Les personalités qui ont marqué l’histoire de la RDC (The Personalities who have Shaped the History of the DRC [Democratic Republic of Congo])

Jean-Paul Mika, Les personalités qui ont marqué l’histoire de la RDC (The Personalities who have Shaped the History of the DRC [Democratic Republic of Congo])

Jean-Paul Mika, artist

born 1980

Les personalités qui ont marqué l’histoire de la RDC (The Personalities who have Shaped the History of the DRC [Democratic Republic of Congo]), 2010

Where object was made: Democratic Republic of the Congo

Material/technique: canvas; paint

Dimensions:
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 81.28 x 99.06 cm
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 32 x 39 in

Credit line: Museum purchase: R. Charles and Mary Margaret Clevenger Art Acquisition Fund

Accession number: 2013.0052

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In its bold colors, naturalistic portraiture, and tandem use of text and image, Les Personalities…histoire du Congo work exemplifies the art populaire (“popular art”) tradition emerging from urban centers of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Painted in 2010 to commemorate fifty years as a nation free from colonial rule, this work illustrates the individuals and events that have shaped the country’s dynamic-and oftentimes turbulent-history.

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Dec-2014, Cassandra Mesick
In its bold colors, naturalistic portraiture, and tandem use of text and image, Les Personalities…histoire du Congo work exemplifies the art populaire (“popular art”) tradition emerging from urban centers of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Painted in 2010 to commemorate fifty years as a nation free from colonial rule, this work illustrates the individuals and events that have shaped the country’s dynamic-and oftentimes turbulent-history.