[ ETUDE ICONOGRAPHIQUE DES GENRES ET THEMATIQUES DANS LA PEINTURE MODERNE AU CAMEROUN ]
Volume 7, Issue 3, August 2014, Pages 1004–1019
Cyrille ZEH1
1 Enseignant Chercheur, Département des Beaux Arts et Sciences du Patrimoine, Université de Maroua, Institut Supérieur du Sahel, Maroua, Cameroun
Original language: French
Copyright © 2014 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Cameroon's painting is characterized by a multitude of genres with common and diverse features. By choosing to take a look at this whole creation of the visual arts on the Cameroonian painting, which has a large and varied corpus of works art abounding sometimes disturbing, this study is a contribution bearing light on genre issues, themes that eagerly arises in the iconography of the visual arts in Africa. It aims to study the significance of the images created, identification and classification of the themes developed and processed in modern painting in Cameroon. When analyzed with interest, it follows that artist primarily painters, decorators and image creators have continued to assert itself in recent decades in plurals genre. This study presents attractive works of art provided with intrinsic values through which visual artists have not only cared to answer questions of composition, color or shape, but also the commitment to give their creations significant functions. The heritage of the art of painting in Cameroon includes masterpiece that are of aesthetic importance. The pictorial illustration is plentiful and treats various subjects showing a continuation of the ancient past as it was passed down to the present time through memories of everyday life, beliefs and mythology of contemporary life.
Author Keywords: Fine art, artist, theme, contemporary painting, aesthetics, heritage, modern art, society.
Volume 7, Issue 3, August 2014, Pages 1004–1019
Cyrille ZEH1
1 Enseignant Chercheur, Département des Beaux Arts et Sciences du Patrimoine, Université de Maroua, Institut Supérieur du Sahel, Maroua, Cameroun
Original language: French
Copyright © 2014 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
Cameroon's painting is characterized by a multitude of genres with common and diverse features. By choosing to take a look at this whole creation of the visual arts on the Cameroonian painting, which has a large and varied corpus of works art abounding sometimes disturbing, this study is a contribution bearing light on genre issues, themes that eagerly arises in the iconography of the visual arts in Africa. It aims to study the significance of the images created, identification and classification of the themes developed and processed in modern painting in Cameroon. When analyzed with interest, it follows that artist primarily painters, decorators and image creators have continued to assert itself in recent decades in plurals genre. This study presents attractive works of art provided with intrinsic values through which visual artists have not only cared to answer questions of composition, color or shape, but also the commitment to give their creations significant functions. The heritage of the art of painting in Cameroon includes masterpiece that are of aesthetic importance. The pictorial illustration is plentiful and treats various subjects showing a continuation of the ancient past as it was passed down to the present time through memories of everyday life, beliefs and mythology of contemporary life.
Author Keywords: Fine art, artist, theme, contemporary painting, aesthetics, heritage, modern art, society.
Abstract: (french)
La peinture camerounaise se caractérise par une multitude de genres aux traits communs et diversifiés. En choisissant de porter un regard sur l'ensemble de cette création des arts plastiques sur la peinture camerounaise, qui présente un corpus important varié et foisonnant d'œuvres d'art parfois troublant, l'étude se veut un apport portant la lumière sur les problématiques de genre, de thématique qui se pose avec empressement dans l'iconographie des arts visuels en Afrique. Il vise à étudier la signification des images créées, de l'identification et du classement des thèmes développés et traités dans la peinture moderne au Cameroun. Lorsqu'on la parcourt avec intérêt, il en résulte que les artistes essentiellement les peintres, les décorateurs et les créateurs d'images n'ont cessé de s'affirmer ces dernières décennies dans des genres pluriels. Cette étude présente des chefs d'œuvres attrayants pourvus de valeurs intrinsèques à travers lesquelles les plasticiens peintres ne se sont pas uniquement souciés de répondre aux questions de composition, de couleur ou de forme, mais aussi à la préoccupation de donner à leur création des fonctions significatives capitales. L'héritage de l'art de peindre au Cameroun comprend des chefs d'œuvres qui sont d'une importance esthétique. L'illustration picturale est abondante et traitent les sujets divers montrant un prolongement du passé ancien tel qu'il avait été transmis jusqu'aux temps actuels à travers des souvenirs du quotidien, des croyances de la mythologie et de la vie contemporaine.
Author Keywords: arts plastiques, artistes, thème, peinture contemporaine, esthétique, patrimoine, art moderne, société.
How to Cite this Article
Cyrille ZEH, “THE ICONOGRAPHC STUDY OF GENRE AND THEMATIC IN MODERN PAINTING IN CAMEROON,” International Journal of Innovation and Applied Studies, vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 1004–1019, August 2014.
