Modern art his career and in the development of modern painting. It reflected Matisse's incipient fascination with primitive art: the intense warm color of the figures against the cool blue-green background and the rhythmical succession of the dancing nudes convey the feelings of emotional liberation and hedonism. Initially influenced by Toulouse-Lautrec, Gauguin and other late-19th-century innovators, Pablo Picasso made his first cubist paintings based on Cézanne's idea that all depiction of nature can be reduced to three solids: cube, sphere and cone. With the painting "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" (1907), Picasso dramatically created a new and radical picture depicting a raw and primitive
Picasso's African Period and reworked in July of that year), especially in the treatment of the two figures on the right side of the composition. Although "Les Demoiselles" is seen as a proto-cubist work, Picasso continued to develop a style derived from African art before beginning the analytic cubism phase of his painting in 1910. Other works of Picasso's African Period include the "Bust of a Woman" (1907, in the National Gallery, Prague); "Mother and Child" (Summer 1907, in the Musée Picasso, Paris); "Nude with Raised Arms" (1907, in the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid, Spain); and "Three Women" (Summer 1908, in the Hermitage Museum,