{"id":4840,"date":"2017-01-13T22:04:44","date_gmt":"2017-01-13T22:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=4840"},"modified":"2017-01-13T22:04:44","modified_gmt":"2017-01-13T22:04:44","slug":"airport-art-at-its-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/airport-art-at-its-best\/","title":{"rendered":"Airport art at its best"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div class=\"gmail_quote\">\n<div class=\"m_-8761400012077351610Created m_-8761400012077351610on m_-8761400012077351610Form m_-8761400012077351610Builder\">\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" bgcolor=\"#f7f9fc\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"600\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" bgcolor=\"#eeeeee\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\" bgcolor=\"#ffffff\">\n<table id=\"m_-8761400012077351610emailFieldsTable\" class=\"m_-8761400012077351610mceEditable\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"5\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"padding: 5px !important;\" bgcolor=\"white\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/aaaMystrySolvd-1089.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4841\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/aaaMystrySolvd-1089-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/aaaMystrySolvd-1089-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/aaaMystrySolvd-1089-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/aaaMystrySolvd-1089-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/aaaMystrySolvd-1089-1024x1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Q:<\/strong>\u00a0 Please could you assist me.\u00a0 I recently bought a number of Guro masks on an auction in South Africa.\u00a0 They were part of a deceased estate.\u00a0 The collection comprised Gu masks, Zamble masks and anthropomorphic masks. The variety and fine carving of these masks suggests that they represent a collection of authentic \u00a0objects.\u00a0 Sharon, 1089<\/p>\n<p><strong>A:\u00a0<\/strong> There is a style of Guro carving that started in West Africa sometime in the 20th century that became very popular with collectors. I&#8217;ve done two other blogs on them&#8211; #765 and #977&#8211; and I know a guy who collects only these and a shop in Philadelphia that specialized in them. However, they are avoided by serious collectors of traditional African art who call them airport art, but they look beautiful on the wall. Imaging how difficult this was to carve.\u00a0 <strong>B+<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q:\u00a0 Please could you assist me.\u00a0 I recently bought a number of Guro masks on an auction in South Africa.\u00a0 They were part of a deceased estate.\u00a0 The collection comprised Gu masks, Zamble masks and anthropomorphic masks. The variety and fine carving of these masks suggests that they represent a collection of authentic \u00a0objects.\u00a0 Sharon, 1089 A:\u00a0 There is a style of Guro carving that started in West Africa sometime in the 20th century that became very popular with collectors. I&#8217;ve done two other blogs on them&#8211; #765 and #977&#8211; and I know a guy who collects only these and a shop in Philadelphia that specialized in them. However, they are avoided by serious collectors of traditional African art who call them airport art, but they look beautiful on the wall. Imaging how difficult this was to carve.\u00a0 B+<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4841,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4840"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4842,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4840\/revisions\/4842"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}