African arts typically describes art from the sub Saharan Africa region. African arts can be made of wood, ivory, animal hide, cowrie, raffia(plant fibre) and a host of other stuff.
African arts are usually very expressive and are inclusive of African culture to give a layperson an understanding of the continent's cultural diversity.
Did you know? At the start of the twentieth century,
artists like Picasso , Matisse , Vincent van
Gogh, Paul Gauguin and Modigliani
became aware of, and inspired by, African
art.
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