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Uli (design)

Uri (Uli) is the name given to the traditional designs drawn by the Igbo people of Nigeria. Uri drawings are strongly linear and do not have deep perspective; they do, however, balance positive and negative space. Designs are frequently asymmetrical, and are often painted spontaneously. Uri generally is not sacred, apart from those images painted on the walls of shrines and created in conjunction with some community rituals.

The drawing of uri was once practiced throughout most of Igboland, although by 1970 it had lost much of its popularity, and was being kept alive by a handful of contemporary artists. It was usually practiced by women, who would decorate each other's bodies with dark dyes to prepare for village events, such as marriage, title taking, and funerals; designs would sometimes be produced for the most important market days as well. Designs would last about a week.

Most uri designs were named, and many differed among various Igbo regions. Some were abstract, using patterns such as zigzags and concentric circles, while others stood for household objects like stools and pots. Some represented animals such as pythons and lizards; others showed plants, like yam leaves, or heavenly bodies, including a crescent moon and stars. Still other designs depicted cutting and other actions.

The use of uri was not limited to the human body. Igbo women would also paint murals of designs on the walls of compounds and houses. These generally used four colors which could be created from natural bases easily found in the area; black was made from charcoal, reddish brown from the camwood tree, yellow from either soil or tree bark, and white from clay. When the British arrived in the area at the turn of the twentieth century, they brought with them a commercial laundry additive which some painters used to create blue pigment. Uri was not only meant to express a specific message. It was also meant to beautify the female body and buildings to which it was applied, as beauty is equated with morality in Igbo culture.

Today the practice of uri is being kept alive by, among others, the artists of the Nsukka group, who have appropriated its designs and incorporated them into other media.

Uli

Uli may refer to:

  • Uli, Iran, a village
  • Uli, Nigeria, a town
  • Mansa Wali Keita, the second mansa of the Mali Empire, also known as Uli of Mali
  • Uli (design), traditional designs drawn by the Igbo people of Nigeria
  • Uli figure, a type of wooden statue from New Ireland in Papua New Guinea
  • ISO 639 code for the Ulithian language

Uli is a name, short for Ulrich or Ulrike (disambiguation) and common in Germany.

  • Uli Beckerhoff, Jazz composer
  • Uli der Fehlerteufel, a character in German schoolbooks
  • Uli Derickson, a flight attendant during the 1985 hijacking of TWA Flight 847
  • Uli Edel, a German film director
  • Uli Herzner, a German American fashion designer
  • Uli Hiemer, a German professional ice hockey player
  • Uli Hoeneß, (* 1952), a German football (soccer) player
  • Uli Kusch, a heavy metal drummer
  • Uli Jon Roth, German neoclassical metal guitarist
  • Uli Schmidt, a South African rugby union footballer
  • Uli Scholze, a member of the Red Army Faction
  • Uli Sigg (born 1946), Swiss businessman, diplomat, art collector
  • Uli Stein, (* 1954), a German football player
  • Uli Stielike, a German football player
  • Uli Trepte, a German musician
  • Uli Vos, a field hockey player from Germany

ULI may be an abbreviation for:

  • Ultralight Inflatable
  • Underwriters Laboratories Inc.
  • Uniono por la Linguo Internaciona Ido (Union for the International Language Ido)
  • Union List of Israel
  • Union Literary Institute
  • Universally Unique Identifier
  • Unis Lumin Incorporated
  • Universal Lab Interface
  • Universal LAN Interconnection (Sprint)
  • Universal Learning Institute 1
  • Universal life insurance
  • Universitärer Lehrverbund Informatik
  • University Language Institute
  • University of Leeds Institute
  • University of Limerick Irish
  • University of Linz Institute
  • University of London Imperial
  • University/Laboratory Initiative (Office of Naval Research)
  • Unsigned long integer (data type)
  • Upper large intestine
  • Upper level interface
  • Urban Land Institute
  • Urban Leadership Institute
  • User Level Interrupts
  • Utica Learning Interchange
  • Utility Line Italia