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One typically head-snapping juxtaposition places a proto-Cubist Picasso painting of a head near a 16th-century French wood sculpture of the crucified Christ and those are just two objects among more than two dozen on that wall.
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Exhibitions include sculpture, wood carving, painting, drawing, photography, wearable art, textile art, mixed media and ceramics.
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The austerity of the sculpture's bare wood no doubt appealed to artists and collectors in the early 20th century, yet this very feature probably rendered it meaningless to its people.
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The show also includes - somewhat oddly - a small selection of modern sculpture, including a Calder and a Lipschitz - in wood and metal.
BBC: A passion for colour
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Uganda has no tradition of sculpture: nothing like Kenya's popular Kamba carvings, still less the sophisticated wood and stone sculptures of Benin or elsewhere in West Africa, which brought bold lines into the work of Constantin Brancusi and other modernists.
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An anomaly is a simple drawing by Martin Puryear for "Box and Pole, " his first major sculpture (a 52-inch cube next to a 100-foot needle, both carved in wood), installed at Artpark in 1977.
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