Cubism and Picasso
Picasso’s development toward cubism reached its climax with the monumental justly celebrated Demoiselles d’Avignon (1906). This painting, named for a brothel in Barcelona’s Avignon Street, depicts, in a highly stylized form, five angular nude or partially draped women grouped around an arrangement of fruit. This final, condensed version, developed through many preparatory works, was attained by gradual simplifications and eliminations of an originally conspicuous subject matter.1. LINEAR (SHARP CONTOURS) VS PAINTERLY (LINES ARE INDISTINCT Picasso shows a rethinking of the human body in Les Demoiselles. This ranges from a simplified naturalism, (in the centre figures) to an increased sense of fragmentation in to angular forms, each of which
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Les Demoiselles, Avignon Street, , COLOUR REFRACTED/REFLECTED, SUGGESTED OBJECTS, INDISTINCT Picasso, les demoiselles, DIAGONAL PLANES, relative clarity, VS COLOUR, Bibliography None, colour + light, semi-independent planes, difficult determine, colour +, potentially limitless, + light, human body, absolute clarity, clarity suggested, relative clarity suggested,
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