Picasso & Women: Les Demoiselles D'Avignon: Picasso's influen...

introduces some new aspects of his artistic influences, particularly of Iberian and Negro sculpture such as the extreme angularity in the forms and a savage brutality in the deformation of his female figures.

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Egyptian symmetry, ancient Greek sculpture, the Virgins of Catalan art, Cezanne’s geometric planes and the rough expressionism of Negro statuettes

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He begun to cut up his figures into geometric shapes, cones, spheres, cylinders and in clearly defined planes just like Cezanne used to do.

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on the left, the flattening of the woman’s torso reminds Egyptian art; the noses of the two central figures are seen in profile whereas the rest of the facial characteristics are face on, something which reminds Iberian art and finally, the features of the woman in the right are reminiscent of masks of the Negro art.

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he kept making a transition from his Blue period through the style of Cezanne’s Bathers to his own crude mode.

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figures become crude, dissonant, ugly, ambivalent and the notion of innocence is lost.

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Imitating Cezanne and Van Gogh, Picasso gets rid of black. The open contours are drawn in dark blue-green whereas the shadows indicating the sky are painted in blue. This use of blue is a sign of reflected light that Cezanne made frequent use of

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contrast between the use of red and blue

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two figures on the right with the primitive masks are framed by blue drapes which indicate a sense of melancholia and signify the socially marginalized. In addition, this blue is also found in Matisse’s Blue Nude. The use of bright color helped create the idea of flatness, something found in some of Gauguin’s paintings, limiting the illusion of depth

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extension of certain colors and shades belonging to one area and letting them spill into the neighboring area, ignoring the points where the lines mee

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Picasso over highlighted the cutting up of the shapes with brightly colored lines that remind tribal scars on the faces of some African tribesmen

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The Demoiselles D’Avignon is undoubtedly advancement in 20th century art. The question however is where did Picasso get his inspiration and who influenced him? It was a summer in 1906 at Gosol, a little Spanish village, where its rough, primitive setting had led him to adopt a simplified style indicative of the sculptors of the Catalan Romanesque period (Crespelle, 97). Picasso put into his work influences that had interested him for some time: Egyptian symmetry, ancient Greek sculpture, the Virgins of Catalan art, Cezanne’s geometric planes and the rough expressionism of Negro statuettes (Crespelle, 99)

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The Demoiselles D’Avignon is undoubtedly advancement in 20th century art. The question however is where did Picasso get his inspiration and who influenced him? It was a summer in 1906 at Gosol, a little Spanish village, where its rough, primitive setting had led him to adopt a simplified style indicative of the sculptors of the Catalan Romanesque period (Crespelle, 97). Picasso put into his work influences that had interested him for some time: Egyptian symmetry, ancient Greek sculpture, the Virgins of Catalan art, Cezanne’s geometric planes and the rough expressionism of Negro statuettes (Crespelle, 99)

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The Demoiselles D’Avignon is undoubtedly advancement in 20th century art. The question however is where did Picasso get his inspiration and who influenced him? It was a summer in 1906 at Gosol, a little Spanish village, where its rough, primitive setting had led him to adopt a simplified style indicative of the sculptors of the Catalan Romanesque period (Crespelle, 97). Picasso put into his work influences that had interested him for some time: Egyptian symmetry, ancient Greek sculpture, the Virgins of Catalan art, Cezanne’s geometric planes and the rough expressionism of Negro statuettes (Crespelle, 99)

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he Demoiselles D’Avignon is undoubtedly advancement in 20th century art. The question however is where did Picasso get his inspiration and who influenced him? It was a summer in 1906 at Gosol, a little Spanish village, where its rough, primitive setting had led him to adopt a simplified style indicative of the sculptors of the Catalan Romanesque period (Crespelle, 97). Picasso put into his work influences that had interested him for some time: Egyptian symmetry, ancient Greek sculpture, the Virgins of Catalan art, Cezanne’s geometric planes and the rough expressionism of Negro statuettes (Crespelle, 99)

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he Demoiselles D’Avignon is undoubtedly advancement in 20th century art. The question however is where did Picasso get his inspiration and who influenced him? It was a summer in 1906 at Gosol, a little Spanish village, where its rough, primitive setting had led him to adopt a simplified style indicative of the sculptors of the Catalan Romanesque period (Crespelle, 97). Picasso put into his work influences that had interested him for some time: Egyptian symmetry, ancient Greek sculpture, the Virgins of Catalan art, Cezanne’s geometric planes and the rough expressionism of Negro statuettes (Crespelle, 99)

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