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Picasso and Braque
Picasso
Pablo Picasso is often revered as the creative genius who initiated many of the trends, styles and movements in Twentieth Century art. His name is associated with experimentation and innovation in modern art which took painting and sculpture in new and exciting directions.
It should also be borne in mind that Picasso was one of many artists during the early and middle Twentieth Century who worked to produce new styles and artistic vision. In this sense, Picasso can be seen to have been aligned with many modernist schools of art -- particularly Cubism and Surrealism. Both these styles and movements in art were based on one essential premise; namely, the search for the new and the 'real' in the face of a general disillusionment with the past. There was a reaction from many artists during the early years of the Twentieth Century against the ideas and traditions of the past. Picasso formed part of this and was a cardinal innovator of this modernist movement.
In his search for new means of expression Picasso searched...
One of the objects that he used in a number of his most famous works was the African mask. The mask was used for example in one of his groundbreaking and important paintings entitled Les Demoiselles D' Avignon.
Picasso was also one of the pioneers of Cubism and this painting, with its strange geometric lines and distorted human faces, is seen of an originating impulse for the Cubist movement. While one of the reasons he used the African mask was to shock, another was that he was interested in the simple lines and the formal and geometric shapes the masks offered him. This is evidenced in an interview in which Picasso was asked whether it was the magical quality of the African art that attracted him to which he replied "Not at all -- I am interested in their geometric simplicity." (Duerden, Dennis.)
Les Demoiselles D'Avignon is often invoked as the painting that started Cubism. A central aspect that the African mask motif created in Picasso's work was the challenge that it set up…
Bibliography
Duerden, Dennis. "The "Discovery" of the African Mask (1).," Research in African
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Georges Braque (1882-1963) ARS. Accessed December 4. 2004. http://www.mcs.csuhayward.edu/~malek/Braque.html
The Archive.: Braque. Accessed December 2, 2004. http://artchive.com/ftp_site.htm
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