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Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, Picasso

The painting Picasso kept turned to the wall, right before it changed art.

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In 1907, in Montmartre, Picasso finished Les Demoiselles d'Avignon. Five women, broken bodies, faces turned into masks. The seed of Cubism is already there.

Even his closest friends were shocked. Gone was mimesis, the gentle imitation of the real.

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  1. 2At the Bateau-Lavoir
  2. 3Masks and primitivism
  3. 4Toward analytical cubism
  4. 5Legacy
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