These are some of many pieces that I found quite aesthetically pleasing. In actuality a great deal of African art is abstract, you can take my work for that. I believe that abstract art in African context is somewhat a continuation of the style of rock paintings from years past (parallels can be seen in other pieces I just enjoyed these), and may be a manifestation of fantasy, and an exaggeration of experience. I would say that Wilde would condone the exaggeration of the size and quantity of animals hunted as depicted in the rock paintings as the right type of lying for the sake of artistry. I’m sure it must have made a hunter-gatherer lifestyle at least a bit more interesting, and given a fantasy to pursue. The link to the rock paintings is above this description. But we can clearly see a bit of heteronormative camp through the sexualization of the women, and the heteronormative family unit.
It’s interesting that you include African art here–it was the major influence on the first wave of abstract painters in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. The biggest examples would be the works of Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse, both of whom were fascinated with African masks and art. Wilde would have been too early for this kind of African art to have made a huge influence in Europe, but I think you can see the influence of this art on the work of Gertrude Stein.