Ideas from Art of the Americas before 1300 and African Art before 1800. Americas before 1300 1. American art before 1300

Ideas from Art of the Americas before 1300 and African Art before 1800.

Americas before 1300

1. American art before 1300 was a relationship between spiritual and religious faith since it was seen in monumental architecture like the Inca and Maya civilizations, which is seen in myths and depicted gods. (Pearson, 2008).

2. There was advanced use of techniques and materials, such as pottery and metallurgy, in the Andean culture, which shows the high-quality skills and aesthetics of the people.

3. Art was a social and political expression where the leaders and elites used public works like the colossal heads that asserted authority using the arts.

African Art before 1800.

1. The art had ceremonial and functional purposes, and the textiles, masks, and sculptures were used in religious and social ceremonies. Examples in the Benin kingdom and the Yoruba in West Africa.

2. There was diversity in African art observed in a wide range of techniques and materials in different cultures, for example, the bronze casting in Benin or beadwork from the Zulu, which showed rich culture. (Greer & Bilinkoff 2015). 

3. The art used elements of nature and ancestral religion, which shows deities, ancestors and animals that mediated between the spiritual and physical world, showing the roles of community in traditional societies. 

References

Greer, A., & Bilinkoff, J. (2015). Colonial Saints: Discovering the Holy in the Americas, 1500–1800. Routledge.

Pearson, P. (2008). The world of the Atlantic before the “Atlantic World”: Africa, Europe, and the Americas before 1450. The Atlantic World 1450–2000, 3-26.