Q. But is it Art?A. Almost every culture represents human and animal faces in some kind of mask. Unfortunately, Europeans used Ancient Greek idealism (classical perfect human features) as a measure of great art. Sadly, many of the symbolic masks from the cultures of Africa, Australasia and the Americas were seen as somehow less than great and declared "primitive". Now in the postmodern period, the term "primal" is more useful because it refers to people who have not lost their connection with the cycles of nature (For today's shift in protocols see Permission-based Design on MASKS2GLOBE weblog).
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