Les Demoiselle D Avignon Essay
Intro
Throughout history, there has been a controversy, a simple question that few have attempted to answer, that question is what is art? Les Demoiselle D Avignon, painted 1907 by Pablo Picaso and Fountain, by Marcel Duchamp, displayed April 1917, have twisted the way we think today, these two works recreated the way the people thought in the 20th century, I will compare and contrast these two artworks and discuss the key reasons for a radical shift to a more conceptual art form.
Description
Les Demoiselle D Avignon
Created Paris June-July 1907, painted by the great Pablo Picaso, is an oil on canvas painting a very large and striking image, it is indescribable, confusing, and powerful, an crude incoherent jumble of color and shapes, …show more content…
In his preparatory studies, the figure at left was a medical student entering a brothel. Picasso, wanting no anecdotal detail to interfere with the sheer impact of the work, decided to eliminate it in the final painting. The only remaining allusion to the brothel lies in the title: Avignon was a street in Barcelona famed for its brothel.
Many of the techniques used such as the use of flat planes, the deconstruction of human bodies and the angularity of form had a revolutionary effect on painting.
As surely as it was a prank, Fountain was also, like the other ready-mades, a calculated attack on the most basic conventions of art. Duchamp defended the piece in an unsigned article in The Blind Man, published by his friend Beatrice Wood. To the charge that Fountain was mere plagiarism, “a plain piece of plumbing,” he replied, “Whether Mr. Mutt with his own hands made the fountain or not has no importance. He chose it. He took an ordinary article of life, placed it so that its useful significance disappeared under the new title and point of view created a new thought for that object.”
Throughout history, there has been a controversy, a simple question that few have attempted to answer, that question is what is art? Les Demoiselle D Avignon, painted 1907 by Pablo Picaso and Fountain, by Marcel Duchamp, displayed April 1917, have twisted the way we think today, these two works recreated the way the people thought in the 20th century, I will compare and contrast these two artworks and discuss the key reasons for a radical shift to a more conceptual art form.
Description
Les Demoiselle D Avignon
Created Paris June-July 1907, painted by the great Pablo Picaso, is an oil on canvas painting a very large and striking image, it is indescribable, confusing, and powerful, an crude incoherent jumble of color and shapes, …show more content…
In his preparatory studies, the figure at left was a medical student entering a brothel. Picasso, wanting no anecdotal detail to interfere with the sheer impact of the work, decided to eliminate it in the final painting. The only remaining allusion to the brothel lies in the title: Avignon was a street in Barcelona famed for its brothel.
Many of the techniques used such as the use of flat planes, the deconstruction of human bodies and the angularity of form had a revolutionary effect on painting.
As surely as it was a prank, Fountain was also, like the other ready-mades, a calculated attack on the most basic conventions of art. Duchamp defended the piece in an unsigned article in The Blind Man, published by his friend Beatrice Wood. To the charge that Fountain was mere plagiarism, “a plain piece of plumbing,” he replied, “Whether Mr. Mutt with his own hands made the fountain or not has no importance. He chose it. He took an ordinary article of life, placed it so that its useful significance disappeared under the new title and point of view created a new thought for that object.”