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3 unusual facts about African art


African art

Gilbert G. Groud criticizes the ancient beliefs in black magic, as held with the spiritual masks mentioned above, in his illustrated book Magie Noire.

Henry Mzili Mujunga

He has been exploring intuitive ways of reviving African art through an art movement called indigenous expressionism.

Patricio Pouchulu

His approach to Futurism, Expressionism and African art gives his projects atemporal, refreshing atmospheres, already present in his early architectural drawings and paintings.


Carl Einstein

Regarded as one of the first critics to appreciate the development of Cubism, as well as for his work on African art and influence on the European avant-garde, Einstein was a friend and colleague of such figures as George Grosz, Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso and Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler.

Corinne Whitaker

Whitaker has collected African Tribal Art and Indian art, and donated both her African tribal Indian arts to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in California.

Fayez Barakat

Specialising in classical antiquities, Near Eastern, Biblical, Chinese, Pre-Columbian, Byzantine, Asian, African and primitive arts, the business expanded from a small shop in the Jerusalem Souq into a dealership with global reach, and a presence in most of the world's major art-buying centres.

Picasso's African Period

In May or June 1907, Picasso experienced a "revelation" while viewing African art at the ethnographic museum at Palais du Trocadéro.


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Daniel Yohannes

In 2006, while serving on the Board of Trustees of Denver Art Museum, Yohannes and his family endowed the museum’s first African art gallery.

Musée d'Ethnographie du Trocadéro

Numerous Fauvist and Cubist artists discovered "primitive" art, particularly Black African art, at the Trocadéro Museum.

Nurnberg American High School

Warren M. Robbins, teacher 1950-51, deceased, founder and director emeritus Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, director of Center for Cross-Cultural Communication.

Picasso's African Period

Although Les Demoiselles is seen as a proto-Cubist work, Picasso continued to develop a style derived from African art before beginning the Analytic Cubism phase of his painting in 1910.

Suzanne Blier

Blier's interest in African art began when she served as a Peace Corps volunteer from 1969 to 1971 in Savé, a Yoruba center in Dahomey (now Benin Republic).

Washington County Museum of Fine Arts

A small but significant groups of European, Asian, African art are complimented by art Decco glass by Tiffany and Lalique.