6 天之前 · African art, the visual arts of native Africa, particularly sub-Saharan Africa, including such media as sculpture, painting, pottery, rock art, textiles, masks, personal decoration, and …

African art describes modern and historical paintings, sculptures, installations, and other visual cultures from native or indigenous Africans and the African continent. The definition may also …

From the ornate cave paintings of South Africa's Cederberg Mountains to the abstract masks of myriad regional traditions, African art incorporates an extraordinary array of objects, materials, …

2023年10月11日 · Africa, humanity’s cradle, boasts ancient art forms spanning a myriad of styles, from abstract to naturalistic. This vast continent, comprising 54 distinct countries as of 2023, …

Today, many contemporary artists are influenced by tradition-based African art forms just as European avant-garde artists like Pablo Picasso, André Derain, and Georges Braque looked …

2021年8月26日 · African art is a concept the Western world created to understand what possibly borders on African artifacts. However, beyond this, African art spans the entire African …

2021年6月17日 · Traditionalists like Lamidi Fakeye produce sculpture and wood carvings based on classical African designs. A larger group works in the more modern styles of cubism, …

Like Oceanic art, one of the most striking aspects of African art is that it is always very much an intimate part of social life, manifest in every aspect of Africans' work, play, and beliefs. The …

The Van Rijn Archive of African Art (YVRA) The largest photographic digital database of African art, the Van Rijn Archive features some 150,000 images of art from Africa south of the Sahara. …

While many observers tend to generalize "traditional" African art, the continent is full of peoples, societies, and civilizations, each with a unique visual culture. From c. 6000 B.C.E., rock …