African art | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-19

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00:03:47 1 Thematic elements
00:07:03 2 Scope
00:08:00 3 Materials
00:08:54 4 Traditional African religions
00:09:39 5 History
00:11:07 6 Influence on Western art
00:13:06 7 Influence on Western architecture
00:14:15 8 Traditional art
00:15:53 9 Contemporary African art
00:18:41 9.1 Minimalist African Art
00:19:18 10 By country, civilizations or people
00:19:29 10.1 West Africa
00:19:37 10.1.1 Ghana
00:19:45 10.1.1.1 Akan
00:20:26 10.1.2 Nigeria
00:20:34 10.1.2.1 Nok
00:23:38 10.1.2.2 Benin art
00:24:46 10.1.2.3 Igbo
00:25:16 10.1.2.4 Yoruba
00:25:41 10.1.2.5 Other ethnic groups of Nigeria
00:25:50 10.1.3 Mali
00:26:18 10.1.3.1 Djenné-Djenno
00:26:40 10.1.3.2 Bambara
00:31:20 10.1.3.3 Dogon
00:36:26 10.1.4 Burkina Faso
00:38:33 10.1.5 Gabon
00:39:23 10.1.6 Ivory Coast
00:40:19 10.2 East Africa
00:40:27 10.2.1 Kenya
00:43:17 10.2.2 Ethiopia
00:49:09 10.2.3 Tanzania
00:50:08 10.3 Central Africa
00:50:17 10.3.1 Democratic Republic of Congo
00:50:26 10.3.1.1 Kuba Kingdom
00:51:15 10.3.1.2 Luba Kingdom
00:52:20 10.3.1.3 Other ethnic groups of Democratic Republic of Congo
00:52:30 10.3.2 Chad
00:52:38 10.3.2.1 Sao
00:53:12 10.4 Southern Africa
00:53:20 10.4.1 Botswana
00:54:12 10.4.2 South Africa
00:54:20 10.4.2.1 Mapungubwe
00:54:54 10.5 North Africa
00:55:02 10.5.1 Egypt
00:55:56 11 See also



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African art describes the modern and historical paintings, sculptures, installations, and other visual culture from native or indigenous Africans and the African continent. The definition may also include the art of the native African, African diasporas, such as African American, Caribbean and other American art. Despite this diversity, there are some unifying artistic themes when considering the totality of the visual culture from the continent of Africa.Masquerade, metalwork, sculpture, architecture, fiber art, and dance are important art forms across Africa and may be included in the study of African art. The term "African art"  does not usually include the art of the North African areas along the Mediterranean coast, as such areas had long been part of different traditions. For more than a millennium, the art of such areas had formed part of Islamic art, although with many particular characteristics. The art of Ethiopia, with a long Christian tradition, is also different from that of most of Africa, where traditional African religion (with Islam in the north) was dominant until relatively recently. African art includes ancient art, Muslim art of North and West Africa, the Christian art of East Africa, and the ritualistic art of these and other regions.  Most African sculpture was historically in wood and other natural materials that have not survived from earlier than, at most, a few centuries ago; older pottery figures can be found from a number of areas. Masks are important elements in the art of many peoples, along with human figures, often highly stylized. There is a vast variety of styles, often varying within the same context of origin depending on the use of the object, but wide regional trends are apparent; sculpture is most common among "groups of settled cultivators in the areas drained by the Niger and Congo rivers" in West Africa. Direct images of deities are relatively infrequent, but masks in particular are or were often made for religious ceremonies; today many are made for tourists as "airport art". Since the late 19th century there has been an increasing amount of African art in Western collections, the finest pieces of which are now prominently displayed.
African mask art has had an important influence on European Modernist art, which was inspired by their lack of concern for naturalistic depiction.
West African cultures developed bronze casting for reliefs, like the famous Benin Bronzes, to decorate palaces and for highly naturalistic royal heads from around the Bini town of Benin City, Edo State, in terracotta as well as me ...