African art and the West
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Ways in which African art manifested its impact on the West in the 20th century can be seen in virtually the whole range of abstract art dating from the post-Impressionist period. Willett (35) locates the origin of African Art in Paris in 1905, when a colony of artists who were to become leading figures in Western art encountered an African mask that one of them (Maurice Vlaminck) had been given. Vlaminck showed it to Andre Derain, who in turn showed it to Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, and Ambroise Vollard. Vollard saw sculpture possibilities in the mask and cast it in bronze. To be sure, African sculpture media is more typically wood; however, the forms and not m
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Approximate Word count = 448
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page)
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