Barron's: Chapter 27 - African Art

Question 1

Time Period

Answer 1

• From Prehistoric Times to the Present

Question 2

Great Zimbabwe

Answer 2

• 11th-15th centuries

- Zimbabwe

Question 3

Bamileke

Answer 3

• 11th-21st Centuries

- Cameroon

Question 4

Benin

Answer 4

• 13th-19th Centuries

- Nigeria

Question 5

Luba

Answer 5

• 16th-21st Centuries

- Congo

Question 6

Kuba

Answer 6

• 17th-19th Centuries

- Congo

Question 7

Ashanti

Answer 7

• 17th-21st Centuries

- Ghana

Question 8

Chokwe

Answer 8

• 17th-21st Centuries

- Congo

Question 9

Yoruba

Answer 9

• 17th-21st Centuries

- Nigeria

Question 10

Baule

Answer 10

• 19th-21st Centuries

- Cote d’Ivoire

Question 11

Ibgo

Answer 11

• 19th-21st Centuries

- Nigeria

Question 12

Fang

Answer 12

• 19th-21st Centuries

- Cameroon, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea

Question 13

Mende

Answer 13

• 19th-21st Centuries

- Sierra Leone

Question 14

Essential Knowledge

Answer 14

• Rock art is the earliest art form found in Africa. It depicts animals and human activity
• The spreading Sahara caused migrations of southern African were the arts flourished
• African art is truly interdisciplinary, encompassing a wide variety of media, materials, and performances
• African art addresses the spiritual world. It can be seen on everyday items, as well as on items associated with royalty
• Art can be commissioned by a shaman or a worshiper. It is often used as part of an elaborate and prescribed ritual
• art permeates all important aspects of society. Rituals initiate coming of age, leadership, or family communion, and often have elements of contact with ancestors
• art objects are often manipulated and interpreted in rituals. Historic accomplishments are orally preserved by poets and historians who used objects to identify with their stories
• Large leadership centers, as in Zimbabwe, show that Africans sometimes used monumental structures to mark settlements and territory
• African history has been preserved in an oral tradition. outsiders have used a written record of historical events
• Collectors of African art have often ignored the usual data associated with art history: the names of artists and the dates of creation
• African art has had a global impact

Question 15

Great Zimbabwe

Answer 15

• c. 1000-1400
• granite
• Zimbabwe
• Cross-Cultural Comparisons: Ashlar Masonry
  
  • Sawsa Waman
  • Angkor Wat
  • Parthenon

Question 16

Great Mosque

Answer 16

• c. 1200
• rebuilt 1906-1907
• adobe
• remodeled in 1907
• Djenne, Mali
• Cross-Cultural Comparisons: Other Mosques
  
  • Great Mosque, Cordoba
  • Mosque of Selim II
  • Great Mosque, Isfahan

Question 17

Wall plaque form Oba’s palace

Answer 17

• sixteenth century
• brass
• Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
• Benin
• Cross-Cultural Comparisons: Bronze and Brass Work
  
  • Donatello, David
  • Great Buddha at Todai-ji
  • Shiva as Lord of Dance

Question 18

Golden Stool (skia dwa kofi)

Answer 18

• c. 1700
• gold over wood
• location unknown
• Ashanti
• Cross-Cultural Comparisons: Sacred Objects
  
  • Kaaba
  • Lanzon Stela
  • Gold and Jade Crown

Question 19

Ndop (portrait figure of King Mishe miShyaang maMbul)

Answer 19

• 1760-1780
• wood
• Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York
• Kuba
• Cross-Cultural Comparisons: Authority Figures
  
  • Houdon, George Washington
  • Lindauer, Tamati Waka Nene
  • Stele of Hammurabi

Question 20

Kuba Nyim (ruler) Kot a Mbweeky III in state dress with royal drum in Mushenge

Answer 20

• Congo

- Contextual Image

Question 21

Power figure (nkisi n’kondi)

Answer 21

• c. late nineteenth century
• wood and metal
• Kongo
• Cross-Cultural Comparisons: Wood Sculpture
  
  • Rottgen Pieta
  • Transformation mask
  • Nio guardian figure

Question 22

Portrait mask (mblo)

Answer 22

• late nineteenth to early twentieth century
• wood and pigment
• Baule

Question 23

Female (Pwo) mask

Answer 23

• late nineteenth to early twentieth century
• wood, fiber, pigment, and metal
• National Museum of African Art, Washington D.C.
• Chokwe
• Cross-Cultural Connections: Faces
  
  • Roman Patrician
  • Transformation Mask
  • Lindauer, Tamati Waka Nene

Question 24

Bundu mask

Answer 24

• Sande Society
• nineteenth to early twentieth century
• wood, cloth, and fiber
• Private Collection
• Mende
• Cross-Cultural Comparisons: Art as Part of a Performance
  
  • Presentation of Fijian mats …
  • Viola, The Crossing
  • Plaque of the Ergastines

Question 25

Ikenga (shrine figure)

Answer 25

- c. ninteenth to twentieth century - wood - Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York - Igbo - Cross-Cultural Comparisons: Sculpture in the Round - Queen Hatshepsut with Offering Jars - Rodin, The Burghers of Calais - Abakanowicz, Androgyn III

Question 26

Memory Board (Lukasa)

Answer 26

- Mbudye Society - c. nineteenth to twentieth century - wood, beads, and metal - Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York - Luba

Question 27

Aka elephant mask

Answer 27

- c. nineteenth to twentieth century - wood, woven raffia, cloth, and beads - Bamileke - Cross-Cultural Comparisons: Spiritual World - Bernini, Ecstasy of Saint Teresa - Staff God - Queen Hatshepsut with Offering Jars

Question 28

Reliquary guardian figure (nlo bieri)

Answer 28

- c. 19th to 20th century - wood - Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York - Fang - Cross-Cultural Comparisons: Male Figure - Apollo from Veii - Donatello David - Nio guardian figure

Question 29

Olowe of Ise

Answer 29

- Veranda post of enthroned king and senior wife (Opo Ogoga) - 1910-1914 - wood and pigment - Art Institue of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois - Yoruba - Cross-Cultural Comparisons: Multi-Figure Sculptures - Helios, Horses and Dionysos - Rodin, The Burghers of Calais - Menkaura and His Queen

Question 30

Adobe

Answer 30

- a building material made from earth, straw, or clay dried in the sun

Question 31

Aka

Answer 31

- an elephant mask of the Bamileke people of Cameroon

Question 32

Bieri

Answer 32

- in the art of the Fang people, a reliquary guardian figure

Question 33

Bundu

Answer 33

- masks used by the women's Sande society to bring girls into puberty

Question 34

Cire perdue

Answer 34

- the lost wax process. A bronze casting method in which a figure is modeled in clay and covered with wax and then recovered with clay

Question 35

Fetish

Answer 35

- an object believed to possess magical powers

Question 36

Ikenga

Answer 36

- a shrine figure symbolizing traditional male attributes of the Igbo people

Question 37

Lukasa

Answer 37

- a memory board used by the Luba people of central Africa

Question 38

Mblo

Answer 38

- a commemorative portrait of the Baule people

Question 39

Ndop

Answer 39

- a Kuba commemorative portrait of a king in an ideal state

Question 40

Nkisi n'kondi

Answer 40

- a Kongo power figure

Question 41

Pwo

Answer 41

- a female mask worn by women of the Chokwe people

Question 42

Scarification

Answer 42

- scarring of the skin in patterns by cutting with a knife; when the cut heals, a raised pattern is created, which is painted

Question 43

Torons

Answer 43

- wooden beams projecting from walls of adobe buildings