Index of African mythology and creation narratives
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Index of African deities
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For art associated with the Haitian Vodou religion, see Haitian Vodou art.
Vodun art
Wutuji bocio. Ewé, Togo, 2nd half of 20th century
Location
West Africa, Central Africa
Vodun art is associated with the West African Vodun religion of Nigeria, Benin, Togo and Ghana. The term is sometimes used more generally for art associated with related religions of West and Central Africa and of the African diaspora in Brazil, the Caribbean and the United States. Art forms include bocio, carved wooden statues that represent supernatural beings and may be activated through various ritual steps, and Asen, metal objects that attract spirits of the dead or other spirits and give them a temporary resting place. Vodun is assimilative, and has absorbed concepts and images from other parts of Africa, India, Europe and the Americas. Chromolithographs representing Indian deities have become identified with traditional Vodun deities and used as the basis for murals in Vodun temples. The Ouidah '92 festival, held in Benin in 1993, celebrated the removal of restrictions on Vodun in that country and began a revival of Vodun art.
Vodunart is associated with the West African Vodun religion of Nigeria, Benin, Togo and Ghana. The term is sometimes used more generally for art associated...
Vodun (meaning spirit in the Fon, Gun and Ewe languages, pronounced [vodṹ] with a nasal high-tone u; also spelled Vodon, Vodoun, Vodou, Vudu, Voudou,...
attention from the international art market. However, Vodunart can still be efficacious when produced for sale, and the Vodun spirits were propitiated at...
Indian art Indian art consists of a variety of art forms, including painting, sculpture, pottery, and textile arts such as woven silk. Geographically...
traditions, fine art is made primarily for aesthetics or creative expression, distinguishing it from decorative art or applied art, which also has to...
and is present in Yoruba religion, Santería, Haitian Vodou, West African Vodun, and the folk religion of the Gbe people. In Yoruba religion, Ogun is a...
Chinese art Chinese art is visual art that originated in or is practiced in China, Greater China or by Chinese artists. Art created by Chinese residing...
Vodou art may refer to: Haitian Vodou art, associated with the Vodou religion of Haiti Vodunart, associated with the Vodon religion of West Africa This...
Contemporary art Contemporary art is the art of today, produced in the second half of the 20th century or in the 21st century. Contemporary artists work...
Modern art Modern art includes artistic work produced during the period extending roughly from the 1860s to the 1970s, and denotes the styles and philosophies...
"Kouas" Gnonnou (b. 1952) is a contemporary Beninese artist and sculptor of Vodunart. Dominique "Kouas" Gnonnou was born in 1952 in Benin. He became an assistant...
"India" in west African Vodunart and thought". University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Adjibodou, Venise Nichole. Everyday Vodun: Materiality, Affect...
Guérin C. (2006). "Vodun and Social Transformation in the African Diasporic Experience: The Concept of Personhood in Haitian Vodun Religion". In Bellegarde-Smith...
ISBN 978-0-89236-569-2. Retrieved 15 April 2011. Suzanne Preston Blier (1995). African Vodun: Art, Psychology, and Power. University of Chicago. p. 424. ISBN 978-0-226-05858-0...
Early Christian art, Migration Period art, Byzantine art, Insular art, Pre-Romanesque, Romanesque art, and Gothic art, as well as many other periods within...
Art history is the study of aesthetic objects and visual expression in historical and stylistic context. Traditionally, the discipline of art history...
1959, in Abomey, Benin. He was based in Ouidah, the world centre for Vodunart, which has an annual festival. He died in 2019 in Ouidah, Benin. "Yves...
Japanese art Japanese art consists of a wide range of art styles and media that includes ancient pottery, sculpture, ink painting and calligraphy on silk...
Postmodern art Postmodern art is a body of art movements that sought to contradict some aspects of modernism or some aspects that emerged or developed...
attributes. Efik Anansa, goddess of the Sea, allure and beauty.[citation needed] Vodun Baron La Croix, loa of the dead and sexuality. Baron Samedi, loa of the...
art Computer art Internet art Drawing Embroidery Film Found object Glass art Graffiti Illustration Concept art Installation art Lacquerware Land art Mail...
textile art and fiber art are important visual art forms across Africa and may be included in the study of African art. The term "African art" does not...
The history of Asian art includes a vast range of arts from various cultures, regions, and religions across the continent of Asia. The major regions of...
Amazons by European observers, and the elaborate religious practices of Vodun. The growth of Dahomey coincided with the growth of the Atlantic slave trade...
An art movement is a tendency or style in art with a specific art philosophy or goal, followed by a group of artists during a specific period of time,...
Korean art Korean arts include traditions in calligraphy, music, painting and pottery, often marked by the use of natural forms, surface decoration and...
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