The ethnic creations of these European artists have been elevated to the status of international art, while the ethnic creations of Ngbaka artists remain balkanized by museums in the ethnography galleries. I have chosen several artworks with musical themes to reveal differences in the ethnology of Eurocentric artists. In contrast, his French post- impressionist counterparts saw photography not as a means of replicating realism but of capturing movement and light in a new way. Abstract art is not common to all people. It is the language of twentieth-century Western art, which because of the dominance of Eurocentric people has spread across the world.
Abstract art incorporates ethnic codes.
Man Ray, living in Europe, was among the first American abstract artists to learn this indigenous European ethnology called abstract art. Many of his contemporaries, including regionalists such as Thomas Hart Benton and Grant Wood, pursued the American vernacular of realism at home. Their art ethnologically related more to Keane than to Man Ray. Abstract art initially was very strong in Russia and other communist countries. They knew that art was not freely universal, but a product of culture.