... artist's career has primitivism played so pivotal and historically consequential a role as in Pablo Picasso's" (Rubin 241). With a continuous presence of tribal objects in his studio and his work from 1907 until his death, Picasso is described as the "key protagonist" of 20th century primitivism. Picasso's childhood was bourgeois and conventional, with a respected traditional artist and art professor as a father (241). Picasso began to view the art of his childhood, as well as the art of society as no longer viable or true, so he took it upon himself to provide new alternatives. Before 1906, Picasso began moving in a different direction from tradition by celebrating the outsiders of society in his work: the poor, the blind, the old, and the rejected. Finally, in June of 1907, Picasso had an "epiphany". After a yearlong evolution in his works, called the "Iberian" style, triggered by the Archaic ...

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