Primitive art of the peoples of Africa, Oceania, Asia

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found little about borrowing avant-garde artists in the primitive art:

The XIX-XX centuries. - The crisis of European civilization, the destruction of traditsionnoysistemy values (anthropocentrism, rationalism) and the birth of avant-garde art, whose meaning is apprehension of the irrational, subconscious, "intuitive" (Bergson). Interesevropeyskih artists to the culture of "primitive" peoples - the result of frustration in the traditional methods of Western art, new forms, an alternative to "obsolete" concepts. 1906-1907 gg. - Opening of primitivism as a singular creative vision, a new artistic yazyka.Pervymi serious interest in the art of primitive peoples proyavilihudozhniki-fauvists - A. Matisse, A. Deren, M. Vlaminck. In 1906 Vlaminck priobretaetgabonskuyu Fang mask, which will become a symbol of "primitivism" avant-garde. In 1907, Pablo Picasso goes on show in the Trocadero Museum of Ethnography, which, as he later acknowledged, he will open the true meaning of painting. "These maskibyli more than just a sculpture. Negros - patrons, casters. Against all, against the unknown, hostile spirits. I realized: I'm against all. All-unknown enemy. I understand why blacks needed a sculpture. All the idols perform one and the zhefunktsiyu. They were weapons. To help people become independent, so that people contumacious spirits. If we attach to the form of spirits, we become independent. Perfume, subconscious, emotions - all the same. I understood why I am an artist. "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" there must be on the same day. This was my first experience of exorcism ... »[Foster: 37]. In the primitive art of Picasso reveals the meaning of modern art: to realize the irrationality of the universe using the" magic "of primitive rituala.Kazhdoe piece of primitive art was telling a myth svyazcheloveka restored to the universe," reminded "about Secrets of a world related to the power of words. Avant-garde artists were not limited to borrowing primitive traditions, but sought to reincarnate into the primitive creator, putting in svoiproizvedeniya not aesthetic, but also a sacred meaning. "This is not a drop of aesthetics, etomagiya, which mediates between the hostile forces and us, this is possible to feel the power, to subordinate the form of our fears istrasti. The day when they realized this, I found my way. Designer creates a primitive mask (Picasso, E. Nolde, Expressionism), gives expression to their fears and passions, "spontaneous" in themselves and in the world. Sculpture (Picasso, Brancusi, AK) in the form napominaetfetishi and magical implements African rituals.