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To talk about the art of africa and the history of african art takes us back to the origins of humanity.
The cradle of civilization, the first signs of human cognition, of interacting with the material world and creating visual symbols that represent and interpret them.
When we talk abot the art of africa let us consider that we are talking about hundreds of thousands of years when human consciousness evolved in isolation from the rest of the world.
From the Rift Valley in today’s Kenya and Tanzania, the first modern human migrations spread to the whole of the African continent.
An extension covering about 30 million square meters -, creating the first language groups, the four proto-languages from which the about 2000 native languages spoken today in Africa originated.
The artistic ability and the recognition and representation of the environment found in rock art throughout Africa are proof that art, like humanity, was born in Africa.
african art history
It is important to emphasize the longevity of the history of art in Africa because including the art of africa in the History of Art is recent.
History of Art as a field of study created in the 18th century was essentially Eurocentric, placing African art and the art of other continents in the fields of anthropology and archaeology.
This was a strategy in tune with the mentality of the time when European nations were asserting themselves as colonizing powers and taking responsibility for the so-called civilizing missions.
Scientific theories that placed European men on top of a biological and cultural hierarchy of races justified this.
Politics and science mutually supported each other in the formulation of theories to facilitate the scramble and colonization of Africa determined by the Berlin Conference of 1884.
For historians of art, focused on European art production and aesthetics, african art appeared suddenly, initially by the hand of anthropologists and European collectors-
And later in the artistic revolution that inspired modern painters and sculptors from around the world, leading them to break the aesthetic norms that up to then guided European concepts of art.
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