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African folk art consists of a variety of items: household objects, metal objects, toys, textiles, masks, and wood sculpture. Most traditional African art meets many definitions of folk art generally, or at least did so until relatively recent dates.
SUDAN basket -tray, tabar of weaved natural plant fibre, coloured in different colours
traditional Africanart meets many definitions of folkart generally, or at least did so until relatively recent dates. Much Africanfolkart consists of...
Folkart covers all forms of visual art made in the context of folk culture. Definitions vary, but generally the objects have practical utility of some...
Africans and the African continent. The definition may also include the art of the African diasporas, such as: African-American, Caribbean or art in South American...
collections, tribal art has three primary categories: Africanart, especially arts of Sub-Saharan AfricaArt of the Americas Oceanic art, originating notably...
enslaved Africans, which has in turn influenced African popular music. Many Asian civilizations distinguish between art/court/classical styles and "folk" music...
The American FolkArt Museum is an art museum in the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City, at 2 Lincoln Square, Columbus Avenue at 66th Street...
Africanart collection includes a diversity of art forms from ancient through contemporary times. To represent the depth and breadth of the African diaspora...
of Africanfolk beliefs and Roman Catholicism that led to the development of Vodun and Santería, and similar mixtures of formal religions with folk cultures...
South Africanart is the visual art produced by the people inhabiting the territory occupied by the modern country of South Africa. The oldest art objects...
derived not only from European art music, but other cultural domains (such as East Indian, Celtic, folk, and African) and hence involves a continuous...
across Africa, though mostly concentrated in different areas. They have replaced indigenous African religions but are often adapted to African cultural...
in art schools; or they have been repurposed as folkart, characterized as objects whose decorative form supersedes their utilitarian needs. Folkart is...
perform African ceremonies or use African languages, "the slaves filled this cultural vacuum by acquiring the rudiments of Anglo-American folk song, British...
A folk costume (also regional costume, national costume, traditional clothing, traditional garment or traditional regalia) expresses a national identity...
people. In European art, the aesthetics of primitivism included techniques, motifs, and styles copied from the arts of Asian, African, and Australasian...
include 9,000 works of traditional and contemporary Africanart from both Sub-Saharan and North Africa, 300,000 photographs, and 50,000 library volumes....
African dress at the Museum of AfricanArt (1975), pp. 9–15. Chidi Asika-Enahoro. A Slice of Africa: Exotic West African Cuisines, Introduction. iUniverse...
martial art, as well as a kind of folk music and war dance in the Caribbean which arose in the 1720s. It was brought to the Caribbean by Africans In the...
the vastness of the African continent, its music is diverse, with regions and nations having many distinct musical traditions. African music includes the...
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rural crafts. Like folkart, handicraft output often has cultural, political, and/or religious significance. Folkart encompasses art produced from an indigenous...
The Old Plantation is an American folkart watercolor probably painted in the late 18th century on a South Carolina plantation. It is notable for its early...
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