Practice question · True or false
The African sculpture Picasso encountered at the Trocadéro was a significant source for Les Demoiselles d’Avignon.
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- The encounter is documented and was decisive.
- Later accounts obscured the debt with a dismissive label.
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True
Why
It was decisive, and Western art history spent decades burying the debt under the word "primitive", crediting the borrower and erasing the source. Whose innovation gets named is itself a historical question.
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