How Picasso was inspired by Non-Western Art | Musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac Paris Museum

[@jdones5475]

One of the best videos I have seen !! Thank you so much!!!!

[@littlearttalks]

Julliam Dones thank you so much!!

[@refiloemahlatji7359]

They were stolen. All of them were stolen, art is communal and spiritual in Africa hence we don't sign them

[@brooklynikki]

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[@littlearttalks]

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[@juliolabra2]

Thank you for taking the time to dissect the history of exhibiting indigenous arts in Western Museums. That was a wonderful analysis! I'll be traveling to Holland and Germany this Summer, and now I will be taking a side trip to see this exhibition. You've opened a new perspective on Picasso for me. Thank you again!

[@ThomasAdjani]

This exhibition opened about a year after my trip to Paris and its museums. A shame that I did not have an opportunity to see it but am glad that you did, and that you reviewed it so superbly. Good work; keep it up!

[@monivk259]

I really liked this video!! As a person that lives in Costa Rica I don't have many opportunities to go to museums and see these wonderful things. I loved catching a glimpse of this exposition and how you explained it too! Here in Costa Rica we have like 5 big(-ish) museums, and 3 of those are just based around pre-colonial art, so having gone to those museums like 3 times already , it was very interesting to see the impact these pieces had on the rest of the world in this video. Thanks for sharing this awesome exhibition with us and for creating more awareness an appreciation for non-European art. I would love to see more videos like these where you go to an exhibition and explain it. Keep up the good work :) p.s. sorry for the essay :p

[@littlearttalks]

Thanks so much, Monika! Yes, I definitely think it's a wonderful thing to have access to a wide variety of museums to get a wider/ multiple perspectives. It's interesting to wonder how the same objects in different places would be presented differently, given the country's history and current climate. I would love to make more videos like this too!

[@beatricemiloiu9419]

Monika von Koller you could try Google arts and culture. They have a lot of art works there and some good explanations too

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Wow! You really captured the scope and the details of this exhibition. Your videos are such an education and a delight! Please keep up the amazing work.

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[@dustinta1143]

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[@michaelmakwala914]

Waw, thank-you for this video. I'm an artist working and living in Victoria BC Canada. As a first nations person from Canada it was easy to recognize the Chilkat blanket in this video - it reminds me of the ones from Tongas Alaska that were inherited by my family via marriage, along with a mountain and names and ceremonies. I was sitting here with my daughter teaching her about art etc, we are a homeschooling family, and suddenly this video brings up the concept of appropriation! So good! Thanks this was a most excellent video for helping explain what goes on in and around our cultural art forms. This was my first meaningful subscribe of 2019, :D

[@Marceau.Verdiere.Atelier]

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[@1book1review]

Great video! Now I wish I could go visit Paris.

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[@1m6_]

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[@ExploringArtwithAlessandro]

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[@AdrianBenjaminx]

Very well done. Thank you.

[@littlearttalks]

Glad you liked it!

[@sartlearthistory3814]

You've skillfully tackled a very large topic! Bravo!

[@ExploringArtwithAlessandro]

Good job Karin!

[@steveb2145]

excellent analysis... thank you

[@littlearttalks]

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[@Poweregg28]

I live in Paris and I missed the show, thanks for the video.

[@hildebrandoromero3814]

Gracias!

[@alejandra6543]

Great video! thanks for your work!

[@DevilMarshawLaw]

Amazing! Great explanation on why Picasso wasn't appropiating these "exotic art forms" for his own purpose of creating something original, but instead, in seeing them as equals, as artists and multidimensional people. A direct slap on the face on academic/eurocentric society of his time.

[@Dems-fk8sh]

Great intellectual video. Thanks

[@antoinettewatson1632]

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[@JacquelineWadsworth]

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[@kayodeomosule1616]

You mean copied and gave them no credit ?

[@williamasare517]

Dear Mr white man, I am back again to tell you that AFRICA will strike for justice.

[@caesarves]

Can you do video on Triptych 1976 by Francis Bacon

[@MrAmanRajSingh]

Hey maam i have a painting of picasso and i want sell

[@Creativeetea]

Your French is not that bad, kinda cute keep going ! Thanks for the tour !

[@CarlosRodriguez-cj8oo]

I stumbled onto to your channel late. But I’m glad I found it! It’s interesting that at the start of the video you used about ten words to dance around that one word “racism.” But I do understand. Everyone is careful (especially in 2022) about who they will offend. I’m happy that Picasso worried little about who his art would offend. Too much worry bleeds down to mediocrity where everyone dresses the same and speaks the same so that no one is offended. And laws are even created in that regard. Oh well, this comment is four years late. File it in the ether

[@lavarela8]

The art museum where I live recent got in trouble for wanting to hire someone that understood their traditional "white" audience while introducing black artists but not focusi g the lens too much on black art.... 🤣 how does one even begin to unpack all of that baggage? Anyway, your video was super informative and I am so glad you included the influence from the world's fair. It seems like anywhere they took these fairs destroyed the mind when it came to non-western cultures.

[@Jesus-mv9yr]

Thanks for this vid :)

[@littlearttalks]

Thanks for watching, Chorizo!

[@reinemazidath5466]

Inspired or Stolen ?

[@phill6159]

As an artist, it's seems to me there's nothing wrong with being influenced by things, as long as it is agreeable to the POMO crowd.

[@urbnctrl]

When you call plagiarism and theft "inspiration" to respect the thug that stole it. He literally denied where his inspirations came from and claimed it as his own invention, to this day he is still credited with "inventing" cubism. Fraud

[@thomasc7992]

how beautiful eyes you have.

[@kablanamon8601]

*What Picasso did is called PLAGIARISM.* And yes he did not invent all of his masterpieces, he copied and modified african art and claimed it. That's basically european art, that's the museums. Making money off of others STOLEN inventions, art etc. One way to not feel guilty about it is to say *INSPIRED*. but this is the rich man's world for PLAGIARISM.

[@Factcom-xe6ru]

They have a way of making or manipulating words to make them sweet to the hearing... INSPIRED!.... Sorry dear they were all robbed and stolen...

[@YellowSynth]

more like steal

[@YellowSynth]

not inspired he stole

[@Makonen442]

They are Afrikan people. Not “ these people” as you referred to.

[@cutiepie.8391]

Hey girl I really like your videos, I learn so much from you. You're a genus when it comes to art and I really learned to love you more when you shared the video about your little project (which is huge btw so congrats) but please stay away from history. 2:53 "A moral mission to lift these primitive people by giving them more sophisticated language, culture and guiding them to the light of catholic" whaaat? girl it was only for our raw material.. THEY TOOK EVERYTHING. and we had one of the most beautiful culures ever, google Ageria before 1830, they wanted to erase our culture religion and even language. they wanted to erase our identity. We don't need a more sophisticated culutre because we're in love with our culture. The Algerian culture is rich, varied and very old, each region, each city or oasis constitutes a particular cultural space. Kabylie, Aures, Algiers, Hauts Plateaux, Mzab Valley, Gourara, Hoggar, Saoura, Oranie are each regions with cultural and sometimes linguistic peculiarities. The first cultural events on the territory of present-day Algeria are thousands of years old, such as the fascinating rock art of Tassili n'Ajjer, passing by all the beautiful buildings erected throughout the history of our country, even the crafts (artizana) are very present. Algerian art reflects the history chapters of this country and the different influences it has had. *"A more sophisticated language" excuse you but Arabic is one of the mostly common spoken languages. In fact Arabic is the 5th common language in the world. Around 300 million people speak Arabic around the globe. And the oldest form of Arabic literature is poetry. Arabic literature has a great old history. The history of Arabic literature goes back to 16 centuries ago. During the Middle Ages, Literary Arabic was a major vehicle of culture in Europe, especially in science, mathematics and philosophy. As a result, many European languages have also borrowed many words from it. Arabic,, influence, mainly in vocabulary, is seen in European languages, mainly Spanish and to a lesser extent Portuguese, Valencian and Catalan, owing to both the proximity of Christian European and Muslim Arab civilizations and 800 years of Arabic culture and language in the Iberian Peninsula, referred to in Arabic as al-Andalus. Balkan languages, including Greek and Bulgarian, have also acquired a significant number of Arabic words through contact with Ottoman Turkish. *"and guiding them to the light of catholic" they came a little late because we were guided to the light of Islam and we're satisfied with it. I only talked about Algeria cause I'm Algerian and I know the history of my country, but I'm sure it's the same case with the whole African continent. I have more to say but I don't have time I'm in an exam period. by the way it was a really beautiful video I only hated the history part because Algeria has lost more than million and a half martyrs to win our independence in 1962 against France. And both my grandparents fought and made war agaist france. They lost everything their first children their brothers and sister, their parent and their homes. My grandpa still have bullets scars he's a survivor and my other grandpa is a martyr, they killed because he kept teaching arabic to children in secret Ps: I don't hate french people or France, in fact I visited paris twice. I just hate the leaders who declared war against us and decided to eslave us and also those who committed all those war crimes (yes there are many).

[@abbiepanda9367]

She was trying to describe how the people rationalized it she wasn’t saying that it was true

[@abbiepanda9367]

P.s Alergia sounds like and amazing country thank you for educating us

[@mambisa2690]

It's not "influence" its appropriation. It isn't "western bias" its racist. Your "cute" facial expressions don't do the topic justice, and are downright inappropriate. You are not handing these extremely sensitive subjects well. I suggest you read more non-art oriented historical text to supplement your ability to contextualize. You're coming across as shallow and insensitive.

[@joveirowens681]

Beautifully said thank you

[@AvsFan32]

Don’t be a prick

[@wc4074]

"Inspired" by "Non Western" Art. Nice semantics Correction: Stole African Art Tell the truth

[@flawlessx1860]

Thank you ... I was trying to understand what the difference was between "non-Western" and "African", because all I was seeing was African art.

[@Ayo.Ajisafe]

On display is art from Africa Asia Oceania and the Americas, hence non Western. Honestly are we just going to be a people complaining about everything?

[@1964_AMU]

This work is interresting but the start of Art in prehistoric times is quite different from Art into tribes. The representations of animals and figures, we can find into the Caves of Altamira and Lavaux, are very realistic. The Art made into tribes is geometric, analytic and is not realistic. The magic purposes of prehistoric and tribal Art could be similar. We can ask to people living now and producing these objects what they are for, the prehistoric men are mute forever. Picasso did not go to Mali and ask the Dogons why they carve representations of their passed children, nor did he visit Pasqua Island. Picasso made imitations of a few strong features and shapes, this is all.

[@KiiKiiCR]

He plagiarized African art. Period.

[@cliffdariff74]

Actually like all artists, they take ideas, art, and social inventory to use in their own work. It's normal.

[@justinlaw2999]

He loved Africa and he wanted to express his love to the greater world, if that be a problem then so be it, he's still Picasso at the days end and he'd never of keep from artwork over your empty criticisms.

[@malikahadams4593]

Definitely I agree!

[@gororo9380]

I disagree. African art was communal and was expected from most people with the means to do it.

[@HetLedie]

Not quite correct. Sorry but I must correct you. I've studied Picasso' work extensively in my undergrad and have been to three exhibits of his work. Picasso took great INFLUENCE from African art but that is not the same thing as blatant PLAGIARISM, as you call it. He appropriated certain visual tropes common throughout a wide array of different African masking traditions, reworked them in his own unique original way so they performed a different visual function, and then created original paintings & sculptures which revolutionized representational still-lifes & portraiture. Picasso had a deep admiration and appreciation for the work of African mask makers. While it is pretty shitty that he and Matisse physically took these artifacts back to Europe without asking, the pesky fact still remains that no creative plagiarism occurred. However, I will admit one thing. "Primitivist Art" is probably the most condescending label I've ever heard. Hope this helps!

[@sasufreqchann]

there was also a chinese zoo .

[@TheMadisonHang]

you got me going sapiosexual

[@nickyapenahier9214]

AFRICAN ART OR NON WESTERN ART🤦🏽‍♂️🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

[@Ayo.Ajisafe]

On display is art from Africa Asia Oceania and the Americas, hence non Western.

[@joveirowens681]

Why say non western instead of African 🤦🏾‍♂️

[@Ayo.Ajisafe]

On display is art from Africa Asia Oceania and the Americas, hence non Western.

[@Ayo.Ajisafe]

If it was exclusively African arr on display you don't think she would have just said that?

[@GStampedeIII]

"Non western" is about as vague as you can be 🤣

[@littlearttalks]

It's definitely not a perfect descriptor

[@sodiqayilara1519]

He wasn't inspired, he stole African art.

[@willemvandebeek]

4:08 XD

[@littlearttalks]

#struggles

[@hajiabdalla5772]

Because Art was born in Afrika cultures not europa or Asia.

[@chebochebo3058]

What do you mean not meant to last! They found them no? Tubbish

[@cameronkrause4712]

if you want to talk about cultural norms , artist , media, and gallery ethics.... then why not learn to pronounce the French words properly. with the tools at hand i, am sure that it would be easy for you-it would look more professional , instead of apologizing for not being able to speak the language-which looks too high school for u to be taken seriously..

[@gibememoni]

More afro lies

[@cliffdariff74]

Well the museum is in Europe no...? Too much talking, not enuff talking about particular pics of Picasso's work.

[@4realShonuf]

Excellent!