The Visual Arts at the Biennial Burkinabe National Cultural Week‪.‬

The visual arts at the biennial Burkinabe National Cultural Week Every two years the Ministry of Arts, Culture, and Tourism of Burkina Faso organises a National Cultural Week in Bobo Dioulasso. Its main objectives are to develop and promote Burkinabe culture and artists. This event, which includes numerous domains of art, nevertheless remains quite obviously a framework for the development and promotion of the performing arts in particular. The visual or fine arts do not seem to have found in this event the means of expression whereby their development can best be promoted. The constraining factors for this category of art are the confusion that exists between traditional and contemporary art, the anonymity of visual artists, the absence of a theme around which the competition can be organised and the unfortunate fate reserved for prize-winning art works and artists. Proposals for solutions are made here in the hope that these will enable the National Cultural Week to become the springboard for the development of the visual arts. Key words: Burkinabe National Cultural Week, Burkinabe visual arts, Burkinabe fine arts, Burkinabe visual art promotion, artistic development in Burkina Faso.