New encounters with Les Demoiselles d'Avignon: gender, - The Diigo Meta page

• 11 Oct 07
  

  chawjh
  • the painting is now more loosely considered a curtain raiser or trigger to Cubism
  • Picasso violated pictorial convention in Les Demoiselles d'Avignon: by his deidealization of the human form, his disuse of illusionistic space, and his deployment of a mixture of visual idioms
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  • • Picasso's picture has been held to mark or even to have precipitated the demise of the old visual order and the advent of the new
    • a compressed or otherwise compromised female form, often that of a prostitute or femme fatale, would come to serve almost as an avatar of modernism

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