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  #1 Karen Keifer-Boyd on 06 Dec 11

   

  Hello thanks for the message that I received and for adding me into the group, I would like to share my experience with you about Ugandan art, metaphors that I have grown hearing from different people and also making some collaborative art pieces (Uganda-us Art collaboration).
  
  MY UNDERSTANDING OF UGANDAN ART
  
  For over the years that have past, Uganda has been practicing Art and has had a long history of formal art education .
  Uganda under British colonial rule as a protectorate it was seen as being less strategic importance and this led to the establishment of art as a school subject.
  Art was extended to degree level through the efforts of Margaret Trowel who founded the fine art school at Makerere university in Kampala and her efforts emphasized
  
  the importance of building on existing artistic practices but introduced new techniques such as screen printing.
  At the moment we are having artists such as Banadda Godfrey and one of his paintings is called (Rococo women) as attached above.
  
  Many artists here in Uganda have actually exploited more in abstraction than any other form of art like in painting techniques such as cubism,expressionism,naturalism among others have not been practiced by students.
  
  When I was still in high school, we used to draw in realism and its what I was used to,but when I reached the university,the situation changed I had to practice abstraction
  because its in abstraction that a student can bring in new ideas in realism nothing new that can be brought in.
  We shall come together to make a collaborative art piece and I would like it to be in abstract form.
  
  
  MY METAPHORS
  When I was still a kid, my father used to tell me that (obutasoma buluma bukulu) which means that *if you do not study, it will hut you in the future*, so this made me to study very hard with the zeal in order not to suffer in my adulthood and in fact it has worked for me because right now am at the university.
  (HTTP/en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/education in Uganda)
  
  A saying that I grew hearing from people is that it is not good to come out of the house at night when it is raining because ghosts and spirits seek for shade also when it is raining so when they happen to land on you, you might end up losing your life or probably becoming one of them, so this made me to fear walking out at night when it is raining.
  
  Another this that I exprienced during my child is the rats giving us money.
  when I was still a child,I used to de-tooth, so my parents used to tell me that *we you de-tooth and you keep that tooth in a very dark place,rats do buy your teeth and in turn they give you money, so this me made me to it whenever I got a shaky tooth and even though my parents were the ones putting there that money but you know very well that when you are a kid you don't know anything therefore it made me to believe that it was actually the rats that were getting the money from their accounts in the banks by passing through thier underground holes directly to where I used to put my tooth.
  Thus, even if they used at lying to me,it help me in turn for my teeth to be in line and in good shape.
  
  
  I would like to hear from you again my fellow group members again.
  I remain Obonyo Brian.

   

  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Hello thanks for the message that I received and for adding me into the group, I would like to share my experience with you about Ugandan art, metaphors that I have grown hearing from different people and also making some collaborative art pieces (Uganda-us Art collaboration). <br /> <br /> MY UNDERSTANDING OF UGANDAN ART <br /> <br /> For over the years that have past, Uganda has been practicing Art and has had a long history of formal art education . <br /> Uganda under British colonial rule as a protectorate it was seen as being less strategic importance and this led to the establishment of art as a school subject. <br /> Art was extended to degree level through the efforts of Margaret Trowel who founded the fine art school at Makerere university in Kampala and her efforts emphasized <br /> <br /> the importance of building on existing artistic practices but introduced new techniques such as screen printing. <br /> At the moment we are having artists such as Banadda Godfrey and one of his paintings is called (Rococo women) as attached above. <br /> <br /> Many artists here in Uganda have actually exploited more in abstraction than any other form of art like in painting techniques such as cubism,expressionism,naturalism among others have not been practiced by students. <br /> <br /> When I was still in high school, we used to draw in realism and its what I was used to,but when I reached the university,the situation changed I had to practice abstraction <br /> because its in abstraction that a student can bring in new ideas in realism nothing new that can be brought in. <br /> We shall come together to make a collaborative art piece and I would like it to be in abstract form. <br /> <br /> <br /> MY METAPHORS <br /> When I was still a kid, my father used to tell me that (obutasoma buluma bukulu) which means that *if you do not study, it will hut you in the future*, so this made me to study very hard with the zeal in order not to suffer in my adulthood and in fact it has worked for me because right now am at the university. <br /> (HTTP/en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/education in Uganda) <br /> <br /> A saying that I grew hearing from people is that it is not good to come out of the house at night when it is raining because ghosts and spirits seek for shade also when it is raining so when they happen to land on you, you might end up losing your life or probably becoming one of them, so this made me to fear walking out at night when it is raining. <br /> <br /> Another this that I exprienced during my child is the rats giving us money. <br /> when I was still a child,I used to de-tooth, so my parents used to tell me that *we you de-tooth and you keep that tooth in a very dark place,rats do buy your teeth and in turn they give you money, so this me made me to it whenever I got a shaky tooth and even though my parents were the ones putting there that money but you know very well that when you are a kid you don't know anything therefore it made me to believe that it was actually the rats that were getting the money from their accounts in the banks by passing through thier underground holes directly to where I used to put my tooth. <br /> Thus, even if they used at lying to me,it help me in turn for my teeth to be in line and in good shape. <br /> <br /> <br /> I would like to hear from you again my fellow group members again. <br /> I remain Obonyo Brian.</div>

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