List of Cameroonian artists

The following is a list of notable Cameroonian artists working in visual or plastic media (including 20th-century artists working in video art, performance art, or other types of new media). See other articles for information on Cameroonian Culture. For more specific information on the arts in Cameroon, see Cameroonian art.

The following is a brief list of some important Cameroonian artists and groups of artists:

The generation of artists working between the Fifties and the Seventies is defined by Essombe Mouange[1] a generation focussed on naïves painting with a figurative transcription of the environment; among this generation he mentions Rameaum Lobé Lobé, Martin Jombè I, Lazare Edimo, Jean Massoma, Jacques Seppou, Ngimè Eyidi, Paul Mbongolo, Joseph Ngimè and Bernard Berville. In the Seventies and Eighties starts a new tendency.

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Cultural initiatives focussed on visual arts

Art Magazines

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References

  1. 1 2 Essombe Mouange, Les arts plastiques au Cameroun, pour un espace d'expression viable in Cameroun: la culture sacrifiée. Dossier of the magazine "Africultures", n. 60, L'Harmattan, July–September 2004, p. 84.
  2. http://worldeventyoungartists.com/artists/brice-romuald_mbasse
  3. Essombe Mouange, Les arts plastiques au Cameroun, pour un espace d'expression viable in Cameroun: la culture sacrifiée. Dossier of the magazine "Africultures", n. 60, L'Harmattan, July–September 2004, p. 92.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Essombe Mouange, Les arts plastiques au Cameroun, pour un espace d'expression viable in Cameroun: la culture sacrifiée. Dossier of the magazine "Africultures", n. 60, L'Harmattan, July–September 2004, p. 91.
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  6. "Em'kal Eyongakpa". kadist.org.
  7. "Em’kal Eyongakpa - We Face Forward". wefaceforward.org.
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  9. Alexandra Loumpet-Galitzine, Ibrahim Njoya, maître du dessin bamoun in Anthologie de l'art africain du XXe siècle, eds. N'Goné Fall and Jean Loup Pivin, Revue Noire, Paris, 2001, pp. 102-105.
  10. 1 2 3 4 Giulia Paoletti, Cultural and artistic initiatives in Douala in Douala in Translation. A view of the city and its creative transformative potentials, edited by Doual'art and iStrike Foundation, Episode Publishers, Rotterdam, 2007, p. 243.
  11. 1 2 3 Giulia Paoletti, Cultural and artistic initiatives in Douala in Douala in Translation. A view of the city and its creative transformative potentials, edited by Doual'art and iStrike Foundation, Episode Publishers, Rotterdam, 2007, p. 244.
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  13. Giulia Paoletti, Cultural and artistic initiatives in Douala in Douala in Translation. A view of the city and its creative transformative potentials, edited by Doual'art and iStrike Foundation, Episode Publishers, Rotterdam, 2007, p. 244
  14. http://www.bc-arts.org
  15. Giulia Paoletti, Cultural and artistic initiatives in Douala in Douala in Translation. A view of the city and its creative transformative potentials, edited by Doual'art and iStrike Foundation, Episode Publishers, Rotterdam, 2007, pp. 245-246.
  16. 1 2 Giulia Paoletti, Cultural and artistic initiatives in Douala in Douala in Translation. A view of the city and its creative transformative potentials, edited by Doual'art and iStrike Foundation, Episode Publishers, Rotterdam, 2007, p. 246.
  17. 1 2 Giulia Paoletti, Cultural and artistic initiatives in Douala in Douala in Translation. A view of the city and its creative transformative potentials, edited by Doual'art and iStrike Foundation, Episode Publishers, Rotterdam, 2007, p. 246
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  19. http://commonroom.info/bcfnma/bessengue.html
  20. http://www.r-a-i-n.net/workshop/projects.asp?pID=33
  21. http://www.biennaleduta.org
  22. Giulia Paoletti, Cultural and artistic initiatives in Douala in Douala in Translation. A view of the city and its creative transformative potentials, edited by Doual'art and iStrike Foundation, Episode Publishers, Rotterdam, 2007, pp. 246-247.
  23. "About". BAKWA.
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