Tingatinga

Tingatinga (also spelled Tinga-tinga or Tinga Tinga) is a painting style from East Africa. Tingatinga is one of the most widely represented forms of tourist-oriented painting in Tanzania, Kenya, and neighbouring countries. The genre is named after its founder, Tanzanian painter Edward Tingatinga, whose work also insipired kids-animation tales, namely Tinga Tinga Tales.¶

Tingatinga painting is traditionally made on masonite, using several layers of bicycle paint, which makes for brilliant and highly saturated colours. Many elements of the style are related to the requirements of the tourist-oriented market; for example, the paintings are usually small so they can be easily transported, and subjects are intended to appeal to Western buyers (e.g. the Big Five and other wild animals). In this sense, Tingatinga paintings have been considered a form of "airport painting". The images can be described as both naïve and caricatural; humour, and sarcasm are often explicit.¶

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Tingatinga is contemporary painting style in Tansania, according to the structured record cited below. This entry was generated automatically from that record and has not yet been reviewed by a person familiar with the tradition.¹¶

The source record links this tradition to 1 external register, which can be verified through the citation.¹¶