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European museums typically were founded as state institutions and thus their collections and displays were shaped by national interests. African art and artifacts were mostly displayed in an ethnological context. The appreciation of African objects purely as fine art in Europe was largely limited to private galleries in the early twentieth century.
[49] According to Grohs, the numerous illustrations also served commercial purposes, as the depiction of African art in catalogues considerably increased the value of a sculpture on the fine art market. [50] Overall, Grohs believes that the current interest in African art is determined by the public interest in Europe and America.
Mask from Gabon Two Chiwara c. late 19th early 20th centuries, Art Institute of Chicago.Female (left) and male, vertical styles. Most African sculpture from regions south of the Sahara was historically made of wood and other organic materials that have not survived from earlier than a few centuries ago, while older pottery figures are found from a number of areas.
The term African dance refers mainly to the dances of subsaharan Africa. The music and dances of northern Africa and the Sahara are generally more closely connected to those of the Near East. Also the dances of immigrants of European and Asian descent (e.g. in South Africa) are not covered by this article.
African art had an important influence on European Modernist art, [10] which was inspired by their interest in abstract depiction. It was this appreciation of African sculpture that has been attributed to the very concept of "African art", as seen by European and American artists and art historians. [11]
A typical colon statue in the collection of the Tropenmuseum. Colon statues, a term derived from the French statues colon ("colon" is the French noun for a colonist), are a genre of wooden figurative sculpture within African art which originated during the colonial period. [1]
The sculptures were first shown to the public in 1905. [3] From east to west, the statues depict larger-than-life-size personifications of Asia, America, Europe, and Africa. [6] [3] The primary figures are female, but there are also auxiliary human figures flanking each primary figure. In addition, Asia's figure is paired with a tiger, and ...
African sculptures in the British Museum (9 P) C. Sculptures in Cameroon (1 C) E. Sculptures in Egypt (5 C) M. Malawian sculpture (1 C) Masks in Africa (1 C, 19 P) N.