#mangaaka

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Here is my first fan art drawing of Berserk and I love it! 😃

[d13mon-studios]

My fan art sketch is COMPLETE! :D

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Kongo chiefs commissioned artworks like this one to fight back against 19th-century colonialism.

“People whose heritage this is are happy to know of the resistance that happened,” she added. “It wasn’t that they just got hit by a tsunami and they just drowned.”

It's tempting to view the diminished universe of these Mangaaka figures as a sign of a culture’s defeat. But Alisa LaGamma, the curator responsible for the Met’s exhibition, reads the creation of these works as an incredible act of defiance.

“I see the banding together of artists and priests to come to the rescue in a time of crisis as this heroic effort to really bring art and spirituality to the people in the time of greatest need,” she said.

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Subversive strategies of Kongo artists showcased in new blockbuster at Metropolitan Museum of Art 

The dazzling show “Kongo: Majesty and Power” that opens today at the Met features five centuries of treasures, from geometric raffia textiles and intricate ivory carvings sent to Europe’s princely collections during the Age of Exploration, to the fearsome Mangaaka power figures created in the 19th century. In my interview with curator Alisa LaGamma in today’s Wall Street Journal, she recounts her efforts to connect these objects to specific moments in history, revealing them as articulate, and sometimes subversive, responses to political and religious changes.