#Ghanaian painter

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Amoako Boafo - Justine Mendy, 2018. Oil on canvas / 160 x 133 cm

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Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Any Number of Preoccupations, 2010. Oil on canvas – 164 × 204 cm. Courtesy Serpentine Galleries.

Lynette Yiadom-Boakye is a British painter and writer, of Ghanaian heritage. She is best known for her portraits of imaginary subjects, or ones derived from found objects, which are painted in muted colours. Her work has contributed to the renaissance in painting the Black figure. Wikipedia

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Ghanaian painter Tafa: ‘The painting is greater than the artist’ | Art | The Guardian

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Emmanuel Taku

(Ghanaian, born 1986)

A graduate of the Ghanatta Institute of Art and Design, Emmanuel Taku studied with well-known figurative painters Amoako Boafo and Otis Quaicoe, and has been practicing different forms of portraiture for more than ten years. His subjects are often clothed in striking floral prints, applied using a distinct silk screen method. He incorporates a variety of materials including textiles, newspaper, fiberglass, fiber net, mesh, and plywood. A nod to Malick Sidibé, the artist combines his focus on portraiture with a longstanding passion for textiles and patterns, passed on to him by his mother.

  https://maruanimercier.com/artists/87-emmanuel-taku/

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I havve recently been profoundly invigorated with joy and inspiration by the lawless world of Ghanaian film poster artistry. These painters are agents of chaos, filth, and joy. 

Soon they will have their hands right in my unhinged little wallet.

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Ghanaian painter finds joy in humble meal amidst financial struggles as he eats banku with tea togather

In a heartwarming display of resilience and appreciation for life’s simple pleasures, a Ghanaian painter was spotted enjoying a modest meal of banku and tea at his workplace, despite facing financial difficulties. The artist, who wishes to remain anonymous, was seen savoring each bite of the traditional Ghanaian dish, accompanied by a cup of tea, in the midst of his studio. The scene was a…

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Background information

Birth name Leslie Coleman McCann

Born September 23, 1935 Lexington, Kentucky, U.S.

Died December 29, 2023 (aged 88) Los Angeles, California,

U.S.Genres

Jazz, soul jazz

Occupation(s)Musician Instrument(s) Piano,vocals

Years active 1959–2018

Leslie Coleman McCann (September 23, 1935 – December 29, 2023) was an American jazz pianist and vocalist.[1] He is known for his innovations in soul jazz and his 1969 recording of the protest song "Compared to What". His music has been widely sampled in hip hop.

Early life

Leslie Coleman McCann was born in Lexington, Kentucky, on September 23, 1935.[2] He grew up in a musical family with three sisters, most of whom sang in church choirs.[3][4] His father was a fan of jazz music and his mother was known to hum opera tunes around the house.[4]

As a youth, McCann played the tuba and drums and performed in his school's marching band.[3][4] As a pianist, he was largely self-taught.[5] He explained that he only received piano lessons for a few weeks as a six-year-old before his teacher died.[3]

McCann attended Los Angeles City College, which was highly influential to his musical career.[6] At the age of 17, he joined the U.S. Navy in San Diego.[6]

Career

During his service in the Navy, McCann won a singing contest, which led to an appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show.[1] After leaving the Navy, McCann moved to California and played in his own trio.[5] He declined an offer to work in Cannonball Adderley's band so that he could dedicate himself to his own music.[5] The trio's first job was at the Purple Onion club in 1959 accompanying Gene McDaniels.[3]

McCann (left) with the Les McCann Trio (Herbie Lewis and Ron Jefferson), 1962

The main part of McCann's career began in the early 1960s, when he recorded as a pianist with his trio for Pacific Jazz.[7] In 1969, Atlantic released Swiss Movement, an album recorded with saxophonist Eddie Harris and trumpeter Benny Bailey earlier at that year's Montreux Jazz Festival.[8] The album contained the song "Compared to What"; both reached the Billboard pop charts. The song, which criticized the Vietnam War, was written by Eugene McDaniels years earlier and recorded and released as a ballad by McCann in 1966 on his album, Les McCann Plays the Hits. Roberta Flack's version appeared as the opening track on her debut album First Take (1969).[9][10]

After the success of Swiss Movement, McCann, primarily a piano player, emphasized his vocals. He became an innovator in soul jazz, merging jazz with funk, soul and world rhythms. His music was influential for its use of electric piano, clavinet and synthesizer.[11]

In 1971, McCann and Harris were part of a group of soul, R&B and rock performers–including Wilson Pickett, the Staple Singers, Santana and Ike & Tina Turner–who flew to Accra, Ghana, to perform a 14-hour concert for more than 100,000 Ghanaians. The March 6 concert was recorded for the documentary film Soul to Soul.[12] In 2004, the movie was released on DVD with an accompanying soundtrack album.[13]

McCann had a stroke in the mid-1990s,[7] but he returned to music in 2002, when Pump it Up was released, and continued to release music until 2018.[11] He also exhibited his work as a painter and photographer.[1]

Death

McCann died from pneumonia in a Los Angeles hospital on December 29, 2023, at the age of 88.[6]

Legacy

McCann's recordings have been widely sampled in hip hop music, mostly in the 1990s and 2000s, by nearly 300 acts.[11][14] These include A Tribe Called Quest, Cypress Hill, De La Soul, the Notorious B.I.G., Sean Combs, Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Nas, Mary J. Blige, the Pharcyde, Eric B. & Rakim, Mobb Deep, Gang Starr and Raekwon.[11][15]

Discography

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As leader

Les McCann Ltd. Plays the Truth (Pacific Jazz, 1960)

Les McCann Ltd. Plays the Shout (Pacific Jazz, 1960; Sunset, 1970)

Les McCann Ltd. in San Francisco (Pacific Jazz, 1961)

Pretty Lady (Pacific Jazz, 1961)

Les McCann Sings (Pacific Jazz, 1961)

Somethin' Special with Richard "Groove" Holmes (Pacific Jazz, 1962)

Les McCann Ltd. in New York (Pacific Jazz, 1962)

On Time (Pacific Jazz, 1962)

The Gospel Truth (Pacific Jazz, 1963)

Les McCann Ltd. Plays the Shampoo (Pacific Jazz, 1963)

McCanna (Pacific Jazz, 1963)

Jazz Waltz with the Jazz Crusaders (Pacific Jazz, 1963)

Spanish Onions (Pacific Jazz, 1964)

McCann/Wilson with Gerald Wilson (Pacific Jazz, 1964)

Soul Hits (Pacific Jazz, 1964)

Beaux J. Pooboo (Limelight, 1965)

But Not Really (Limelight, 1965)

Les McCann Plays the Hits (Limelight, 1966)

A Bag of Gold (Pacific Jazz, 1966)

Live at Shelly's Manne-Hole (Limelight, 1966)

Live at Bohemian Caverns–Washington, D.C. (Limelight, 1967)

Bucket o' Grease (Limelight, 1967)

From the Top of the Barrel (Pacific Jazz, 1967)

More or Les McCann (World Pacific, 1969)

Much Les (Atlantic, 1969)

Swiss Movement with Eddie Harris (Atlantic, 1969)

New from the Big City (World Pacific, 1970)

Comment (Atlantic, 1970)

Second Movement with Eddie Harris (Atlantic, 1971)

Invitation to Openness (Atlantic, 1972)

Talk to the People (Atlantic, 1972)

Live at Montreux (Atlantic, 1973)

Layers (Atlantic, 1973)

Another Beginning (Atlantic, 1974)

Doldinger Jubilee '75 (Atlantic, 1975)

Hustle to Survive (Atlantic, 1975)

River High, River Low (Atlantic, 1976)

Music Lets Me Be (ABC/Impulse!, 1977)

Change, Change, Change (ABC/Impulse!, 1977)

The Man (A&M, 1978)

Tall, Dark & Handsome (A&M, 1979)

The Longer You Wait (Jam, 1983)

Music Box (Jam, 1984)

Road Warriors with Houston Person (Greene Street, 1984)

Butterfly (Stone, 1988)

Les Is More (Night, 1990)

On the Soul Side (MusicMasters, 1994)

Listen Up! (MusicMasters, 1996)

Pacifique with Joja Wendt (MusicMasters, 1998)

How's Your Mother? (32 Jazz, 1998)

Pump It Up (ESC, 2002)

Vibrations: Funkin' Around Something Old Something New (Jazz Legend Project) (Leafage Jazz/Pony Canyon, 2003)

The Shout (American Jazz Classics, 2011)

28 Juillet (Fremeaux, 2018)[citation needed]

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July 21 Zodiac - Full Horoscope Personality

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July 21 Zodiac - Full Horoscope Personality 

 In the event that your birthday is July 21, your zodiac sign is Malignant growth

July 21 - character and character character: perfect, diligent, autonomous, hateful, severe, brutal calling: dressmaker, janitor, engine driver tones: pink, brown, red stone: coral creature: starfish plant: poplar fortunate numbers: 4,18,19,31,41,55 very fortunate number: 21 Occasions and Observances - July 21 Venezuela: Public Veterinary Specialist Day. Bolivia: Day of the saints of the Public Upset. Guam: Freedom Day. Belgium: Public day. July 21 Superstar Birthday. Who was conceived that very day as you? 1903: Silvina Ocampo, Argentine essayist, brief tale author and writer (f. 1993) 1905: Miguel Mihura, Spanish essayist, visual artist and comedian (f. 1977). 1911: Marshall McLuhan, Canadian writer (d. 1980). 1917: Emilio Romero Gდ³mez, Spanish columnist. 1919: Nuto Revelli, Italian essayist. 1920: Constance Dowling, American entertainer. 1920: Zelmar Guenol, Argentine entertainer and jokester (d. 1985). 1920: Steady Nieuwenhuys, Dutch painter (d. 2005). 1920: Isaac Harsh, Ukrainian musician. 1922: Juana Ginzo, Spanish radio entertainer. 1923: Rudolph Marcus, American physicist, 1992 Nobel Prize in Science. 1924: Wear Knotts, American entertainer (d. 2006). 1925: Osiris Rodrდ­guez Castillos, Uruguayan writer and author. 1926: Norman Jewison, Canadian producer. 1926: Bill Pertwee, English comic entertainer (d. 2013). 1930: Javier Escrivდ¡, Spanish entertainer. 1934: Anatoli Geleskul, Russian interpreter (d. 2011). 1935: Juan Pablo Izquierdo, performer, Chilean guide, Public Award of Melodic Crafts of Chile. 1936: Julio Valdeდ³n Baruque, Spanish antiquarian. 1938: Janet Reno, previous US head legal officer. 1939: Chacho Echenique, Argentine folkloric creator and author, of the Salteno Pair. 1939: John Negroponte, American ambassador. 1940: Alcy Cheuiche, Brazilian essayist. 1941: Tina Serrano, Argentine entertainer. 1943: Edward Herrmann, American entertainer (d. 2014). 1943: Lucrecia Mდ©ndez de Penedo, Guatemalan teacher, abstract pundit and writer. 1944: John Evans Atta Plants, Ghanaian president (d. 2012). 1944: Tony Scott, English producer (d. 2012). 1946: Domingo Felipe Cavallo, Argentine business analyst. 1948: Beppe Grillo, Italian joke artist, entertainer and government official. 1948: Feline Stevens (Yusuf Islam), English artist. 1948: Litto Nebbia, Argentine artist. 1948: Guillermo Ortiz Martდ­nez, Mexican business analyst. 1949: Franco Simone, Italian artist musician. 1949: Oscar Osqui Amante, Argentine guitarist and artist, of the band Oveja Negra (f. 2014). 1950: Ubaldo Fillol, Argentine soccer player. 1951: Robin Williams, American entertainer (d. 2014). 1955: Marcelo Bielsa, Argentine soccer player and mentor. 1955: Joaquდ­n Galდ¡n, Argentine artist musician, of the Pimpinela team. 1955: Andrდ©s Palma, Chilean business analyst. 1957: Jon Lovitz, American entertainer and joke artist. 1958: Liliana Bodoc, Argentine essayist. 1958? Giulia Tamayo Leდ³n, Peruvian legal counselor, protector of ladies' privileges (f. 2014). 1960: Fritz Walter, German footballer. 1961: Jim Martin, American guitarist, of the band Confidence No More. 1962: Lee Aaron, Canadian artist. 1964: Gustavo Bermდºdez, Argentine entertainer. 1965: Javier Calamaro, Argentine artist. 1966: Gabriel Schultz, Argentine radio and TV host and columnist. 1967: Dmitri Kholodov, Russian columnist (d. 1994). 1968: Brandi Chastain, American footballer. 1969: Klaus Graf, German motorsport driver. 1970: Michael Fitzpatrick, American artist of the band Fitz and The Fits of rage 1971: Charlotte Gainsbourg, French entertainer and vocalist. 1973: Fey, Mexican artist. 1974: Jordi დ‰vole, Spanish comedian. 1978: Josh Hartnett, American entertainer. 1978: Justin Bartha, American entertainer. 1978: Damian Marley, Jamaican artist. 1979: Tania Llasera, Spanish entertainer and moderator. 1981: Paloma Confidence, English artist and entertainer. 1981: Joaquდ­n Sდ¡nchez, Spanish footballer. 1981: Stefan Schumacher, German cyclist. 1981: Romeo Santos, American artist musician. 1983: Eivor Pდ¡lsdდ³ttir, Faroese artist musician. 1985: Wei-Yin Chen, Taiwanese baseball player. 1985: Von Wafer, American ball player. 1986: Fernando Tielve, Spanish entertainer. 1986: Anthony Annan, Ghanaian footballer. 1986: Rebecca Ferguson, English artist. 1986: Livia Brito, Cuban entertainer 1988: DeAndre Jordan, American ball player. 1989: Rory Culkin, American entertainer. 1989: Jamie Waylett, English entertainer. 1989: Marco Fabiდ¡n, Mexican soccer player.

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Tafa - Protest March: Double Synthesis. ‘I thought there were just a few hundred artists in New York. Eventually I realized there were thousands and thousands from all over the world.’ Photograph: Courtesy of the artist

Ghanaian Painter Tafa: ‘The Painting Is Greater Than The Artist’

The acclaimed artist made his way from Ghana to being feted by New York’s high society and is now showcasing his varied work in a Chelsea exhibition

— Veronica Esposito | Thursday 16 February 2023

Ghanaian artist Tafa Fiadzigbe – known to the art world simply as Tafa – has come a long way. “I grew up in the slums of Ghana, and the slums in the third world are very different from slums here in America,” he said to the Guardian. “I knew people who ate from garbage dumps. When I was growing up, if someone told me I was going to be in the company of people like Bill Clinton and have them support my art, I’d have thought they were crazy.”

Now showing at Chelsea’s Pictor Gallery in New York until 25 February, Tafa’s art is at once visceral, transcendent, and abstract. The pieces at his show include a frenzied protest march against police violence, an ethereal image of a goddess making her ascent, and a homage to Sarah Baartman, a Khoikhoi woman who was exoticized by 19th-century Europeans for her bodily proportions.

Pursuing his vocation, Tafa studied art as a college student in Ghana before setting his sights on New York City. Upon arriving in 1993, he quickly realized he had some major misconceptions about his adopted home. “Originally I thought there were just a few hundred artists in New York. Eventually I realized there were thousands and thousands from all over the world.”

Looking back, Tafa now believes that his lack of knowledge was actually an asset. “Maybe 95% of artists in NYC don’t make a living from their art. I didn’t know how hard it was to make your living from art. If I knew what I knew 10 years later, I probably wouldn’t have done it. I was lucky.”

Tafa – The Canonization of Sarah Baartman, from 2022. Photograph: Courtesy of the artist

A lauded innovator with the palette knife, Tafa turns countless lumps of color into paintings that cause intense feelings of motion and exuberance. Although his subjects vary widely, frequent themes are the Black struggle for equal rights, the majesty of contemporary sports, and the rhythms and movement of music. Whatever he is composing, for Tafa, dynamism is key.

“When I paint I like movement, and for the paint to be very dynamic. I use layer and layers, I scratch the paint, all to create the balance of movement and a rippling effect. I don’t want it to be static, I want you to feel the movement and power and energy. I want you to hear the sound and voices of the people, the anger and frustration and all that.”

A breakthrough moment happened for Tafa early on in this time in New York when David Dinkins, who was then in office as the city’s first Black mayor, came to one of Tafa’s shows and bought a piece. Besides being a prominent politician, Dinkins was also a known art collector and a fierce advocate for culture, and so was in a position to get Tafa noticed. “Because of Dinkins, a lot of people started coming to me and saying ‘I saw your art.’”

Pictor Gallery’s director Denise Adler happened to meet Tafa by chance when each of their daughters attended the same high school together. She quickly knew that Tafa was an artist she wanted to pay attention to. “When I met him, I realized he was the real deal. I noticed that he was very quiet and subdued, but his work is so colorful and loud. I love his color choices, his use of paint. I’m fascinated with artists who do texture like he does. It has almost a mixed media quality to it.”

Adler added that she was compelled by Tafa’s ability to combine sensual beauty with substance and depth. “The pieces are beautiful to look at, but they speak volumes to serious topics that are interesting. You look at it once and you see one thing, you look at it again and you see another thing. You see more and more as you look more closely. I love that.”

Tafa - Pelé The King Photograph: Courtesy of the artist

Professional sports has long been a favored subject of Tafa’s, and he shared that his fascination began when he was a young boy mesmerized by the soccer great Pelé. “Being a child in Ghana, everybody played soccer and knew about him,” he said. Looking back, Tafa laughed at how he had naively assumed Pelé was a compatriot: “I didn’t know he was from Brazil. I thought he was from Ghana.”

For Tafa, part of the attraction of sports is the grandeur of competition and the outsized personalities of elite athletes. This can be seen in a work like Pelé the King, which captures the precision and electricity of the soccer legend’s iconic bicycle kick. Melting into a background of bright red with one leg outstretched toward a soccer ball, Pelé looks less like a mortal than a deity.

“When I look at sport, there’s this religious aspect to it,” said Tafa. “To me, as religion becomes less and less important to parts of the world, now it seems like sports is the new religion. We have the gods and the deities and the saints at the sports bar. These are the myths and the gods of our times.”

In his artistic practice Tafa thrives on intuition, losing himself while the painting reveals itself to him. One such experience occurred live in front of a fervent audience at Madison Square Garden, when the artist composed a painting of the game while it played out before him. To Tafa, the pressure of combining performance, athletics, and his artistic vocation made the experience unforgettable. “It was so intense how everybody was looking at me. It was magical and beautiful.”

Frenzied and exhilarating, yet also calculating and controlled, Tafa’s paintings very much look like the product of a man at one with his canvas. His very diverse output is unified by a singular artistic style that speaks to Tafa’s intense connection to his work. “The painting has its own life, the painting is greater than the artist. So the painting takes you to a different direction from where you want to go. The painting sends me messages. It speaks to me – more than I try to control it, it liberates itself.”

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Feast your eyes on 'Amoako Boafo,' published by @robertsprojects !⁠ ⁠ This is the first monograph on the sinuous, exhilaratingly colorful and pattern-filled portraiture of Ghanaian painter Amoako Boafo.⁠ ⁠ Exclusively portraying individuals from the diaspora and beyond, Boafo invites a reflection on Black subjectivity, diversity and complexity. His portraits, notable for their bold colors and patterns, celebrate his subjects as a means to challenge portrayals that objectify and dehumanize Blackness. As Boafo has stated, “the primary idea of my practice is representation, documenting, celebrating and showing new ways to approach Blackness.”⁠ ⁠ Foreword by Camille Weiner. Text by Osei Bonsu, Rachel Cargle, Mutombo Da Poet, Aja Monet. Interview by Paul Schimmel.⁠ ⁠ Read more via linkinbio.⁠ ⁠ @amoakoboafo @oseibonsu_ @rachel.cargle @mutombodapoet @ajamonet @therealpaulschimmel #AmoakoBoafo⁠ ⁠ https://www.instagram.com/p/CoVWganJToi/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Artist I Like Series

Ablade Glover 1934-????  a Ghanaian artist and educator. He has exhibited widely, building an international reputation over several decades, as well as being regarded as a seminal figure on the West African art scene.

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Urban Transport Station - Ato Delaquis

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Anita-Pearl Ankor, full name: Anita-Pearl Mwinnabang Ankor is a Ghanaian painter and Muralist. She is popularly referred to as The female Painter. In 2019, she posted a video on her Instagram page which showed herself artistically painting a wall. This video went viral on social media. Via Wikipedia

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“Allure” (2020), oil on canvas, 40 x 30 inches.

Contrasting Shades of Gray with Vibrant Color, Otis Kwame Kye Quaicoe Paints Bold, Subversive Portraits of Black Subjects

Ghanaian artist Otis Kwame Kye Quaicoe has a proclivity for contrast. In his striking portraits of Black people, he gravitates toward shades of gray to render the skin tone of single figures or small groups, who sport patterned garments, hats of textured fabrics, and generally vibrant fashions that are in direct opposition to their physical features. The bright, bold color palette is the artist’s preferred method for translating emotional states, inner lives, and idiosyncrasies, one he emulates with the richly textured impasto backdrops surrounding his subjects.

“Dapper III” (2020), oil on canvas, 84 x 54 inches.

“Shelcy and Christy” (2020), oil on canvas, 48 x 36 inches.

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Kim Jones collaborated with Amoako Boafo, a Ghanaian artist, for the latest Dior Men Collection