The Western Concept of Time and Portrait Painting

i don't view cubism, which is considered to be picaso's invention, as this wonderful, radical thing that happened in western thart. What cubism needs to be seen as is west african cultures had a far more sophisticated, fluid, observational and realistic concept of time. They incorporated movement and changing perspectives and the lived reality of experience in a parson, in their art. And picasso just robbed from it, yes, like he was honest about the fact that he was taking influence from afAfrican art. But the great intellectual leap there, it wasn't picasso's great intellectualWestern culture had a very limited view of time as being linear and as something that could