2007年专八真题
Mini-lecture PART 7

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Picasso
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As people from tribal societies move to urban areas, their values and beliefs change accordingly, and their traditional art forms begin to lose their function. At the same time, urban artists begin to learn a lot from traditional art. For example, African masks and figures had a great influence on Picasso's works. And many American and Canadian artists studied the simplicity of Japanese painting. The result is that as the world gets smaller, the art of each culture becomes more international. OK. This brings us to the end of our lecture. I hope that after today's lecture, you'll understand better the significance of a study of art history. Art enables us to know more about human history. For example, people's views and opinions about certain historical events, and what's more important, about different cultures, their religious beliefs, perception of art etc.