ATANAS Style African Art Paintings
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True African Art.com has 20 of these bright and inspiring original African art paintings for sale. We call them "Atanas Style" as an index to an African painting style coined by many Tanzanian African artists.


Atanas Style paintings often feature Maasai figures lingering around their huts with trees, mountains, gourds, and cows in the background. In some of their contemporary African art paintings, Atanas Style artists show a rising sun that highlights the colors of purple, red, dark blue, yellow and green all around it. The Atanas Style African art paintings are beautiful renditions of Maasai culture in an abstract style.  

Atanas style paintings are generally made with a palette knife. These African artworks' color is weighed down with thick painting all around to create an abstract Maasai lifestyle theme.

Like Tingatinga paintings, Atanas Style African paintings came from a single person from the past who is now deceased. In this case it was Atanas Mwanasola Kiswanta, who died in 1992 and was from the Fipa tribe. Matrida, his wife, is still alive today and lives in Kigoma, Tanzania. This town is found in Western Tanzania near the East side of Lake Tanganyika and the border of Burundi.

Atanas style is a brand that was taken from one artist and then one family.  Tingatinga art is the same.  Naturally, copyright issues come up that deal with who owns the style and who can paint it, but for now, as with Tingatinga style paintings,   the African art form is unharnessed and widely practiced be several groups of freelance African artists across East Africa.

Our Atanas stlyle African paintings for sale are at the guaranteed lowest price online right here on True African Art .com! If you like paintings from Tanzania, check out our Tingatinga collection too.             

                                        
                                      A 10                                                                                                     A 11
                                22" x 16" (58 x 42 cm)                                                                         22" x 16" (58 x 42 cm)
                                      Oil on Canvas                                                                                      Oil on Canvas