African Ethiopian tribal folk art painting of the 20th century

Ancient Ethiopian painting brought to Italy by a diplomat during the Italian occupation of Ethiopia in the late 1930s. This genre scene is divided into eighteen squares surrounded by a black frame and arranged in three rows. The scene depicts the story of a couple with three children through scenes of their domestic life and rural activities; each box is labeled with inscriptions in Amharic.

Human figures are characterized by unrealistic proportions of the head and body and are depicted in static poses. This sense of stability and narration across successive scenes in domestic settings makes the images understandable and evocative.

Particularly fascinating aspect of Ethiopian art was its dedication to expressing objective truth, independent of time and space. Numbers are represented in what is considered their true, unchanging form. At the height of its stylistic perfection, Ethiopian art abandoned illusions of volume, depth, and perspective.

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