The problem, as Dr Naqvi characterised it, is “Picasso has not been critiqued by an African, nor … Matisse by a Persian to highlight their shortcomings from the point of view of whose art they borrowed from. No one asked them in Europe if they understood what they took and used it correctly… We are too much on the defensive; we have taken ideas and styles from the West in the same way Europe did for centuries from Egypt, the Muslim world, the Far East, and Africa…”
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