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African art has touched and inspired not only artists around the world, but every day people throughout history. African art has been interpreted by different artists and used in many different time periods. One of these periods that was highly recognized is during the Cubist period. Many if not all cubist artists are credited with getting their ideas from that of African art. One of these artists is Pablo Picasso who is not only credited with being influenced by this art, but also being the founder of Cubism.
Cubism consisted of three phases. The first phase, also known as Analytic Cubism, was the phase where there became a simplification, distortion and emphasis of the forms of objects. It is said that this first stage of Cubism was brought on by the ideas of Impressionalism. During this phase the artist created symbolic forms to preserver the ideas of something instead of the true form of something, which is often short-lived. Through their ability to look past the......

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