Dakar School

It was supported by the first Senegalese President Léopold Sédar Senghor, and worked within the framework of the larger cultural movement of Négritude from the 1930s.

The three teachers that were the foundering members of this art movement included Papa Ibra Tall, Iba N'Diaye, and Pierre Lods.

[1] Senegalese President Léopold Sédar Senghor was the first art critic of French-speaking Black Africa, which started with his first publication on the matter in 1956.

The movement favored warm colors, figurative and abstract representations with references to African aesthetics and mythologies.

[9] National Tapestry Manufacturers in Thiès was a government sponsored and supported by Senghor, and many of the Dakar School artist were involved with their work.