Pablo Picasso: "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon," an interpretation...

the five figures in the painting are NOT representations of women; at best, they are "caricatures" of women, at worse, they're drag queens.

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it is the drawing of the human figure in a new way, attenuating, foreshortening, twisting front, back and side views, in the manner that later became known as "cubism," whose underpinnings can be traced to the tectonic qualities that are present in the African tradition of tribal mask making "without having followed a specific African model, transposing sculptural stylizations into flat fields."

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we come to the "association" of the number five as suggesting the five senses

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ut it is the jaded bestiality of man to man, man to woman, as sex-object, the general brutality of the times in which he lived, steeped in violence, that is most vividly represented here

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colors employed are that of baked clay with some blue and gray to indicate outlines.

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forms are reminiscent of broken crockery, shards of pottery.

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addition of an arrangement of fruit

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nod of acknowledgment to his predecessor, Cezanne

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