Yesterday marked what would have been Frida Kahlo’s 114th birthday and in a celebration of the fact, Dazed posted an Instagram graphic reminding people of a piece they published in 2018. The piece titled “Frida Kahlo is not your symbol” by writer Ayoola Solarin appeared to me at a time in which I had already…
Often times, it is in the fires of war and crash-and-burn economic situations that art movements are forged. Some of the most famous Western art movements of the 20th century were in response to the wars and conflicts of the time, Dadaism and Surrealism for example. The former, especially changed art forever by becoming famous…
The artist within Vincent Michéa emerged when he moved from Paris, France to Dakar, Senegal in 1986. Dakar, which has been called “the Paris of West Africa”, became heavily influenced by the Negritude movement after the nation obtained independence from France. Negritude was a black consciousness movement that aimed to counterbalance European colonial thinking by…
