paintings or drawings on museum. Art is a diverse range in creating visual‚ auditory‚ and performing artifacts expressing the artist’s creative skill. Art is of much objective‚ scope; however‚ art can include visual arts‚ painting‚ drawing‚ music‚ sculpture‚ architecture‚ literature‚ dance‚ computer arts‚ photography‚ and many more. Art is simply never-ending definition. African Art has played a huge profound role in culture & history of the world. African Art have inspired many people in the art world
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Art History of African Art and New World Culture - Exam #1 Study Guide --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Introduction: Ceremonial Robe (Chilkat Blanket)‚ 19th-20th c. Haida red cedar bentwood box Cultural Anthropology: -the study of learned behavioral systems. -Includes kinship systems‚ religion‚ economic systems‚ political systems‚ and symbolic systems Holism: Cultures make sense when the relationships
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The CAU Art Gallery has a collection of comprised of 1‚200 works of art in three major categories which are Contemporary American‚ African American‚ and African art. In these collections are paintings‚ murals‚ sculptures‚ works on paper and ethnographical artifacts acquired through purchases and donations. The growth and continuation of the Clark Atlanta University Collection of American art report the role of black artists in the history of American art‚ between the years of 1942 and 1970. CAU’s
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Ogboni (also known as Osugbo in Ijèbú) is a fraternal institution indigenous to the Yoruba language-speaking polities of Nigeria‚ Republic of Bénin and Togo. The society performs a range of political and religious functions‚ including exercising a profound influence on regents and serving as high courts of jurisprudence in capital offenses. Influence [edit] Though versions or lodges of this fraternal group are found among the various types of Yoruba polities——from highly-centralized kingdoms
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interesting part of African history for me was the history of the Nigerian arts. I could not believe that the earliest known sculptures in Africa were from the 5th century. The remarkable Terra cotta pottery heads were made from fired clay. They came from the Nok culture of Nigeria that date from 500BCE-200BCE. I also found the art and history of Benin to be so amazing and advanced. Benin had a great style of art that was quite different from the other regions in the area. They produced many fine bronze
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By Apioth Mayom Apioth Slavery ’s last fortification in Africa is Mauritania. According to a November 11‚ 2013‚ New York Times ’ article by Adam Nossiter entitled ’Mauritania Confronts Long Legacy of Slavery‚ ’ close to 140‚000 or 4% of the total population is in chattel slavery: meaning it is passed down from one generation to the next. Centuries after the slavery was abolished in the Americas and Europe‚ Mauritania is still holding a dirty secret‚ right in our backyard. Two days ago‚ I
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Essay Question Dayja Grays Period 4 12-7-12 The African empires‚ kingdoms‚ and cities had many great achievements before the arrival of the Europeans. African empires‚ kingdoms‚ and cities were very successful with trading and social structure. The kingdom of Ghana gained control over the trans-Saharan gold and slat trade (doc. #2).Ancient Ghana was a very complex empire it had many characteristics of a powerful nation needed as if of today’s nation. The empires wealth was based on the
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The Egungun performance is a sect of the community-wide masquerade dances‚ which are often found in the Yoruba and Benin cultures. These rituals are ancestral masquerades preformed within Yoruba culture and the Republic of Benin. Ancient African rituals vary largely in their performance and meaning. The term Egungun often refers to all masked figures found among the ritual‚ which are those targeted by Leonce Raphael Abgodjelou in his art exhibit. The Egungun ritual is a performance funeral‚ marking
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artwork. Three core beliefs of African societies included honoring ancestors and animal deities‚ elevating rulers to a sacred status and consulting diviners and fortune tellers. You can see this in their artwork by the use of symbolism in the sculpture to portray how important someone was by making a rulers head oversized and the use of tame animals near the figure to show his power over all things. They also honored their ancestors by way of body decoration and modification‚ rituals and masks
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A close examination of the formal qualities of the brass altar head of the oba of Benin was quite exciting. The brass head was chosen for analysis due to its rich historic and cultural affluence civilization it depicts.Dating back to the 16th century‚it is amazing that a quality work of art as the altar head has been in existence since in the interior of west Africa ‚telling a story of civilization‚cultural heritage and finesse obtainable as at then‚ thus making me analyse it to discover other aspects
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