Ojajamonde Trouble In Paradise Classic Tingatinga Painting

Tanzania remains a very poor region in which there are vast areas of luxurious nature and climate that suggest paradise. This area has ancient experience battles between man and animals, between man and man, between groups organized as tribes and invading nations from the Europe and the Arabia. OJAJAMONDE was the half brother of E.

Tingatinga who originated Tingatinga genre of painting. Ojajamonde worked along side his brother until Tingatinga's unfortunate death in 1972. When Ojajamonde died in 2015 he was the last of the painters to have known Tingatinga himself.

Ojajamonde's paintings like the man himself are happy, fanciful, colorful, and lyrical. The subject matter are animals, birds, and people that communicate a sense of harmony among subjects and background. Being around his paintings imparts a feeling of well being.