Picasso's most famous paintings
Picasso is a world-renowned master of painting and art, with countless works and masterpieces in his life. But his most famous and most influential work has to be "The Maiden of Avignon".
This "Maiden of Avignon" is a famous masterpiece created by a young painter Pablo Ruiz Picasso in 1907 at the age of 26, now in the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
At that time, he was influenced by the primitive African carvings and the painting style of French post-impressionist painter Cézanne, and began to seek a new change and explore a new style of painting.
This "Maiden of Avignon", his brand new attempt, is the first work with cubist tendency in the history of world painting.
A Milestone Masterpiece
This painting, The Maid of Avignon, was not only a major turning point in Picasso's personal artistic style, but also a milestone breakthrough in the history of Western art, which directly triggered the birth of the Cubist movement.
The painting features five young girls, sitting or standing, scratching their heads, and in front of them is a small square bench with bunches of grapes. The figures are completely distorted and unrecognizable.
The painting depicts prostitutes, with three nude women on the left side of the picture, a distortion of the ancient typical human body, and two nude women on the right side of the picture, with a wild, primitive physique.
A group of still lifes at the bottom of the center of the picture adds to the formal meaning.
There are many geometric blocks in this painting, but they are not flat, as they are shaded, these geometries look very three-dimensional, expressing three-dimensional space, a continuation of the style of the master Cézanne.
But at the same time, the wild image of the nude woman completely breaks the perspective law of Western painting that has lasted for five hundred years.
It can be said that this is a painting full of rebellious spirit, which cares not about the outside world but only about its own world of shapes and colors.
There is no doubt that Picasso was an artistic genius. Which one of his works do you like the most?
