1. During this assignment i chose 2 videos. These videos are African art and the other video is African art: legacy of oppression. I selected these videos because i am really into art and the african art video showed me a lll different forms of art that i have never seen before. Also i want to learn more about how they started and why they do these techniques.
2. The first video " African art " I learned about what African art truly means and i learned where it comes from.In African art, art isn't just a picture hanging on the wall their paintings have very deep meanings. They are also used or more then just art they make them into everyday tools. Museums are only the artwork that the public found astonishing but most African arts are used in every day situations. In the second video I learned about the glorification and forms of African art. For example in central Africa, the African people look up and worship their mothers and sometimes their chiefs. Most artists made masks for countries that believe in magic. The Bosh culture is one of the cultures that believed in magic, they wore a mask around that symbolized the enemies and thought that it would stop them. Then they realized that magic wasn't real and they stopped using them.
3. These videos was just putting the textbook into images and it really helped me understand artist and different countries. It just goes so in depth and makes you truly understand how other cultures take their art to different level of representation.
4. The videos really helped me during this cause it just made it so much easier to have a visual instead of words. It also shows how different cultures are and that they all express themselves differently through art.