Uli and Yoruba Orisa Painting Ulipracticed by women in Igbo land Orisa paintingpracticed by women in Yorubaland ancient art of decorating the walls and shrines of ancestral divinities Materials ID: 372794
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Sacred and Secular Painting:
Uli and Yoruba Orisa PaintingSlide2
Uli—practiced by women in Igbo land
Orisa painting—practiced by women in Yorubaland
ancient art of decorating the walls and shrines of ancestral divinities
Materials:
Natural pigments:
Red ocher, yellow ocher, white/kaolin
Egg shells
Plant juices—indigo, vines, berries and pods
Paint brushes, rags, feathers, pots, calabashesSlide3
Natural Red Pigment for ritual paintingSlide4Slide5
Paint pot
Painting brushes
featherSlide6
Uli PaintingSlide7
Uli design patternsSlide8
Uli decorationsSlide9
Uli painting on communal shrine, igbo, NigeriaSlide10
Uli shrine wall at Nri, Igbo, NigeriaSlide11
Uli painting, Igbo, NigeriaSlide12
Uli paintingSlide13
Obiora and Ada Udechukwu,
Wearing Uli designed fabrics Slide14
Obiora Udechukwu, Our Journey, Acrylic on canvas, panels 3, 4, 1993 Slide15
Yoruba Ritual PaintingSlide16
Epa,
Yoruba, Nigeria
Wood, pigments
20
th
centurySlide17
Painting the head of an infant
In the ritual of
“knowing the inner head”Slide18
Orisa Priestess with painted foreheadSlide19
Obatala shrine, Ile Ife, NigeriaSlide20
Orisa Popo Shrine
Ogbomoso, NigeriaSlide21
Ritual painting inside a
Museum, Osogbo, Nigeria
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Sacred painting on the façade of a shrine in Ayegunle-Ekiti, NigeriaSlide23
Sacred Painting for Ogun, Ilesa, Nigeria Slide24
Oluorogbo shrine painting
Ile Ife, NigeriaSlide25
Women writing on the ground at the beginning of the annual painting ritualsSlide26
Women painters in front of their work, Ijero Ekiti, NigeriaSlide27
Priestess of Obaluaye
Ile Ife, NigeriaSlide28
The painting process,
Ile Ife, NigeriaSlide29
Orisaikire Shrine painting, Ile Ife, NigeriaSlide30
Michael Harris,
Love Shrine,
Mixed media,
1995Slide31
Michael Harris,
Soul Chart,
Mixed media
1995Slide32
Rotimi Fani-Kayode,
Soponna, Yoruba deity of the Poxes
Photograph, 1987Slide33
Bolaji Campbell,
Re-creation
Soil on canvas,
1994/6Slide34
Bolaji Campbell,
Ahun,
Soil on burlap,
1999Slide35
Bolaji Campbell,
Alaamu,
Soil on canvas,
1996Slide36
Bolaji Campbell, and the chameleon said…, oil on canvas, 2000