Artist: Pablo PicassoTitle: Le Demoiselles DÃÂAvignonMedia: Oil on canvasDate: June-July 1907Form: PaintingSize: 243.9 x 233.7 cmKey words: distorted, angular, semi-abstract, primitiveStructural FrameIn the artwork Les Demoiselles DÃÂAvignon is oil on canvas painting which has 5 female figures on it. The size of the painting is 243.9 x 233.7 cm. Picasso uses very soft, cool colours like creams and pail yellows for the bodies but uses a light but bold blue for part of the background, black outlines, and also white and grey shades. When you look at the painting closely you can see that the background goes from brown to grey then to blue. He uses different tones for both the background and the skin. The visual language of the lines in the artwork is mostly straight or sharp lines but there are sill curved lines to show different body parts. The 5 female figures are broken up into sharp angular figures and are painted with some curves and triangular breasts.
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Boy Leading a HorseThe female figure are unrealistic and have been distorted to become semi-abstract. When you look at the painting from left to right you can see the faces becoming more and more distorted. The fruit and table have also been done in a similar way. The women are painted with a slightly different coloured skin tone or colour on their faces which might represent different nationality. The background has been broken up and fragmented. With the shading there is no single direction that the light is coming from. Picassos painting seems to be one 1 plane because the figure seem o be on the same level as the background, not in front of it. The artwork is in the style of cubism and the paintings have been simplified. It is considered primitive because of there horrific expressions, the mask like...