Les Demoiselles D Avignon

Les Demoiselles d’avignon is an oil painting drawn by Pablo Picasso of five nude prostitutes with three of them wearing African mask. Les Demoiselles d’avignon was painted in 1907. The painting is in the Museum of Modern Art located in New York City (picked from power point slide number 17 chapter one). The painting originally began as a narrative brothel scene with five prostitute’s two men, a sailor and a medical student but as time moved on Picasso ended up painting over those people leaving the five nude prostitutes. Picasso referred this Les Demoiselles d’avignon to be his first exorcism painting. To me the women look Caucasian but also like a light skin African American by looking at the color of their skin tone. Picasso made these women
My first look at the painting was a terrifying look as to how he made the women look in this art work. It popped out to me that Picasso made the two women in the middle stand as if they were posing in a sexual manner. Picasso seemed to have many problems with women back in the day. Picasso abandon all representational in this art work and made this painting to be abstract but that what makes this art work interesting. Even though viewers can clearly see that these are women in the painting are not fully detailed like a woman’s body (Smooth skin, natural curves of a woman’s body). The shape that Picasso gave these women are oddly shaped forms such as the two lady’s in the middle of the paint flaunting their breast with their arms behind their head have super unnatural pointed elbows that look like they are as sharp as knives. The eyes of these women are extremely big as well as their nose. Even with their heads it is not round like an average head is. Picasso’s painting was two-dimensional. In this painting I really couldn’t figure out why Picasso used the colors he did but I does clash with the painting very well. The only color that wasn’t natural was some of the colors on the