Henri Matisse’s cut-outs were influenced in part by the elaborate geometric patterns that adorn works in this medium made by the Kuba people. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this material that is often dyed brown with fermented mud in Malian bògòlanfini and resist-dyed with wax in the Javanese batik. This material is also used for African wax-prints and in many garments like the dashiki.
ANSWER: cloth [or clothing; or textiles; or weaving; or tapestry; or fabric]
[10h] This British-Nigerian artist and member of the Young British Artists uses many colorful Ankara cloths in his signature headless mannequin sculptures like the one in his The Swing (After Fragonard).
ANSWER: Yinka Shonibare (“YEEN-kah sho-nih-BAH-ray”)
[10m] Ghanaian artist El Anatsui uses bottle caps to produce his own cloth following the same method used to create this traditional cloth. Many African-American students wear stoles made from this cloth at their graduations.
ANSWER: kente cloth
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