AFRICAN ART

KEY FACTS:

• AFRICAN ART IS PRIMARILY CONCERNED WITH THEIR RELIGIOUS BELIEFS

• THEY WERE INTENDED TO PERSUADE THE GODS TO HELP

• MASKS REPRESENT POWERFUL SPIRITS OF LEGENDARY TRIBAL ANCESTORS

• MANY WERE PART OF ELABORATE COSTUMES

• THE MASKS MIGHT BE USED TO CALL FOR RAIN IN TIMES OF DROUGHT OT TO WARD OFF EVIL AND SICKNESS

• superb website for African art with annotation , work your way through the steps to the exhibition with its notes. http://www.lib.virginia.edu/clemons/RMC/exhib/93.ray.aa/African.html

KEY WORDS:

PATTERN

TEXTURE

COLOUR

FORM

KEY ACTIVITIES:

1. USING THE INFORMATION ABOVE TO HELP YOU, WRITE ABOUT THE MASK YOU HAVE DRAWN or THE MASK IMAGE YOU HAVE DOWN LOADED . INCLUDE WHAT YOU THINK IT IS MADE FROM, MADE FOR, COLOUR AND TEXTURE.

2. THE MASK WOULD HAVE BEEN PART OF A WHOLE COSTUME. DESIGN A COSTUME THAT YOU THINK MIGHT HAVE BEEN WORN.,MAKE IT APPROPRIATE TO THE MASK. USE COLOUR.

3. CHOOSE AN ARE OF THE MASK WHICH HAS BOTH TEXTURE AND PATTERN. DRAW THIS TO FILL A 20CM SQUARE. USE PENCIL TO ADD TONE, TEXTURE AND DETAIL.