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Jazzy African Textiles |
| Section: THE ARTS / CRAFT & DESIGN |
| Author: Patricia Malarcher |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 7/1/1992 |
| Size: 1,461 Words, 9,160 Characters |
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Patterns shift and jog; bands of color dance up and down. Asymmetrical, unmatching borders throw compositions off center. Juxtapositions of tribal emblems and contemporary symbols lend vigor and surprise. Indeed, the liveliness of African textiles offers a complex visual experience. Generally, there is more play and freedom, a more casual approach to design, than one finds in the regular repeats of patterns in Western-style textiles. Yet these distinctive characteristics rarely have been recognized outside Africa as international expression of aesthetic preferences. The problem, it seems, is due not only to a fault of perception but also to the lack of a descriptive language for discussing these qualities in positive terms.
African Improvisation: Textiles from the Indianapolis Museum...
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... many other art exhibitions today, African Improvisation required a close reading of the accompanying towards to be appreciated fully. Without that, a viewer schooled in Modernist aesthetics might find in the broken patterns such familiar phenomena as spatial implications and overlapping planes. However, the exhibition proves that there is more here than meets the typical eye educated in art.
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