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Understanding Négritude
So, what is actually meant by Négritude?
Négritude is an anti-colonial cultural and political movement founded by a group of African and Caribbean students in Paris in the 1930s who are trying to reclaim the values of the darkness and culture of Africa.
Explanation of Négritude
Introduction
Négritude was led by poet Martinican Aimé Césaire, French poet Léon Damas and the future president of Senegal (who is also a poet) Léopold Sédar Sédar. That is influenced by various styles and art movements including surrealism and harlem renaissance. With the outbreak of the Second World War and the spread of artists and intellectuals from Paris, Négritude became a global art movement.
The origin and development of the movement
In 1937 Paris, with diverse and tolerant art scenes, became the center of Négritude’s international movement. In dealing with the growth of fascism, black students, scholars and artists from French colonies in Africa and the Caribbean gather with the aim of promoting appreciation for the history and culture of black people. They also want to attract attention to the experiences of those who have lived under the colonial government, including slavery. In the outbreak of the second world war, its leaders left Paris for the Caribbean and Africa and new forms Négritude appeared in these locations, including creolization in the Caribbean and natural synthesis movements in Nigeria. After the Paris war again became the center of Négritude’s activities. Many artists from Africa and the Caribbean came to Europe to study and be attracted to Paris, meeting at the Clamart Tea Shop, Pangkalan Négritude on the left edge. Among these are students of London Frank Bowling, Aubrey Williams, Donald Locke, Ben Enwonwu and Uzo Egonu.
Négritude ideas and styles
Artist Négritude includes concepts and characteristics originating from various sources and studies to criticize imperialism and imperial arts and to emphasize the Avant-Garde of the new world.
In 1956 one of the leading voices of this movement, Léopold Sédar Senghor, argued that for black culture to go beyond his past and reflect modernity, it must recognize his own tradition but combine this with an open approach to new ideas and developments in art. Artist Ben Enwonwu is clearly in matters of important articles from African artists today published in the Journal of Présence Africaine in the same year. He argues that while the culture of West Africa is seen in terms of ethnography and anthropology and African art characterized as primitive, ‘intellectual barrier’ some make it very difficult for most Africans to be considered eligible to play an important role in the development and preservation of their arts’. He calls for international African art, which responds to life and contemporary period but also aware of traditional, local and global influences:
I will not accept lower positions in the art world … European artists such as Picasso, Braque and Vlaminck are influenced by African art. Everyone saw that and did not oppose it. But when they see African artists who are influenced by their European training and techniques, they hope that Africa to stick to their traditional forms … I do not copy traditional arts. I like what I see in people like Giacometti but I don’t copy it … I know he is influenced by African statues. But I will not be influenced by Giacometti, because he is influenced by my ancestors.
Negro Art World Festival
In 1966 Senghor organized the Negro Art World Festival. This provides the first opportunity for many black artists, musicians, writers, poets and actors to participate in the global examination of African culture. It was Senghor’s first chance to promote the concept of Négritude, and he hoped that this festival would promote Négrustude as a decent philosophical model.
This festival is also an opportunity for the revaluation of the African tribal art complex, which until then has been seen with certain indifferences by the African Diaspora. For the first time in Africa, ethnic arts must be examined as art.
This event led to the beginning of the international black art movement.
Négritude artists in focus
Ronald Moody
The British artist born in Jamaica Ronald Moody moved to Paris in 1938 where he met artists and intellectuals related to Négritude. He enjoyed two years that increased before being forced to leave the city and leave his statues two days before falling to Germany. Using direct carvings he created statues that show the influence of Asian and Egyptian arts he had seen at the British Museum in London; While also looking to the present and future by representing ‘exploration of human inner life and the possibility of evolution through self -awareness’. He then stated: ‘Now I am the result of European friction with my past,’ which naturally ‘a mixture of African, Asian and European influences’.
Wifredo lam
Wifredo lam is probably the most prominent and successful from artist Négritude. Born in Cuba he moved to Spain in 1924, and then to Paris in 1938 where he met Pablo Picasso, André Breton and other surrealist artists. His paintings combine African art motifs and references to Afro-Karibia culture with cabbage and surrealist ‘primitivism’.
Moreover, as we have seen above, this term is one of a collection of dictionaries, acronyms, terms, jargon, or terminology in the field of arts that begins with an alphabet or prefix N, as well as terms associated with N.
Meaning of Négritude in the English, Indonesian (Including Javanese and Sundanese), and Malaysian Translation Dictionary
Apart from discussing the meaning and discussion of the definition, to deepen it further, here we also need to know what the word means in the English, Indonesian (including Javanese and Sundanese) translation dictionaries, as well as Malaysia (Malay).
For easy understanding, in this glossary post, we will explain it in the form of a list of translations of terms from various types of languages as follows:
- English; Terminology = Négritude.
- Indonesian (including Javanese and Sundanese translations); Terminology = Négritude (Indonesian), Négritude (Java), and Numbarik ka in Sundanese.
- Malaysian; Terminology = Négritude.
Closing
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Footnotes
This glossary post was created by referring to the conclusions of the meaning of definitions from various authoritative relevant references such as Wikipedia, Britannica and several other sources such as MoMA, Tate, ModernArts, and so on. This word is one of a collection of terminology in the field of Art which begins with the alphabet or prefix N. This article wasupdated in Nov of 2024.
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