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Pictured at top:; Pablo Picasso. Les Demoiselles d'Avignon. 1907. Oil on canvas, 8' x 7' 8" (243.9 x 233.7 cm). Acquired through the Lillie P. Bliss Bequest. © 2003 Estate of Pablo Picasso/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York...
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"Then came the awesome Les Demoiselles d'Avignon of 1907, the shaker of the art world (Museum of Modern Art, New York). Picasso was a little afraid of the painting and didn't show it except to a small circle of friends until 1916, BOOKS ON PICASSO Les Demoiselles D'Avignon (Studies in Modern Art, No 3); William Rubin, et al...
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Picasso, Pablo; Les Demoiselles d'Avignon; Paris, June-July 1907; Oil on canvas; 8' x 7'8" (243.9 x 233.7 cm.); The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Daix 47; ©2000 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York See also: William Rubin: Les Demoiselles D'Avignon...
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In creating Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, Picasso turns his back on middle-class society and the traditional values of the time, opting for the sexual freedom depicted in a brothel.
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In 1907 Picasso drew The Demoiselles D’Avignon. This work was a complete breakthrough from everything that he had done before that time. It was the early stage of Cubism and a mixture of every other “ism”: Fauvism, Expressionism, Primitivism, Futurism and Modernism.
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Pablo Picasso. Les Demoiselles d'Avignon. 1907. Oil on canvas. The Museum of Modern Arts, New York, NY, USA. Back to Picasso's Page Home Artist Index Country Index...
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It's exactly a century since Picasso painted Les Demoiselles d'Avignon. Jonathan Jones reveals why this explosion of sex, anarchy and violence gave birth to the whole of modern art. Modernism in the arts is 100 years old, because Pablo Picasso's painting Les Demoiselles d'Avignon is now 100 years old.
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Plus, because of the impotence of todays artiste, they lack the skills of line and color, the sensuality of the melody flowing freely, as in Matisse, the power and passion of color Les Demoiselles d'Avignon just isn't the height of eroticism after a thousand unsatisfying, desensitising sexual monologues, JJ.
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www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2009/may/29/more-sex-in-art-jonathan-jones
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