5 points FIGURE 12.17 The vertical lines on the face of this figure probably
represent ornamental scars made to indicate ancestry and to enhance
physical beauty. How did the artist use the principles of art in creating this
portrait of ife head

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explanation:

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romare bearden worked with many types of media which includes cartoons, oils and collages. basically, the use of collage him create emotionally affecting images hence back then he had struggled with his two artistic sides as a student of literature and of artistic traditions and being a black human being which involves very real experiences, fugrative and concrete.thus through the use of collage expressed or showed how his art/work became more representational and more overtly socially concious. he showed how not only were african-american rights moving forward but so was his socially concious art and by then his works became generally considered as best works in 1964.