Why do African masks have an impact on the development of modern art

To answer this question, we should combine the development law of art history. At the beginning of the 20th century, there were many artistic schools in Europe, Cubism was one of them, and Picasso, a representative figure, especially his works, mostly derived their nutrition from these magnificent African original arts. In the past, Matisse, the representative figure of Fauvism, has always replaced the oriental graphic decoration art with the western space perspective art. Let European artists look at the world. At that time, some art critics began to publish articles that we should respect the church art in medieval Europe and the primitive art in backward Africa and Oceania. One theory is "witchcraft theory", and the origin of art is the witchcraft activities of primitive people. Later, people began to respect these arts, and the props used in religious ceremonies were also very interesting and had local characteristics, which made historians and art historians an important treasure house for studying history. I hope you can look it up: introduction to college art.