Comparison Of Robert Colescott And Picasso's Les Demoiselles

Perhaps Robert Colescott is a good place to start, to see how the art in our current world has evolved. Multiculturalism allows one to see art in various ways and from differing perspectives. Colescott’s training in art exposed him to many artists. His experience with Egyptian art also had an influence in his work. What was intriguing about his work is that he made use of compositions to illustrate his own experiences especially concerning multiculturalism. An example of this is the similarity of his composition to Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d'Avignon in his Les Demoiselles d'Alabama: Vestidas, 1985. The composition is the same, and Colescott made his point by, not only copying Picasso’s composition, but to reinterpret his content (Moure, 1998,
Picasso found his inspiration from the African continent, and so did Colescott. Perhaps, subconsciously Colescott was influenced not only by the composition, but also by a deeper understanding of Picasso’s work. Artists can often not express exactly why they do things, but there has to be a deeper meaning to all their works, especially if it attracts the attention, and draws people
It is important to understand multiculturalism to see the validity of the search for a personal identity. These identities fall into the multicultural frameworks such as Neo-Feminism and Women’s Issues as well as the Gay and Lesbian Issues (Moure, 1998, 517). David Canon Dashiell, for example expressed the gay issues in a group of twenty-eight panels. The panels are exhibited at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art as a gift of the Estate of the Artist and Rush Nash Fund. Figure 2 shows only a detail of the work. Dashiell’s work was part of the group of artists who expressed the gay issues to the public since 1980. As mentioned in Moure: “The major gay themes remain sexual difference and the basic human need for relationships,” as can be seen in detail of his work Queer Mysteries, completed in 1993 (Moure, 1998, 517). In this work, Dashiell went out of his way to show the varied ways in which the gay (and lesbian) individuals expressed themselves, especially in what would seem to be a “ritual” of coming