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The name "uli" is derived from the Igbo names of the plants ( Uli Ede eji, Uli Nkilisi, Uli Abuba, Uli Nkpo, Uli Aru nmadu) that are processed to produce the dye used to stain on designs. [5] According to local mythology, the practice developed as a gift from Ala , the goddess of earth, who blessed women with the ability to create art, as ...
The Igbo culture area is east of the Niger River, west of the Cross River, and West of the Great Niger waterway of southeastern Nigeria. Throughout this area there is evidence of an ancient artistic culture. The traditional Igbo art form is called Uli Drawing. According to Okeke, Uli is an attempt to enhance the beauty of the human body.
These designs could include Uli art designed by Igbo women. [ 20 ] In Mbari houses, there is a close relationship between where material objects are placed within the domestic environment and their symbolic significance.
Okeke, who came to Nsukka from Zaria in 1970, proposed Natural Synthesis as a theory of merging indigenous art traditions with western traditions to create a new, modern art form. [2] In this search for a new post-independence aesthetic, Okeke sought to translate uli - a mural and body decoration art of the Igbo - into a contemporary artistic ...
Uli body art was also used to decorate both men and women in the form of lines forming patterns and shapes on the body. A traditional Igbo hat made entirely from wool. With colonialism and the Westernization of Igbo culture, Western styled clothes such as shirts and trousers over took traditional clothing. [21]
Mbari is a visual art form practiced by the Igbo people in southeast Nigeria consisting of a sacred two-story house constructed as a propitiatory rite. [22] Mbari houses of the Owerri -Igbo, which are large opened-sided square planned shelters contain many life-sized, painted figures (sculpted in mud to appease the Alusi (deity) and Ala , the ...
Chike Cyril Aniakor was born in Abatete, Anambra State in Eastern Nigeria on 21 August 1939. [2] His mother was a practicing Uli artist; an art style deriving from Igbo culture. [2]
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