African Arts

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After attending several exhibits on Africa and its culture I picked one that I found most interesting. Built around 15 B.C. the Temple of Dendur was built as a shrine to the goddess Isis. Facing flooding issues from the Nile River it was given to the United States and rebuilt at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Standing as it did back in Egypt to some reasonable scale, the site is one of grand status. Upon …

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…it was the same of that of a big pumpkin. African culture is beautiful and very artistic but at the same time proves points and teaches which was proved to me by the Egungun exhibit. The same goes to Islamic culture where the mihrabs were very well artistically designed but served a purpose as well. After attending these exhibitions one thing remains the same, African tradition and Islamic culture are a beautiful history. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**