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

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

3 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

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

5 Epa, Yoruba, Nigeria Wood, pigments 20th century

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

7 Orisa Priestess with painted forehead

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

9 Oluorogbo shrine painting
Ile Ife, Nigeria

10 Uli shrine wall at Nri, Igbo, Nigeria

11 Frafra painted house, pigments on mud walls, Ghana

12 Aina Onabolu Barrister Oil on canvas 1920s

13 Aina Onabolu, Portrait of a Man Watercolor on Board 1955

14 Aina Onabolu Sisi Nurse Oil on canvas 1922

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

16 Vincent Kofi Awakening Africa Bronze

17 Ato Delaquis, Akua Mma, Oil on Canvas, 1999


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