African Wall ArtAfrica has always inspired awe. The very word Africa is evocative. It brings to life images of dark forests, open grasslands, free ranging animals, a proud people who resolutely resist the ruthless march of a parasitic civilization called modernity, and largeness. In a word, Africa denotes freedom to the human mind. In this sacred land where the first human walked, the human race was set free from the fate of its ape brethren. In this land of Nature’s bounty, man lived in peaceful co-existence with its animal and plant cousins, with freedom from the ecological disaster the rest of the world tumbled towards. Have you ever thought of bringing home a piece of that sense of freedom? Don’t you want to bring home a bit of Africa?
There is something that comes out of Africa, unlike its animals and wide open spaces, which can be kept in your drawing room. And it is called African wall art. Yes, art work done in Africa, representing the undaunted spirit of the sacred continent and the sense of freedom it espouses. There is a variety to the artwork that comes of the African soul. You can go for paintings which narrate the story of the continent’s history and character. You can choose to spice up your home decor with wall art which suggestively sketches the unique sensuality of a primitive richness to which the modern man is a stranger to. Why not go for canvas artwork? The free ranging soul of the African artist limns the ravishing beauty and incredible vivacity of humanity’s cradle through the medium of the canvas.
Just imagine capturing ideas as transient and abstract as happiness and sorrow in the scope of your office lounge? Have you ever contemplated appropriating abstruse notions such as freedom and flight in the space of your bedroom? Now, you can do just that. Art is an aesthetic expression of human consciousness and conceptions using skills and technique. Paintings can freeze a fleeting moment for posterity. A wall art will lift the mind from the mundane physicality of his surroundings into the realm of pure consciousness and intellectuality. Any art form achieves its purpose of stirring the human constitution from its proximate to the everlasting. Continents and civilizations have their unique gifts and genius. If Europe stands for scientific excellent, Asia stands for journey into the spiritual, and the Americas stands for innovation and the modern. What does Africa stand for? Africa is the epitome of unbridled flight of life-force, the single thing that sustains us – it is the very celebration of life itself.
The best you can do to seize a piece of a continent’s unique genius is to collect an art work from that continent. Art, above all other medium, reflects the mood of the civilization. If European art is precise and quantifiable, Asian art is surreal, and American art is innovative and adventurous. But African art, oh, it is the very expression of the primeval cry of the human soul to break free of bondage, to celebrate the many colors of nature in its prime, and to reflect the inspiration generated by wildlife and the long vistas of shrub and grass which extend endlessly, beyond the human eye.
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