The Painted Word

It’s exactly a century since Picasso painted Les Demoiselles d’Avignon. Picasso worked on Les Demoiselles d’Avignon as he had never worked on any painting before.

“One art historian has even claimed that the hundreds of paintings and drawings produced during its six-month gestation constitute “a quantity of preparatory work unique not only in Picasso’s career, but without parallel, for a single picture, in the entire history of art”. Certainly, it matches the work artists had traditionally put into history paintings and frescoes. Picasso knew he was doing something important, even revolutionary - but what? reveals why this explosion of sex, anarchy and violence gave birth to the whole of modern art”

Check out the article in The Guardian.

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It’s exactly a century since Picasso painted Les Demoiselles d’Avignon. Picasso worked on Les Demoiselles d’Avignon as he had never worked on any painting before.

“One art historian has even claimed that the hundreds of paintings and drawings produced during its six-month gestation constitute “a quantity of preparatory work unique not only in Picasso’s career, but without parallel, for a single picture, in the entire history of art”. Certainly, it matches the work artists had traditionally put into history paintings and frescoes. Picasso knew he was doing something important, even revolutionary - but what? reveals why this explosion of sex, anarchy and violence gave birth to the whole of modern art”

Check out the article.

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