Yaure Mask and Wisdom
by Everett Spruill
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$250
Dimensions
15.000 x 16.000 inches
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Title
Yaure Mask and Wisdom
Artist
Everett Spruill
Medium
Mixed Media - Serigraph On Paper
Description
This work is an original hand-pulled serigraph that features a ceremonial mask from the Yaure Tribe of the Ivory Coast. The work is created with cubist and graffiti techniques in a colorful contemporary motif to complement modern decors. African masks often represent a spirit and it's strongly believed that the spirit of the ancestors possesses the wearer. Ritual ceremonies generally depict deities, spirits of ancestors, mythological beings, good and or evil, the dead, animal spirits, and other beings believed to have power over humanity. The Baule are farmers who populate the eastern side of the Ivory Coast. They are part of the Akan people, one of the largest ethnic groups in West Africa, who dwell in both Ghana and the Ivory Coast. The Yaure are regarded as a subgroup of the Baule people in Ivory Coast. Their masks can, however, be easily distinguished from those of the Baule people. The hairstyle with the two pendulous plaits is characteristic of the masks of the Yaure. The mask face itself shows great similarities to the masks of their ‘relatives’, the Baule people: high eyebrow arches, slit eyes, scarification marks, a long, thin nose, and a small mouth.
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November 20th, 2019
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