Monday, February 25, 2008

Ariel Isaacs: Les demoiselles d'avignon


I think that this image shows how picasso is able to translate the forms of women into a few simple, and repeating shapes. He manages to express the women while at the same time, abstracting their forms to their essence. Hips are reduced to triangles, breasts to squares, etc. I really like how he takes an overwhelmingly complex composition and then translates in a completely novel way. Even the faces use very simple shapes, and even though they are clearly not realistic, they manage to somehow be true to life.

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