African art–influenced Period

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The African art–influenced Period is a phase in Pablo Picasso’s work, around 1907–1909, marked by stylized, mask-like figures and forms inspired by traditional African sculpture that helped lead to the development of Cubism.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf artistic period
phase in Pablo Picasso's work
proto-Cubist period
alsoKnownAs African Period
Black Period
Negro Period
Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
surface form: Primitivist phase of Picasso
artHistoricalSignificance challenged traditional Western representation of the human figure
important example of European primitivism in art
key stage in the development of Cubism
marks transition from Picasso’s Rose Period to Cubism
associatedWith Georges Braque
Henri Matisse
countryOfOrigin France
endTime 1909
followedBy Cubism
surface form: Analytical Cubism
follows Blue Period
Rose Period
hasCharacteristic distortion of human anatomy
emphasis on flatness of the picture plane
experimental treatment of space
frontal and profile views combined
geometric simplification of forms
influence of non-Western aesthetics
reduction of detail
stylized mask-like faces
use of earth tones and muted palette
influenced 20th-century modern art
Cubism
surface form: Analytical Cubism

Cubism
European avant-garde
influencedBy Dan masks
Fang masks
Grebo masks
Iberian sculpture
Musée de l’Homme
surface form: Musée d’Ethnographie du Trocadéro

ethnographic collections in Paris
primitivism
traditional African sculpture
mainArtist Pablo Picasso
mainLocation Paris
movement Modernism
Primitivism
Cubism
surface form: Proto-Cubism
notableWork Bust of a Woman (Fernande)
Bust of a Woman (Fernande)
surface form: Head of a Woman (Fernande)

Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
surface form: Les Demoiselles d’Avignon

Nude with Raised Arms
Seated Nude (1908)
Three Women (1907–1908)
startTime 1907

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Pablo Picasso period African art–influenced Period