Simon George Mpata (1942–1984) was a Tanzanian painter of the Tingatinga school. He was the youngest half-brother of

Edward Tingatinga Edward Saidi Tingatinga (1932–1972) was a Tanzanian painter, best known as the founder of the eponymous painting style and school. Biography Birth and family Tingatinga was born in 1932 in a village called Namochelia, in the Tunduru Distri ...

, founder of the school, and belonged to the restricted group of six students that were directly taught by Tingatinga himself. Among Tingatinga's students, Mpata is considered the most faithful to his teacher's style. Upon Edward Tingatinga's death, Mpata left

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, moving to

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, where he established his own studio. Mpata's art has received international acclaim, mostly thanks to Japanese magazine editor

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, who was impressed by Mpata's art while visiting

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and later organized an exposition in

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and popularized Mpata's art in

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.Mpata and the meeting of art and architecture
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