Modern Art And African Art

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Royal Arts of Africa show traditional work from the most historic tribal civilizations. Throughout centuries, African Art has enriched royal stature, authenticated noble influence, and honored past and present rulers. The Kom of northwest Cameroon, included in these historic tribal civilizations, molded statues symbolizing their very own royal families and prestige attendants of their kings’. The “Royal Figure” is a prime example of this kind of artwork that has lived through the Kom Kingdom’s history. This piece is constructed out of multiple mediums including wood, Indigo beads, raffia cloth, and iron, but beneath these materials lies a much deeper meaning. Symbolism, daily functions, history, and culture were all brought forward when

On October 9, 2015 I went to the Smithsonian, National Museum of African Art along with attending the Million Man March down in Washington D.C. The experiences were wonderful and I was very excited to be at both events. While at the museum I took two tours one at 10 am that was led by a woman named Nkechi Obi. She talked about docent African Arts. The next one was shortly after at11 am that was led by a teen ambassador named Nicholas Stewart, who was very intelligent. He talked about numerous pieces throughout the museum that had some significance to younger minds so I found that very helpful. After the tour I spent some time down at the mall in DC in which faced the Capitol. This was the Million Man March that was a very popular event that brought out many people. I would describe both events as lectures that were powerful and time put to good use.

African Americans always had a great influence in the United States throughout time from the beginning of slavery. African Americans, since the start of slavery, always expressed themselves artistically, where it was through music or art. From making patchwork quilts, slaves used their artistic expression to help conduct the Underground Railroad and escape slavery. To be defined as “illiterate savages” African Americas proved many wrong with their exceptional skills presented in many different styles of artwork. From slavery throughout the 19th century, there were a great number of African Americans whom contributed to the United States through artistic expression, with creating artwork that would either be judged or discredited. For example, Robert S. Duncanson, Edward M. Bannister, Mary Edmonia Lewis, and Henry Ossawa Tanner were all 19th century African American artists who each faced their own individual challenges to achieve acclaim as artists.

1853 there was eighty-six documented galleries, which had women and children working in them, really changed the times. Around this time, there were document African American operators which seems counterproductive, as acrimonious slaves would be photographing and documenting the slave trade as well as high profile crime trials of relevancy. Post mortem portraits became prevalent as well as the documentation of the different interesting landscapes, for instance Niagara Falls was shown in the chapter with a group of folks standing in the foreground enjoying the view. The American Daguerrotypists made the sites commonly unseen by most, available. Such a Hawaii, Mexico, Philippines and South America. They were also able to introduce Photography as it was then known to the people of

African cinema has certain aesthetics and politics that differ from cinema within the United States. The politics and aesthetics of African film tends to reference themes of liberation, self identity and allegories referring to colonialism. Three films that were viewed in class this year that display each of these politics are Lumumba, Pieces D'Identites, and Afrique, Je Te Plumerai.

The African art had a major influenced in the west. Artists were encourage to break out from naturalism. In about 1905, the African American art reached Europe. African art was a source of inspiration for artists as Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, and Amedeo Modigliani. The African art inspired these western artists to break the norms. They were allowed to be more creative.

African American class is one of my favorite classes. I have learned some new things about the African American art history during the 20th century. Also, I have known some of the important artist, and being able to discover their lives. However, one of those artists was George Washington Carver, who was a American botanist and inventor. He was a Muslim scientist. He was born into slavery in Missouri in 1864. He has a wild reputation because he had changed the way that poor family lives on. In addition, Carver had made some recherché about promotion of alternative crops to cotton, such as peanuts and sweet potatoes. He also had developed many products that made from peanuts, and that were useful for the house and farm, including cosmetics,

At the time the painting was being made the world war ii was going on. There wasnt nessisarily an event going on that was a concern to artist that is known, but there was a problem. The artist Archibald Motley was concern of how african americans viewed themseleves. “He believed that seeing themselves in art would help african americans feel pride in their own racial identities; on the other, he hoped that seeing beautiful contemporary black subjects would dispel stereotypes and undermind racism” He wanted african americans to look at themselves and be able to say they were proud to be black and didnt see themselves as a streotype.

African Art does not have specific date to which it evolved because most early African Art was carved in wood, which perished quickly. This is why most art dates from the 19th and early 20th century. Many 20th century artists admired and collected pieces of African Art. They enjoyed the bold color, expression, and form that produced a new beginning in art history. African Art was mostly dedicated to life affirming activities such as healing, pleasure, protection, and transformation.

African Art does not have a particular date to which it evolved due to most early African Art was carved in wood, which perished rapidly (Gascoigne, 2009). This is one of the main reason most art dates starts from the nineteenth and mid twentieth century. Numerous twentieth century artists respected and gathered pieces of African Art because they appreciated the bold color, expression, and structure that created a fresh start in arts history. African Art was generally committed to life, confirming activities, such as, recovering, joy, assurance, and change.

Warhol simply took everyday items and transformed them into amazing pop art pieces: To create his pieces, Warhol put himself upon the task of discovering not only what most stood out in modern art, but he also looked at what was popular. He realized that the many Americans shopped for food frequently and he set it upon himself to create an extensive line of supermarket merchandises. His line of merchandise art compromised of price tags, Bristol boxes as well as a banana, and Coca-Cola bottles .Warhol’s 1962 creation of Coca Cola Bottles gained popularity because the bottles an everyday item for an average American. Many people could identify with the products’. “Warhol used to identify the nature of the great American society, anonymous and consumerist, devoted to conformism and with a pride in unanimity, was the ubiquitous Coca Cola bottle- “(Copestone 12). To Warhol, a Coca Cola bottle seemed so simple but, also a universal icon in the United States. After taking hints from the public in the mid-twentieth century, Warhol was able to do what numerous artists attempted to do but failed. Warhol extracted some of his ideas from other artists and built upon them in his work. I would like to say Warhol put a coming to age culture on canvas and transformed pop art it its entirety. One such art piece onto which Warhol used another artist’s idea is his Details of Renaissance Paintings (Sandro Botticelli, Birth of Venus, 1482) Warhol made this piece, an intriguing illustration of

Africa has a rich heritage of paintings and arts dating back to centuries, and the history of African paintings makes for a fascinating and rich account. Known for being very vast, diverse, unique and historic just like Africa, African paintings brings color and style to the home. Among the different native artwork, the most colorful and beautiful are the African art paintings and the prints. Not to mention, these paintings depict the life of the village scenes in Africa that involves everyday things that people do such as cooking, children playing among others. In addition, there are also paintings that have majestic and alluring wildlife like lions, rhinos, elephants and many more. Whether you are buying African American painting or African

African art has played an important role in the culture of the world. The sculpture is the most common traditional culture expression for the African art. The different sculptures are shown by their local styles and they serve for the specific functions, such as religion. From some of these old art pieces, we figure out this kind of traditional culture expression already existed in the African for such a long time. In this paper, the art piece I am going to analyze is the Female Figure with Child and it made by Akan-Asante people. The Akan people of Ghana have been recognized for their various and attractive culture and it located in what are today Ivory Coast and the republic of Ghana in Western African. The Akan people are combined by different groups, such as the Anyi, Akawpim, Akyem, Aowin and Asante, and these people have their own dialect, but they share a lingua franca, which called Twi. The sculpture I choose could effectively reflect its own distinctive culture, because of the social connection reflect on the royalty, the comparison with other local art pieces, like Akuaba fertility dolls and its specific art form.

During the mid 19th century up until the Great War of 1914, European countries began to heavily colonize and come into contact with African nations. This was called "new imperialism". During this contact, European culture was influenced by Africa. The influence of the African people can be seen in the European society of the time. In the 19th and 20th centuries, modern artists embraced African art for its lack of pretension or formal qualities.