Papa Ibra Tall
Papa Ibra Tall | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1935 Tivaouane, Thiès Region, Senegal |
| Died | 2015 |
| Education | École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, École Spéciale d'Architecture |
| Known for | Tapestry |
| Movement | Dakar School (French: École de Dakar) |
Papa Ibra Tall (1935–2015) was a Senegalese tapestry weaver, painter, and illustrator. He is known for his role in the Dakar School (French: École de Dakar) art movement,[1] and as an early professor at the École Nationale des Beaux Arts.
Biography
[edit]Papa Ibra Tall was born in 1935 in Tivaouane, in the Thiès Region of Senegal.[2] His artistic career began oil painting under the tutelage of amateur French painters in Dakar. In 1955, he studied architecture at the École Spéciale d'Architecture in Paris, where he was exposed to the Négritude movement and provided illustrations for the Présence Africaine. He later attended the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts and pursued instruction in Sèvres with the assistance of Senegalese president Léopold Sédar Senghor, where he studied painting, serigraphy, tapestry, mosaics, and comparative pedagogy.[3]
Career
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Papa Ibra Tall returned to Senegal from France in 1960, founding the École Nationale des Beaux Arts in Dakar with Iba Ndiaye and Pierre Lods.[4] He was instrumental in the École de Dakar art movement, which started at the same time.[5] He headed the Section de Recherches en Arts Plastiques Nègres at the École Nationale des Beaux Arts in Dakar. In his instruction, he sought to encourage the development of an "identifiable" Pan-African idiom, and preferred not to provide formal instruction for fear it would block what he believed to be the natural artistic creativity of African artists.[3]
At the behest of President Senghor, he founded the Manufacture Sénégalaise des Arts Décoratifs (MSAD) tapestry school in 1965.[6]
One of his students was Seydou Barry.[7]
Exhibitions
[edit]Source:[2]
- 8th São Paulo Art Bienalle, Brazil, 1965.
- Festival Mondial des Arts Nègres, Dakar, 1966.
- 1st Pan-African Festival of Algiers, 1969.
- 1st Salon of Senegalese Visual Artists at the Musée Dynamique, Dakar, 1973.
- Dessins de Papa Ibra Tall, National Gallery of Art, Dakar, 1991.
References
[edit]- ^ Cohen, Joshua I. (2018-08-09). "Locating Senghor's École de Dakar: International and Transnational Dimensions to Senegalese Modern Art, c. 1959–1980". African Arts. 51 (3): 10–25. doi:10.1162/afar_a_00413. ISSN 0001-9933.
- ^ a b "Papa Ibra Tall - Biennale de l'Art Africain Contemporain, Dak'Art 2012 du 11 mai au 10 juin 2012, Dakar Senegal". biennaledakar.org. Retrieved 2019-03-14.
- ^ a b Harney, Elizabeth (2004). In Senghor's shadow : art, politics, and the avant-garde in Senegal, 1960–1995. Duke University Press. pp. 56–59. ISBN 9780822386056. OCLC 1055247530.
- ^ Nzewi, Ugochukwu-Smooth; Fillitz, Thomas (2020-06-15). Dak'Art: The Biennale of Dakar and the Making of Contemporary African Art. Routledge. pp. 39–42. ISBN 978-1-000-18245-3.
- ^ "Iba Ndiaye, African Modernist Painter, Is Dead at 80". The New York Times. 15 October 2008. Archived from the original on 2024-11-30. Retrieved 2024-12-23.
- ^ Harney, Elizabeth (2002). "The Ecole de Dakar: Pan-Africanism in Paint and Textile". African Arts. 35 (3): 13–90. doi:10.1162/afar.2002.35.3.13. ISSN 0001-9933. JSTOR 3337860.
- ^ "Seydou Barry". Africultures (in French). ISSN 2271-1732. Archived from the original on 2 March 2016.
