In the month when the Guyanese nation celebrates its Amerindian heritage, we pause for a brief gaze at an important part of that heritage – Guyanese Amerindian Art. Amerindian artists have come to be among the most celebrated, prominent and the most important artists in Guyana, while Amerindian art as a subject or as a stylistic or thematic study has advanced significantly, and as an ethnic aesthetic and preoccupation rose rapidly to be a very important component of Guyanese art during the last 30 years.
We will pay some attention to this both diachronically and synchronically and rediscover the vast, deep and amazing work done by Amerindian artists, and that done by others who have engaged the Amerindian aesthetic in one way or another. In the twenty-first century it is a fascinating discovery and a profound abstract and modernist development in the national art. It has been an outstanding new area in form and focus.
