Jamaican art
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jamaican-art-193-3255086
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Jamaican art
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Jamaican art dates back to Jamaica's indigenous Taino Indians who created zemis, carvings of their gods, for ritual spiritual purposes. The demise of this culture after European colonisation heralded a new era of art production more closely related to traditional tastes in Europe, created by itinerant artists keen to return picturesque images of the "new world" to Europe. Foremost among these were Agostino Brunias, Philip Wickstead, James Hakewill and J. B. Kidd. Perhaps the earliest artist to t
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamaican_art
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2024-03-11T06:53:40Z
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