African art elements of Aesthetic, usually referred to as the art of Sub-Saharan Africa, brings together ethnicity, complexity of composition, symmetry, balance and dimension, luminosity, and clarity of form and details. They use art and sculptures to hide information, to provide data, as a reminder, and to decipher, and to warn. We often find small inclusions, or fragmented pieces, that helps to investigate, authenticate, the provenance of the artwork.

Three-dimensions works of art provides aesthetics, composition of an element, with momentum and gravity, data culture and traditions, religion and cults, symbolism, and protection, through the use of movement, animal, human figure, ancestor, abstracts, patterns, and the use of red clay, as well as adornments (ethnic patterns and scarifications, jewelries, metal, and coif). Many African cultures emphasize the importance of ancestors as intermediaries between the living, the gods, and the supreme creator, and art is seen as a way to contact the spirits of ancestors. Art may also be used to depict gods, and is valued for its functional purposes.

While African art rather focuses on human figural design, it often uses wood rather than flat painting and create contemporaneous works of art and includes carvings, castings, pottery, basketry, jewelry, clothing that is not merely flat, and architecture. They also work with bronze, terracotta, or other metalworks, and ivory, and precious stones, pearls, and fabrics. However, the art movements and prevalence of images and sculpture of human figure, which includes creative expressionism over realism and awareness, such is the case of masks in performing arts, a representation of abstract rather than painting. The inner scaling and the abstract theme, and traditions are the main symbolism of their reality and artistic trends and periods.