[Painting] Pilipili Mulongoy specializes in portraying decorative landscapes filled with plants and animals, as exemplified in Pintades. The backgrounds of his paintings are densely patterned and often filled with small, equal-sized dots.

In 1947 Pilipili enrolled in the AtJlier d'Art IndigPne in Elizabethville (now Lubumbashi), Zaire. There Pierre Romain-Desfoss taught his students to create works based on their own experiences. His students--of whom Pilipili is the best known--ultimately developed a distinctive decorative style.

Courtesy of the National Museum of African Art, museum purchase.

Pintades (Guinea Fowls), about 1950, by Pilipili Mulongoy (b. about 1914), Zaire, oil on masonite

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