Les Demoiselles D Avignon

Les Demoiselles d’Avignon was created during the 20th century and was a great contributor to the Cubist period. During the cubist period artists such as Picasso and Georges Braque created art that took an angular form. Characteristics of cubism would be flat, angular, fragmentation, nontraditional, and geometric.

Les Demoiselles d’Avignon perfectly represents the cubist period because the forms the prostitutes portrayed in the painting are depicted with sharp angles as well as given geometric features. For instance, there seems to be an overwhelming amount of shapes one could make out, such as triangles, squares, and circles which are either represented through the sharp angles on the women or the slight curves that create a circle around the general portion of the
Furthermore, the painting represents nontraditional art since art before the cubist period seemed grounded in reality considering that the bodies artists portrayed were anatomically correct, meanwhile, the bodies of the prostitutes seem surreal. Moreover, Les Demoiselles d’Avignon seems to portray fragmentation since most of the women depicted seem as if they were taken from completely different paintings and were compiled into one painting. For instance, the women on the top right corner, lower right corner, and far left seem completely different, artistically, than the two women who are in the middle of the painting. Additionally, the background image behind the women seems to be inconsistent throughout the entire painting. Furthermore, the painting seems to come off as if it was a flat surface since the figures in the image are not