How have creative expressions in Africa and Latin American influenced modern art

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How have creative expressions in Africa and Latin American influenced modern art?

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The spread of african and latin american art into europe started much of "modern art" as influence/inspiration. I think there was a big Armory type show in paris of all the stuff... picasso has admitted that it inspired his cubism, and if you put some african masks and some of his stuff side by side they are very similar... it inspired less focus on representational art, and more on... expression, through representation. Outside of that, my art history is very rusty and you can get far better info on it at the library, or on wikipedia... there are tons of books about the subject.