Appreciating The Art Gallery of Ghana’s Museum

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Paintings are a thing of beauty when they are done well. Even when you do not understand what they mean, beautiful paintings just catch the eye and you can stare for long periods. What makes paintings more satisfying is knowing what they mean. I’ve found myself to be an admirer of paintings these days.

Months ago, I visited Ghana’s National Museum which I made post about here. I left out the part where I visited the art gallery of the museum because I felt it would be more appreciated if it was a separate post. Well at least for those that love paintings or artworks and or a beginning to love them.Let’s see if it was worth it.🤞

Let’s get straight to it.

_{the art gallery}

I ended up spending a lot of time here because there were a lot of arts and paintings to look at.

The first paining that caught my eye was the painting of the “Ghana pledge. I initially from afar thought it was about blood or skeletons as we see in the movies with the red color and the hands.

_{the Ghana pledge}

The painting features the colors of Ghana and the hands just signify that while reciting the pledge, you right should should be on your chest. Ghanaians believe heavily in God so it’s no surprise the writings talk a lot about God.

_{culture of Ghana}

What better way is there to tell a story than to use images. Just by looking at a painting, you already have 100s of imaginative stuff. But this painting depicts the culture of Ghana. We see that kids surround the elderly in one of the pictures which tells us how the elderly at night sit kids down to tell them stories.

One of the paintings depict how two people in high authority greet and are treated while one of the images symbolize some cultural dance moves. In other paintings there’s horse riding.

_{the GA tribe}

This next image talks all about the Gas. The Gas are known for their fishing skills. They’re number one in fishing in Ghana and they don’t joke with it.

One of the pictures (bottom left) show the Gas at sea fishing and the the top left shows the Gas back preparing to go to sea.

_trading

These paintings talk about trading. Trading is primarily done by women here. The paintings show women at the market center buying and selling “koko”, tomatoes, yams, mangoes, among others. The round looking object isn’t a painting but a had which is something worn here by market women. It’s worn by men too and isn’t limited to only market people.

_health

Health is wealth they say and these paintings show us that even before civilization and hospitals, our forefathers took good care of their health.

In the images here, we see that the people are being treated and spoken to by health workers while some others make their way to the hospital.

_crafts

Crafts were exhibited here as well. Some were Valentine themed so that lovers could use it as gifts. Others represented other stuff.

There are other so many good paintings I would want to add but I don’t want to make the post too long and maybe boring.

Maybe I’ll make another post talking about the rest or some of the rest. 😉

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