This refers to a sequence of events, which could be strokes on a drum, chords on a guitar, or words in a songs.
What is rhythm?
100
Vertical lines in a work of art create a sense of power and stability while horizontal lines suggest a feeling of peace or tranquility and curving or jagged lines create a sense of this.
What is activity or movement?
100
This is the most basic of art processes and includes the common tools of pencils, pens, ink, charcoal, and crayons.
What is drawing?
100
They guard the major musical and oral traditions of the Mande people.
Who are jelis?
100
This building serves as the home of the king and is also a popular tourist attraction due to its displays of royal objects such as clothing, weaponry, sculptures, masks, and beaded thrones.
What is the Royal Palace of Foumban?
200
This refers to the speed of a piece of music, whether we perceive it as fast, slow, or shades in between.
What is tempo?
200
Placing larger objects lower in the picture plane and smaller objects higher in the picture plane is just one way artists can create this in their artwork.
What is perspective?
200
This quick drying paint is made from synthetic materials such as plastics and polymers and was developed after World War II.
What is acrylic?
200
Toumani Diabate plays this instrument which allows him to play four lines of music at the same time.
What is the kora?
200
This object represents the ideals of feminine beauty in the Chokwe culture and is an important part of a masquerade about the bond between mothers and sons.
What is the Pwo mask?
300
This occurs when two conflicting rhythmic patterns are present simultaneously.
What is polyrhythm?
300
This is a term that refers to the artist's organization of the elements of art in either two or three dimensional works.
What is composition?
300
These three ingredients make up paint.
What are pigments, binders, and solvents?
300
Oumou Sangare's song "Moussolou" strays from traditional themes of praising political leaders patrons by focusing on this.
What is women's empowerment?
300
This object is aggressive in nature and is intended to discover and punish criminals or to avenge a wrong. It marked after every successful ritual by driving metal fragments into it.
What is a Nkondi (Nail Figure)?
400
This happens once sound is introduced in-between an established steady beat.
What is off-beat phrasing?
400
This refers to the lightness or darkness of a hue when an artist adds white or black to a color.
What is value?
400
This is a printmaking process in which the image is drawn with a waxy pencil or crayon directly on a plate, which can be made of stone, zinc, or aluminum.
What is lithography?
400
This instrument, consisting of twelve wooden slats resting on banana trunk supports, is played be three performers at the same time.
What is the amadinda?
400
The sculpture is located on the top of cane belonging to the Yombe king and is decorated to with imagery designed to show the authority of the chief.
What is the Finial of a Royal Scepter?
500
This refers to the color or quality of a sound that lets us tell the difference between musical instruments.
What is timbre?
500
This is an illusion of a textured surface in artwork.
What is visual texture?
500
This process in intaglio printmaking adds the design to the surface of a metal plate through a layer of wax or varnish which has been eaten away by acid.
What is etching?
500
This instrument is known as the hunter's harp and has evolved into a smaller, more accessible version over the years.
What is the dons ngoni?
500
This highly simplified and stylized sculpture of a head acts as a vessel to the spirit world as it was once attached to a special box that contained the bones of one's ancestors.