Essays on African Art

Transnationalism and performance art are currently phenomena that have a major holding and influence on art in the contemporary era. The notions of transnationalism and performance art have an integral role in regards with both the content of individual works produced, along with the rationale...

In this essay, I would like to discuss how African art has changed and inspire European art. African art is a beautiful and deeply interesting kind of art, full of traditions and spirituality. During the time this art has influenced a lot of artists to...

Chinese revolutionary Mao Zedong is quoted as having said that a Chinese man has three mountains on his back. The first is colonial oppression, the second is the oppression of tradition, and the third is his own backwardness. A woman, however, has a fourth mountain...

African art is known to be different by any Western art tradition, simply because African art is created on the basis that the form and the aesthetic of the work come second behind the actual function of the work. A prime example of this is...

Literature started to evolve since people started to write and express their ideas. Not everything that is expressed in words is considered as a work of art, but when the ideas are collected and written in an organized manner it is counted as literature. As...

Africa, as a continent, has been of very little appeal and remained very much unnoticed. The Portuguese search, on route to the Indies and East, led to ‘modern’ European interference with the African continent, around 1450. The Dutch, the Spaniards, the French, the English and...

“Africa’s not a continent, but a country.” Often people refer to African food, African culture, African language or even the African art. Many individuals make assumptions that Africa is a single country, such individuals are not aware that Africa is the second largest continent in...

Decolonizing the mind is the fruit of a long debate about which language African literature should be written in, which continues today. The writer argues that the assumption of the language of the colonizer meant accepting his vision of the world; “Language was the most...

Being that the University of Florida is home to a large and diverse population, it comes to no surprise that the Harn Museum of Art, located on the outskirts of the university’s campus, successfully captures, and represents the diversity found within the university through its...

Throughout Gainesville, there are many opportunities regarding diversity that tie into the art that is shown in the Harn Museum here at the University of Florida. Specifically, the African Art collection within the museum offers multiple pieces of art that act as both beautiful lessons...