Papa ibra tall biography for kids

Senegalese visual artist (1935-2015)

Papa Ibra Tall (1935–2015) was a Senegalese tapestry weaver, painter, and illustrator. He is known for his role in the Dakar School (French: École de Dakar) art movement,^[1] and as an early professor at the École Nationale des Beaux Arts.

Biography

Papa Ibra Tall was born in 1935 in Tivaouane, in the Thiès Region of Senegal.^[2] His artistic career began oil painting under the tutelage of amateur French painters in Dakar. In 1955, he studied architecture at the École Spéciale d'Architecture in Paris, where he was exposed to the Négritude movement and provided illustrations for the Présence Africaine.

He later attended the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts and pursued instruction in Sèvres with the assistance of Senegalese president Léopold Sédar Senghor, where he studied painting, serigraphy, tapestry, mosaics, and comparative pedagogy.^[3]

Career

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