Les Demoiselles d’ Avignon, 1907, Picasso

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Describe the composition of Les Demoiselles d’ Avignon.
Radical break from traditional composition and perspective.
Depicts 5 naked women composed of flat, splintered planes.
Compressed space appears to project forward in jagged shards, while a slice of melon in the still life at the bottom of the compositio
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Describe the use of colour or texture in Les Demoiselles d’ Avignon.
Dirty shades of brown and nude used to depict the skin of the prostitutes. Ladies blend into the background as with shards of burnt brown.
The brown shards appear to be the shadows of the ladies.
Blue breaks up the scene acting as a contrast.
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Describe the use of light and tone in Les Demoiselles d’ Avignon.
Solid gaps of white light the scene.
Ladies are very close to one another, lit strongly as if they are on display – perhaps a reference to their occupation and the sale of their bodies.
Deep shadow surrounding the masked ladies on the right of the paint
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Describe the use of Space & depth or relief in Les Demoiselles d’ Avignon.
Epic scale for a painting.
Ladies appear claustrophobic, close together.
Upturned table holding the fruit appears the closest to us. With the scene set so close to viewer, they are forced into the scene, becomes uncomfortable, increasingly with the cent
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Describe the use of Line or brushwork in Les Demoiselles d’ Avignon.
Thicker lines used to define the bodies of the ladies, their bodies appear almost outlined, defined with detail of the face and breast.
Mark making appears a lot smoother. Around the lady in the mask (standing) etching, sketchy mark making used to create
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What was the Influence from cultural/social factors on Les Demoiselles d’ Avignon?
Fascination with primitive art, reflected in the blocky, pared-down forms and forceful, angular planes. Striking shapes and contours.
Rejection of bourgeois society, colonialism, traditional art, sexual inhabitations and outdated mores and conventions.
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What was the Influence from political factors on Les Demoiselles d’ Avignon?
Encompassed ancient carvings
Home of the prostitutes, Avignon, Street in Barcelona
Validated African fetishes, and African culture as something to be taken seriously
Colonial brutality and the rule of the whites
Flourishing of prostitution
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What was the Influence from technological factors on Les Demoiselles d’ Avignon?
Advance in art with cubism employing geometric shapes in depictions of human and other forms. Visual abstraction.
Exposition Universelle 1878 showed new technology alongside the colonial exhibits with the human zoo displaying 4,000 indigenous people
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what were the Stylistic comment and artistic influence on Les Demoiselles d’ Avignon?
Cubism acts a style to show all the possible viewpoints of a scene at once. Inspiration came from the energy exuded from Paris. The focus was on attacking every accepted convention of standard painting – typical of Picasso who created these principles (19
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What were the new uses or developments of materials, techniques & processes on Les Demoiselles d’ Avignon?
New techniques exploring cubism. Analytical Cubism where artists explored geometrical shapes as features.
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what did one critic say about Les Demoiselles d’ Avignon?
“The masks weren’t just like any other pieces of sculpture, they were magic things, they were weapons”
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Dirty shades of brown and nude used to depict the skin of the prostitutes. Ladies blend into the background as with shards of burnt brown.
The brown shards appear to be the shadows of the ladies.
Blue breaks up the scene acting as a contrast.
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Describe the use of Space & depth or relief in Les Demoiselles d’ Avignon.

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