Chapter 4 'African Arts'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVT--v-fAKw
Art represents artist different types of emotion and feelings within their work.The most important thing to me that African art symbolizes is their culture and emotion. From years back into ancient Africa Nok art was very popular in Nigeria, some artifacts even as old as 2,000 to 2,500 years old. Most Nok artifacts were sculptures of heads with different types of expressions on them. The part that stuck out the most on the sculptures were their lips,nose and eyes. The heads of the art work were mostly likely to be life size which made it more realistic.
Another unique type of African art was the African dance,different dances between different tribes symbolized much more then how Americans look at dancing today. To the Africans dancing was used to demonstrate many different types of emotion,ways to communicate and also used to catch the attention of others.Much like our local and modern day dance class or you tube videos to show us how to dance, each tribe normally has instructor's to teach the younger kids how to dance.African dancing is taken to a much more competitive level with decorating their body's with different types of paint and other equipment. What I also found oddly interesting was that their was a routine for funerals that had dancing in the ceremony. Here in the United states we are all about moment of silence of that we can reflect on the individuals life but in Africa they play a store of the deceased member's life which tells their upbringing.One last thing that also caught my attention was the fact that most of their dances were normally involving the same sex, where here in America it would seem odd for two men to dance together.
Another unique type of African art was the African dance,different dances between different tribes symbolized much more then how Americans look at dancing today. To the Africans dancing was used to demonstrate many different types of emotion,ways to communicate and also used to catch the attention of others.Much like our local and modern day dance class or you tube videos to show us how to dance, each tribe normally has instructor's to teach the younger kids how to dance.African dancing is taken to a much more competitive level with decorating their body's with different types of paint and other equipment. What I also found oddly interesting was that their was a routine for funerals that had dancing in the ceremony. Here in the United states we are all about moment of silence of that we can reflect on the individuals life but in Africa they play a store of the deceased member's life which tells their upbringing.One last thing that also caught my attention was the fact that most of their dances were normally involving the same sex, where here in America it would seem odd for two men to dance together.
This video is very interesting and very much caught my attention! I also did my chapter on African art and I must say, mine is no where near as informal as this! There was a lot I did not know or realize about Nok art or any of the arts for that matter! I love how you found an informal video that explained everything about the art and all of its history and founders. I also did not know the Nok civilization was the first to discover iron, and that by just heating a rock they were able to melt iron. I enjoyed watching this video and learning stuff I never knew before. Something that would’ve helped was if you were to at least write a brief paragraph summarizing the video. Also, if you were to include a title of the video so everyone could get a glimpse on what was expected IN the video that would be a big help. Although I have no complaints, very good job!
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