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'Les Demoiselles d'Avignon', detail. By Pablo Picasso, Paris, June-July 1907. Museum of Modern Art, New York City, USA.

Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (The Young Ladies of Avignon, and originally titled The Brothel of Avignon) is a large oil painting created in 1907 by the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso (1881-1973). The work portrays five nude female prostitutes from a brothel on Carrer d'Avinyo (Avinyo Street) in Barcelona. Each figure is depicted in a disconcerting confrontational manner and none are conventionally feminine. The women appear as slightly menacing and rendered with angular and disjointed body shapes. This figure is shown with an African mask-like feature. The racial primitivism evoked in these masks, according to Picasso, moved him to "liberate an utterly original artistic style of compelling, even savage force."

In this adaptation of Primitivism and abandonment of perspective in favor of a flat, two-dimensional picture plane, Picasso makes a radical departure f...

Freelance photographer interested in many areas of photography, RicardMN Photography tries to capture special places and moments. He compiles multiple street, landscape, documentary and portrait photographs from many countries of the world. His photographs are in private collections in New York, Illinois, Ohio, Oregon, Florida, California, New Jersey, Texas, South Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, Idaho, North Carolina, Nebraska, Louisiana, Pennsylvania, Missouri, Washington, Nevada, Michigan, Wisconsin, Oklahoma, Kansas, Kentucky, Indiana, Michigan, Tennessee, Georgia, Delaware, Montana, Puerto Rico, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Italy, United Kingdom, Ireland, Spain, Sweden, etc, as well as in several publications and as part of the...