ART AND CULTURE IN NIGERIA

• The idea of merging three creative arts together to be known as cultural and creative art was conceived during the first national curriculum conference that took place in Lagos between 8th and 12th of September 1969.

In its bids attain the millennium Development Goals(MDGS),the federal

Government of Nigeria has directed all primary and junior

secondary schools in the Federation to commence the learning of cultural

and creative Arts in line with the UBE programme

• Prehistoric means the period before events were recorded. Though records were not written as we have them today, there were records of paintings and engravings made by the prehistoric people found in some parts of the word by modern researchers.
• MODERN/ Contemporary art & artist in Nigeria.

• Modern art is described as recent or contemporary art,in Nigeria it came into limelight in the 19th/20th century when some Nigerians traveled abroad to study art i.e late Aina Onabolu and Akinola lasekan
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• Income Generation throughArt :-
• How to Generate Income through Contemporary Art Work
• 1. Sale of works. The government can acquire artworks from the artists through her agencies – the National Gallery of Art (NGA) and the National commission for Museums and Monuments and sell to the general public at her own time.
• 2. Sales during exhibitions.
• 3. Through taxes on sold artworks within and outside the country.
• 4. The designing and printing of seasonal cards and other related items.
• 5. Through commissions ,artists can preserve their works for sale at National Galleries , Ministries of Art and Cultural Information. After sales, commission will be saved.

TRADITIONAL NIGERIAN ART WORKS

• Nigeria consist of many tribes, languages, dialects with different cultures. Nigeria is artistically rich. Those differences in culture are reflected in the art of these different people or groups
• Nok, Ife, Benin cultures
  • NOK CULTURES
  • Nok got its name from a small village NOK in Kaduna state. It was Bernard Fagg who named the art works after the village. The Nok culture has been dated conservatively to between 500BC and 200AD.
  • CHARACTERISTICS OF NOK CULTURES
    • 1.Their works are in terracotta (fired clay).
    • 2.They are the oldest culture.
    • 3.Their works are stylized
    • 5.The lips, eyes, nose are pierced.
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    • IGBO-UKWU ART

      • Igbo Ukwu is an Igbo village in Anambra state where a sculpture tradition and an archaeological site was discovered first in 1939 and date back to 9th century A.D(next to Nok in age).The igbo ukwu objects were the highest singular excavations of about 800 pieces.
      • The object were discovered mainly from three sites, namely Igbo-isaiah, Igbo-Richards and Igbo-Jonah.However years after an European called Thurstan shaw discover more artworks in the three sites
      • CHARACTERISTICS OF IGBO-UKWU ART
        • 1 Use of beads and bracelets is common.
        • 2 Bronze snail shell.
        • 3 Highly decorated ceramics.
        • 4 The rope bronze pot.
        • 5 Decorative bronze bowl.
        • 6 Mainly household utensils
• IFE ART
• Ife is in Osun State and it is said to be the cradle or traditional origin of the Yorubas, one of the major tribe in Nigeria. Leo Frobenius who visited Ife and dug up some terracotta in 1910 that first drew outside attention to the art.

• CHARACTERISTICS OF IFE ART

• Naturalistic in nature
• Straition
• Beaded neck
• They wear caps or crown

BENIN ART

• This is basically a court art,it is an art done for the pleasure and honour of the king and decoration of the palace . It is otherwise kown as man regarding art.The works were done in wood, iron , brass and bronze. Cireperdue( Lost wax ) method is used to cast their bronze
• CHARACTERISTICS :-
  • Mostly royal figures ( Court art).
  • Beaded neck.
  • Highly decorative.
  • Only art culture that has ivory.
  • Semi naturalistic.
  • Appearance of British soldier.
  • Dating:- 14th -15th Century.