BAULE 

Ivory coast , west Africa 

NEIGHBORING PEOPLES : Senufo, Malinke, Guro, Asante

The Baule create art in several media, including wooden sculpture, gold and brass casting similar to their Asante ancestors, and mask and figure carving, which have been greatly influenced by their Senufo and Guro neighbors.

The Baule belong to the Akan peoples who inhabit Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire. Three hundred years ago the Baule people migrated westward from Ghana when the Asante rose to power. The tale of how they broke away from the Asante has been preserved in their oral traditions. During the Asante rise to power, the Baule queen, Aura Poku, was in direct competition with the current Asante king. When the Asante prevailed, the queen led her people away to the land they now occupy. The male descendant of Aura Poku still lives in the palace she established and is honored by the Baule as their nominal king.

The Baule have a highly centralized government with a king or chief at the top who inherits his position along matrilineal lines. There are various subchiefs in charge of his local populations, and all the chiefs rely on political advisors who help in the decision making process. The Goli association is the primary mask association, which provides social order among the Baule.

Religion includes both ancestor worship and a heirarchy of nature gods. Nature spirits and spirit spouses are often represented in sculpture. Their creator god is Alouroua, who is never physically represented.

V   I   T   A

Name of Artist:  Brigitte Rüdiger born Lissmann

Born :                 7 june 1947 at Kusel, Germany

contact :             gitte.ruediger@gmx.de

Passionate about art since adolescence, it is natural that I decided from a young age to live through my passion, my dream of creating my own works especially  my paintings.

Learn, work, discover the realization different technical of expression of the Grand Masters and particularly understand, reproduce and interpret to find me... are my goals.

The teaching says "classic" was so obvious to me. The discovery and study of the works of the Great Masters and the chronology of the evolution and transformation of their art throughout their life, through their ambitions and efforts to reach the rank of painter who therefore appeared to me to be the obvious example!

Since the departure my painting is figurative, but with time it has become abstract

After working on geometric shapes I now focused my research on the gesture on the spontaneity and lyricism. I am passionate about the transmission of energy through the colors. At home the line must bring a pure creative force and develop a poetry of painting, poetry has a complex relationship with reality, experience and beyond.

Throughout my career I have participated in several exhibitions

Exhibitions

2000 - Hurghada      Hillton Plazza Hotel

2001 - Hurghada     Helnan Regina Hotel

2005 - Beteiligung an der   Jahresausstellung  KKK  Museum Kusel

2006 - Beteiligung an der Ausstellung  Kuseler Landschaften  KKK Bürgermeisteramt  Kusel

2006  -Gemeinschaftsausstellung  KKK  Kreisspaarkasse  Kusel

2008 - Beteiligung an der Noch-Nie Ausstellung in Herschweiler Pettersheim

2009 - Monatsausstellung in der Kreisverwaltung  Kusel

2010 -  Ausstellung Farbspiele in der Verbandsgemeinde Altenglan

2010 - Gemeinschaftsausstellung Frühling im Quadrat Museum Kusel .

2010 - Jahresausstellung des KKK  in Wolfstein

2011  - Gemeinschaftsausstellung  Schwarz –Weiß  Museum  Kusel

2011  - Maiausstellung Westpfalz-Klinikum Kusel .

2011 - Gemeinschaftsausstellung des KKK Amtsgericht Kusel

2012 -  Ausstellung Spektrum des KKK Verbandsgemeinde Altenglan

2012 -  Dauerausstellung Westpfalz Klinikum Kusel

2013 -  Beteiligung an der Gemeinschaftsausstellung Wege zum Ich

2013 -  Ausstellung im  Deutsches Konsulat Hurghada

2013 - Juni- Ausstellung Westpfalz Klinikum Kusel

2013 - Ausstellung des KKK in Brücken

2013 - Ausstellung im  Steigenberger Hotel Hurghada

2013 - Winterausstellung  des KKK im Westpfalz Klinikum Kusel

2014 - Wander- Ausstellung in der Kreissparkasse  Altenglan -Glanmünchweiler und  Offenbach- Hundheim

2014-  Open Air Ausstellung in meinem Garten .

2014- Beteiligung an der Ausstellung des KKK Zeichnungen

2014 - Living with Art Hurghada Kulturprogramm

2014  -Steigenberger Al Dau in  Hurghada

2014 - Jahresausstellung   KKK  Herbst

2014 - Landstuhl  Körper und Formen

2014-  Pont  a Mosson  Frankreich

2014 -  Ausstellung Wasserburg  Reipoltskirchen

2014 - Ausstellung in Patersbach

2014  - Ausstellung 20 Jahre Kunst Kreis Kusel

2015  - Frühlingsausstellung Freunde der Malerei Landstuhl

2015 - Ausstellung in Galerie Atelier 35 Frühling in Farben

2015 - Gemeinschaftsausstellung KKK Mikrokosmos

2015-  Ausstellung Lauterecken Schloss Veldenz

2015-  Ulmet Felschbachhof 20 Jahre Kunstkreis Kusel

2015- Ausstellung in Patersbach

2015 - mit den Freunden der Malerei im der VR Bank Landstuhl

2015 - Beteiligung an der Ausstellung Flucht im Heimatmuseum Kusel

2015 - Pont a Mousson Frankreich .

2015 - Landstuhl Stadthalle .

If you are interested in seeing my art in person, I am available for proposals exhibition

And some of my artworks are for sale.  Please drop by if your schedule permits or contact me to arrange a specific time to visit. I can be contacted by email at gitte.ruediger@gmx.de

By Steve Foreman ismael Laquintine

email: laquintine@gmail.com 

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  THE MYSTHERIOUS WORLD OF LISE 

Artist: Lise Helen Breistein

Born : 20/11/1975 in Norway

Influences: Munch, Da Vinci, michelangelo, Salvador Dahli

 I am passionate woman, named Lise Helen Breistein, and born in Norway. I grew up in Bergen, a historical city off Norway. At the countryside, in a house by a fjord. A great starting-point for me to begin drawing.

     So I did. I have always loved to create, to draw. To make something with my own

two hands. Since I could hold a pencil, I discovered I could create new world out off nothing.

Selflearned over all this years, constantly trying and failing. To always improve, and discover new ways to express myself on paper. The result, I think, is that I have discovered my very  own way off technique.

     My life is not very interesting. My innerlife, however, is constantly in unbalance.

wanting to express my inner world, my mind, and my mood. The way I see and comprehend life. That is what Im trying to transfer on to paper.

I chose the mysterious theme to express what I feel in the depths of me. it is also a way of imagining the darkness and a dark world in which everyone thinks but no one want to belong it. I try through my drawings to show  the hidden face of the world.

     I have no formal education.However, years off developing my skills in my own way, I hope  to have resulted in something unique, something not seen before.

    

     Art is to be subjective for all. We all see things based on our own experiences and perceptions. That is why I hope that my drawings will give something to someone.  In the past I have had some displays of my work. Been elected "artist off the month" by an 

art-club, and nominated for awards.

     

Contact: 

Artpage on facebook, Skattene mine.

e-mail lisehb@yahoo.no

By steve foreman ismael

                    Rodrigo Munoz Leiva 

Tempera sobre papel 24 cm x 35 cm (2002)

                                                                             Tempera sobre papel 24 cm x 35 cm (2002)

BIOGRAPHY

Born in Santiago de Chile 1968. Presently living in Madrid, Spain. He studied graphic design and painting at the Fine Art Society of Santiago, participated in the workshops of the Carmen Silva and Pedro Lukawecki Chilean artists. The workforce has been developed and worked on graphic design, interior design, advertising and marketing. But his passion has always been the art, particularly painting, to which he has dedicated most of his life. Starting from childhood to draw comic book characters, developing later in the drawing and painting using different types of techniques and media. Its main source of inspiration is nature, synthesized in the organic world, a journey that goes from microcosm to macrocosm reflected in his paintings. Among its main artistic influences they can quote Roberto Matta, Basquiat, Kandinsky, the Bauhaus, Yayoi Kusama, Moebius, Milo Manara, Rilke, surrealism, fouvismo and German Expressionism.

CONCEPT

As a visual artist I pick my work of nature, is that feeling of eternal movement,

mysterious and unrepeatable infinity of organic forms in all the landscapes, unique and limitless, as the subconscious where no one can determine the horizon, where the imagination is lost within the limits.

In my work as an artist I always look for that touch of life doomed to perpetuate mainly by the force of the infinitely diverse nature, which conflicts with the intervention the insatiable human transformation of the environment, this change economic, political and social takes us on a path of no return. Within these realities, swimming freely seas insconciente sometimes stormy and sometimes the cosmos in search of balance, as such a symmetry of a tree. A painting is the energy that is by growing to maturity,

You should taking the time you need.

Técnica mixta sobre tela 90 cm x 130 cm (2008)

                Técnica mixta sobre tela 90 cm x 130 cm (2008)

TECHNICAL

Due to its cross professional development, your job opportunities are wide, dominates several painting techniques from the most traditional such as oil, pastel, watercolor others as simple as pen bic pen, paints for industrial use such as automobiles, furniture or craft as a land of color.

EXHIBITIONS

1990. Group exhibition, Society of Fine Arts, Santiago de Chile.

2002. Group exhibition, Boulevard Lavaud, Santiago de Chile.

2005. Individual exhibition, Barrio Brasil Cultural Center, Santiago de Chile.

2006. Individual exhibition, Brazilian Cultural Center 547, Santiago, Chile.

2012. Individual exhibition, Cultural Center Alpedrete, Madrid, Spain.

2013. Individual exhibition, Cultural Center Castilla El Escorial, Madrid, Spain.

2014 Individual exhibition, Cultural Center Moralzarzal (16/01/14 to 14/02/12), Madrid, Spain.

CONTACT

munozleiva.r@gmail.com  

tel 00 34 640288726

MOSSI

Burkina Faso, west Africa
Neighboring people: Dogon, Bisa, Kurumba 

Cel whatsapp +5521981838334
Mail: laquintine@gmail.com

The Mossi make both political art and spiritual art. Figures are used by the ruling class to validate political power, and masks are used by the conquered peoples to control the forces of nature. Each year at the annual celebrations of the royal ancestors, figures of the deceased kings are displayed. On many occasions each year, especially during the long dry season from October to May, masks appear to honor the spirits of nature that control the forces of the environment. The several mask styles reflect the diversity of the population before the 15th century invasion. Long tall masks in the north are made by the descendants of the conquered Dogon population, while red, white, and black animal masks in the southwest are made by descendants of the conquered Gurunsi people

The Mossi states were created about 1500 A.D., when bands of horsemen rode north from what is now northern Ghana into the basin of the Volta River and conquered several less powerful peoples, including Dogon, Lela, Nuna, and Kurumba. These were integrated into a new society call Mossi, with the invaders as chiefs and the conquered as commoners. The emperor of the Mossi is the Moro Naba, who lives in the ancient and contemporary capital, Ouagadougou. In the centuries between 1500 and 1900 the Mossi were a major political and military force in the bend of the Niger River and were effective in resisting the movements of Muslim Fulani armies across the Sudan area of west Africa. In 1897 the first French military explorers arrived in the area and staked French colonial claims. During the sixty years of French colonial rule the Mossi population was exploited as a source of human labor for French plantations in Côte d'Ivoire. In 1960 Burkina Faso gained its independence from the French. The first elected president Ouezzin Coulibaly was succeeded by Maurice Yameogo, a Mossi. In 1967 a coup-d'état put in place a military government that has ruled with infrequent change ever since.

The Mossi are unique in Burkina Faso for their centralized and hierarchical political system. The nakomse are the ruling class and are directed descendants of the first invaders from the south. At the apex of political hierarchy is the Moro Naba (emperor), whose palace is in Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso. Nabas (chiefs) rule over each of the regions of Mossi country and pay homage to the emperor. Each chief presides over a political hierarchy of local officials who are responsible for raising armies, levying taxes, etc. The nyonyose are the descendants of the conquered peoples who lived in the region before the Mossi arrived.

The descendants of the conquered nyonyose (farmers) honor nature spirits that provide them with supernatural power to control the weather, disease, crop failure, and general well-being. These are the "invented spirits" that become important as the congregation faces a particular affliction and which decrease in influence as the problem is solved. These spirits are often represented by masks and figures that make them visible and concrete. The spirits themselves provide, through the diviner, the religious laws that govern the community and so provide a system of sacred rule. The creator god Wennam is associated with the sun and with the nakomse (political hierarchy). The spiritual power of the nyonyosebased on nature spirits is in direct opposition to the secular power of thenakomse based on the horse and associated with the sun. Among the most important religious celebrations are annual sacrifices to honor the memories of the royal ancestors, when each and every male head of a household reaffirms his dependence on the benevolence of the chief and his ancestors for health and well-being of his family.

By Steve Foreman ismael

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