L’esthétique des courbes chez Léopold Sédar Senghor

Résumé

The objective of our study on the aesthetics of curves in Léopold Sédar Senghor is to show from
this that the rationalist, mechanical and even geometric conception in Western art inherited
from the Greek model will not be repeated in Negro-African arts. Indeed, for Senghor, the
rationalist conception, the mechanisto-materialist explanations cannot explain everything. This
is what explains the difference of perception in front of a work of art between the White and the
Negro-African. Where the White man contemplates for the simple pleasure of his eyes, the
Negro-African sees double, that is to say the real and the unreal at the same time. It goes beyond
the appearance of form to capture the symbolic force of the object.