1906 1907

Les Demoiselles d’Avignon

Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, 1907, (oil on canvas, 243 x 233.7 cm),Museum of Modern Art, New York

Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, The Turkish Bath, 1862 (oil on

canvas), Louvre, Paris 

1. Reaction to “sugarcoating” brothel scenes byOrientalistpainters

Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, 1907, (oil on canvas, 243 x 233.7 cm),Museum of Modern Art, New York

2.) Homage/response to canonic large-scale projects, i.e. Stanza della S.

Pende Mask for Smallpox, Congo, 19th-20th ce. In Tervuren Museum, Belgium

3.) Beginnings of Primitivism / copying non-Western art

R: Mask, Etoumbi Region, People's Republic of the Congo

“Men had made those masks…as a kind of mediation between themselves and the unknown hostileforces that surrounded them, in order to give their fear and horror voice by giving [them] a form and Image. And that moment I realized that…painting isn’t an aesthetic operation, it’s a form of magic designed as a mediator between this…hostile world and us, a way of seizing the power by giving form to our terrors as well as our desires.” -- Picasso

Head of a man, Iberian sculpture from Osuna

Ca. 6th century

Portrait of Gertrude Stein, 1906, (oil on canvas,100 x 81.3 cm), The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Gertrude Stein in the studioat 27 Rue de Fleurus, Paris. ca. 1905.

Studio of Leo & Gertrude Stein27 Rue de Fleurus, Paris. About 1913.

Head of a man, Iberian sculpture from Osuna

Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, Study, 1907, (drawing [pencil and pastel] 47.7 x 63.5 cm), Kupferstichkabinett, Basel.

4.) Difficult project he couldn’t quite figure out how to approach

Picasso, Study for Demoiselles d’Avignon, 1907

Pablo Picasso, Reclining Nude with Figures (1908)

Francisco de ZurbaránSt Francis in Meditation1635-39 Oil on canvas 152 x 99 cm.

Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, 1907, (oil on canvas, 243 x 233.7 cm),Museum of Modern Art, New York

Henri Matisse, The Joy of Life, 1905-6, 175-241 cm

5.) Response to Matisse/Fauvists

Visual disagreement that art should be “…devoid of troubling or depressing subjectmatter…which might be for every mental worker, be he businessman or writer, like…a mental comforter, something like a goodarmchair in which to rest.” --Matisse, 1908