Artefact Research (chris)

1900-1910 Artefacts Research

Pablo Picasso- Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907)
Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (The Young Ladies of Avignon) is a large oil painting by Pablo Picasso that depicts five prostitutes in a brothel from Avinyó street (Barcelona). The eye-catching painting is one of Picasso's most famous, widely considered to be a seminal work in the early development of Cubism.
It has been argued that the painting was a reaction to Henri Matisse's paintings Le bonheur de vivre and Blue Nude. Its resemblance to Cezanne's Les Grandes Baigneuses and El Greco's Opening of the Fifth Seal was discussed by later commentators.
Picasso created over seven hundred sketches and studies in preparation for this work. He made the painting in Paris and stopped working on it in the summer of 1907.





Fauvism (1900)
Les Fauves (French for The Wild Beasts) were a short-lived and loose grouping of early 20th century Modern artists whose works emphasized painterly qualities and strong colour over the representational values retained by Impressionism. While Fauvism as a style began around 1900 and continued beyond 1910, the movement as such lasted only three years, 1905–1907, and had three exhibitions. The leaders of the movement were Henri Matisse and André Derain.
Henri Matisse (31 December 1869 – 3 November 1954) was a French artist, known for his use of colour and his fluid, brilliant and original draughtsmanship. As a draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor, but principally as a painter, Matisse is one of the best-known artists of the 20th century. Although he was initially labeled as a Fauve (wild beast), by the 1920s, he was increasingly hailed as an upholder of the classical tradition in French painting.[1] His mastery of the expressive language of colour and drawing, displayed in a body of work spanning over a half-century, won him recognition as a leading figure in modern art.


The Dance (second version) (La Danse), is a painting from 1910 by Henri Matisse.