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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;2manybooks, post: 9858630, member: 8267&quot;]There is a popular art form in Senegal of painting on glass. This may be an example.</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Reverse-glass painting in Senegal flourishes today as a commercial, tourist art, but this was not always so. For several decades before the 1960s, it was primarily a local art for local consumption. There has been a parallel shift away from the earlier concentration on Islamic religious themes to more secular contemporary concerns: social commentary, portraits, domestic scenes, musicians, wrestlers, and even Mammy Wata.&quot;</p><p><a href="https://www.sil.si.edu/silpublications/modernafricanart/maadetail.cfm?subCategory=Senegal%20%2D%2D%20Glass%20Painting" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.sil.si.edu/silpublications/modernafricanart/maadetail.cfm?subCategory=Senegal%20%2D%2D%20Glass%20Painting" rel="nofollow">https://www.sil.si.edu/silpublications/modernafricanart/maadetail.cfm?subCategory=Senegal -- Glass Painting</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Here is a print reproducing an image originally painted on glass, of a Senegalese woman with a similar hairstyle - </p><p>[ATTACH=full]494107[/ATTACH]</p><p><a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/1566096674/senegalese-woman-print-of-original?gpla=1&amp;gao=1&amp;" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/1566096674/senegalese-woman-print-of-original?gpla=1&amp;gao=1&amp;" rel="nofollow">https://www.etsy.com/listing/1566096674/senegalese-woman-print-of-original?gpla=1&amp;gao=1&amp;</a></p><p><br /></p><p>And an earlier post of this forum about a Senegalese painting on glass -</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.antiquers.com/threads/reverse-glass-painting-by-senegal-artist-samba-guyeye.44859/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.antiquers.com/threads/reverse-glass-painting-by-senegal-artist-samba-guyeye.44859/">https://www.antiquers.com/threads/reverse-glass-painting-by-senegal-artist-samba-guyeye.44859/</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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