Here he learned that the values of African art differed extremely from the well known European traditional art from the 19th century. During this time, he examined many African sculptures and he noticed how the African art styles differed from the European styles of using realism techniques and blended features. Contrarily, African art embraced the hard lines where the shadows met light, and distortions, to purposely show the third dimension in a painting made of only two dimensional shapes and figures. This characteristic is often perceived as what made Picasso “understand his purpose as a painter, to mediate between the perceived reality and creativity of the human mind”(). He wanted to help mediate this idea because before Picasso, the only well known European artistic style was mostly Renaissance realism. Which after centuries of being created classicism became incessant and tiring to examine: “They just go on and on about the same old stuff: Velázquez for painting, Michelangelo for sculpture”(Picasso). There was more to painting than just recreating an image was Picasso’s main focus during this time period. That there
Here he learned that the values of African art differed extremely from the well known European traditional art from the 19th century. During this time, he examined many African sculptures and he noticed how the African art styles differed from the European styles of using realism techniques and blended features. Contrarily, African art embraced the hard lines where the shadows met light, and distortions, to purposely show the third dimension in a painting made of only two dimensional shapes and figures. This characteristic is often perceived as what made Picasso “understand his purpose as a painter, to mediate between the perceived reality and creativity of the human mind”(). He wanted to help mediate this idea because before Picasso, the only well known European artistic style was mostly Renaissance realism. Which after centuries of being created classicism became incessant and tiring to examine: “They just go on and on about the same old stuff: Velázquez for painting, Michelangelo for sculpture”(Picasso). There was more to painting than just recreating an image was Picasso’s main focus during this time period. That there