Alexander Skunder Boghossian

Alexander "Skunder" Boghossian (Amharic: ኣሌክሳንደር እስንድር ቦጎሲያን; Armenian: Ալեքսանդր "Սկունդեր" Բողոսյան; July 22, 1937 – May 4, 2003) was an Ethiopian painter and professor active in the United States. Boghossian was one of the first, and by far the most acclaimed, contemporary Black artists from the African continent to gain international attention.https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Skunder_Boghossian&action=edit Quotes "I grew up in the streets of Paris, I had no problem being black or yellow or green. I learned my craft.https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/art-1010/xdc974a79:colonial-and-postcolonial-modernisms/xdc974a79:ethiopia/a/skunder-boghossian-night-flight-of-dread-and-delight?hl=en-US#:~:text=%E2%80%9CI%20grew%20up%20in%20the%20streets%20of,that%20was%20able%20to%20successfully%20resist%20colonization. I was heavily influenced by Césaire. His imagery, the graphicness of it, was puncturing. I was a surrealist and he formed for me a stronger vision.https://www.bonhams.com/auction/26182/lot/21/alexander-skunder-boghossian-ethiopian-1937-2003-the-church-of-st-george-lalibela/?hl=en-US#:~:text=%22I%20am%20fascinated%20by%20the%20cinema.%20In,flight%2C%20but%20to%20fly%20like%20a%20bird.%22 I am fascinated by the cinema. In cinema a moment is translated by a multitude of images... The problem is not to contemplate a bird's flight, but to fly like a bird.https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/alexander-skunder-boghossian-ethiopian-1937-2003--15-c-7884508b29?hl=en-US#:~:text=He%20recalls%20that%2C%20in%20this%20period%2C%20'%5Bw%5De,by%20the%20Ivorian%20sculptor%20Christian%20Lattier%20(1925%2D1978). We were all coming together to listen to our stories and to find a commonality in ourselves and in our struggles." References