Period: Modern Art
Medium: Acrylic Painting on canvas
Theme: Culture
Price: US $ 1400
Description: The Garifuna culture displays many influences of its African heritage, and this is extremely evident when comparing their music and art with the indigenous music and arts of the African societies from which their ancestors originated. According to one source, “most of the slaves brought to the Caribbean were taken from the Niger and cross Delta regions in the Blight of Benin (present-day Nigeria) in West Africa, and from further south in the Congo and Angola”.
Exhibition History: 2001 "The Garifuna Journey", Cecil Cyrus Squash Complex, Kingston,
St. Vincent
1999 "Artist Pen Cayetano", Belize High Commission, London, UK (S)
1999 "Contemporary Belizean Visual Arts", Taipa Museum, Taiwan
1997 "Wald", Palast der Johanniter, Valletta, Malta, Italy
1995 Natural Museum of History, London, Great Britain
1989 Fondo del Sol, Washington D.C., USA (S)
1983 Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans, USA
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