.For it was e anarchist cultivatio experience for its own sa that attracted artists and intellectu The great interest suddenly taken by Picasso and his anarchist friends in dark continent and African artik motivated in this way: it was a Tadical avant-garde gesture, a provocative and Tot simply an appreciative, still less an aesthetic, response Picasso's intimate involvement is illustrated by a photograph of hinn in 1908 in his Paris studio taken by an American writer, Gelett Burgess, who published it in 1910 in an article entitled "The Wild Men of Paris.