Change and African Art

That artists working in Africa should have changed their styles as well as their techniques during the course of the twentieth century should not be surprising, for nearly every other aspect of African society and culture were affected during the last century, and it should be startling indeed if the art did not change to reflect those changes - including arguably the two most important changes in African society during the century, which was the end of colonization by European powers, and the onslaught of AIDS. However, this said, it should also be noted that many aspects of African art in the twentieth century did not change: Art continues to be used in African societies (for of course the continent is far from homogeneous culturally) for practical and 'sthetic as well as ritual reasons. The line between the practical and the artistic that is so strong in many European traditions is less so in African traditions, although this has become less so as the century progressed and African artists adopted (at least in some contexts) concepts about art from Western consumers.

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