Original artwork description:
Another in my series inspired by African cultures, particularly the sculptures and masks of West and Central Africa. These pictures are my homage to a great artistic tradition. I have had a fascination and love for it since I was a boy and my father had an African mask on his study wall and it's a tradition that has informed my work increasingly over the years. Mukasa is a member of the pantheon of gods of the Ganda people of Uganda. He is the God of prosperity, harvest, fertility and health and in several myths is associated with divination and prophecies. This painting is based on an image in another painting called An Unnamed Seer which I produced from a left-handed drawing (I'm right-handed). I also recycled this image in my picture The Gift. With all this series I'm exploring the relationship between traditional and the modern, bringing an ancient connection with the eternal mysteries into the present.
Materials used:
Acrylic paint and brush pen
Tags:
#figurative #face #patterns #profile #pink and green abstract artMukasa the Soothsayer (2021)
Acrylic painting
by Jim Manning
24 Artist Reviews
£375 Sold
- Acrylic painting on Canvas
- One of a kind artwork
- Size: 41.91 x 59.69 x 1.27cm (unframed) / 41.91 x 55.88cm (actual image size)
- Signed on the back
- Style: Unspecified
- Subject: People and portraits
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Original artwork description
Another in my series inspired by African cultures, particularly the sculptures and masks of West and Central Africa. These pictures are my homage to a great artistic tradition. I have had a fascination and love for it since I was a boy and my father had an African mask on his study wall and it's a tradition that has informed my work increasingly over the years. Mukasa is a member of the pantheon of gods of the Ganda people of Uganda. He is the God of prosperity, harvest, fertility and health and in several myths is associated with divination and prophecies. This painting is based on an image in another painting called An Unnamed Seer which I produced from a left-handed drawing (I'm right-handed). I also recycled this image in my picture The Gift. With all this series I'm exploring the relationship between traditional and the modern, bringing an ancient connection with the eternal mysteries into the present.
Materials used:
Acrylic paint and brush pen
Tags:
#figurative #face #patterns #profile #pink and green abstract artReturns and refunds
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Artist Reviews (24)
This artwork is sold by Jim Manning from United Kingdom
Jim Manning
United Kingdom
About
I am a self-taught
figurative artist working mainly in acrylics. I came to painting late after a
life spent blundering about in pursuit of other dreams, unaware that I was a
painter. I... Read more
