Amanda Tumusiime

“Sometimes we are aware of the desire to ‘Africanise‘ African Art and in this connection we must be realistic. In every sphere of human activity in Africa change has taken place: change in religion, change in the way of life – political, social, economic; in science and technology and in language the outside world has made its impress in Africa. To take a step backwards into the past is a step into the world of a romantic dream. Can we expect or demand in this changing Africa that an artist alone should stand isolated from the world around him?”

“By discarding European conventions and practicing a form of self-effacement (ceasing to make her own art, that is), Margaret Trowell believed that she could create an indigenous frame of pictorial reference for her students to bring to fruition an authentically African creativity. She was completely unaware of the inevitability of her own mediation in this endeavor, the most obvious aspect of which was her insistence on the spiritual goal of art.”

“Sometimes we desire to ‘Africanise‘ African Art, but we must be realistic. In every sphere of human activity in Africa change has taken place: change in religion, change in the way of life – political, social, economic; in science and technology and in language, the outside world has made its impress in Africa.”

“The world is your canvas ………paint it.”