Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
April 4th 2006 10:54
Why it’s important.
This painting arguably marks the beginning of Modern Art. It’s confronting, has an incredible amount of ideology in it and actually inspired heaps of art movements-cubism being the most famous. It’s controversial, often dubbed vulgar, and is set in a brothel-I mean what more could we ask?
What makes it good?
What Picasso basically does here is totally smash the conventions of the female nude. The women in his work aren’t ‘ideal’ their angular and are the opposite of anything remotely sensual.
He also destroys the concept of perspective and spatial depth-the women aren’t flat they’re shaded in a way that gives them a three dimensional quality but their by no means 'real' either.
At the same ground there’s no foreground or background. As in-there’s nothing that gives you any sense of space in painting. To add to all this, Picasso has set the painting in a brothel to makes sure he got under the skin of as many people as possible.
What’s so important about this work is that Picasso basically yells that hey, art may have rules but you don’t have to abide by them all the time. He’s giving artists permission to break the rules and experiment.
Perhaps the best way to sum up the painting is through Picasso’s own words: “Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.”
How to use this info at a cocktail party:
This is a great topic to bring up, because allot of people will consider this work as vulgar. Many still argue that its not art. So its definitely something to think about.
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This painting arguably marks the beginning of Modern Art. It’s confronting, has an incredible amount of ideology in it and actually inspired heaps of art movements-cubism being the most famous. It’s controversial, often dubbed vulgar, and is set in a brothel-I mean what more could we ask?
What makes it good?
What Picasso basically does here is totally smash the conventions of the female nude. The women in his work aren’t ‘ideal’ their angular and are the opposite of anything remotely sensual.
He also destroys the concept of perspective and spatial depth-the women aren’t flat they’re shaded in a way that gives them a three dimensional quality but their by no means 'real' either.
At the same ground there’s no foreground or background. As in-there’s nothing that gives you any sense of space in painting. To add to all this, Picasso has set the painting in a brothel to makes sure he got under the skin of as many people as possible.
What’s so important about this work is that Picasso basically yells that hey, art may have rules but you don’t have to abide by them all the time. He’s giving artists permission to break the rules and experiment.
Perhaps the best way to sum up the painting is through Picasso’s own words: “Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.”
How to use this info at a cocktail party:
This is a great topic to bring up, because allot of people will consider this work as vulgar. Many still argue that its not art. So its definitely something to think about.
The info for this post was taken from the following sites: http://www.geocities.com/rr17bb/LesDemoi.html and the quote was from the site: http://www.brainyquote.com.
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David Jobling
Comment by Matt
swing by sydney diary sometime, i'd like to see what you think
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Comment by Cibbuano
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Since then, however, I've seen some of his pieces in museums and have been blown away by the lines, the colours, the bizarre interpretation of reality.
Comment by AdamB
The worst thing is when someone does a picture that is based entirely on an idea but it's an idea that has been done a million times. If the idea is the entire point of the work it at least has to be strong and original (or making a point by being unoriginal)
But then, who cares what I think
Adam
Comment by Sara
Cibbuano, i used to do the same thing in primary school. hehe.