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Sensory, naturalistic, and humanistic expressions. Although many Indian theories of aesthetics disparage the realm of sensory experience as mere illusion, Indian artists continue too employ sensory materials and to display them for the enjoyment of others (The same can be said of medieval Christian art and aesthetics.). In trying to explain the arts, supernaturalists tend to feel that they reflect a divine Creator..
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The sites of Florin, Esie, and Owo. To the north, in the Florin area, the artistic impact of Islām can be seen in house posts and other secular sculptures carved in geometric forms. Nearby is Esie, where about 800 sculptures in soapstone were found by the local Yoruba population some centuries ago. Their origin is obscure: a few features can be paralleled at Nok, others at Ice, others at Jena and at Igbo Ukwu; ...
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Anyi, Fanti and Brong. The Anyi separated from Ashanti in the second half of the 19th century. In the area, terra-cotta heads and figures have been found which are thought to be commemorative and to date from the 19th century Their queen-mother figures, carved in wood, have great elegance. There Fanti make dolls with tall, rectangular heads.. The Brong have a special reputation as skilled brass casters.
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Temne. The art of the Temne has been little studied; one very elegant female figure has been repeatedly illustrated, and a few striking masks that resemble the hippopotamus are known. These masks are reportedly used by member software the Rabble, or m=Maneke, society on the death of a chief.
Mende and Sherbro. The Mende are best known for smooth, black, cloche-shaped bunda masks (see Figure-1), representing...
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Mende and Sherbro. The Mende are best known for smooth, black, cloche-shaped bunda masks (see Figure-1), representing...
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Groups in the Cameroon grasslands area. The Cameroon grasslands area can be divided into three stylistic areas. The Bamileke area is composed of a number of separate chiefdoms, the best known being the Gangwa and the Bacham. Hunan figures are composed of a highly expressive blend of rounded and angular forms. The Baum, a large kingdom whose dynasty is from Tikal, has developed roundness of sculptural form almost...
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Ago. The most important of the groups known from relatively few pieces is the Afo, who live just north of the confluence of the Niger and Benue rivers. Best know for mother-and-child figures, which apparently represent the tutelary spirit of the village, their carvings have been found among many of their neighbours. They also employ enormous bush-cow masks covered with detachable small figures; high abstracted...
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Nafana. The Nafana and their neighbours use flat masks known as bedu, which appear in pairs, the male about five and the female about seven feet (150 and 210 centimetres, respectively) tall. They appear every night for a month at the winter solstice, blessing every house in the village against disease and misfortune. They are also used for funerals.
Fulami. The Fulani are basically nomadic pastoralists who ...
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Fulami. The Fulani are basically nomadic pastoralists who ...
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Bambara, Malinke, and Marka. The Bambara have six societies to which males can belong, and each has its own type of mask, The Ntomo is for your boys before circumcision. their masks have a line of vertical projections placed transversely over the human face, representing man as God firs created him. The Komo is the custodian of tradition and is concerned with all aspects of community life—agriculture, judicial ...
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Architecture. The traditional architecture of the Sudan consist of a basic unit, the cylindrical mud hut with a conical thatched roof, which may stand completely alone, as among the Tiv, or be grouped into compounds with separate huts connected by a wall, as among the Dagomba. The walls of the individual huts, commonly decorated by painting or low-receive decoration, are often built upon a ring of stones,...
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Sculpture. The earliest known sculpture of large size in the Sudan is that produced in terra-cotta by the Non culture, which flourished extensively in northern Nigeria from the 5th century BC into the early centuries AD figure 13). these people were the first-known manufacturers of iron in Western Africa, furnaces at Taruga having been dated between the 5th and early 3rd centuries BC; they continued, however, ...
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Style. Attempts have been made to define a "primary" style of sculpture in Africa—a style which, although in contemporary use, is thought to have survived from the earliest period of African woo sculpture. Usually this "primary" style is equated with pole sculpture (Figure 11), in which a minimum amount of wood is removed from a piece of tree trunk to convey an impression of a human figure, with facial features...
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