Analytical Cubism In Les Demoiselles D Avignon

“Les Demoiselles d’Avignon” is regarded as the first painting of the cubism period. When he saw Cézanne’s work, Picasso launched a pictorial style more radical than anything else he had produced yet. The human figures and their surrounding’s are reduced to a series of wide, intersecting panels which align themselves with the picture surface and show a cut up view of the visible world. The faces of the figures are seen both from frontal and profile positions, and their bodies are likewise forced to submit to Picasso 's new and abstract pictorial style.

Les Demoiselles d 'Avignon was not exhibited until 1937. The picture was problematic for Picasso and also for his friends and fellow artists, who were more than shocked when they saw it in his

Analytical Cubism evolved between 1908 and 1912. Analytical is the contrast of Synthetic cubism. Analytic cubists "inspect" the various natural forms and reduced the forms into different geometric parts on a flat two-dimensional plane. The color in those artworks was used, only the color spectrum of grey, blues and brown were applied. Bread and Fruit Dish on a Table (1909) is the beginning of Picasso 's “Analytical” Cubism: he gives up a central perspective and splits forms up into facet-like stereo-metric shapes. The famous portraits of Fernande, Woman with Pears is fulfilled in the analytical cubist style. By 1911, Picasso’s relationship with Fernande went through a crisis. He broke up with her and started a working relationship with Eva Gouel. Picasso called her “Ma

The critics immediately called this stage in his work the African Period. They only saw it as an imitation of African ethnic art.

“In the Demoiselles d’Avignon I painted a profile nose into a frontal view of a face. I had to depict it sideways so that I could give it a name so that I could call it ‘nose’. And so they started talking about Negro art. Have you ever seen a single African sculpture -- just one -- where a face mask has a profile nose in it?” Picasso wrote.

Picasso’s newest experiments were received differently by all his friends some of them were disappointed and even horrified while others were interested. The art dealer Kahnweiler loved the “Demoiselles” and took it for sale. Picasso’s new friend, the artist Georges Braque (1882-1963), was so enthusiastic about Picasso’s new works that both of them came together to explore the possibilities of cubism over several years. In the summer of 1908 the two began their experiments with going on holidays in the countryside. They found that they had painted similar pictures completely independently of each