Whatever may be their age, the African Masks constitute by their variety and specially by their strange beauty one of the most marvelous plastic creations of humanity. The thousand year old dances which these artist people ceaselessly repeat every night by the shimmer of their fires, were the true school of their sculptors. The negro possesses to a high degree a sense of form and its necessary relation to life, the solid sense of the true sculptor. Without ever becoming entangled in the imaginative extravagances of the Polynesians, he knows how to make use of elements taken from nature whafrican artile remaining free to express his emotions directly in all his creations"
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