AFRICAN

SCULPTURES
INFLUENCE ON
PICASSO AND ITS
AFFECTS ON PRESENT
DAY ART

MARTINIQUE BRUCE

PICASSO WAS BORN IN

MALAGA, SPAIN 1881

PICASSO ATTENDED
SEVERAL PRESTIGIOUS
ART SCHOOLS

PICASSO IS INSPIRED BY
GROUP OF ARTISTS HE
COMES IN CONTACT
WITH FROM MOVING
AROUND.

The Picasso and

Africa exhibition,
which has been
drawing capacity
crowds at
Johannesburg's
Standard Bank
Gallery, contains
84 original works
by Picasso along
with 29 African
sculptures similar
to those in the
artist's own
collection, and is
described as an
"innovative
dialogue between
Picasso's work and
his African
inspiration".

BAD ARTISTS
COPY.
GOOD ARTISTS
STEAL.
-PABLO
PICASSO

He was one of the

greatest artists of the
20th century and also
one of the most
controversial. And now,
33 years after his
death, the first
significant exhibition of
Pablo Picasso's work in
South Africa has
provoked a furious row
after a senior
government official
accused him of
stealing the work of
African artists to boost
his "flagging talent".

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/southafrica/1512804/Picasso-stole-the-work-of-African-artists.html

http://thehelpfulartteacher.blogspot.com/2013/06/imitation-and-transformation-how.html pictures

Matisse and Picasso both primarily relied on

reality as their core base for subjects in their
paintings, and although they each painted
similar subjects, the depiction of these subjects
were different. This difference inspired the
artists to paint more exuberant paintings, each
trying to gain more attention from the viewers
in their different styles. Therefore, this
influence that Matisse and Picasso had on each
other not only triggered the flow of creativity
but it began the rivalry between them.

https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/
aima/hd_aima.htm

German Expressionist
painters such as Ernst
Ludwig Kirchner of Die
Brcke (The Bridge) group,
based in Dresden and Berlin,
conflated African aesthetics
with the emotional intensity
of dissonant color tones and
figural distortion, to depict
the anxieties of modern life,
while Paul Klee
of the Blaue Reiter (Blue
Rider) in Munich developed
transcendent symbolic
imagery. The Expressionists
interest in non-Western art
intensified after a 1910
Gauguin exhibition in
Dresden, while modernist
movements in Italy, England,
and the United States
initially engaged with African
art through contacts with
School of Paris artists.

PICASSO, AND THE BLACK

PERIOD

Many people dont

know that Picassos
African period was
influenced on African
art sculptures that were
stolen.

Much of his art was a

mock of other art
during the period

His African period

lasted from 1907-1909

Left:Grebo, Ivory Coast or Liberia, painted wood and fiber

Right: Pablo Picasso, Guitar, 1912 Steel metal and wire