World Art Studies 2324-S1 Part I – World Views (lecture 3-5)
Lecture 3- 26-09 Picasso, Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, 1907
Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, 1907 à in between transformaDon and controversy
First artwork which brings us to so uch different controversies
Famous workàlot of controversyà raised a lot of discussions from the very beginning and
transformed a way of looking
2017 MoMa CollecDon
It has always been seen on its own
Around some cubist works because it was seen as the start of cubism
2019 MoMa’s CollecDon had been seen in an enDrely different way of showing, more diversity
For three years it is accompanier buy a paint afro American Faith Ringgold, American People series
which also made a lot of discussion (1967)à represent the civil uprising of people, being a part of the
part of the civil rights uprising in the sixDes.
Picasso’s painDng sDll àRelates to more contemporary issues, sDll keeps people taling
1907
Response:
à1st twenDeth century painDng
àNot bring anything newà insult to the western painDng up Dll now
Responses quite severed
Why so much discussion:
Cubismà disrupDon of realisDc forms, work with cubist forms and angles, space become mulDple,
shaWering of space
à beginning of cubism (according to Barr as well) Barr of MoMa in NY
à lack of stylisDc unity.
Five women depictedà all have different appearance, EgypDan, Caucasian
and African. More styles and tradiDons, not one style to be seen.
à brothel, it was depicDng 5 sex workers depicted in a brothelà Picasso referred to the sexworkers
who lived near his house at the Dme. Picasso denies it. (which to him wasn’t true)à women were
seen as aggressive, angry. Looking the person hard which makes the viewers uncomfortable
According to Susan Preston it refers to the French words ‘le bordel’, the mess
It represents woman
à African presenceàAfrican art became part of modern history
It seen as working and liking African cultures were consider in that Dme lesser and inferior than
western artwork. So if Picasso is inspired it could diminish his geniuses
Looking at Africa-primiDve culture would diminish his works publicly
Picasso was influenced by the African culture
According to S. PrestonàThe faces of these mask are not very symmetrical, different colours, shapes,
so this is something that Picasso liked.
ISSUES LINKED TO LES DEMOISELLE D’AVIGNON
First drawing leading to Les demoisselles
Lecture 3- 26-09 Picasso, Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, 1907
Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, 1907 à in between transformaDon and controversy
First artwork which brings us to so uch different controversies
Famous workàlot of controversyà raised a lot of discussions from the very beginning and
transformed a way of looking
2017 MoMa CollecDon
It has always been seen on its own
Around some cubist works because it was seen as the start of cubism
2019 MoMa’s CollecDon had been seen in an enDrely different way of showing, more diversity
For three years it is accompanier buy a paint afro American Faith Ringgold, American People series
which also made a lot of discussion (1967)à represent the civil uprising of people, being a part of the
part of the civil rights uprising in the sixDes.
Picasso’s painDng sDll àRelates to more contemporary issues, sDll keeps people taling
1907
Response:
à1st twenDeth century painDng
àNot bring anything newà insult to the western painDng up Dll now
Responses quite severed
Why so much discussion:
Cubismà disrupDon of realisDc forms, work with cubist forms and angles, space become mulDple,
shaWering of space
à beginning of cubism (according to Barr as well) Barr of MoMa in NY
à lack of stylisDc unity.
Five women depictedà all have different appearance, EgypDan, Caucasian
and African. More styles and tradiDons, not one style to be seen.
à brothel, it was depicDng 5 sex workers depicted in a brothelà Picasso referred to the sexworkers
who lived near his house at the Dme. Picasso denies it. (which to him wasn’t true)à women were
seen as aggressive, angry. Looking the person hard which makes the viewers uncomfortable
According to Susan Preston it refers to the French words ‘le bordel’, the mess
It represents woman
à African presenceàAfrican art became part of modern history
It seen as working and liking African cultures were consider in that Dme lesser and inferior than
western artwork. So if Picasso is inspired it could diminish his geniuses
Looking at Africa-primiDve culture would diminish his works publicly
Picasso was influenced by the African culture
According to S. PrestonàThe faces of these mask are not very symmetrical, different colours, shapes,
so this is something that Picasso liked.
ISSUES LINKED TO LES DEMOISELLE D’AVIGNON
First drawing leading to Les demoisselles
