ARH 2000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 20: African Art, Teotihuacan, Lady Xoc

• School: SCFMS, SCF
• Department: Art History
• Course: ARH 2000
• Professor: Katherine Bzura

Document Summary

Africa - the art style of the african continent is extremely varied. Is larger than the u. s. , china, and europe combined; humanity originated in africa. However, most ancient art was made from perishable materials, therefore little remains. Miners in central nigeria unearthed the oldest surviving examples of sub-saharan art. They were made in terra cotta and range from a height of a few inches to life- size. They had finely decorated hair ornaments and facial features show that they worked with clay in a semi-hard state through subtraction and carving. It has a vivid facial expression, but also abstractions in the eyes & nose. Yoruba - a naturalistic style of court portraiture was developed for the royal court of ife. They used bronze lost-wax casting + represents generations of technical progress. These people also had a tradition of figural wood carving that makes use of diminutive proportions and almond-shaped parts.