Art of a Culture

JAMAICAN ART

Jamaica is a country that is mostly community oriented. We treat our community as a part of the family. We celebrate together, morn together and defend each other. It is only fitting that our art reflect our communities and the people who live in them. Most of the artworks found in Jamaica are of places/communities and of our people.

For instance the above is an artwork is off Browns Town Market located in Brown’s Town, St. Ann. At sixteen, I attended school in Brown’s Town and lived just within a three-minute radius of the market. This painting is most likely of a Saturday. Usually this is what every market looks like on a Saturday when everyone is out shopping for fresh produce for the week. The market still looks the same as it does in this painting which reflects the 80's or early 90's.



Painting by Milton Messam.