Pablo Picasso: "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon," an interpretation, by Tony Grillo - The Diigo Meta page

• 11 Oct 07
  

  chawjh
  • addition of an arrangement of fruit
  • forms are reminiscent of broken crockery, shards of pottery.
  • 6 more annotations...
  • • nod of
      acknowledgment to his predecessor, Cezanne
    • colors employed are that of baked clay with some
      blue and gray to indicate outlines.
    • ut it is the jaded bestiality of man to man, man to woman, as sex-object, the general
      brutality of the times in which he lived, steeped in violence, that is most vividly represented
      here
    • we come to the "association" of the number five as suggesting the five
      senses
    • it is the
      drawing of the human figure in a new way, attenuating, foreshortening, twisting front, back and
      side views, in the manner that later became known as "cubism," whose underpinnings can be
      traced to the tectonic qualities that are present in the African tradition of tribal mask making
      "without having followed a specific African model, transposing sculptural stylizations into flat
      fields."
    • the five figures in the painting are NOT
      representations of women; at best, they are "caricatures" of women, at worse, they're drag
      queens.

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