1. Les Demoiselles d’Avignon
By Pablo Picasso
Oil on canvas
Made in France (Spanish Artist)

2. About the artist….
Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso...
...or better known as just Pablo Picasso. :)

3. Born in Málaga Spain in 1881.
His father was a painter and art teacher
By age 13 he surpassed his father in skill.
Attended many prestigious art schools at young ages, but found them all to be boring and repetitive so he skipped his classes :)
Later moved to France...there he met his rival, Henri Matisse.
Died on April 8th 1973 in Mougins, France

4. Les Demoiselles d'Avignon 1907
Originally “Le Bordel d’Avignon”
Most important painting of the century!
Broke away from western traditional art
Inspired by African tribal masks (primitivism)
Proto-cubism, pre-cubism
Space is entwined with the bodies
Use of jagged and angular lines and shapes
Abandonment of perspective
Bought by the fashion designer Jacques Doucet

6. Brick Factory at Tortosa
1909

7. Woman in Yellow
1907

8. Thanks for listening!!

9. Sources
"Pablo Picasso." Bio.com. A&E Networks Television, n.d. Web. 12 Apr
"Pablo Picasso and His Paintings." Pablo Picasso. N.p., n.d. Web. 12 Apr
“Pablo Picasso. Les Demoiselles D'Avignon. Paris, June-July 1907 | MoMA." The Museum of Modern Art.
N.p., n.d. Web. 12 Apr