This is a simple survey of Nigerian Art, past and present with the variations in idiom, style, form and technique. the austere forms of traditional art embodied in masks and ritual objects can be taken as the archetypes which have descended with modifications in the work of contemporary artists, even when they seem to be working from such opposite ends of consciousness. Everyman's  guide to Nigerian art is a primer which should lead on naturally to the major study of the history of modern Nigerian art