LTReikšminiai žodžiai: Subsacharinis; Skulptūra; Tradicija; Estetiniai principai; Menininkas; Individualus stilius; African studies; Sub-Saharan art; Ethnocultural stereotypes; Eurocentrism; Diversification; Style; Landscape influence on art style.
ENThe article deals with the sub-Saharan art tradition and individual expressions, related to the boundaries of artistic-religious life of a certain community. Every artist stands a chance to express his own aesthetic views. We arrive at a conclusion: such individual styles are indentified easily and we are able to assign them to concrete artist or school. Actually the studies of art traditions o f sub-Saharan countries evidence that: we gradually pass from „tribal“ style identifications to local or urban identifications and we rise to higher levels when individual artist s aesthetic principles are discovered. [From the publication]