Casablanca Art School
カサブランカ美術学校 / 1962–1970s / Style / Modern and Contemporary Art Movements
In post-independence Morocco, the Casablanca Art School challenged colonial art education by connecting abstraction to Amazigh rugs, jewelry, calligraphy and painted ceilings, then carrying the same language beyond framed painting into posters, magazines, street exhibitions and murals.
Geometric and organic abstraction built from flat color and contour / Repetition and symmetry learned from Amazigh rugs, jewelry and signs / Strong red, orange, blue and green on earth color or white / One language crossing painting, poster, magazine and outdoor mural
Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Opening a cultural or educational program from gallery into poster, publication and street through one language · Translating regional craft into principles of modern color and repetition instead of pasting it on as ornament
- Type
- Set short headings in a clear sans and treat Arabic and Latin scripts as equal compositional units.
- Composition
- Divide large fields into waves, chevrons, circles and bands that continue to the edge of page or wall. Avoid small framed-picture enclosures.
- Material
- Use matte pigment, wood, leather, textile and print according to their medium, documenting craft source and maker.
- Caution
- This was not Moroccan pattern pasted behind Western modern art. Treat education, public space, publishing and the revaluation of craft as part of its decolonial practice.
- Further study
- Farid Belkahia, Mohammed Chabâa and Mohamed Melehi / Post-independence art education in Morocco / Souffles, Presence Plastique and public murals
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- Modernism (モダニズム)Editorially linked for a useful contrast.Compare Casablanca Art School and Modernism
- AfriCOBRA (アフリコブラ)Shared effects: Exhilaration / Rebellion / Intimacy.Compare Casablanca Art School and AfriCOBRA
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