Word: picassos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...virtual hermit at his Mougins retreat in southern France, Pablo Picasso was forced to emerge by a toothache. On the streets of Cannes he looked in turn pained and relieved, allowing the public one of its few glimpses of the master in almost a year...
...Benin demonstrates that the ancient Africans could achieve a naturalism comparable to that of Egypt, Greece and Renaissance Italy. But Africa's unique contribution to world art is the violently expressionistic wooden sculpture and highly stylized masks of tribal art-the art that impressed and excited Picasso and Matisse and strongly deflected the course of modern art. Oddly enough, this tribal art owes much of its vitality to the wood-eating white ant of Africa. Because of its depredations-and some help from natural decay-each generation of carvers had to create new images and new variations on traditional...