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    This document summarizes key details about Pablo Picasso's painting "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon". The painting is considered a seminal work of Cubism, created in 1907 using oil on canvas measuring 243.9 cm × 233.7 cm. In the painting, Picasso abandoned traditional representations of form and the female body, incorporating geometric shapes and influences from African art in an innovative style that challenged expectations of idealized beauty. While met with mostly negative reactions initially, the painting helped establish Picasso as a pioneer of Cubism and was not embraced by the art world until publications in the 1920s highlighted its importance.

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    This document summarizes key details about Pablo Picasso's painting "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon". The painting is considered a seminal work of Cubism, created in 1907 using oil on canvas measuring 243.9 cm × 233.7 cm. In the painting, Picasso abandoned traditional representations of form and the female body, incorporating geometric shapes and influences from African art in an innovative style that challenged expectations of idealized beauty. While met with mostly negative reactions initially, the painting helped establish Picasso as a pioneer of Cubism and was not embraced by the art world until publications in the 1920s highlighted its importance.

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    This document summarizes key details about Pablo Picasso's painting "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon". The painting is considered a seminal work of Cubism, created in 1907 using oil on canvas measuring 243.9 cm × 233.7 cm. In the painting, Picasso abandoned traditional representations of form and the female body, incorporating geometric shapes and influences from African art in an innovative style that challenged expectations of idealized beauty. While met with mostly negative reactions initially, the painting helped establish Picasso as a pioneer of Cubism and was not embraced by the art world until publications in the 1920s highlighted its importance.

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    Task 2: Basic Understanding of the Visual Work.

    Title of the Work: Les Demoiselles d'Avignon


    Artist’s Name: Pablo Picasso
    Medium and Techniques: Oil on canvas
    Dimensions or Measurements: 243.9 cm × 233.7 cm (96 in × 92 in)
    Date of the Work & Provenance: June-July 1907 Montmartre, Paris

    This painting, is the most famous example of cubism painting. In this painting, Picasso
    abandoned all known form and representation of traditional art. He used distortion of female's body and
    geometric forms in an innovative way, which challenge the expectation that paintings will offer
    idealized representations of female beauty. It also shows the influence of African art on Picasso. He kept
    "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" in his Montmartre, Paris studio for years after its completion in 1907, due
    to the mostly negative reactions of his immediate circle of friends and colleagues. The public was first
    able to view the painting at the Salon d'Antin in 1916, although a photo of the work appeared in The
    Architectural Record in 1910. The art world did not begin to embrace the painting, Picasso's nascent
    Cubist work, until early in the 1920s, when Andre Breton republished the photo and the article entitled,
    "The Wild Men of Paris: Matisse, Picasso and Les Fauves."

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