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Saved by 6 people (0 private), first by anonymouse user on 2007-01-11
- Chawjh on 2007-10-11 - Tags no_tag
- Apopheniac on 2007-06-29 - Tags art , commentary , criticism , history , modernism
- Pranav86 on 2007-02-16 - Tags interesting
- Ashleystar on 2007-01-12 - Tags art , article
- Levinson on 2007-01-11 - Tags Art
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t's exactly a century since Picasso painted Les Demoiselles d'Avignon. Jonathan Jones reveals why this explosion of sex, anarchy and violence gave birth to the whole of modern art
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It anticipates the end of painting, gladly contemplates the cultural destructions
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Les Demoiselles d'Avignon is the rift, the break that divides past and future.
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Five pink women are entangled in silver and blue draperies. Two of them stand with arms raised to flaunt their breasts, staring at you out of huge black eyes
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This is a painting of nudes in which there is scarcely a curve to be seen - elbows sharp as knives, hips and waists geometrical silhouettes, triangle breasts.
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this is a painting about looking. Picasso looks back at you in the central figure, whose bold gaze out of huge asymmetrical eyes has the authority of a self-portrait.
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disguise you, turn you into something else - an animal, a demon, a god. Modernism is an art that wears a mask.
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he wanted to show that originality in art does not lie in narrative, or morality, but in formal invention
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Modernism in the arts meant exactly this victory of form over content
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he all but obliterates the 500-year-old western tradition of perspective by flattening his flesh silhouettes in a space that goes nowhere. It's this visual violence that liberates his eroticism, because it erases any meaning or narrative.
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