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shockingly rejecting any and all established criteria from pre-existing art and therefore has been noted as the twentieth century's most significant painting

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deformed style

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un-ideal subject matter

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Les Demoiselles left an impact because of the tone which is suggested

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erotic poses with their arms recognizable positioned above their heads in order to show off their feminine, but grotesquely distorted female anatomy

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The expressions on the five young women's faces sadly lack emotion, as a result of their harsh lifestyle.

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masks as an attempt to conceal their identity

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filth and disease through his Cubist representation of these prostitutes

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Cubism did not adhere to this idea; it created a new translation of an image on a canvas, instead of building on what had been created in the past and was now old.

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An example of this is Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, referring specifically to the two figures along the right side of the canvas and seated in the lower right hand corner, which are depicted wearing African masks. The seated figure is positioned with her back to the viewer, but her head is completely turned around to face the viewer head on, reminiscent of the rest of the figures heads, but from another observation it is obvious that the noses of the figures have been rendered in profile.

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Cubism was an art form created through a modernized approach to expression of the mind's interpretation of the natural world

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