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The Modernist Implantation in Nigeria & Ghana: Aina Onabolu, Kenneth D. Murray Kofi Antubam and Vincent Kofi

British Marines amidst their Loot from the Punitive Expedition Of 1897, Benin.

Modernism within the province of European art From 19th-20th century Modernity; newness; freshness; change; industrialization; disruption Modernist transplantation in Africa—new idiom; easel painting

Pablo Picasso, Les Demoiselle d’Avignon, oil on canvas, 1907

Epa, Yoruba, Nigeria Wood, pigments 20th century

Painting the head of an infant In the ritual of “knowing the inner head”

Orisa Priestess with painted forehead

Sacred painting on the façade of a shrine in Ayegunle-Ekiti, Nigeria

Oluorogbo shrine painting Ile Ife, Nigeria

Uli shrine wall at Nri, Igbo, Nigeria

Frafra painted house, pigments on mud walls, Ghana

Aina Onabolu Barrister Oil on canvas 1920s

Aina Onabolu, Portrait of a Man Watercolor on Board 1955

Aina Onabolu Sisi Nurse Oil on canvas 1922

Kofi Antubam, An Akan Ohemaa--Queen Mother at Lunch, oil on Paper, 1974

Vincent Kofi Awakening Africa Bronze 1959-1960

Ato Delaquis, Akua Mma, Oil on Canvas, 1999