Masterpiece or Monstrosity?: Controversies about Modern Art - The Diigo Meta page

• 11 Oct 07
  

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  • Demoiselles changed the way Picasso and others viewed painting
    and led to great achievements in twentieth century art. Demoiselles
    offers no evidence of Picasso prodigious skill and created the opportunity
    and provoked the free interchange of ideas. In provoking Cubism Picasso
    became a leader and a revolutionist who would change the way Art was created
    and viewed.
  • One style that Picasso explored and used in Demoiselles, was "primitivism."
    In early 1906, Picasso saw an exhibition of Osuna sculpture.
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  • • The two women in the middle are perhaps the most classically painted
      figures, but are still broken down and simplified into shapes. They are
      similar in stance to C&eacutezanne and Henri Matisse figures in paintings such
      as C&eacutezanne's Five Bathers and Matisse's Le Bonheur de vivre.
      The two women on the right are further abstracted. Their bodies are contorted
      and not easily recognized as human forms.
    • It was the starting point of Cubism, in so far as it prompted Braque
      to begin painting at the end of the year his own far more formal answer
      to Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
    • By incorporating
      African art directly into a Western painting "Picasso purposely challenged
      and mocked Western artistic traditions with his allusions to black Africa,
      with its unavoidable associations of white cruelty and exploitation."
    • This search led Picasso
      to incorporate several different styles

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