Culture Shock: Flashpoints: Visual Arts: Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon - The Diigo Meta page

• 11 Oct 07
  

  chawjh
  • fifth woman with a primitive mask, holding back the crimson curtain to reveal her "sisters."
  • includes two men -- a patron surrounded by the women, and a medical student holding a skull, perhaps symbolizing that "the wages of sin are death."
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  • • original
    • rejects popular current movements in painting by choosing line drawing rather than the color- and light-defined forms of Impressionism and the Fauves.
    • turns his back on middle-class society and the traditional values of the time, opting for the sexual freedom depicted in a brothel
    • 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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