Analtical Perception of Arts and Science in Contemporary African Arts

Since man had learnt to use stone tools to meet his domestic and social needs in Africa, some elementary form of science and art had been put in place. There is no doubt that a lot of science and visual arts advancement had taken from the prehistoric time to the present day and even, nations, weather developed or developing have got their own science and art suitable to their own environment and circumstances. While some, have reached an advanced stage of development. Others, especially the developing ones, are gradually assimilating the culture of modern science and arts. It is pertinent to state at this point the various stand-points from which science and art have been viewed by the professionals and layman, and the similarity between science and visual arts for they are of the same culture. The paper discussed the perception of visual arts and science. The conceptualization and the classification of the two, the perception of visual arts and science in the contemporary Africa are therefore analyzed in the paper and this will bring into closer contact visual arts and science and popularizing the benefits of interaction, as being of concern to the artist and the scientific community in recent years.