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Research Paper On Les Remoiselles D Avignon

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The invention of the camera in 1900 by a company called Eastman and Kodak made portraits as easy as a push of a button (timeline). This new invention pressed avant-garde artist to question recreation of the world in he traditional art format that rooted back to the Renaissance era(5). The new art form of Cubism began to take shape in 1906 and challenged the traditional art form. The name cubism derived from Louis Vauxcelles comments during an art exhibition as he described a painted by Georges Braque (Green).

Cubism took typical one vantage point of art and transformed it into multiple viewpoints with geometric shapes creating abstract art. The eye could scan the art from multiple angles freely in time and space(7). Cubism is important to our society …show more content…

His other great artworks that took even more shape then his first portrait. The Weeping Woman was painted in 1937 depicting and image of suffering was more of the vibrant compared to the early painting with bland colors. The picture inspired by Picasso’s mother telling him that the nearby burning city from the Luftwaffe bombing was making her eyes water. The model for the picture was Dora Maar the mistress of Picasso from 1936 to 1944 (pablopicasso.org). Georges Braque was less notorized than Picasso. His early paintings of cubism were developed before Picasso’s actual first Cube portrait. Braque stayed true to the cubism style throughout most of his career. There was also more contributors in the art form such as Henri Matisse and Andre Derain. Braque’s masterpiece Violin and Palette to the left was painted in 1909. Braque muted the colors in this portrait and the eye can identify different pieces of the violin through out

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