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Proto-Cubism

Les Demoiselles d'Avignon

Five nude women composed of flat, splintered planes, their faces showing influences of Iberian sculpture and African masks, confronting the viewer with angular aggression.

Significance

The painting that changed everything. Breaking with 500 years of Renaissance perspective, it launched Cubism and modern art. Even Braque initially thought Picasso had "drunk turpentine."

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

243.9 cm × 233.7 cm

Location

Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA

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