Les Demoiselles d’Avignon

Posted by Maverick ~ on February 19, 2018
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Reproduction of
Les Demoiselles d’Avignon
Pablo Picasso
Spanish (1881-1973)

Considered one of the most famous works of art from the 20th century.  Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon marks a radical break from traditional European painting.  Within a compressed space, five nude women appear to project from the picture’s surface.  Their bodies are composed of flat, fractured planes, while their faces are inspired by Iberian sculpture and African masks.  This work signals a revolution in Picasso’s style and established him as the leader of the Parisian avant-garde.  Les Demoiselles dAvignon was painted in France and completed in the summer of 1907. A seminal work in the development of Cubism, Picassos eye-catching depiction of five prostitutes in a brothel revolutionized the art world. ◽️

17 comments on “Les Demoiselles d’Avignon”

  5. Great creativity! 🙂

    from E. E. Cummings:

    Picasso
    you give us things
    which
    bulge:grunting lungs pumped full of sharp thick mind

    you make us shrill
    presents always
    shut in the sumptuous screech of
    simplicity

    (out of the
    black unbunged
    Something gushes vaguely a squeak of planes
    or

    between squeals of
    Nothing grabbed with circular shrieking tightness
    solid screams whispers.)
    Lumberman of the Distinct

    your brain’s
    axe only chops hugest inherent
    Trees of Ego,from
    whose living and biggest

    bodies lopped
    of every
    prettiness

    you hew form truly

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