AP European History 2.4 Period 3: 1815-1914

mean muggin on the right there she doesn't actually hate us which is a

really good thing because no one wants to mess with five naked ladies with

elbows that pointy nope we can all rest easy because she's actually just wearing

an African mask but what does it all mean well we can tell you that it had [Woman wearing an African mask in the painting]

little to do with the European balance of power which simply stated that no

single European power could gain control over the majority of the continent and [Men arguing over control of the European continent]

it also had nothing to do with communism because even though Picasso was a member

of the French Communist Party it rarely seemed to influence his work that's [Picasso stood beside a Communist party flag]

right Grandpa you have a replica painting of a communist hanging in your

living room breathe in breathe out relax, it's gonna be okay nationalism the [Grandpa running around his living room]

belief that a certain geographical region is more important than another [Woman jumping with a US flag]

wasn't a particularly important topic to modernist painters and nothing about the

inclusion of the African mask suggests that Picasso is looking down on Africa [Picasso saying he likes masks]

Nope, all we're seeing here is a case of the new imperialism at the time through

imperialism Europeans were exposed to foreign cultures especially the African ones

allowing for multi cultural influences and flavors to appear in European [Man greets an Imperialism European with masks]

modernist art work and while the multi cultural influences definitely explain

the masks, we've still not been given a reasonable explanation for why the two

women in the middle are you know smelling their own armpits.. yeah maybe it

was just a really hot day or an ad for rightguard [Picasso painting and Rightguard deodorant appears]