Design & Decorative Arts

At first, all Inuit soapstone sculptures from the Arctic may look alike.  However, there are variances in artistic styles among the different Inuit art producing communities.  Although all communities produce Inuit sculptures featuring both animal and human subjects, some seem to do more animals while others do more people figures.  Some communities make their subjects appear quite realistic with lots of high detail while in others, a more crude and primitive look is preferred.  There are Inuit sculptures that have a highly polished finishes and some that are the complete opposite where they are left dull and unpolished.

Some areas specialize in producing small scale miniatures much like the artwork by their ancestors who first came into contact with white men.  Inuit sculpture can range from quite conservative to bold or even wildly outrageous.  Scenes can be playful like a piece depicting two Inuit children playing or with a sense of humor like a walrus waving.  On the other end, transformation and shamanic pieces can look disturbing or even frightening to some.  Hunting scenes can portray the gory realities of life and death in nature.
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They have never been interested in others but for what they can get. The opportunity to study other cultures have presented it self severally but they were not up for it. They have written mind alteration books for their vision. It would have been ideal for them to introduce most of these books into their schools for knowledge, more researches and better appreciation of others. But hell no they were only interested in altering our mind set, artifacts and how much they can make from the unknown world.

My gratitude goes to our men and women, most of whom have lost their lives in saying the truth. Truth must prevail; I have realized danger of the silence conspiracy to erase anything African in the face of the earth. The fact that civilization of man started in African has disappeared from the pages of history books, even pyramids of Egypt to some people were built by aliens, It is too good to be African; if given a chance to recreate the map of Africa, Egypt and some part of South African will definitely be carved out of the map to serve their purpose.
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Oil paintings began in the Mediterranean during the era of the Greek and Roman civilizations. The Egyptians also used paint techniques that were rich in bees wax, pigments of such minerals as copper, iron and manganese oxides and tempera.

While historians have noted that the Mediterranean civilizations of this time were aware of flax, walnut, poppy seed and other vegetable oils there is not definite proof that they were used in oil paintings of the time.

The tempera these early oil painters used were organic mediums mixed as fluid with water and volatile oil additives. Italian artists of the next century used organic binding ingredients such as materials containing protein from whole eggs, animal glue or milk.
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