1958 onwards · Addis Ababa · Ethiopia
Addis Ababa School of Fine Arts
The movement
Addis Ababa School of Fine Arts
1958 onwards · Addis Ababa · Ethiopia
The fine arts school founded by Ale Felege Selam, where Ethiopian modernists joined abstraction with the icons, scripts and magic scrolls of Ethiopian tradition.
What to look for
Abstraction and expressive colour; Ge'ez script and Orthodox icons; magic-scroll signs; strong, glowing palettes.
Masters of the school
- Gebre Kristos Desta reference ↗
- Skunder Boghossian reference ↗
- Afewerk Tekle reference ↗
- Zerihun Yetmgeta reference ↗
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