Les Demoiselles d'Avignon

Everything is broken up and his use of shading is conflicting. Both of these techniques were controversial because they did not represent the object as it actually appeared. The scale of some of his paintings as well were risky ventures. In Les Demoiselles d’Avignon for instance, the women are as tall as or taller than the viewer is, which could be intimidating. Guernica, as well, was an…

On January 17th, St. Martinville, Louisiana’s 3rd oldest town, celebrated its bicentennial, beginning a yearlong commemoration of the small city’s storied history. St. Martinville is representative of many of Louisiana’s distinct cultural and geographic histories. Seated on the Bayou Teche, the water highway of over 100 miles has been an essential part of the settlement and commercial development of St. Martinville. The word “teche” may be derived from the Chitimacha word for “snake”, and some…

must choose to the best way to express their feelings through art. Sometimes finding your own way can be dangerous and scary, but getting past those feelings can be rewarding. Breaking from the norm was exactly what the Rite of Spring and Les Demoiselles d’Avignon did. Ground breaking can be controversial and dangerous when it is perceived as disrespectful and degrading. I will show how these two pieces of work from Igor Stravinsky and Picasso did just that all the while expanding the genres by…

beautiful women in many artworks since Renaissance period. However, let see why Matisse and Picasso paintings can be simultaneously seen as inspired by and breaking free of Paul Cézanne’s The Large Bathers. The Large Bathers (Cézanne, 1898-1905) and “Le Bonheur de Vivre” (Joy of Life) (Matisse, 1906) First, if you look at the original post-Impressionist painting by Paul Cézanne, we can easily recognize how the author works with broad brushstrokes, uses mainly blue and shades of brown color. He…

Comparing the Artistic Works of Cézanne, Matisse, and Picasso The beginning of the 20th century marked a transition from rural and agrarian based lifestyles to the urbanized and industrial based society that exists today. This rapid change in social ways of life introduced new ways of thinking about and reacting to society’s modern aesthetics. In regards to the creation of new ways of thinking for the modern era, the realm of art was not left out of this. New artistic styles such as…

Paul Cézanne was born in 1839 and was a Post-Impressionist French painter. His work contributed to the transition from the 19th century conception of artistic endeavor to a new world of art in the 20th century (“Paul Cézanne”, 2016). Cézanne worked on his painting “The Large Bathers” for seven years, which remained unfinished at the time of his death in 1906. It is often considered Cezanne’s finest work (“The Bathers (Cézanne)”, 2016). Cezanne aimed to disregard current trends and give a…

consideration of Picasso’s biography in order to assess the extent to which such a phenomenon or concept figures in the artist’s painting. The process of assessment is believed to require consideration of some of Picasso’s paintings such as that of Les Demoiselles D’avignon in order to determine whether Picasso’s perception of women is affected by certain life experiences that he might have tried to document through his visual representations. Such a consideration seems to be an important one…

20th century. As the greatest art genius in the 20th century, Pablo Picasso had done as much as 37,000 artwork, which includes 1885 oil paintings, 7089 sketches, 2000 prints, and 6121 lithographs. Picasso’s representative works are "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon", "Kahn Weiler like" "bottle, glass and violin '', “Guernica”, and '' dove of peace." Picasso had four paintings in the list of the top 10 highest auction price paintings. In an opinion poll he had been…

he slashed one of them with a palette knife." If Henri Matisse was regarded as the father of modern art at the dawn of the 20th century, Pablo Picasso was sleeping with the same muse. When Picasso finished his form shattering masterpiece Les Demoiselles d'Avignon in 1907, portraying five prostitutes with primal masklike faces, their nudity more geometric than erotic, even his early dealer Ambroise Vollard blurted out, "It's the work of a…

Amongst the most significant artists in history, Paul Cézanne inspired generations of modern artists and became the first of his generation to successfully secede from the Impressionist style. By emphasising arrangements of colour, and perceiving paintings in extreme abstract and geometric senses, Cezanne established the bridge between Impressionism and art of the twentieth century’s new inquest, Cubism. Cezanne directly inspired Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque in their Cubist experiments, the…