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Malangatana Valente Ngwenya 1936 - 2011 / photo, thank you! Janeiro 2010 yesterday lost one of its greatest sons, Mozambique and Africa, a world famous, highly acclaimed artists of the Modern Arts: Malangatana Valente Ngwenya died on Wednesday morning in Portugal at the age of 74, as it is, after a severe cold. In Portugal, the colonial "mother country" of Mozambique, the painter had lived since about two months, it is officially against forgeries of his works to proceed. In October, a woman had been arrested for allegedly forged 20 of his works. Malangatana had spent the Christmas holidays at the house of his daughter in the hospital where he was moved when his illness worsened.
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at work / photo, thank you! Endorsing - Marxa - Picasa Web Albums The boy, should be the one to the gefeiersten sons of his country, was born in 1936 in a village near the capital Maputo, the son of a miner who had to work hard for the money for his family in the gold mines of South Africa. When the mother became seriously ill, had to pull the boy to an uncle, where he led the school only to able to attend the third class. As a teenager, he earned little as a ball boy to imTennisclub but soon discovered very different capabilities in themselves photo, thank you.! artafrica Malangatana could be - following the example of an aunt - first trained as a traditional healer, but his love for painting, to sculpture and ceramics forms prevailed. He turned to all the fine arts theater and played, played music and wrote poetry - but he never put in all these artistic excursions throughout the brush out of hand - especially when he was a man from the Tennis Club a dedicated mentor. Three Figures / photo, thank you! Michael Stevenson - 'Take your road and travel along' 1960, Malangatanas first exhibition takes place in 1963 published his first poems, which soon were also included in the collection Modern Poetry from Africa ".
But the young poet was because of his sympathy for the liberation movement Frelimo difficulties with the colonial rulers had to serve 18 months in prison, until he opened an art scholarship from the road to freedom and to Portugal. After the end of colonial rule was the young artist returned to his native land where he now openly politically active, and soon became an icon of modern Mozambique in the world.
, who has worked for many years with the Mozambicans.  A selection of his poetic work here: | Amazon.com: "Malangatana Valente Ngwenya": Key Phrase page
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| photo, thank you: http://pikitita.bloguedemusica.com - O Povo que não se cala ... / Malangatana Valente Ngwenya - MOÇAMBIQUE have |
That Malangatanas work a greater awareness in Africa and South America, Portugal and Brazil, may be associated with the language, but also internationally won the painter from Mozambique highly recognized and received many awards as a representative of Modern Art, his works are permanently exhibited in Washington DC and Others (
National Museum of African Art
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said in a speech UNESCO Director General Frederico Mayor of Malangatana: "He is much more than a creator, much more than an artist - someone who Demonstrates that there is a universal language, the language of art, Which Allows us to communicate a message of peace, of refusal of war. ".
 The Farewell / Foto, Danke!: Michael Stevenson - 'Take your road and travel along' |
Farewell, Malangatana Valente Ngwenya!
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