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Over the years African artists have grown to intertwine contemporary context into the traditional African art system, making it very effective to the new world. The problem here is there is no market for it, most of these very expressive and great works rich in culture and context are not even known to the public. There isn't isn’t much publicity going on. I know that in years to come there is going to be a boost in the African art on a global scene, but my concern is how is it going to affect African art and artist.
I have not found many African artist on the international scene but few, who are doing well, however, I my concern is in this presentation is to research if there is an interest in African art at all. If so, what are the possible ways of proposing this move to the international scene? Are the people of Africa, first of all interested in the works being made by their own people? Because if they are not why should they expect other people to admire the works; charity, they say begins at home. In "what “what is African art? Support notes for teachers" teachers” it is said that Art historians acknowledge that an appreciation of art is enhanced by understanding the purposes for which things were made and used and the social and cultural contexts which give them their aesthetic and symbolic value. For Western art we might want to go beyond the values which the artists themselves proclaim to consider, also the social role of the galleries and other places where it is displayed. And in a world now dominated by the values of the market, perhaps we should also acknowledge the market value which plays such an important part in our judgments of African as well as Western art. It is for this reason that Picasso drew inspiration from African tribal art. He regretted that the Western tradition lost touch with the primordial sense of image-making as a magic operation
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