African Art Answers

What do individuals from the Ivory Coast believe about the spirit world?

What material was often used in African art to depict people of power?

What African method of demonstrating status can be seen in the image above?

What do the artist’s modern art forms and colors represent in the image above? a. the pain and suffering of the people from her country b. movement and change, not only in her own life, but in the life of the African people c. a modern interpretation of the Ethiopian cloths Please select the best answer from the choices provided

In the bwami system of the Lega people, what did the masks do?

How is death viewed in African culture?a.a rite of passageb.a transition process in which loved ones go from one world to the nextc.a celebrationd.a cause for mourning

Where is the artist of the painting above originally from?

What do the patterns on the wall panels seen above symbolize?

How is art used in African initiation rituals?

What would be a good occasion to give a biiga doll?