4 Dec 2006

African Arts and Sculpture

sculpture
Arts in Africa has great heritage with history over 6000years works in Nigeria to more recent contemporary art works and it constitutes to one of the most diverse legacies of culture on the planet, which most times expressed in spiritual and social visual displays.They are divided in two main parts Traditional and Contemporary Arts, arts in Africa can be expressed in so many forms such Performance arts, visual displays and sculpture.
Visual Arts
The characteristic of style mainly based on Texture,Materials and Colors.These components are essential in visual display to emphasis the innovation and abstractness of the work.
Performance Art
These is a physical or three dimensional representation of traditional and contemporary art form in performance context.
Mask Sculpture
Sculptures
These form consist of the carving of materials into a two dimensionally art work.

Arts in Africa show legacy of the civilization of Africa's culture past and future, the heritage of Africa arts has to be preserved so that next generation after us can have descriptions of who they are and who their ancestor were.

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