ABOUT THE BOOK

“There is no one true style of contemporary African art but four to discover, simultaneously, all over Africa: in the North, West, Central, East, and Southern Africa. Four distinguishing contemporary African art styles, not regions apart in rhythm, flavor and feel. They recapture Africa's natural environment, cross-cultural principles, traditional ideas and ideals, and synthesis of various value systems. Diversity of art styles, African-wide, that will go straight to your memory” ― National Gallery of Art, Abuja, Republic of Nigeria

“Teeming with scores of representational species that range from abstraction to imaginative realism, Vitu art pays high tribute to Africa's environmental world … Soyan art does not deny western European impact in techniques of realism, thus proclaiming itself as a single cross-cultural art style … Sankofa art is contemporary, still it keeps an eye on the past. Consequently, it is the only art style that completely yields the past, offering connoisseurs a unique and fascinating glimpse into the cultural and artistic splendors of the ancient African civilization … An art style that has a big heart, Ijinla art bustles with a wealth of cultural and artistic diversity. One's senses are repeatedly stroked as well by a profusion of superlative offerings, captivating calligraphic abstractions, scintillating combinations of visual, conceptual and innovative influences … They are the four major art styles in contemporary African art" ― The Guardian

“Rarely has a study distinguished aesthetics, let alone mathematically systematizing it” ― Plexus International