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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Generate an image of the African art–influenced Period (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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instanceOf artistic period ⓘ
phase in Pablo Picasso's work ⓘ
proto-Cubist period ⓘ
alsoKnownAs African Period ⓘ
Black Period ⓘ
Negro Period ⓘ
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 Analytical Cubism ⓘ
linked to: 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 ⓘ
Analytical Cubism ⓘ
linked to: Cubism

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

ethnographic collections in Paris ⓘ
primitivism ⓘ
traditional African sculpture ⓘ
mainArtist Pablo Picasso ⓘ
mainLocation Paris ⓘ
movement Modernism ⓘ
Primitivism ⓘ
Proto-Cubism ⓘ
linked to: Cubism
notableWork Bust of a Woman (Fernande) ⓘ
Head of a Woman (Fernande) ⓘ
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 ⓘ
Picasso works → period → African-influenced Period ⓘ
linked to: African art–influenced Period