Perhaps the most radical painting of the twentieth-century, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, hangs unobtrusively at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. This large canvas, measuring 96" x 92", was to revolutionize modern painting by charting a new way of depicting reality. In 1907 its painter, Pablo Picasso, broke all of the rules that the "artistically correct" learned at the art academies: he disposed of three-dimensional perspective, abandoned harmonious proportion, used distortion, and borrowed from the art of primitive cultures. In fact, the painting was such a revolutionary statement that when the painting was first viewed by some French critics, the painter Derain even suggested to Picasso that he would one day commit suicide for the shame that he had brought on the art establishment.
Firstly,for the emphasis five pink women are entangled in silver and blue draperies. Two of them stand with arms raised to flaunt their breasts, staring at you out of huge black eyes. The other three are masked: one in a fleshy brown wooden simulacrum of a face as she stands in profile at the left of the picture; the two at the right in African masks, one of them intruding from behind the jagged cloth while the other squats among fabric diamonds. On a plate, there is a collection of blatantly meaningful fruit: a scything blade of melon with testicular grapes, an apple and a pear. This is a painting of nudes in which there is scarcely a curve to be seen - elbows sharp as knives, hips and waists geometrical silhouettes, triangle breasts.
Second,for the proportion Les Demoiselles d’Avignon depicts five prostitutes in a brothel. At the centre of the bottom of the painting is still life – a pear, an apple, a melon and grapes. Picasso made a lot of sketches and studies in preparation for this painting, which looks like a work in progress. There is not a unified whole, each figure is drawn differently. The overall composition can be described as asymmetrical, unstable, chaotic and vertically oriented. The treatment of space and light is very unnatural. It is a rose-blue painting.The treatment of space and new concept of the depiction of the human figure are especially significant due to their predominant roles in the subsequent development of Cubism.
Lastly, for the variety in Cubism, points out that this new approach can be seen in details such as the avoidance of normal anatomical proportions and the reduction of female figures to geometrical lozenges and triangles.In the works of Analytical Cubism Picasso removed bright colours from his composition. Colour schemes were simplified, tending to be nearly monochromatic .This picture Les Demoiselles d’Avignon the female figures are depicted in a rose-ochre tones and the background is blue.
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