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Much African folk art consists of metal objects due in part to the cultural status of forging as a "process that is likened to the creation of life itself." [ 1 ] While in the past ceremonial pieces were exchanged as part of social rituals (i.e. marriage), today in Senegal , metal objects are recycled as utilitarian African folk art.
The study of African art until recently focused on the traditional art of certain well-known groups on the continent, with a particular emphasis on traditional sculpture, masks and other visual culture from non-Islamic West Africa, Central Africa, [16] and Southern Africa with a particular emphasis on the 19th and 20th centuries. Recently ...
The makers of folk art are typically trained within a popular tradition, rather than in the fine art tradition of the culture. There is often overlap, or contested ground [1] with 'naive art'. "Folk art" is not used in regard to traditional societies where ethnographic art continue to be made. The types of objects covered by the term "folk art ...
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High-backed stool, Kami ethnic group, late 19th century, Musée des Confluences, Lyon Tanzania. Masterworks of African Sculpture (German: Tanzania. Meisterwerke afrikanischer Skulptur; Swahili: Sanaa za Mabingwa wa Kiafrika) was an art exhibition of traditional African sculptures originating from the mainland region of modern Tanzania.
Nellie Mae Rowe (July 4, 1900 – October 18, 1982) [1] was an African-American artist from Fayette County, Georgia.Although she is best known today for her colorful works on paper, Rowe worked across mediums, creating drawings, collages, altered photographs, hand-sewn dolls, home installations and sculptural environments.
Sister Gertrude Morgan (April 7, 1900 – July 8, 1980) [1] [2] was a self-taught African-American artist, musician, poet and preacher. Born in LaFayette, Alabama, she relocated to New Orleans in 1939, where she lived and worked until her death in 1980. [3]
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.