107-africa picasso

Day 22 Week 05

 

Pablo Picasso, Seated Woman, 1927 / Seated Male, c. 1900, Cote d’ivoire, Baule

Picasso, and other 20th Century artists, were influenced by the work of African artists. Traditional Western art valued faithful natural rendering, but African art focused on bringing new understanding to a viewer. Europeans realized that they had been constrained by Western art traditions which valued the faithful reproduction of a subject.

 
 

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