Tingatinga

ティンガティンガ / 1968– / Style / Popular Painting

The painting school Edward Saidi Tingatinga began in Dar es Salaam with bicycle enamel: glossy flat color, bold-outlined animals, no empty ground — carried on by a cooperative as East Africa's defining popular painting.

Enamel gloss / Bold-outlined animals / Flat color fields / Pattern filling the ground

Tingatinga — ティンガティンガ派の絵画（CC BY-SA 4.0） — ティンガティンガ派の絵画（CC BY-SA 4.0）／航空機尾翼のティンガティンガ（CC BY-SA 4.0）

Tingatinga — 航空機尾翼のティンガティンガ（CC BY-SA 4.0） — ティンガティンガ派の絵画（CC BY-SA 4.0）／航空機尾翼のティンガティンガ（CC BY-SA 4.0）

Dictionary entry

Best used for: Comparing primary sources and canonical works · Extracting principles that transfer to other media
Type: Observe the letters, signs and scale of reference works
Composition: Extract the one structure that governs gaze and information
Material: Verify the materials and behaviors specific to era, region and process
Caution: Don't reduce it to surface signs. Verify the context of era, region, technology and makers.
Further study: Edward Saidi Tingatinga / the cooperative's continuation of the style / the tourist-art and authenticity debate

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