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23 Sep 16
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The painter Matisse is angered by the work, which he considers a hoax, an attempt to paint the fourth dimension
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He creates more than 100 sketches and preliminary paintings, wrestling with the problem of depicting three-dimensional space in a two-dimensional picture plane
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and a medical student holding a skull, perhaps symbolizing that "the wages of sin are death.
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The painting is described as a battleground, with the remains of the battle left on the canvas. The Iberian women in the center of the canvas clash with the hideously masked creatures standing and squatting on the right.
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opting for the sexual freedom depicted in a brothel. He also rejects popular current movements in painting by choosing line drawing rather than the color- and light-defined forms of Impressionism and the Fauves
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The painter's private demons take shape in the figures on the canvas.
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plant the seeds for cubism, the widely acclaimed and revolutionary art movement that he and painter Georges Braque develop in years to come.
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After its initial showing, the painting remains largely unseen for 39 years.
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09 Apr 13
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09 Jan 12
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28 Nov 11
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