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===Influence on Western art=== {{see also|Picasso's African Period|Contemporary African art}} At the start of the 20th century, artists like [[Pablo Picasso|Picasso]], [[Henri Matisse|Matisse]], [[Paul Gauguin]] and [[Amedeo Modigliani|Modigliani]] became aware of, and were inspired by, [[African art]].<ref name="African Influences in Modern Art">Murrell, Denise. [http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/aima/hd_aima.htm "African Influences in Modern Art"], ''[[The Metropolitan Museum of Art]]'', April 2008. Retrieved on 31 January 2013.</ref> In a situation where the established [[avant garde]] was straining against the constraints imposed by serving the world of appearances, African Art demonstrated the power of supremely well organised forms; produced not only by responding to the faculty of sight, but also and often primarily, the faculty of imagination, emotion and mystical and religious experience. These artists saw in African art a [[Formalism (art)|formal]] perfection and sophistication unified with phenomenal expressive power.<ref name="Johnson">Johnson, ''Picasso's Demoiselles d'Avignon and the Theater of the Absurd''. 102–113</ref><ref>Richardson, J. ''Picasso's Apocalyptic Whorehouse''. 40–47</ref><ref name="ChristiesPress">[http://www.christies.com/about/press-center/releases/pressrelease.aspx?pressreleaseid=4086 Release: Tête – Amedeo Modigliani] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304225858/http://www.christies.com/about/press-center/releases/pressrelease.aspx?pressreleaseid=4086 |date=4 March 2016 }}. Press Release, [[Christie's|Christie's Paris]]. 26 May 2010. Accessed 20 October 2011.</ref><ref>Matisse may have purchased this piece from Emile Heymenn's shop of non-western artworks in Paris, see [http://www.pablopicasso.org/africanperiod.jsp PabloPicasso.org].</ref><ref name=twsJun10a>{{cite news |author=[[Arthur I. Miller|Miller, Arthur I.]] |title= Einstein, Picasso: Space, Time, and the Beauty That Causes Havoc |work= [[The New York Times]] |quote= Les Demoiselles contains vestiges of Cézanne, El Greco, Gauguin and Ingres, among others, with the addition of conceptual aspects of primitive art properly represented with geometry. |year= 2001 |url= https://www.nytimes.com/books/first/m/miller-01einstein.html |access-date=10 June 2010 }}</ref>
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