The mask is in black Africa, with statuary, an important component of the visual arts. The both are at the heart of the traditional religious and social life. In the late nineteenth century that African art is widely available to European collectors and gives the greatest artists, painters and sculptors, confirmation of the validity of their research and justification for the use of forms of expression freed from representational naturalism. R. Fry said in 1920: "The main merit of African sculpture is its complete freedom plastic ... It seems that the transition from a flat surface to a round do they cause any problems. "The primary goal of African sculpture is not in fact represent the visible world but to make sensible realities of moral or supernatural is by definition an abstraction, it does not seek to born the only aesthetic emotion, hence the power of the best definitions of fascination.Une African mask is probably that of W. Fagg: "All the objects that the" mask "should be assigned can be defined in two words: they mask