2. Key Concepts
African Art: Legacy of Oppression
- African art is often viewed looking straight on (2 demmenstional)
- color of the dead is white
- there is a huge range to African art styles
- statues and the artwork can tell us about the people economically
- Central Africans emphasis on the men and women's role
- masks can tell about the person and what they went through in their lifetimes
- masks were often made to scare people (western people so they stayed out of their territory)
- images became standard reformist propaganda
- Africans were set up by the Belgians in exhibits
African Art: Its Cultural Meaning
- art is a part of daily life
- used in the making of everyday utensils
- art was very important in African rituals
- most pieces of art as less that 200 years because they deteriorate
- painting & carvings are oldest form of art
- Egyptian civilizations influenced development of other areas in Africa
- Nigerians used bronze to create their art
- use 2 styles of art perceptual (what the artists usually view) and conceptual (artists use their imagination)
- conceptual was mostly used and used lots of symbolism
3. The videos relate to the text because they express exactly what we read. The videos just go into more detail about what we read. In chapter 18 we read about African art and the influences and connection to Western civilization. In the first video I viewed it explained more in depth what the Westerns did to the people and how they treated them.
4. I really liked watching these videos because it related directly to our readings. They gave us a greater in depth understanding of what we learned this week. The videos also gave me ideas about what masks represented to the people of Africa and that relates directly to our art making part of this weeks module.
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