads, miniatures, caricatures, animals and sculptures showing the regalia of the kings and queens of Lfe. This makes Lfe show some of the most technically sophisticated art in the world. The sculptures express the dignity and self-assurance connected with the idea of dynasty and the violence and misfortune that can come to humans. Copper alloy and terra cotta heads and figures are representing the notion of authority. While representations of disease and deformity made in stone or terra cotta, show afflictions that can happen from divine and worldly forces. Nok is located in the Jaba local government in the southern part of Kaduna State, in northern Nigeria. Nok is a famous place around the globe. Things from Nok are in great museums and galleries. But even through the fame, Nok is still a small place today. The Nok culture was discovered in 1928. The first discoveries were found twenty-four feet down in an alluvial tin mine. As a result of natural erosion and disposition, Nok terracottas were scattered in the Sahel grasslands. This made it hard to determine the dates of the terracottas. Luckily, they found two archeology sites, Samun Dakiya and Taruga. They contained Nok terracotta that was unmoved. Radiocarbon and Thermo-luminescence tests narrowed the sculptures age down to between 2000 and 2500 years ago, making them some of the oldest in west Africa. Because of similarities between the two sites, archeologist Graham Connah believes that Nok art was adopted by a range of iron using farming societies of varying cultures, disputing the claim of it being solely the diagnostic feature of the Nok culture.

These artworks are by Edosa Ogiugo, he was born in 1961 in Ibadan, Oyo state, Nigeria. He worked on
advertising before he was an artist. His artistic career is 24 years long.

http://www.123independenceday.com/nigeria/art-and-culture.html

http://www.africanart.org/traveling/13/dynasty_and_divinity_ife_art_in_ancient_nigeria

http://nokculture.com/

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