Assignment:
Prompt:
Below are two images of sculptural figures (left: Seated Figure. Nok; right: Seated Figure, Ile-Ife. 14th century). Using saki the video lectures and assigned readings. compare and contrast the images of these figures in terms of:
• What is being depicted?
• Material
• Treatment of the body (in order words, what parts of the body are emphasized?)
• Context (if applicable: location, civilization, association)
• What messages might these figures communicate? (this should be based on the context mentioned in the video lectures and readings as well as observations of formal elements)
Since your visual analysis should only draw from the video lectures and assigned readings, you do NOT have to include citations.
Readings:
The NOK of Nigeria
By Roger Atwood
Attachment:- Cover Story-Africa.rar