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A 4 page research paper/essay that describes and discusses these two Cubist masterpieces by Pablo Picasso. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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following examination looks at the differences between the two works. First of all, in developing Cubism, Picassos goal was to represent the subject of the painting simultaneously from several different
views. Picasso and his collaborator George Braque, who with Picasso as the co-inventor of Cubism, felt that the Cubist theory of vision should go further than the traditional approach and
take into account the "breaking up and discontinuity of the contemporary world view," which caused objects to be viewed with increased haste (Fleming 363).
In other words, as they saw the modern, twentieth century world as fractured and hurried, they created painting that reflected this fractured view. Therefore, Picasso and Braque endeavored
to present their subjects "in wholes, or in part, opaque and transparent," as they "undertook to move inside as well as outside an object, below and above it, in and
around it" (Fleming 369). The fact that Les Demoiselles DAvignon has been called "the most influential painting" since the work of Giotto and the "harbinger comet of the new century"
indicates that Picasso achieved his goal (Chave 596). Les Demoiselles pictures five nude women who are "rather alien-looking prostitutes," as they compete for the attention of male customers (Chave 596).
The influence of African art is clear in this painting, as the nude in the upper right has a face that resembles a tribal mask from Itumba, which was then
a part of the French Congo (Fleming 363). The profile of the woman just below this figure also shows an African tribal influence (Fleming 363). It is interesting to note
how art critics have interpreted the angular nudes in terms of a violent attack on the viewer. Leo Steinberg, for example, indicated the view that the painting is a "tidal
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