African Sculpture

Sculpture is the art of carving, modeling, welding, or otherwise producing figurative or abstract works of art in three dimensions according to dictionary.com.  African sculptures are usually representations of human form and are mainly produce from wood but are also artificial and carved from stone. African sculpture in the 1800 – 1900 was composed of wood because it was the most malleable. The sculptors did use other materials some examples are clay, metal, ivory, stone and terracotta, but wood was the accessible one.  There are many different forms of African sculpture the good thing about them is we are able to find out where they came from and what type of culture they had. The sculptures give us perceptive on what the tribal communities where doing during that time. Below is an example of an African sculpture during the 1900s.

   

                                                                                                                                                 
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