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Repository 31: On the Sacred | Magical Powers of Art
Picasso described African Art as “a kind of mediation between themselves and the unknown hostile forces that surround them, in order to overcome their fear and horror by giving it a form and image.” He said African Art changed his approach to painting and enabled him to see art as “a form of magic designed to be a mediator between this strange, hostile worlds, and as a way of seizing power by giving form to our terrors as well as…
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