Picasso y la escultura africana

Synopsis of Picasso y la escultura africana

This book explores the influence of African sculpture on the work of Pablo Picasso, focusing on how these influences manifested in his iconic work 'The Young Ladies of Avignon'. The exhibition presents Notebook n{486} 7 of 'Les demoiselles d'Avignon' along with twenty pieces of African art close in formal similarity and origin to those that Picasso himself had in his collection. In the 'Demoiselles', Picasso disrupts or deconstructs the Western aesthetic principles of imitation and balance to propose a more complex vision: the confluence of different points of view, a new conception of balance, a beauty surprising for its geometric rigor and its material forcefulness, the replica to the traditional perspective, etc. A very personal universe that opens gaps in the canons inherited from traditional artistic representation, often using the influence of other cultures.