How did plato's ideas affect the art of the middle ages?

Most of the art and music of the Middle Ages was "Apollonian"—based on numerical proportion, it appealed to the mind and avoided the "watering of the passions."

It developed as a reaction to the impact of european colonialism in africa on peoples of african descent. in the  mid-20th century, activists in africa adopted pan-africanism as a rallying cry for independence from colonial rule. some african pan-africanists sought to unite the continent as one independenthope it was useful