Friday, June 10, 2011

SF - 1989 - 6 - Masks


The above colored masks wer thrown in to contrast the African and 'Western' contemporary " masks. These masks were a part of the museum collection at the MGTF - USM. They were originally Javanese theatrical masks.










To be able to see better the writings click the picture.







These masks constructed from paper mache were very expressive almost apporcahing animalistic is appearence.









I got the pictures of the paper mache constructed masks while i was at Green Gulch Farm.





Most of these African Masks were sketched from original ones found at the De Young Museum in San Francisco.





















































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