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Name  African Art -- The World And The Spirits
Price, USD  10500.00
Status  For sale, available
Size, cm  40.0 x 45.0 cm /switch
Artist  UCHENNA IHEAGWU
Year made  1930-03-21
Edition  Limited
Style   All Styles
Theme   Spirituality
Media   Sculpture
Charcoal
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The West African nations like Benin, modern-day Nigeria, Ivory Coast, etc were in contact with Portuguese and other Europeans from the 1500's onward. These wealthy kingdoms deeply impressed the first whites to reach them. Their art was the first to reach Europe and accounts for much of our preconceived notions of what "African Art" looks like!

The legacy of the great kingdoms of Ife and Benin is a style of art that is close to Greek & Roman -- and for that reason, remains today very accessible to Western tastes. The same techniques of stone carving, bronze casting and terracotta modelling had evolved in West Africa as in the ancient Mediterranean.

More than that, art of the Ife period shared an aesthetic with Hellenistic art -- a striving for realism and humanism. It showed beautiful people and produced objects made to please the senses. It was art created for a wealthy court where kings used it to enhance their status and adorn their persons.
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