1. The videos that I watched for this assignment were 1. African art and secondly African art: legacy of oppression. I selected these two videos because I am a child of African decent , I am a first generation Nigerian and I felt like these videos would give me some type of deeper insight to what African art is and how it started and things like that .
2. For the first video " African art " I learned a lot about the representation of African art and where it comes from and mainly what it is for . Ain't this video it was explained that African art is not just art or not just a craft but it it is expressed as and is used for so much more , like everyday tools . Though there are art pieces that have grown fond to the public and are in museums around the world , most art is used to go about everyday life. In the second video I learned more about about the glorification and forms of African art. For instance the fact that in Central African most Africa glorified their mothers and sometimes their Chiefs. A lot of artist made masks for countries that believed in magic , for example the bosh culture believed in masks that were created to intimidate their enemies but stopped using them once they realized the " magic " was not worki in their favor .
3. The videos that I watched illustrate the text in great depth because it really demonstrates how people or a country within itself can take art to a different level of representation and meaning for themselves.
4. I ink the films add a great depth of meaning to the reading and gives it more understanding . It shows more of how different cultures of art can express themselves and see themselves and how they express themselves through art .
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