Wifredo Lam is a Cuban artist that used his art to portray and revive the enduring Afro-Cuban spirit and culture. He met with and was inspired by some of the most renowned artists of the 20. Century such as Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso. Lam worked mainly as a painter but also worked with sculpture, ceramics and printmaking. The Jungle by Wifredo Lam. I think why I like this painting is because of the colors and elongated shapes.

This video is of a Jamaican band playing One Love by Bob Marley. I picked this clip because the firs time I heard the steel drums was in Jamaican. They were very strange to me when I first saw them but then they started playing it was a amazing and I have loved the steel drums since.

Statue of Milefo in Emei, Hsinchu. His career in art began as a graffiti artist in New York City in the late 1970s, and in the 1980s produced Neo-expressionist paintings. Basquiat died of a heroin overdose on August 12, 1988, at the age of 27. Untitled acrylic, oilstick and spray paint on canvas painting by Jean-Michel Basquiat. Is the title of this painting and.

For this blog assignment I chose to display a few works of african art by Yinka Adeyemi. I found out thatAdeyemi is a Yoruba artist from Osun State in Nigeria. He used his art to portray the culture of his people and the Yoruba vision of the western world. The first work I have chosen to display is called. A Gelede festival is a festival which honors the your mother. Read more about it here. Music For Pleasure At Dinner.

Born December 8, 1886 in Guanajuato, Mexico, Diego Rivera was a prominent Mexican painter, an active communist, and an atheist. He traveled the globe and studied in Europe; Madrid, Spain and Paris, France. He was inspired by different eras of art, Cubism and Post-Impressionism.

Below, you will find a work of art created by Alexei Alpatov in 2010 titled. I was pulled in by the depth of this piece. My curiosity piqued, I proceeded to delve into Contemporary Russian Art.

For my second Non-Western blog I decided to write about the noh play Dojoji by an unknown author. I have included the 5th and final section of the play below. If you wish to watch the play from the beginning, you can find parts 1-4 on Youtube. I have also taken kabuki dancing class.

The catchy tune that I have posted above is titled.