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[https://www.famsf.org/collections/african-art?page=1 by Legion of Honor] | [https://www.famsf.org/collections/african-art?page=1 by Legion of Honor] | ||
Featuring approximately 300 world-class objects, our collection highlights the evolution of culture and creativity in Africa. | Featuring approximately 300 world-class objects, our collection highlights the evolution of culture and creativity in Africa. | ||
=====African Art: The First Form of Cubism===== | |||
[https://www.thecollector.com/african-art-the-first-form-of-cubism/ by Carolina Sanmiguel 3/10/20 THE COLLECTOR] | |||
With their vital sculptures and masks, African artists invented the aesthetics that would later inspire the so-popular Cubist styles. Their abstract and dramatic effects on the simplified human figure date far earlier than the most-celebrated Picasso and extend beyond the Cubism movement itself. African art’s influence reaches from Fauvism to Surrealism, Modernism to Abstract Expressionism, and even contemporary art. | |||
