Another popular storytelling style in African children's art is depicting scenes from everyday life. These scenes usually ...

It makes sense then that while his work is a contemporary response to traditional African art, he isn’t looking to offer answers or explanations. Instead, Audu lets his abstract art speak for ...

demonstrating that African Americans could hold their own in the abstract genre at a time when they were under public pressure to produce figurative art describing the black experience.

African art was wild, African depictions were abstract, and African masks were made of wood. British Museum curator Chris Spring says the discovery changed Western ideas of African art.

and wood (ironwood), were recently shown along with his abstract wooden sculptures (titled Seed) at the FNB Joburg Art Fair in South Africa by Botswana’s Ora Laopi contemporary art gallery and ...

Here, she paints herself gazing directly out at the viewer, surrounded by a Mbuya mask of the Pende Culture of Congo on the left and a framed abstract ... art in general — rooted in African ...

By experimenting with global inspirations, including West African craft traditions ... images of “socialized black trauma as art.” Why is making abstract work important to you?

The sale of the work is indicative of the strong interest in contemporary African art, which is now seeing a growing market for abstract work. "We are moving beyond that initial phase to something ...