THEThe essential stake in the artistic production of black Africans always lies beyond the search for the ideal and beauty. African art is not, like Greco-Latin aesthetics, a poor imitation of nature. African art is fundamentally symbolic. Initiation requires the existent to purify its gross nature in a cathartic transmutation of the negative values of its personality in order to be reborn again. Art therapy proves in this existential enterprise, a privileged tool for the liberation of our captive souls from matter.