Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon- Kahee, Julia & Perus [2013/06]

Greeting

IntroductionLandmark of Modernism

• Modernism• Cubism• Simultaneity• Iconoclastic

of Les Demoiselles d’AvignonKey Vocabulary

• 25th October 1881• Spain• Young talented• France

PABLO PICASSOARTIST

PABLO PICASSOARTIST

Blue period 1901-1904

Saltimbanque1905

Rose period 1904-1906

‘the last painting of the 19th century’

LES DEMOISELLES D'AVIGNONTHE PAINTING

Pablo Picasso, Les Demoiselles d’Avignon 1907, Oil on canvas, 243.9 x 233.7, the Museum of Modern Art, New York

Matisse Cezanne

African mask Iberian Sculpture

PAINTING : DETAIL (INFLUENCE)THE PAINTING

comparing a traditional artworkEFFECTS ON ART HISTORY

Why is it important ?

IMPORTANCETHE PAINTING

Pablo Picasso, Les Demoiselles d’Avignon 1907, Oil on canvas, 243.9 x 233.7, the Museum of Modern Art, New York

Different view & Purpose on art

- The Birth of Cubism

- The start of Abstract art = Challenge!!

Welcometo the most influential art movement of 20th

century

• 1907 – 1914 • Pablo Picasso & Georges Braque• Art revolution• The first abstract style

The most influential art movement of the 20th centuryCubism

• Subject• Freedom

Representation in CubismModernity

• Geometricity • Passage : look flat • Simultaneity : show many views at the same time• Fourth Dimension : Time

Influenced by Les Demoiselles d’Avignon Cubism character

Paul Cezanne

ModernismTraditional

1907Long-length films 1900sPortable camera (1816-1888)

Art movementTimeline

Fauvism1904-1908

Henri Matisse, Le bonheur de vivre

Post-impressionism1886-1914

Paul Cezanne The Bathers

Cubism1907-1914

Georges Braque,Le Viaduc à L'Estaque

impressionism1870-1880

Claude Monet, Impression, soleil levant

Realism1840-1880

Gustave CourbetThe Meeting

Pablo Picasso,Les Demoiselles d’Avignon

Romanticism1800-1850

Eugène Delacroix La liberté guidant le peuple

Futurism(1909-1916)

Giacomo Balla, Abstract Speed + Sound

Suprematism(1915-1925)

Malevich, Suprematist Composition

Influenced by CubismTimeline

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Conclusion

• “I draw not what I see but what I think.”- Pablo Picasso

Conclusion

Reference :•Berger, J., (1992) SUCCESS AND FAILURE OF PICASSO. Granta Books.

•Gardner, H., (1993) Creating Minds. Basic Books.

•Roland. Penrose, (1958) Picasso: his life and work, London (Victor

Gollancz); First English edition

•Alfred H. BARR, (1980) Picasso: Fifty Years of His Art, New York, The

Museum of Modern Art.

•Timothy, Hilton., (1975) Picasso, London, Thames and Hudson Ltd.

•http://www.artyfactory.com/art_appreciation/timelines/

art_history_timelines.htm