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Pablo Picasso, along with Georges Braque,
formulated the style of cubism in 1910. This 5 page paper explores the
personality of Picasso and the characteristics of the cubist painting,
Les Demoiselles d'Avignon. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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be known as cubism. He, along with Georges Braque, formulated cubism in 1910, when Picasso was only twenty-nine years of age. It is said that he brought an
end to the Fauvist movement by integrating form as well as color into the definition of modern. "Moreover, the pursuit of the new that followed Fauvism-the unnerving plunge into
Cubism, the spin into Futurism, the dazzle of Dada and then Surrealism-seized the public audience for art so completely that years slipped by before any serious notice was applied to
that first, once-shocking moment in the infancy of modern painting" (Dudar 65). Rosalind Krause, in her book, The Picasso Papers, argues that, soon after the interest in cubism
had ebbed, Picasso lost his distinction as the most avant garde of the avant garde by figures like Duchamp and Picabia. That is, the innovation of cubism was in
competition with the traditional through mechanization and chance. "The avant garde had moved on in the early teens and was now lying in wait for cubism, armed with `pure
abstraction on the one hand and the photomechanical conception of art -- in which the ready-made combines with the photograph -- on the other" (Krause 127). Picasso was seen
to retreat from Cubism into a period of traditional painting and sculpture. According to Krause, Picassos foray into traditionalism takes on the character of technical drawing, the tonality
of his portraits, the tonal character of the photograph. Picasso slides into pastiche, an inauthenticity so deep that he ends by counterfeiting not only past art but also his
own authentic moment itself, viz. Cubism, in the `synthetic cubist painting of the later 1910s and 1920s (PG). Hughes, on the other hand, believes that the greatest of
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