Urgent Question: The Significance and Influence of Picasso's Girl in avignon.

1907, Picasso painted this picture "The Girl of avignon". This is a cubist work completely divorced from the previous artistic techniques. At that time, it was inevitable to be ridiculed and accused by all walks of life. Picasso's friends also talked about this mutation, and the final comment was a total denial: Ole Stein said that he wanted to create four dimensions. Matisse said it was an atrocity and a mockery of modern sports, and vowed to "sink" Picasso. His good friend georges braque didn't give a compliment either. In his first comment, he just said, "This seems to mean that we should change and replace what we are used to with hemp chips and paraffin wax." A Russian collector said with emotion, "What a great loss to French art!"

The Girl in avignon created a new situation of French cubism, and Picasso and Braque also became the man of the hour of this painting school. This painting was painted in the spring of 1907.

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At the end of 1909, Picasso engaged in the creation of a significant work, which is a summary of his experience and marks the beginning of his future activities in the direction of modernism. This work is avignon's first work. The focus of this Spanish painter is not the color like Fauvism, but the form. He used flexible, layered, powerful, broad and universal plane modelling technique, and randomly combined the structure. These planes even go beyond a single object, including all the surrounding space. At this time, we have not achieved complete rational control over objects, but Picasso's paintings have led us on this road. It was not until 1909 that Picasso established a truly brand-new painting language, that is, to understand and analyze things from their connotations, not just to describe their images from their visual appearances.

The Maiden of avignon completely negates the traditional painting with three-dimensional space as its main purpose since the Renaissance. Picasso flatly abandoned the real description of the human body and assembled the whole human body with various geometric planes, which was the blasphemy of human beings to God at that time. At the same time, it abolished the spatial expression of French style, abandoned the deep feeling of the picture, and transformed the sense of quantity or three-dimensional elements into a sense of plane. This painting is not only influenced by Cezanne, but also clearly reflects the achievements of black sculpture art. The purpose of strengthening deformation is also to increase its appeal. Picasso said, "I drew my nose askew. After all, I want to force people to pay attention. "

This painting has a great influence on the art world. When it was on display, Montmartre's artists thought he was crazy. Matisse said it was a kind of "incitement", and some people said it was a kind of "suicide". Some people are puzzled, others are furious. Braque, a painter influenced by Cezanne, was also surprised, but he knew that another art form had been born. This newly created modeling principle has become the object pursued by cubism and later modern painting. The Maiden of avignon is not only a turning point in Picasso's life, but also a great breakthrough in art history. Without this painting, cubism might not have been born. So people call it a milestone in the development of modern art.

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At the beginning of the 20th century, a series of changes took place in the French painting circle: in the autumn of 1905, fauvism works were exhibited in the salon, and at the same time, exhibitions commemorating the death of this master were held in Cezanne Art Museum and 1906. These unconventional exhibitions had a great influence on Picasso (Barbro Luize Picasso 18 1- 18). From 1900 to Paris, and settled in France after 1904) and a large number of young painters with exploratory spirit have a decisive influence. 1907 In the spring, Picasso synthesized various influences and created the epoch-making Maiden of avignon. The motive for creating this painting is that when the painter accidentally visited the Museum of Anthropology in Paris, he was attracted by the simple, weird and rough shapes carved by African aborigines, especially blacks, and got inspiration from them, and started the creation of the "Black Art Period". However, Cezanne's later nude paintings of Bath women also gave him concrete inspiration.

This painting has no uniform composition, the color is dull and blunt, and the figures who are pointing fingers have no sense of volume. The deformed faces of the girls in the painting are the result of Picasso's exploration of Iberian and African black sculptures. The influence from all directions makes this painting a bit eclectic and contradictory. The painter tried to combine geometric figures with geometric figures in a closed background, but the whole idea, picture image and space treatment all announced that a new direction of modern painting-cubism art had been born.