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African Art

Styleish mordern day art is diffrent from african art. The word "Africa" comes from the word affpria meaning jungle.

human figure evidence of african contact?

I find the sentence in the first section surprising, absolutist and probably incorrect. Certainly impossible to prove: "In historical periods involving trade between Africa and Europe, the introduction of the human body into existing European pottery and other art forms can reliably be taken as evidence of contact with African cultures". An astonishing claim and quite unreliable: in fact the human figure has been a feature of every culture's canon of art forms that I can think of since prehistory and certainly since before trade contact with Africa. There are plenty of European examples of direct representation of the human figure long before regular trade links with Africa were established. Lgh (talk) 10:47, 16 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Help Needed on the History of Art page

Hi all, I don't know enough to make a good intro paragraph on African art, but wanted to point out to you all that the History of Art page could use some of your help. There is no good information under the African section except for a link to here. --TravisNygard (talk) 23:41, 24 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

NEEDS MAJOR REFORM

The article does have some merit - there are many useful hints at where it could go. But it needs attention from experts, not only in the field, but in the creation of wikipedia articles. One for the future...Ackees (talk) 15:19, 3 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I would like to reinforce the statement of Ackees. I'm not an expert, but even the POV is personal here: "For this reason I have used [...]. I have used the name [...] This distinction may or may not be valid historically and ethnographically.." Not to speak of typos. I can contribute somehow (e.g. editing typos...), but can please some admin organise some copy-editing, rewriting, and crosslinking? I don't know any African anthropologists, and only one non-African anthropologists working in Africa. It would be great to ask someone who could integrate some expert knowledge and a neutral (i.e. non-eurocentric, but also non-nationalist/ethnocentic) viewpoint. --Botanischwili (talk) 19:25, 4 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Picture positioning

I noticed two issues: there is a Yoruba bronze casting of Oduduwa in the Dogon section, and at the very bottom there is a Makonde ebony carving in the Egyptian section. Afro-Eurasian (talk) 04:44, 7 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Art of Burkina Faso

I have started this, moving off 13Kb of nice stuff that was too detailed for here, but keeping the "lead". It needs images and wikifying over there. One day the Mali sections need the same treatment. Meanwhile the rest of the article here remains a very poor jumble. Johnbod (talk) 16:50, 14 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Too Reactionary

The POV and tone of this article needs reworked, it seems very "interested" in what Europeans or other groups thought of African Art. Obviously this is a reaction to slavery and colonialism, but the article on African Art should be more about African Art, and less about trying to demonstrate that it is not inferior to other forms. Perhaps someone who is not emotionally invested in the issue should write the article to be more informative and less POV. For example, I'm sure there are plenty of African people who think that Classical music is terrible, but no where on the classical musical article does it say: "Although, Africans disliked european music espspecially from the baroque period, it has now been accepted has a valuable tradition and style" This page should be about African Art not what certain groups of Europeans may or may not have thought about the art they were exposed to in the past. TheBookishOne (talk) 00:12, 1 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Citations

I added some much needed citations in this articleKalemckean (talk) 07:28, 15 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Plagiarism

Some parts of this articles are directly lifted from the New World Encyclopedia. http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/African_Art Librarianhelen (talk) 03:52, 26 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Au contraire! "New World Encyclopedia writers and editors rewrote and completed the Wikipedia article in accordance with New World Encyclopedia standards..." Johnbod (talk) 04:49, 26 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
It seems to me that this is both potentially conflict of interest as well as self-plagiarism. The New World Encyclopedia should at very least be cited. Entire sections are used verbatim. If the New World Encyclopedia is copyrighted material, it doesn't matter that the authors copy and pasted their own content here. I believe I am right in saying that it is still a violation. Librarianhelen (talk) 14:37, 26 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Huge, completely unsourced section under "Zambia"

There's a huge (nearly 1,600 words!), completely unsourced section under the heading "Contemporary African Art: By country: Zambia" that needs to be pared-down and properly sourced, or removed entirely. It is filled with weasel-words and PR-speak, such as "Zambia is arguably home to some of the world's most creative and talented artists" and "works of art that are often staggering in their scope" -- and those from just the first (of eight!) paragraph. It seems to focus on one particular organization, the Lechwe Trust, for which a Google search returns only a few hundred hits that don't point to some form of Wikimedia, or their own website. I would prefer it if the editor who added this section would take care of Wikifying it and reducing it in proportion to what is appropriate to the rest of the article, but if that doesn't happen, it should be removed entirely. Bricology (talk) 20:57, 1 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Where is the Traditional African religion section?

You cannot talk about African art and its history without mentioning the Traditional African religions. I am shocked that perhaps the most important aspect of this article has been overlooked. I am creating a section for it - and history would fall under that section. That section can be expanded of course with time, and it would be immensely helpful if fellow editors can help with that expansion. Senegambianamestudy (talk) 23:34, 17 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Can someone add Sudan to the template about African art?

Hello, I have written two articles about art in Sudan: Visual arts of Sudan and Architecture of Sudan. Can someone add these to the template for African art? Thanks, Munfarid1 (talk) 12:26, 22 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I tried, but it is wierdly/wrongly set up. Johnbod (talk) 14:13, 22 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]
User:Finnusertop may be the one responsible. Only the art one should be added here. Johnbod (talk) 14:18, 22 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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