In 1907, an oil painting named Les demoiselles d 'avignon was painted by Pablo Picasso, a young Spanish artist. “Les demoiselles d 'avignon was not Picasso’s title but was given to the painting years later by a friend of his. It translates as “ the young women of Avignon” and refers to the prostitutes of Avignon Street, a notorious district of Barcelona, Picasso’s hometown.”(Mark Getlein, Living with Art, 83) The painting shows a composition of five naked women figures on the ground, surround by white and brown sheets drop from the top. In the center bottom part, items such as grapes are placed.Each figure express a pose but all painted in similar pink skin colors. Picasso changed an idea of the painting while in the making process.“ In early
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In a comparison, both two styles are similar in same way, however, differently in other aspects. Expressionism was a style of painting, but also as a movement of art. Expressionists seek a subjective side of the external world, create artworks that depict the emotional experiences of the object rather than focused on its physical appearance. In a response, their works usually has simplified shapes, bold lines or contours, a large portion of clean, pure colors. Figures are appeared with distorted face, colored in an abnormal color combination. A girl can be painted with a greenish face along with yellow and red to portray her inner side of emotions. Even though Les demoiselles d 'avignon include flat colors and an exaggerated abstraction form of figures. These elements associated with Expressionism painting, but this is an example of cubism because cubism everything is arranged in a flattened space, each figure poses differently in a sharp …show more content…
All the figures have sharp shapes made intentionally as they were sharpened or cutted. They showed clearly on each section of the women’s body parts. Most clearly on the two central figures, their elbows turn to a triangular angle. Same visual effect is observed from the still vertical figure on the left, the woman has her knee, breast and an arm in an angular form instead of curve. Moving to the right, seeing two women covered their face with African mask, geometric sharp shapes are drawn on their noses, and on their breasts. The ground is composed with an angular form of sheets, also an amount of triangular shapes right under the squatting figure close to the bottom right side. The table in front has fruits on it exposed an obvious triangulation form. Curves can only seen from the two women in the center, they have curved shape on both inner arm and breasts. Picasso achieved his goals as a cubist, who intend to extend the possibilities in modern art by depicting these nudes with
In a comparison, both two styles are similar in same way, however, differently in other aspects. Expressionism was a style of painting, but also as a movement of art. Expressionists seek a subjective side of the external world, create artworks that depict the emotional experiences of the object rather than focused on its physical appearance. In a response, their works usually has simplified shapes, bold lines or contours, a large portion of clean, pure colors. Figures are appeared with distorted face, colored in an abnormal color combination. A girl can be painted with a greenish face along with yellow and red to portray her inner side of emotions. Even though Les demoiselles d 'avignon include flat colors and an exaggerated abstraction form of figures. These elements associated with Expressionism painting, but this is an example of cubism because cubism everything is arranged in a flattened space, each figure poses differently in a sharp …show more content…
All the figures have sharp shapes made intentionally as they were sharpened or cutted. They showed clearly on each section of the women’s body parts. Most clearly on the two central figures, their elbows turn to a triangular angle. Same visual effect is observed from the still vertical figure on the left, the woman has her knee, breast and an arm in an angular form instead of curve. Moving to the right, seeing two women covered their face with African mask, geometric sharp shapes are drawn on their noses, and on their breasts. The ground is composed with an angular form of sheets, also an amount of triangular shapes right under the squatting figure close to the bottom right side. The table in front has fruits on it exposed an obvious triangulation form. Curves can only seen from the two women in the center, they have curved shape on both inner arm and breasts. Picasso achieved his goals as a cubist, who intend to extend the possibilities in modern art by depicting these nudes with