Art Forms
The first known form of African art
What is Rock Art?
How far back rock art is approximately dated
What is 50,000 years ago?
Where the oldest images of African art are
What is Namibia?
Main feature of modern Central African art
What is The Human Figure?
Only material of sculptures that withstood termites
What is Cast Metal?
Earliest known sculptures
What is Terracotta Pottery?
Century that European artists were obsessed with African art
What is The 20th Century?
Location of the Igbo-Ukwu tribe
What is Nigeria?
Modern art form influenced by African sculptors
What is Cubism?
What is Pure Copper?
The primary art form of sub-Saharan Africa
What are Wood Sculptures?
Range of years the Terracotta queen with headdress sculpture was found
What is 1000-1300 AD?
Location of the Yoruba people
What is Benin?
Main surface of buildings influenced by visual effects of decorative patterning
What are exterior walls?
Materials used to make the earliest known sculptures
What are Grog and Clay?
Most common art forms that helps give chronological order of African art history
What are textiles and weights?
Year the Lyndenburg Heads were found
What is 500 AD?
Where the earliest known sculpture fragments are from
What is Nigeria?
What is Psychology?
Material used to make sculpted heads from Yoruba people
What is Brass?
Name for sculpted heads made from the Yoruba people
What are Benin Bronzes?
Year the earliest surviving sub-Saharan wood sculpture was found (Can be range +/- 5 years)
What is 1928?
What is Central Angola?
Last name of one of the architects influenced by African decorations
Who/What is Niemeyer? or Who/What is Corbusier?
Material of weights from the Akan of Ghana
What are Copper and Brass?