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The use of a conceptual approach can best be illustrated with reference to portraiture.

Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon is set in a brothel, and given Picasso’s pathological fear of venereal disease, the masked figures can be interpreted as being harbingers of disease. The facial disfigurements evoke the physical effects, while their African origins may play upon contemporary fears of diseases spread by sailors returning from the colonies. Picasso is thus bringing personal concerns into his engagement with the primitive, and is manipulating primitive elements in order to articulate these concerns.

One of a kind art.