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Art & African Art: What's the Difference?

Art something that is created with imagination and skill meant to arouse an emotional response with its audience. Joyce Carol Oates had said that art provokes, disturbs and arouses emotions to expand sympathies.   The depiction of culture forms a very pivotal role in art forms – whichever country it comes from.  This would include the social behaviour of the people and norms of the human society.  Some of the popular artists that have remained famous include Leonardo Da Vinci,  Edvard Munch, Michelangelo, Vincent Van Gogh, Rene Magritte, Claude Monet, Jan Vermeer and Jean Renoir. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWAa7EigJRs The elements of art are very much inclusive of the physical compositions of the artwork such as colour, texture and contour; and form which includes visual design principles such as contrast, design, proportion, rhythm, proximity, harmony and balance.     Good art engages with its audience –craft wise, context wise and content w