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Actually, the effect was the other way around. Traditional African art affected the European art greatly in the 20th century, for example Picasso's painting 'Les Demoiselles d'Avignon'- his painting that was to be a starting point to the style known as "Cubism"- was greatly affected by traditional African art.

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