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MORE THAN TWENTY AFRICAN TRIBES ARE REPRESENTED IN THIS REMARKABLE SHOW, WHICH HAS BEEN CULLED FROM MUSEUM COLLECTIONS, AND GALLERIES THROUGHOUT THE WORLD INCLUDING: THE LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM, SEATTLE ART MUSEUM, MINNESOTA MUSEUM OF ART, JAMES WILLIS TRIBAL ART, AS WELL AS, BUTTERFIELD'S AND SOTHEBY'S AUCTION HOUSES. AFRICAN ART HAS BEEN ADMIRED AND COLLECTED FOR ALMOST TWO CENTURIES AND HAS INFLUENCED CONTEMPORARY MODERN ART IN MANY WAYS. TYPIFIED IN DERIVATIVE WORK BY PICASSO; CONTEMPORARY MODERN ART HAS INHERITED ASPECTS OF FORM AND CONTENT FROM THE AFRICAN AESTHETIC. UNJUSTLY CITED AS "PRIMITIVE ART", AFRICAN SCULPTURE IN ACTUALITY IS AN EXTREMELY SOPHISTICATED ART FORM. THE SPIRIT, RITUALS, AND CEREMONIES ASSOCIATED WITH ALL TRIBAL ART CLOSES AN AESTHETIC GAP BETWEEN THE JUNGIAN ARCHETYPE AND MODERN ART AS WE KNOW IT! TO UNDERSTAND TRIBAL ART AND THE SPIRITUAL POWER IT EMBODIES COMPLETES A NECESSARY EMOTIONAL CYCLE, WHICH CAN HELP LEAD TO THE TOTAL COMPREHENSION OF CONTEMPORARY ART. THE UNDENIABLE POWER OF TRIBAL ART, AND THE ABILITY TO INTEGRATE AESTHETICS INTO RITUAL AND DAILY LIFE, IS THE WELLSPRING OFFERED IN THIS REMARKABLE EXHIBITION. 57 ARTIFACT AFRICAN TRIBES
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