Seydou Barry
Seydou Barry | |
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Born | 1943 Thilogne, Matam Region, Senegal |
Died | 21 August 2007 Dakar, Senegal | (aged 63–64)
Education | École Nationale des Beaux Arts (Senegal) |
Occupation | Painter |
Years active | 1963–2007 |
Movement | Dakar School |
Seydou Barry (1943 – 2007) was a Senegalese painter. He is part of the artistic movement called the Dakar School (French: École de Dakar), affiliated with Négritude.[1]
Biography
[edit]Seydou Barry was born in 1943, in Thilogne in the Matam Region of Senegal.[1]
He attended the École Nationale des Beaux Arts in Dakar to study painting, and worked under artist Papa Ibra Tall.[1] In 1963, Barry started exhibiting his own paintings.
Barry worked at the National Tapestry Manufacturers in Thiès (French: Manufacture Nationale de Tapisserie de Thiès) as a painter and cartoonist, from 1961 to 1965.[1] His works and those of his co-workers were made into tapestries in 1975, entitled N'Danaane.[1]
Barry died on 21 August 2007, in Dakar.[1] A posthumous solo retrospective of thirty-five of his works, Seydou Barry Retrospective (2008), was held at Véma on the Dakar-Gorée pier.[2] His work is part of the art collection of the Senegal government.[3]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e f "Seydou Barry". Africultures (in French). ISSN 2271-1732. Archived from the original on 2 March 2016.
- ^ Sene, Fatou K. (May 14, 2008). "Sénégal: Dak'art 2008 - Seydou Barry en couleurs et en formes" [Senegal: Dak'art 2008 – Seydou Barry in colors and shapes]. AllAfrica (in French). Archived from the original on October 20, 2015.
- ^ Harney, Elizabeth (November 23, 2004). In Senghor's Shadow: Art, Politics, and the Avant-Garde in Senegal, 1960–1995. Duke University Press. p. 71. ISBN 978-0-8223-8605-6 – via Google Books.