Picasso`s Les Demoiselles d`Avignon

Les Demoiselles d 'Avignon

Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso was born in Malaga , Spain in the 19th century but he owned the world of 20th century art . He was the single most important figure in Modern Art and his name is synonymous with the style . He was a child prodigy , recognized as such and allowed wide latitude in both school and art . Admirers love him and he is also reviled and treated with contempt by those who see him as a charlatan , perpetuating the supreme practical joke on the world of art . It

is told of him that he passed the entrance exam for the Barcelona School of Fine Arts when he was but 14 , and that he was recognized immediately as a genius . It is said of Picasso that his father was so awed by his son 's brilliance in the field of art that upon seeing Pablo 's work he gave the boy his palette and brushes and swore an oath never to paint again . In fairness to the record , this myth has also been told of Leonardo and others in the field of fine arts

Picasso went through different periods in his artistic career characterized by an obsession with one particular color or style . Early on he entered his Blue Period , and though painting in a masterful style he colored all of his work with various shades of blue . The people he painted during this particular period are all grim and thin to the point of emaciation . Still , the work is recognized as being from the hand of a master artist and serves to dispel later criticisms that he wasn 't very talented in the area of anatomy and was not a great draftsman . This period lasted about four years , encompassing the years of 1900 to about 1904 . During his Rose Period , which was of a shorter duration , lasting from 1905 to 1906 , his canvases took on a pink tone which make his work of that period seem warm and friendlier to the eye of the art patron Many of his subjects from this period were circus performers and acrobats

Picasso relocated to Paris in 1904 , believing the city to be the center of the art universe . It was there that he met such artists as Matisse Miro and Braques and was inspired , it is said , by the works of Paul Cyzanne . He was a prime mover and shaker , pioneering work in the field of Cubism , along with such masters as George Braques and Juan Gris

It was in the summer of 1906 that Picasso returned to his native Spain visiting Gosol . While there his work entered yet another phase , passing out of the short lived Rose Period but not fully into the world of cubism . The seminal work of this period , created upon his return to Paris in 1907 , was his monumental Les Demoiselles d 'Avignon , which is considered a virtual aubade to the dawn of Cubism

The painting , Les Demoiselles d 'Avignon , translated to English as...