12/11/2020

African Traditional Art

Learning Objective: Explore traditional African art and discover how
traditional African art has an impact on culture.

Starter: Traditional art describes the most popular and studied forms of African art which are
typically found in museum collections. Wooden masks, which might either be of human, animal
or legendary creatures

Reading activity done in lesson

Main task:
I choose to talk about their sculptures in general African sculpture represents human form,
occasionally animal or both (as in a totem figure) and may be spiritual in nature.

I believe it is cultural and religious because they believe it is representing themselves and their spirits
and what they would be as an animal

Why do you think that so much detail went into the artwork of Ancient Africa?

Many African cultures emphasize the importance of ancestors as intermediaries

between the living, the gods, and the supreme creator, and art is seen to contact these spirits of
ancestors.