African art is abstract oriented. African abstract art and monumental architecture has created a great impact on the art & architecture of Western Civilization. Kemet stylized the human figure and through the use of the cone, sphere and cylinder artists in Ille Ife were able to make you think you were seeing an idealized portrait of a person. African people believe that coping nature is offensive.

Africans produce their best artwork in sculpture. And most of that has been wood and/or stone. Africans excel in metal sculpture and textiles as well.

In European Art, sculpture parallels painting. Since the 15th century until the late 19th century, European art paralleled images of camera obscura, but when obscura went mechanical European art became more abstract.

The Romans Produced the first self supporting dome in architecture and Western Civilization produced the first steel and glass architecture.

Since the dawn of the 18th century, with the help of Economics, Industrial Revolution, Platonic Ideology and Colonialism Europe has broaden its base from European Civilization to Western Civilization. Their art has followed the same path as well.

In China, writing and drawing are inseparable arts. They are masters at utilizing space and object in art. Chinese ceramics are some of the world's best.

The Indians and Mugals produced some of the worlds finest architecture.

In architecture, the Fertile Crescent produced the worlds first self supporting arch which enabled Rome to build the world's first self supporting dome.

In the New World the art and civilization centers begins in the south with Olmec Civilization. The best Mural paintings are from this part of the world. New World people are known for stone sculpture as well.