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A suite of five linocuts individually titled: Juapong, Kpetoe, Tsito, Vane, Kpong
2006 · Linocut
sheet: 14 x 9 in. (35.5 x 22.9 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Atta Kwami
1956–2021
WA-00042863
Accra, Ghana
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Atta Kwami was a Ghanaian painter and printmaker whose work synthesized abstraction with the formal properties of African strip-woven textiles, particularly Kente, Ewe, and Asante weaving traditions. His paintings and prints used improvised color and geometric form to reference vernacular Ghanaian architecture and textile patterns, creating a visual vocabulary grounded in local material culture. Active as both artist and independent curator, Kwami contributed significantly to discourse around African modernism and the relationship between traditional craft and contemporary fine art practice.
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