Picasso's Les Demoiselles D' Avignon

'The Young Ladies of Avignon', otherwise known in French as 'Les Demoiselles d' Avignon', is a large oil-painting, created in 1907, by Pablo Picasso. This oil-based masterful creation depicts five prostitutes from a soiled and red-light district brothel, in Barcelona Spain. What's disturbing and enlightening about the work by Picasso is that none of the female forms actually show very much if any signs of femininity. Each of the women appear slightly angered and even to the point of violence and destruction. The bodies are done in such a way as to appear disjointed, with body movements and angler perceptions.

Was this done on purpose by Picasso? Obviously the Spanish painter attempted to strike a chord in the human primitive subconscious that was rarely scratched, by any other contemporary artists of his day. Two of the subjects in the painting, are adorned with African-style mask faces, with the remaining three having a resemblance to the Iberian-style of Picasso's homeland of Spain.

In this adaptation of tossing out the usual and installing the primitive and more introspective, Picasso makes a radical departure from the semi-concrete and traditional European society artistic endeavors. 'The Young Ladies of Avignon' is widely considered to be one of his greatest works and one of the earliest development of both Cubism and the world of modern art. Another interesting facet of 'The Young Ladies of Avignon' is that Pablo Picasso sketched literally hundreds of semi-nudes and charcoal-based pencil-drawings, as rough drafts, for the final work.