Art And Culture Analysis

Art is considered to be a very important aspect of Human Culture and it was always affected by several factors including environment, society and native culture of each nation the unique features of each culture have affected greatly the art development of each nation to the extent that it made it very clear that a certain type of art belongs to a certain nation at a certain period of time. Through cultural encounters between nations have impacted both art transition between nation and the art of each nation, it has affected the art type, perception and taste in so many ways.

The cultures differ in many aspects such as the arts and religion. Cultural encounter between the countries allow to people take of each other cultures. The European

Benin society was oral society that depend on art to document events there was no written history in Benin since writing was not a part of their culture , they depended on art to document important events , characters, social life and many other issues, Benin tradition was transmitted through story telling most of the oral stories are related to the royal palace. These stories are supported by memorial devices such as songs, idioms and visual scriptures that promote the memories they worked as reference signals or sources for Benin past. The understanding of the past in the contemporary contexts interacts frequently to produce new results. The oral tradition is considered as the biggest contributor in African

Museums and researchers competed to get the best pieces. 2400 pieces came to Europe after the expedition. 580 pieces were sold to the Royal Museum in Berlin and the rest of the pieces were sold for the researchers and the museums. The Germans and the British were anxious about acquiring of the best pieces as "war booty." These objects and artifacts held a great insight value of the artistic life of the African nations. Through sculptures and artifacts Europeans detected of the civilization, culture, religion and the arts of Benin. The sculptures tell the greatness of these who they were carved for. Bronze art was considered the corner stone in the era of the Italian Renaissance and the corner stone for the Western civilization. Bronze is metal paintings decorated the Royal Palace of the Kingdom of Benin in Africa. They were made by the Edo people in the thirteenth century. The Bronze arts also include other bronze sculptures. They were removed mostly by the Europeans in 1897 during the expedition. 200 pieces were taken to the British Museum in London and the rest of them were distributed to museums and researchers. Benin Bronze gained great appreciation in Europe toward African art and culture. It was beyond understanding for the explorers to believe that the Bronze were made by " supposedly so primitive and savage " people. They were made by several materials, such as iron, bronze, wood, ivory,