Rarely conserved bronze and wooden figures and wooden masks
Mask from GabonTwo Chiwara c. late 19th early 20th centuries, Art Institute of Chicago. Female (left) and male, vertical styles
Most African sculpture was historically in wood and other organic materials that have not survived from earlier than at most a few centuries ago; older pottery figures are 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.[1] Direct images of African deities are relatively infrequent, but masks in particular are or were often made for traditional African religious ceremonies; today many are made for tourists as "airport art".[2] African masks were an influence on European Modernist art, which was inspired by their lack of concern for naturalistic depiction.
Most Africansculpture was historically in wood and other organic materials that have not survived from earlier than at most a few centuries ago; older...
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everywhere in Africa rather than from their own local heritage. Africa portal Traditional African religion portal Tribal art African art Africansculpture Picasso's...
Central Africa. Geneva:UNESCO. p. 100. Eggert, Manfred (2014). "Early iron in West and Central Africa". In Breunig, P (ed.). Nok: AfricanSculpture in Archaeological...
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iron in West and Central Africa". In Breunig, P (ed.). Nok: AfricanSculpture in Archaeological Context. Frankfurt, Germany: Africa Magna Verlag Press. pp...
that compose the Blue Nudes were inspired by Matisse's collection of Africansculpture and his visit to Tahiti, in 1930. He required another twenty years...
the subsequent expansion of the West African forest. West African hunter-gatherers occupied western Central Africa (e.g., Shum Laka) earlier than 32,000...
iron in West and Central Africa". In Breunig, P (ed.). Nok: AfricanSculpture in Archaeological Context. Frankfurt, Germany: Africa Magna. pp. 51–59. Holl...
iron in West and Central Africa". In Breunig, P (ed.). Nok: AfricanSculpture in Archaeological Context. Frankfurt, Germany: Africa Magna. pp. 51–59. Eggert...
iron in West and Central Africa". In Breunig, P (ed.). Nok: AfricanSculpture in Archaeological Context. Frankfurt, Germany: Africa Magna Verlag Press. pp...
Sculpture and in particular stone sculpture is an art for which Zimbabwe is well known around the world. Central Zimbabwe contains the "Great Dyke" –...
1904 exhibition, French Primitives. Another aesthetic influence was Africansculpture, of which Vlaminck, Derain and Matisse were early collectors. Many...
Nok: AfricanSculpture in Archaeological Context. Frankfurt am Main: Africa Magna. ISBN 9783937248462. Breunig, Peter (2014). Nok: AfricanSculpture in...
West Africa, a series of soapstone figures from the Kissi people in Sierra Leone and Liberia, the Torday collection of Central Africansculpture, textiles...
The Benin Bronzes are a group of several thousand metal plaques and sculptures that decorated the royal palace of the Kingdom of Benin, in what is now...
periods, the gallery emphasizes early Italian Renaissance painting, Africansculpture, and modern art. The gallery was founded in 1832 when patriot artist...
California African American Museum and shown also at the Skirball Cultural Center in 2010. South African Artist Michael MacGarry exhibited “ivory sculptures referring...
The name Makonde art refers to East Africansculptures or, less frequently, to modern paintings created by craftspeople or artists belonging to the Makonde...
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