1. 1906 1907

2. Les Demoiselles d’Avignon

3. Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, 1907, (oil on canvas, 243 x 233.7 cm), Museum of Modern Art, New York

4. Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, The Turkish Bath, 1862 (oil on canvas), Louvre, Paris 1.Reaction to “sugarcoating” brothel scenes by Orientalist painters

5. Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, 1907, (oil on canvas, 243 x 233.7 cm), Museum of Modern Art, New York

6. 2.) Homage/response to canonic large-scale projects, i.e. Stanza della S.

10. Pende Mask for Smallpox, Congo, 19th-20th ce. In Tervuren Museum, Belgium 3.) Beginnings of Primitivism / copying non-Western art

11. R: Mask, Etoumbi Region, People's Republic of the Congo “Men had made those masks…as a kind of mediation between themselves and the unknown hostile forces that surrounded them, in order to give their fear and horror voice by giving [them] a form and Image. And that moment I realized that…painting isn’t an aesthetic operation, it’s a form of magic designed as a mediator between this…hostile world and us, a way of seizing the power by giving form to our terrors as well as our desires.” -- Picasso

12. Head of a man, Iberian sculpture from Osuna Ca. 6 th century

13. Portrait of Gertrude Stein, 1906, (oil on canvas,100 x 81.3 cm), The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

15. Gertrude Stein in the studio at 27 Rue de Fleurus, Paris. ca. 1905.

16. Studio of Leo & Gertrude Stein 27 Rue de Fleurus, Paris. About 1913.

17. Head of a man, Iberian sculpture from Osuna

18. Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, Study, 1907, (drawing [pencil and pastel] 47.7 x 63.5 cm), Kupferstichkabinett, Basel. 4.) Difficult project he couldn’t quite figure out how to approach

19. Picasso, Study for Demoiselles d’Avignon, 1907

20. Pablo Picasso, Reclining Nude with Figures (1908)

25. Francisco de Zurbarán St Francis in Meditation 1635-39 Oil on canvas 152 x 99 cm.

26. Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, 1907, (oil on canvas, 243 x 233.7 cm), Museum of Modern Art, New York

27. Henri Matisse, The Joy of Life, 1905-6, 175-241 cm 5.) Response to Matisse/Fauvists Visual disagreement that art should be “…devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter…which might be for every mental worker, be he businessman or writer, like… a mental comforter, something like a good armchair in which to rest.” --Matisse, 1908