INFORMATION ABOUT TINGATINGA

BOOKS ON TINGATINGA

Just what I remember:

1. Tingatinga -popular art from Tanzania by Goscinny

2. Brochure from Tingatinga Arts Cooperative Society

3. A book published on occasion of an exhibition in Mauritius (I think)

4. A Polish book "Tingatinga"

5. A Danish book/brochure on Tingatinga

I will come back and add more information inclusive photos! See bellow what I have found on Internet:

http://www.ntz.info/gen/n00621.html - this information I have got here.

and then Ifound it here - a great website!: http://www.sil.si.edu/SILPublications/ModernAfricanArt/maadetail.cfm?subCategory=Tanzania%20--%20Tingatinga%20School

Die Maler aus Msasani/Tansania ; [exhibition, IFA Galerie, Bonn, February 24-March 21, 1987; text by Ingrid Jaax-Zimmermann]. [Bonn: Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen, 1987]. [19]pp. illus. ND1097.6.T3M24 1987 AFA. OCLC 20583554.

Eduardo Saidi Tingatinga, a self-taught painter born in a village in southern Tanzania on the border of Mozambique, hit upon a successful formula which quickly found a market in Dar es Salaam. Painting on square boards 60 inches x 60 inches, he created fanciful, colorful images of animals and people. Soon he attracted young followers and the Tingatinga school arose, based in the village of Msasani near Dar es Salaam. Although Tingatinga died in 1972, still relatively young, his vision lives on in works of Amonde, Mruta, Tedo and others. This 1987 exhibition in Bonn featured forty-five works of eighteen Msasani painters. Twenty-one black-and-white illustrations. See also the related article by Jutta Bender-Ströter and Helke Kammerer-Grothaus, "Die Quadratmaler von Tansania," Afrika-Post (Bonn) mai 1987, pp. 28-30.

 

Tingatinga: Afurikan poppu-ato no sekai / Kenji Shiraishi and Fumiko Yamamoto. Tokyo: Kodansha, 1990. 115pp. chiefly illus. Text in Japanese and English. qND196.P6T58 1990 AFA. OCLC 28834211.

Eduardo Saidi Tingatinga had a very brief artistic career, cut short by his death in 1972. However, he started an informal art movement that now bears his name, and it continues to be active in Dar es Salaam. The Tingatinga paintings are highly colorful and decorative images of birds (the most common subject), wild animals, daily life, and spirit figures (shetini, mganga, and mizimu). They are always painted in flat, bright colors and lack a depth perspective. In this volume, there are 146 paintings, all by Tingatinga's followers, reproduced in color.

Another thirty-six works of art of the Nyumba ya Sanaa group are illustrated. This group of self-taught Tanzanian artists specializes in batiks, woodprints and drawings, also made primarily for the expatriate market.

 

Tingatinga = Teingateinga II: Jiyafuari no Afurika / by Kenji Shiraishi and Fumiko Yamamoto. Tokyo: Kodansha, 1992. 103pp. illus. (pt. color). Text in Japanese and English. ND1097.6.T3T58 1992 AFA. OCLC 28384335.

Jaffary Aussi, one of the more innovative among the younger generation of Tingatinga artists, has carried on the Tingatinga tradition with his own distinctive stylistic interpretations and experiments in color and perspective of distortion. Yet he remains firmly rooted in the original Tingatinga sensibility. Animals predominate in his paintings as they do in all Tingatinga paintings. In fact, it is the animal-man relationship that is one of the hallmarks of this informal school of painting founded (almost by chance) by Eduardo Saidi Tingatinga in Dar es Salaam in the late 1960s. Tingatinga and his followers are mainly Makua, and it is argued here that Makuan folklore and legends form a thematic base for the Tingatinga paintings, even amongst younger adherents, who are urban born and bred. Being related by blood ties and working closely together, Tingatinga painting is "family art."

The works of Jaffary Aussi constitute the centerpiece of this second Tingatinga book by this Japanese publisher. Yamamoto introduces the artist, and Shiraishi in his essay "Portraits of coexistence" elucidates the larger phenomenon of the Tingatinga school and, in particular, its founder E. S. Tingatinga (1937-1972).