Before taking Art 2L my thoughts towards the African art style to be savage and Egyptian art, how truly wrong I was learning about the incredible work of Olowe of Ise was one of the greatest artists of the twentieth century from the Yoruba tribe and his style was a very unique style carving wood into doors. The European scholar was amazing how man without prior teaching can have this ability. I was just like those Europeans how can Africans have this ability to created integrity art work without an intuition? Look across Africa continent like the Bamana people or Yoruba people the cultural of art work. Being able go to Iris and B .Gerald Cantor Center for the Visual Stanford University, Palo Alto close and personal of the Africa artwork.
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The people of Bamana have the freedom of style some of the Chi Wara are anteater, but the true from is antelope male or female. (BBC film, African Art: Through African Eyes.) The Chi Wara has a zigzag carving on the male back to be a symbolic of the sun also tells it is male with the penis under his stomach. The female Chi Wara has a infant on her back which is interpreted the embodiment of humanity, the male Chi Wara has a meaning as well which is gentle and female means nurturing Earth. (metmuseum.org). The legend of Chi Wara, come from the Bamana watching the antelope using his antlers to tilled their soil in front of their eyes, and planting a seed covering with his hoofs. This began the Bamana people skill of farming the land. The Bamana lost their root became wasteful and the Chi Wara buried himself in the earth, the headdresses are to honor him and memories the Chi Wara. Those who are the fastest and best of the worker on the farm are high honor to wear the Chi Wara mask and dance for the ceremonial dance (britannica.com). The visual appearance must look like an antelope so the dancers may appear like a antelope in the dance. The functions is to honor the Chi Ware the god of the Bamana people and the dance, which suggests fertility, reproduction, propitiation of the spirits and ancestors, and gratitude to Chi Wara, carries with it moral lessons and religious
The people of Bamana have the freedom of style some of the Chi Wara are anteater, but the true from is antelope male or female. (BBC film, African Art: Through African Eyes.) The Chi Wara has a zigzag carving on the male back to be a symbolic of the sun also tells it is male with the penis under his stomach. The female Chi Wara has a infant on her back which is interpreted the embodiment of humanity, the male Chi Wara has a meaning as well which is gentle and female means nurturing Earth. (metmuseum.org). The legend of Chi Wara, come from the Bamana watching the antelope using his antlers to tilled their soil in front of their eyes, and planting a seed covering with his hoofs. This began the Bamana people skill of farming the land. The Bamana lost their root became wasteful and the Chi Wara buried himself in the earth, the headdresses are to honor him and memories the Chi Wara. Those who are the fastest and best of the worker on the farm are high honor to wear the Chi Wara mask and dance for the ceremonial dance (britannica.com). The visual appearance must look like an antelope so the dancers may appear like a antelope in the dance. The functions is to honor the Chi Ware the god of the Bamana people and the dance, which suggests fertility, reproduction, propitiation of the spirits and ancestors, and gratitude to Chi Wara, carries with it moral lessons and religious