African art

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Introduction African Art in general, are works of art created by historical or contemporary African artists living south of the Sahara. The artists belong to a wide variety of cultures from Africa, and everyone is characterized by its own language, traditions, and artistic forms. Although the large Sahara is a natural border within the continent, evidence has shown that there are a lot of influences through trade routes that covered the continent from early times. …

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…of the design are influenced from African paintings or patterns that some one has seen one time or another. A lot of times people don't think about it, but the letters you might see on a sign or on the side of building in it's nice colors and designs are African oriented in the designs I mean. So in a way I am influenced by African art in many ways and less in some ways.