Makonde Mask
provenance: GEORGE L. STURMAN
COLLECTION OF AFRICAN ART
Feburary 3-March 1, 1998
This mask was acquired by the Sturman museum in 1959
and has been viewed in the online exhibtion Sample
Pieces from the Sturman exhibition from the Las Vegas Art Museum. It is now
part of David Norden's collection.
Tribe - Makonde
Country - Tarzania, East Africa
Medium - Wood & Human Hair
Item - Helmet Mask
Size - 8" H
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George L. Sturman Museum of
Fine Art. 107 E Charleston Blvd, Las Vegas, NV 89104 702-384-2615
The museum houses contemporary artwork from many famous artists
such as Alexander Calder, Salvador Dali, Willem De Kooning, Robert De Niro, and
Henri Matisse to name a few. In addition, an extensive collection of African
art, animation cels and comic strip art, American art, Master Drawings and
Paintings are also on display. They sold some of the African Art pieces among
them this old Makonde mask.
Lipiko mask, 19th-20th century, Makonde culture
(Mozambique, Tanzania); ex-Sturman
Museum collection, wood, hair; 23cm - 9 inches tall (Photo by David
Norden, © 2009)
Lipiko masks are used at boys' and girls' initiation
ceremonies to represent spirits (midimu) or to represent a members of
group or sometimes caricatures of members of neighboring groups, religious
leaders, and colonial officials.. They are noteworthy for their realism, each
mask depicting details of a particular facial type and hairstyle. Click
thumbs to enlarge.
read also: WHAT IS ART? THE HUMAN SPIRIT A Meditation in
Honor of George L. Sturman. by James Mann, Ph.D., Curator, Las
Vegas Art Museum Review by James Mann, Ph.D., Curator , The
Purest Art on Earth
Art is the human imposed upon the natural world. No matter how distorted an
artistic product is, it is made of something humanized. Art is made of
something external to the world, humanly imposed upon the world, so that even
the Impressionist painters couldn't deny the altering agency of the painter's
eye, which imposes itself upon the world. This is the human possession of the
world, rather than submission to it. Those artists who impose the most upon the
world are the farthest from it. Instead of obedience to the world, they deny
it, aggress against it. That is the most important thing artists do. As man's
spirit becomes alienated from the world, the more beautiful the world is....
Introduction by George L. Sturman, Africa
Speaks
Africa speaks in the tribal art of middle Africa, from east to
west, that is amassed in this collection. Through the creation of fetishes,
masks, statues, and everyday implements, the picture of a way of life emerges.
Its myths, spiritual, physical, emotional and traditional, reflect African life
from beginning to end and the hereafter. Each object speaks for the people,
individual, or culture it was created for. Handed down for rites and rituals
from tribe to tribe, family to family, as the countries and the people develop
from the old to the new, old traditions fade into obscurity...
 
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