THE ETHNO-CULTURAL IMPORTANCE OF AFRICAN ART

Abstract

There is an element of art in every culture. Even the primitive culture which lack mythology or religion still have some artistic expressions, as can be seen in dance, song, design etc. Art is in fact the epitome of human life and the trust record of insight and filling. In African, Art spearheads the social and individual African human development, as it is necessary to intellectual life and inseparable with religion, which it grows with, serves and to a large extent determines. Exposition is therefore made on what sort of thing is Art, that it plays such important ethical and cultural roles in African Human Development. A work of art is a form because of the sense an apparition it gives to our perception. Art can come in a permanent form like a building, a vase or a picture. It can also come in a transient, dynamic form like a melody or dance, or even imaginary apparent event that constituent a literary work. The underlying factor is that it is always a perceptible, self-identical whole, of which its goodness and badness defines on its appearance.