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All three figures are carved from a tropical hardwood called guayacan (Guaiacum officinale L.). The surface of the sculptures were probably polished with pebbles to bring the resin to the surface and attain the black lustre. The largest figure (the head of which is illustrated here) represents a male spiritual being, with prominent genitalia ...
Jamaican art dates back to Jamaica's indigenous Taino Indians who created zemis, carvings of their gods, for ritual spiritual purposes. The demise of this culture after European colonisation heralded a new era of art production more closely related to traditional tastes in Europe, created by itinerant artists keen to return picturesque images ...
Alvin Tolman Marriott (29 December 1902 – 20 September 1992) was a Jamaican sculptor. He worked in Europe, North and Central America, and Jamaica. Many of his carvings and statues are on public display and in administrative buildings in Jamaica and the UK.
Sculptural zemis, or "amuletic zemis", take many forms, [6] but the most characteristically Taíno art form is the three-point stone zemi. [7]One side of the stone might have a human or animal head with the opposite side having hunched legs.
Manley carved Horse of the Morning in 1943, this carving was done using Guatemalan redwood. According to the National Gallery of Jamaica Blog, "Her work entered another phase in which she combined private symbolism, inspired by the Jamaican Blue Mountain landscape, with an almost painterly approach to form and surface.
Kingston, Jamaica - Negro Aroused, 1937 - Edna Manley. Edna Manley: Embracing African heritage is a focal point for a lot of contemporary art in the Caribbean Islands, and Manley is a key figure in the celebration of African heritage. She is mainly known for her sculpture depictions of black figures and is known as the, "Mother of Jamaican art ...
This is a list of Jamaican artists (in alphabetical order by last name) of various genres, who are notable and either born in Jamaica or associated with Jamaica, ...
This is illustrated by her autobiographical mixed media installation The Goddess of Change (1993), in the collection of the National Gallery of Jamaica, and the life-size wood-carving of Christ Ascending (2001) which was commissioned for the St. Andrew Parish Church in Kingston, Jamaica. The latter is one of several religious artworks by Facey.