Modern Art a Conspiracy Part 2 -
African modern art
They have never
been interested in others but for what
they can get. The opportunity to study
other cultures have presented it self
severally but they were not up for it.
They have written mind alteration books
for their vision. It would have been
ideal for them to introduce most of
these books into their schools for
knowledge, more researches and better
appreciation of others. But hell no they
were only interested in altering our
mind set, artifacts and how much they
can make from the unknown world.
My gratitude goes
to our men and women, most of whom have
lost their lives in saying the truth.
Truth must prevail; I have realized
danger of the silence conspiracy to
erase anything African in the face of
the earth. The fact that civilization of
man started in African has disappeared
from the pages of history books, even
pyramids of Egypt to some people were
built by aliens, It is too good to be
African; if given a chance to recreate
the map of Africa, Egypt and some part
of South African will definitely be
carved out of the map to serve their
purpose.
There have been conflicting records
of when Europeans came in contact with
African Art. With due respect to our art
historians who have made references to
1905 as the year of European first
contact with African Art as widely
documented. I beg to disagree. We should
not forget the looting of Benin Art
treasures. The Punitive Expedition of 1897 was a military excursion by a British force
of 1,200 under Admiral Sir Harry Rawson
that captured, burned, and looted the
city of Benin, incidentally bringing to
an end the highly sophisticated West
African Kingdom of Benin.
Modern Art a Conspiracy Part 2
- abstract art
Secondly,
the
Scramble for Africa (or the Rat
Race for Africa) was the proliferation
of conflicting European claims to
African territory during the New
Imperialism period, between the 1880s
and the start of World War I. This era
was more of art and treasures than
territories. You are free to disagree.
You can as well tell me of any other
continent; that has suffered massive
global extortion and exploitation of
arts and culture. A visit to museums
around the world will shade more light
on this.
The earliest documented entry of a piece of African art into a
European collection occurred around
1470, with a work that a Portuguese
collector acquired from the kingdom of
Kongo.
Please permit me to
introduce the so called founder of
cubism and modern art, Picasso and his
rivalry and partner in plagiarism
Matisse, who were first European
avant-garde artist collectors of African
Art. His full name was Pablo (or Pablito)
Diego Jose Santiago Francisco de Paula
Juan Nepomuceno Crispin Crispiniano de
los Remedios Cipriano de la Santisima
Trinidad Ruiz Blasco y Picasso Lopez.
We know him today as simply Picasso.
Pablo was born to father, who was
also an artist, known as José Ruiz y
Blasco; his mother was Maria Picasso y
Lopez. His earliest paintings were
signed Pablo Ruiz after his father, but
around 1901 he started using his
mother's name, Picasso. He studied
graphics in Spain and graduated in 1900.
Pablo was among the long list of
bored minds, whose art of imitation and
copying couldn’t sustain. He found
himself in a nasty dance of poverty and
isolation because no artist would want
to risk their creations with a copy
artist like Picasso. Shortly after
graduation He moved to France 1901 where
he quickly laid his hands on African art
works. In his words I do not seek. I
find.
You can imagine the innocent
creations of African masters in the
hands of a man who had copied art most
of youthful age. Pablo believed that Bad
artists copy. Good artists steal.
Modern Art a
Conspiracy Part 2 - modern art
is simply a conspiracy
child of racism and imperialism.
The so-called founder had these
to say. Today,
as you know, I am famous and very rich.
But when completely alone with myself, I
haven't the nerve to consider myself an
artist in the great and ancient sense of
the word. There have been great painters
like Giotto, Titian, Rembrandt and Goya.
I am only a public entertainer who has
understood his time.
What was his time? It was said the
confession is good for the soul.
In the part 1 of this article I
mentioned the conspiracy of European
avant-garde artists, art collectors, art
critics, art historians and imperialist
to create away out of their creative
drought using African Art as escape
goat. The
artistic elite was mainly concerned with
the rejection of academic tradition.
African art became a source of
inspiration for these artists who were
searching for systems of representation
other than naturalism and illusionism.
The critic front-runner of this group
was the
French art critic Louis Vauxcelles who
coined the term Cubism after seeing the
landscapes Braque had painted in 1908 at
L'Estaque in emulation of Cézanne.
Vauxcelles called the geometric forms in
the highly abstracted works
"cubes."
Modern Art a Conspiracy Part 2
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Louis
Vauxcelles
(1870-?) was an influential French art
critic. To him are attributed the terms Fauvism
(1905), and cubism. Vauxcelles
coined the phrase 'les fauves'
(translated as 'wild beasts') to
describe a circle of painters associated
with Matisse as well as the audiences
who criticized them (he couldn't decide
which were more arrogant).
But
an artist can demonstrate zero proof of
his artistic ability in the context of
established representative visual art,
yet he could end up as a master of
modern art? Tell me you smell something
funny about this too.
The
Cubist painters rejected their inherited
concept that art should copy nature, or
that they should adopt the traditional
techniques of perspective, modeling, and
foreshortening. They wanted instead to
emphasize the two-dimensionality of the
canvas. So they reduced and fractured
objects into geometric forms, and then
realigned these within a shallow, relief's
like space. They also used multiple or
contrasting vantage points. Louis
Vauxcelles and his group were not
interested in professionalism but
escapism and name calling for the
propagation of their supremacy vision.
Pablo had them all fooled; the agony is
that many are still fooled till date. I
guest because of their common
denominator of hate and racist drive,
none really cared about the long time
effect of their deceit.
In
the words of Pablo the founder of your
modern art; an artist must
know how to convince others of the truth
of his lies.
The people who make art their business are
mostly imposters. There
is no abstract art. You must always
start with something. Afterward you can
remove all traces of reality. How naďve
can you be, the man who had over 100
African art in his collection, copied
and made money of them do not believe in
abstraction.
Modern Art a Conspiracy Part 2
- Black Art
Lets look into more
facts in the part 3 coming soon.
Chidi Okoye is an
award winning sculptor, painter, poet
and author whose impressive bodies of
work have won the admiration of local
and international art collectors.
Modern
Art a Conspiracy Part 2 by Chidi Okoye.
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