Pablo Picasso’s ‘Les Demoiselles d’Avignon’ revolutionized modern art. Here are 3 things you should know about it:
Pablo Picasso, it is said, worked until the day he died at the age of 91 on April 8, 1973. This weekend marks the 50th year since the Spanish artist’s passing. Five decades on, we are still grappling with the life and legacy of Picasso, a man once called the “genius of the century.”
The mystique and machismo of his personal life are inexorably linked to this unapologetic artistic legacy. From his oeuvre, his famedThe painting, which scandalized the public when it debuted in 1916, depicts five nude women in a room. These women, as one contemporary critic put it, have been “hacked up,” their sharp geometric features piled precariously together. A still life of fruit is placed incongruously before them, at the fore of the canvas.
Matisse. These sketches would be the first of hundreds that would lead to its final form the next year in 1907. The painting, which Picasso had namedwould not be shown publicly for almost a decade, seen first in Salon d’Antin in July 1916, in an exhibition organized by the poet André Salmon.more demureThe new name did nothing to quell the controversy it sparked, and the painting set Picasso on a path toward Cubism.
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