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Ancient African Art

African art is a terrific blend of visualforms from the western tribes, have
imagery, spiritual beliefs and socialcontributed to African art in a big way. Most
purpose. The ancient African art mainlyof the art forms depicted the abundance of
represented the religious beliefs andsurrounding nature and abstract
cultural ideas through the various artifacts,interpretations of animals and plant life.
namely masks and figures. Apart from masksSome of them flaunted primitive designs and
and figures that were used in religiousshapes. It is observed that the sculpture in
ceremonies, these beliefs and ideas alsowood is intricate and time defying. Most of
found artistic expression in a number ofthe ancient sculptures were made of wood and
utilitarian objects and tools of everydayother materials, such as terracotta, mud,
life. The ancient art forms were extremelybeadwork, ivory, metal and stone. These
traditional in nature and they formed thesculptures mostly had humans as their main
major part of the African society. One of thesubjects.
earliest artforms of African culture were
terracotta statuettes that were found in theA vast collection of ancient African art can
Nok  culture  of  Nigeria,  around  500  B.C.be found in a number of museums all over the
world. The art mainly consisted of artforms
Ancient African art comprises ofwith human and animal subjects and depicted
contributions from a variety of tribes allthe positive and negative aspects of human
over Africa. These tribes created differentbehavior. The history of African art also
art forms, unique and peculiar to the tribe.proves the importance of religion and
There is immense diversity in the African artreligious practices in the African culture
culture and the artifacts, native southernand people.
arts and a variety of existent cultural art



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