"The Young Girls of Rochefort (Les demoiselles de Rochefort)" (1967)
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I think "Les Demoiselles D'Avignon" is one of the most transfixing paintings of all time.
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Delia Brown uses this idea as a springboard for "Demoiselles d'Instagram" at Tibor de Nagy.
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Left, Picasso's "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" (1907) with Faith Ringgold's "American People Series #20: Die" (1967).
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"It is hard to imagine that much more could be written about Pablo Picasso's iconic painting Les Demoiselles d'Avignon," begins Picasso's Demoiselles: The Untold Origins of a Modern Masterpiece (Duke University Press, 2019) by Suzanne Preston Blier, a Harvard professor of African art history.
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In 1907, Picasso would paint his then-controversial masterpiece "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon," for which Pinchot modeled.
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It provided stimulus and succor to Pablo Picasso for his "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" (222), for one.
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The film's joyous performers offer an astonishing preface to Picasso's "Demoiselles," lording over the next room.
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From a photograph of the Picasso painting "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon," she learned art was her calling.
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Spice Girls on the set of a publicity photoshoot, 27-2000 // Pablo Picasso, 'Les Demoiselles d'Avignon', c.
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Pichot would later model for Picasso's iconic 1907 painting Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, or The Young Ladies of Avignon.
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" Once "Demoiselles" was finished, Matisse knew that Picasso was "an electrifying innovator," someone even to "possibly learn from.
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Titled "American People Series #20: Die," it speaks to "Demoiselles" both in physical size and in visual violence.
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Writing in 1906, the year before the "Demoiselles" was conceived, the novelist and critic Eugène Marsan took his measure.
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"Three Women," a tamer counterpart to the "Demoiselles," from 1908, was bought from the siblings Gertrude and Leo Stein.
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A head brings to mind Picasso's "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon," next Velázquez is seen in "Las Meninas," at his easel.
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"The two African mask-wearing demoiselles were a key part of the work from the very beginning," Blier explains.
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I am referring to "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon," that ferocious figure group, which horrified and repulsed in just about equal measure.
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The word "likely" appears in Picasso's Demoiselles again and again and again, often when Blier is drawing her strongest conclusions.
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Many sensed a similar disconnect when "Les Demoiselles" was unveiled in its new digs in MoMA's Gallery 503 this October.
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Also, your cover image is a riff on Picasso's "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon," and yet Picasso is not evaluated in the book.Why?
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" But in 1916, when it was displayed for the first time at André Salmon's Salon d'Antin, Antin labelled it "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon.
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I'd over-tweezed, shaved, and plucked every hair I could until my brows were about as deconstructed as Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon.
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Gallery view of "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon," by Pablo Picasso, from 1907 (left), and "Quarantania, I," by Louise Bourgeois, from 1947-53 (center).
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These colossal figures, with simplified features, paved the way for the creation of "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" in 1907 and the emergence of cubism.
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Picasso, who modeled the central figures of "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" on the bust Piéret procured for him, was also brought in for questioning.
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When Pablo Picasso unveiled "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" to his friends, in 1907, the response was unanimous: a "horrible mess," as Leo Stein declared.
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The artist André Masson once likened this large (153-by-6½ feet) canvas in its radicalness to Picasso's "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" of 1907.
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My 2013 show Demoiselles d'Avignon at Y Gallery envisioned Chinese princelings in 2063 fetishizing Western abstraction the way Picasso fetishized African masks [link].
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If you were a good Gascon, you would know that demoiselles are traditionally grilled over an open fire until the bones are crispy.
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Picasso, in such works as "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" (1907) idealized the brothel as a site, like the artist's studio, where degradation and magic occurs.
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You can't really, especially in a field where you can't just walk into MoMA and always see "[Les] Demoiselles d'Avignon" ... it's not the same.
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Proto-cubist paintings like Les Demoiselles d' Avignon and Head of a Sleeping Woman (Study for Nude with Drapery), two of his most famous.
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The gallery itself is a virtual Picasso shrine, with his 1907 "Les Demoiselles d' Avignon" at the center, and related pictures ranged around it.
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Two senior curators were still installing the cardinal gallery, the one with "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon," Pablo Picasso's grand, violent painting of five contorted Catalan prostitutes.
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In one aquatint etching, "Les Enfants d'obscurité" (1961), she makes reference to Picasso's ubiquitous "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" (1907), heralded as a canonical masterpiece of modernism.
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" You've grown accustomed to that puzzled look from the French, but after a moment she breaks into a broad smile and confirms, "Ouais, les demoiselles?
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Three gentlemen in the corner are playing blackjack, drinking a bottle of Blue Label Johnnie Walker, overlooked by a detailed copy of Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon.
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For decades, MoMA's curators have paired the aggressive "Demoiselles" (1907) with the smaller, perspective-shattering Cubist works he and Georges Braque painted a few years later.
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And just as unexpectedly, it wears its art historical influences on its sleeve, adopting the splintered composition and color palette of Pablo Picasso's "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" (1907).
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Some reference iconic works like Picasso's "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon," which Hernández uses as the inspiration for "Maidens of the Barrio" (2013), a group portrait of Latinx feminism.
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He and his team had to build every single part of the frame of "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" (1907), including the hardware necessary to properly stretch the canvas.
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You don't hear history screeching to a halt, the way you do, say, with Picasso's "Demoiselles d'Avignon," but you know something marvelous — and radical — is going on.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Pablo Picasso's "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" (1907) made serious news this October at the reopening of New York's Museum of Modern Art.
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Case and point, this rendition of Pablo Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, the latest of six spooky collaborations between Maniac and the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
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Now it's moved next to Picasso's "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon," whose posed, angular nudes also echo Louise Bourgeois's "Quarantania, I" (1947-53), its wooden, white figures, resembling needles, huddled together.
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It says: Even the room in which Picasso's "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" hangs is not irreproachable, but rather a particular story told by individuals, who at times must speak out.
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In "The Jungle," inspired by Césaire's thinking and writing, Lam re-appropriated Yoruban and other African gods that Pablo Picasso first appropriated years earlier, starting with "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" (1907).
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"Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" largely overshadowed Matisse's "Le bonheur de vivre" (or "The Joy of Life"), painted a year earlier, and which some critics say had a direct influence on Picasso's painting.
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Shchukin passed on Picasso's "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon," whose ghoulish prostitutes were too shocking even for him, though he would soon fill the Trubetskoy Palace with more than 50 of that artist's works.
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They also went to a subway station displaying murals by Mr. Close and to MoMA, where Ms. Sulkowicz posed in front of "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" by Picasso, a known abuser of women.
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As a result, the connection between Picasso and the books she introduces as his inspiration for "Les Demoiselles" — like the shattered planes of the painting itself — don't quite seem to line up.
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It belongs to a history of reclining nudes that reaches from Titian through Manet's "Olympia" to Matisse's "Blue Nude," painted the next year, and exploded in Picasso's "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon," also of 1907.
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For one, "the hallowed prewar galleries," where a 1905 reel trailing a New York City subway car can now be seen looping next to contemporaneous photographs, one room over from Les Demoiselles d'Avignon.
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The most important work is Pablo Picasso's masterpiece of 1927, "The Painter and his Model", which one academic calls the missing link between his two greatest paintings, "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" (1907) and "Guernica" (1937).
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Cute harp seals are neatly woven into the compositions, suggesting the wild disparities of social media feeds, and one painting roughly mimics the composition of Picasso's "Demoiselles," with its shifting, jarring perspectives and distorted figures.
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Ann Temkin, MoMA's chief curator of painting and sculpture, and her colleague Anne Umland, a Picasso specialist, were introducing the "Demoiselles" to a large painting of a race riot by the Harlem-born artist Faith Ringgold.
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As the last surviving French Impressionist, he pined for the company of absent friends — Renoir and Cézanne, especially — and felt estranged from a younger generation that considered his work passé beside the razzmatazz of Picasso's demoiselles.
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Ann Temkin, MoMA's chief curator of painting and sculpture, and her colleague Anne Umland, a Picasso specialist, were introducing the "Demoiselles" to a large painting of a race riot by the Harlem-born artist Faith Ringgold.
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What could have been learned from reversing the relationship and moving "Demoiselles" to the 1940s to 1970 section of the reinstallation, and putting it in relationship to Ringgold in the latter artist's own time, space, and peers?
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She contributed set and costume work to many productions, including George Balanchine's ballet Le Palais de cristal, Jean Anouilh's ballet Les Demoiselles de la nuit, Jean Genet's play The Maids, and Federico Fellini's film 8 1/2.
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But while "Demoiselles" enabled Cubism, which spread through Europe and beyond in a matter of years, "The Birth of the World" went almost immediately underground; it was too far ahead of its time to have an immediate effect.
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Along with the "Demoiselles" and the Faith Ringgold, Ms. Temkin had requested a wooden sculpture from the early 1950s by Louise Bourgeois — a grouping of five totems, painted white and light blue, symbolizing the artist and her family.
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The couple were married from 1962 until his 1990 death and her contributions to his work, especially his two classic Oscar nominated musicals Umbrellas of Cherbourg and Demoiselles du Rochefort (in which Varda played a nun) were widely acknowledged.
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Pablo Picasso's "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" (1907), a painting depicting prostitutes on a notorious street in Barcelona, has served as both a cornerstone of modern art and Exhibit A in arguments about women being objectified and exploited in Western art.
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At the bottom of the hexagon, he has painted a slice of watermelon, echoing the location of the slice of melon in Pablo Picasso's "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" (1907), the first picture in which Picasso incorporated African masks into his work.
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It was in this spirit that I welcomed Miles J. Unger's "Picasso and the Painting That Shocked the World," which traces the artist's childhood in Spain through the creation of "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" in 1907, to the otherwise heaving shelves of Picasso literature.
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Included in this show is Picasso's "Nu sur fond rouge" (Nude on a Red Background) (1906), produced just before Picasso started work on "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" (The Young Women of Avignon) (1907), a major painting that tipped advanced art towards African-inspired Cubism.
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For instance, there's Kenneth Goldsmith's description of a phenomenon he saw at MoMA: Instead of reverently standing there in front of [Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon], scads of visitors were turning their backs on the painting, snapping selfies, and uploading them to social media.
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Instead of surrounding "Les Demoiselles" with only the Cubist works that it supposedly inspired, it now shares space with "American People Series #20: Die" (1967) by Faith Ringgold and "Quarantania, I" (1947–213), a sculpture composed of five white anthropomorphic forms by Louise Bourgeois.
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"I do not believe this work is a significant or exceptional example of a (heteronormative) male colonialist gaze in this work, certainly less so than, for example, in Picasso's 'Demoiselles d'Avignon,' " Tim Barringer, professor of the history of art at Yale University, said in an email.
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As a result, while visitors will still be able to count on highlights like Picasso's "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" and van Gogh's "The Starry Night," they are also likely to be exposed to less familiar names, including Okwui Okpokwasili, an Igbo-Nigerian-American artist, performer and choreographer.
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"Wives and Lovers" (2016) boasts a Picasso-esque reclining nude and swimmers straight out of "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon," but also cartoonish creatures engaged in cannibalistic copulating, figures that seem to have stepped out of a Tim Burton movie, and more, all floating in an indeterminate green vacuum.
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To again quote Klein, the difference between Modigliani's worldview and Picasso's adaption of Baule masks in his groundbreaking work, "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" (1907), is that the latter's sources: […] led him to render the women in the brothel as African and, thus, in the prevailing view, as primitively sexual.
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Jacques Demy's musical comic drama "Les Demoiselles de Rochefort" (1967) was one of several occasions when Ms. Darrieux played Catherine Deneuve's mother; among the others was François Ozon's 20043 all-star musical whodunit, "Huit Femmes" ("8 Women"), about a household with only one man in it, a dead one.
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Far more, though still a fraction, of moma 's nonpareil collection is now on display, arranged roughly chronologically but studded with such mutually provoking juxtapositions as a 1967 painting that fantasizes a race riot, by the African-American artist Faith Ringgold, with Picasso's gospel "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" (1907).
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The practice of calibrated accuracy between model and image, which Degas dragged like an albatross from the glory days of the French Academy into the chaos of World War I, had been ambushed decades earlier by the Impressionists, with Pablo Picasso's "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" (1907) delivering the coup de grâce.
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" When it comes to Montmartre and the "making of" the "Demoiselles," Unger's book pales next to the first installment of John Richardson's three-volume (and counting) life of Picasso, Roger Shattuck's delightful history of the prewar avant-garde, "The Banquet Years," and the artist's former mistress Fernande Olivier's reminiscences, which were published in "Loving Picasso.
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On the way to the hothouse, proto-Cubist summer of the "Demoiselles," the shocker of his book's title, Unger ably covers the El Greco-influenced "Blue" and "Rose" periods; the patronage of the Steins; and Picasso's path-altering discovery of African art in the collection of the Trocadéro museum, the precise dating of which has divided scholars.
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In the first decade of the 20th century, Pablo Picasso synthesized these considerably diverse elements into a budding Cubism, first glimpsed in his experimental painting "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" (1907) — which is not included in the show — and then in his "Houses on the Hill, Horta de Ebro" (1909), a painting of the Catalonian town of Horta de San Joan.
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Ringgold's "American People Series #220: Die" (22020), depicting a bloody interracial melee, offers a trenchant riposte to the exoticism and cultural appropriations of Picasso's "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" (1907), while Thomas's "Fiery Sunset" (1973), a radiant, ultramarine-on-scarlet abstraction reveling in its freedom of brushwork and color, owns the wall adjacent to Matisse's "The Red Studio" (1911).
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Anyone who believes everything they read will probably see it as happening like so: The Sex Pistols release the single "Anarchy in the UK" out of nowhere, and it immediately plunges Britain into a musical Year Zero, the sonic equivalent of Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, rendering everything that came before it as obsolete, while simultaneously causing a political uprising to sweep across the nation.
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Picasso and Matisse's creative one-upmanship resulted in some of Modernism's great stylistic breakthroughs — it is unlikely Picasso would have painted his landmark "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon," or found his way to Cubism, without the older artist's influence — and prompted a trade in 19453, a time at which both artists were exploring new modes of painting inspired to a great degree by African statuary and masks.
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In the same way Picasso cribbed from African sculpture to almost-invent Cubism in his "Demoiselles" (full-blown Cubism came a year later) Ms. Brown's ladies echo the exaggerated femininity of Japanese anime; Lisa Yuskavage's paintings; Dana Schutz's reduxes of Willem de Kooning's Cubist-inspired reduxes of Picasso; the graffiti aesthetic of Kenny Scharf; and the brilliantly weird figurative paintings of 20th-century outliers like late-Francis Picabia and Leonor Fini.
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Marshal of France,Gaston Maugras: Les demoiselles de Verrières, Paris, Calmann-Lévy, 1890, 276 p. online, chap. II: Origine des demoiselles de Verrières, p. 28. and Marie Rinteau, an actress.
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Les Demoiselles d'Avignon are the raunchy daughters of Burne-Jones' wan succubae.
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Picasso's sketchbooks for his 1907 painting Les Demoiselles d'Avignon illustrate Jouffret's influence on the artist's work.
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This rebellion inspired, in 1830, the play Le Drame des Demoiselles, which played in the Théâtre des Variétés in Paris. In 1983, Jacques Nichet directed a 90-minute feature film entitled La Guerre des Demoiselles. In 1976, Gerard Guillaume and Jeanne Labrune directed a feature film (two episodes) entitled La Guerre des Demoiselles, set in Massat with professional actors and local contributors. It was at once an essay on collective memory and an activist voice against the Haute-Ariège national park bill.
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The City Review, 2003. Retrieved 2 April 2009. The relation between Les Demoiselles d'Avignon and the Opening of the Fifth Seal was pinpointed in the early 1980s, when the stylistic similarities and the relationship between the motifs and visually identifying qualities of both works were analyzed.Johnson, Picasso's Demoiselles d'Avignon and the Theater of the Absurd.
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However, their presently preferred route has been hard-wired by countless cycles of migration. At their wintering grounds, demoiselles have been observed flocking with common cranes, their combined totals reaching up to 20,000 individuals. Demoiselles maintain separate social groups within the larger flock. In March and April, they begin their long spring journey back to their northern nesting grounds.
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The trout stock is sometimes mixed with American rainbow trout. Amongst the lakeside vegetation broad-winged damselflies or demoiselles may be seen.
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Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907), Museum of Modern Art, New York Picasso's African-influenced Period (1907–1909) begins with his painting Les Demoiselles d'Avignon. Picasso painted this composition in a style inspired by Iberian sculpture, but repainted the faces of the two figures on the right after being powerfully impressed by African artefacts he saw in June 1907 in the ethnographic museum at Palais du Trocadéro. When he displayed the painting to acquaintances in his studio later that year, the nearly universal reaction was shock and revulsion; Matisse angrily dismissed the work as a hoax. Picasso did not exhibit Le Demoiselles publicly until 1916.
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However, the Maison royale later provided Napoleon with the inspiration for his Maison des demoiselles de la Légion d'honneur, which still exists as the Maison d'éducation de la Légion d'honneur.
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The re-painting of the two heads on the far right of Les Demoiselles fueled speculation that it was an indication of the split between Picasso and Olivier. Although they later reunited for a period, the relationship ended in 1912.Richardson 1991, 47, 228 A photograph of the Les Demoiselles was first published in an article by Gelett Burgess entitled "The Wild Men of Paris, Matisse, Picasso and Les Fauves", The Architectural Record, May 1910.Gelett Burgess, "The Wild Men of Paris, Matisse, Picasso and Les Fauves", The Architectural Record, May 1910 Les Demoiselles would not be exhibited until 1916, and not widely recognized as a revolutionary achievement until the early 1920s, when André Breton (1896–1966) published the work.
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Just as the Bonheur de vivre had fueled Picasso's competitiveness, Les Demoiselles now fueled Matisse's.Richardson 1991, 45 Among Picasso's closed circle of friends and colleagues there was a mixture of opinions about Les Demoiselles. Georges Braque and André Derain were both initially troubled by it although they were supportive of Picasso. According to William Rubin, two of Picasso's friends, the art critic André Salmon and the painter Ardengo Soffici (1879–1964), were enthusiastic about it while Guillaume Apollinaire (1880–1918) wasn't.
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Nuno Resende in Les Demoiselles de Rochefort (2003) In 2000, under the pseudonym of Nuno, he sings Allez, allez, allez, the official song of the Belgian football team nicknamed Les Diables rouges. From 2000 to the end of 2002, Nuno Resende is an understudy in Roméo et Juliette, de la Haine à l'Amour, by Gérard Presgurvic. The cast wins the NRJ Music Award of the Francophone song in 2001. In 2003, he takes part in the musical Les Demoiselles de Rochefort.
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Paul Cézanne's Les Grandes Baigneuses (1906, oil on canvas, 210.5 × 250.8 cm., 82 × 98 inches, Philadelphia Museum of Art) is generally believed to be a likely inspiration for Les Demoiselles. Both Paul Gauguin (1848–1903) and Paul Cézanne (1839–1906) were accorded major posthumous retrospective exhibitions at the Salon d'Automne in Paris between 1903 and 1907, and both were important influences on Picasso and instrumental to his creation of Les Demoiselles. According to the English art historian, collector and author of The Cubist Epoch, Douglas Cooper, both of those artists were particularly influential to the formation of Cubism and especially important to the paintings of Picasso during 1906 and 1907.Cooper, 20-27 Cooper goes on to say however Les Demoiselles is often erroneously referred to as the first Cubist painting.
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Primitivism continues in his work during, before and after the painting of Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, from spring 1906 through the spring of 1907. Influences from ancient Iberian sculpture are also important.Richardson 1991, 451 Some Iberian reliefs from Osuna, then only recently excavated, were on display in the Louvre from 1904. Archaic Greek sculpture has also been claimed as an influence. The influence of African sculpture became an issue in 1939, when Alfred Barr claimed that the primitivism of the Demoiselles derived from the art of Côte d'Ivoire and the French Congo.Barr 1939, 55 Picasso insisted that the editor of his catalogue raissonne, Christian Zervos, publish a disclaimer: the Demoiselles, he said, owed nothing to African art, everything to the reliefs from Osuna that he had seen in the Louvre a year or so before.
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Picasso's paintings of 1907 have been characterized as proto-Cubism, as Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, the antecedent of Cubism. André Derain, 1907 (Automne), Nu debout, limestone, 95 x 33 x 17 cm, Musée National d'Art Moderne The African influence, which introduced anatomical simplifications, along with expressive features reminiscent of El Greco, are the generally assumed starting point for the Proto-Cubism of Picasso. He began working on studies for Les Demoiselles d'Avignon after a visit to the ethnographic museum at Palais du Trocadero. But that wasn't all.
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First exhibited in the 1906 Salon d'Automne retrospective, it was probably a direct influence on Les Demoiselles. David Sweetman writes, "Gauguin's statue Oviri, which was prominently displayed in 1906, was to stimulate Picasso's interest in both sculpture and ceramics, while the woodcuts would reinforce his interest in printmaking, though it was the element of the primitive in all of them which most conditioned the direction that Picasso's art would take. This interest would culminate in the seminal Les Demoiselles d'Avignon." In 2006, a bronze version of Oviri sold at Christie's New York for US$251,200.
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Young Ladies of the Village or The Village Maids (French - Les Demoiselles de village) is an 1852 oil on canvas painting by Gustave Courbet, now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It is signed bottom left "G. Courbet".
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Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, edited by Christopher Green, Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, Cambridge University Press, 2001 The work, painted in Picasso's studio in the Bateau-Lavoir in Montmartre, Paris, was seen publicly for the first time at the Salon d'Antin in July 1916, at an exhibition organized by the poet André Salmon. It was at this exhibition that Salmon (who had previously titled the painting in 1912 Le bordel philosophique) renamed the work its current, less scandalous title, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, instead of the title originally chosen by Picasso, Le Bordel d'Avignon. John Golding, Visions of the Modern, University of California Press, 1994, Archives de France, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, Pablo Picasso, 2007 (French) Picasso, who always referred to it as mon bordel ("my brothel"), or Le Bordel d'Avignon, never liked Salmon's title and would have instead preferred the bowdlerization Las chicas de Avignon ("The Girls of Avignon").
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In 2018, his work Footfalls Echo in Memory (2017), a re-visitation of Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, was both the source for choreography and part of the scenography for News of the World, a dance show performed by ODC/Dance.
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Jeanne-Justine Fouqueau de Pussy (1786–1863) was a French author. She specialized in writing children's books. She was active in the field of educational literature. She is known as the founder of the girls' magazine Journal des Demoiselles (1833-1922).
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Retrieved 15 February 2009. In his 1992 essay Reflections on Matisse, the art critic Hilton Kramer wrote, > After the impact of Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, however, Matisse was never > again mistaken for an avant-garde incendiary. With the bizarre painting that > appalled and electrified the cognoscenti, which understood the Les > Demoiselles was at once a response to Matisse's Le bonheur de vivre > (1905–1906) and an assault upon the tradition from which it derived, Picasso > effectively appropriated the role of avant-garde wild beast—a role that, as > far as public opinion was concerned, he was never to relinquish.Kramer, > Hilton.
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Apart from the larvae of the demoiselles are difficult to distinguish from each other, the apparent differences lie mainly in the bristles and the severity of the tracheal gills on their abdomen. Compared to other damselflies demoiselles larvae fall immediately on the other hand, due to their much shorter mean gill lamella. The body of the larvae shows only a relatively small adjustment to the fast-flowing waters of their habitat. The body is not flattened but very slim and turning around, the legs are long and have its end with strong claws, with which it can be stated in the vegetation.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved 18 February 2009. While Picasso was working on Les Demoiselles, he visited his friend Ignacio Zuloaga in his studio in Paris and studied El Greco's Opening of the Fifth Seal.Horsley, Carter B. The Shock of the Old.
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Poulenc (early 1920s). A one-act ballet Les Biches ['Les Demoiselles' was once a proposed alternate title]Kochno (1970), pp. 200, 205: title of Poulenc's original score [the young ladies]. depicts a contemporary house party for singles, with music to 'entertain' by Francis Poulenc.
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She functioned as the director of the Journal des Demoiselles from 1833 to 1852. Wendelin Guentner, Women Art Critics in Nineteenth-Century France: Vanishing Acts The magazine was educational and focused on a number of subjects such as fashion, geopgraphy, history, moral and sports.
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"The Triumph of Modernism: The Art World, 1985–2005, 2006". > Reflections on Matisse. 162. Kramer goes on to say, > Whereas Matisse had drawn upon a long tradition of European painting—from > Giorgione, Poussin, and Watteau to Ingres, Cézanne, and Gauguin—to create a > modern version of a pastoral paradise in Le bonheur de vivre, Picasso had > turned to an alien tradition of primitive art to create in Les Demoiselles a > netherworld of strange gods and violent emotions. As between the > mythological nymphs of Le bonheur de vivre and the grotesque effigies of Les > Demoiselles, there was no question as to which was the more shocking or more > intended to be shocking.
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Richardson 1991, 461 Both David Sweetman and John Richardson point to Gauguin's Oviri (literally meaning 'savage'), a gruesome phallic representation of the Tahitian goddess of life and death intended for Gauguin's grave. First exhibited in the 1906 retrospective, it was likely a direct influence on Les Demoiselles. Sweetman writes, > Gauguin's statue Oviri, which was prominently displayed in 1906, was to > stimulate Picasso's interest in both sculpture and ceramics, while the > woodcuts would reinforce his interest in print-making, though it was the > element of the primitive in all of them which most conditioned the direction > that Picasso's art would take. This interest would culminate in the seminal > Les Demoiselles d'Avignon.
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Hoodoos in Hin Khndzoresk, ArmeniaIn Armenia, Hoodoos are found in Goris, Khndzoresk, Hin Khot and several other places in the marz of Syunik, where many were once carved into and inhabited or used. In French, the formations are called demoiselles coiffées (ladies with hairdos) or cheminées de fées (fairy chimneys) and several are found in the Alpes-de- Haute-Provence; one of the best-known examples is the formation called Demoiselles Coiffées de Pontis. The hoodoo stones on the northern coast of Taiwan are unusual for their coastal setting. The stones formed as the seabed rose rapidly out of the ocean during the Miocene epoch.
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This led to Picasso's African Period in 1907, culminating in the Proto-Cubist Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, regarded as a masterpiece.Voorhies, James. Pablo Picasso (1881–1973), Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2000Wattenmaker, Richard J.; Distel, Anne, et al.,1993, p.
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Many studies have been done on this subject. The earliest was that of Prosper Barousse, published in 1839.Prosper Barousse, Les Demoiselles, La Mosaïque du Midi, 1839, pp. 1-9. More poet than historian, Barousse described the legends that surrounded the Maidens’ exploits from an early date.
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Landy, 242, 244–46 Oviri was exhibited at the 1906 Salon d'Automne (no. 57)"1906 Salon d'automne". Exposés au Grand Palais des Champs-Élysées, 1906. Retrieved 29 August 2015 where it influenced Pablo Picasso, who based one of the figures in Les Demoiselles d'Avignon on it.
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Matisse, Henri. Encyclopædia Britannica. 2007. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Retrieved 30 July 2007. By October 1906 when Picasso began preparatory work for Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, until its completion in March 1907, Picasso was vying with Matisse for the preeminent position of being the perceived new leader of Modern painting.
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Photo taken in the chamber known as the Cathédrale des Abîmes The Grotte des Demoiselles is a large cave located in the Hérault valley of southern France, near Ganges, about west of Nîmes. Its entrance is located on the territory of the commune of Saint-Bauzille-de-Putois.
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He acted along with Catherine Deneuve and Gene Kelly in Jacques Demy's French musical Les Demoiselles de Rochefort (1967). Around this time his manager cancelled his contract with Capitol Records.CLASSIC HOLLYWOOD; Gracious dance; George Chakiris remains grateful to choreographer and director Jerome Robbins for 'West Side Story.' King, Susan.
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First exhibited in the 1906 Salon d'Automne retrospective, it was likely a direct influence on Les Demoiselles. Sweetman writes, "Gauguin's statue Oviri, which was prominently displayed in 1906, was to stimulate Picasso's interest in both sculpture and ceramics, while the woodcuts would reinforce his interest in print-making, though it was the element of the primitive in all of them which most conditioned the direction that Picasso's art would take. This interest would culminate in the seminal Les Demoiselles d'Avignon." Many artists associated with Post-Impressionism, Divisionism and Fauvism transited through a proto-Cubist period, while some delved deeper into the problems of geometric abstraction, becoming known as Cubists, others chose different paths.
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In July 2007, Newsweek published a two- page article about Les Demoiselles d'Avignon describing it as the "most influential work of art of the last 100 years".Plagens, Peter. Which Is the Most Influential Work of Art of the Last 100 Years?, Art, Newsweek, 2 July/9 July 2007, pp.
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For Metzinger and Delaunay, too, representational form gave way to a new complexity; the subject matter of the paintings progressively became dominated by a network of interconnected geometric planes, the distinction between foreground and background no longer sharply delineated, and the depth of field limited. And Picasso had almost completed Les Demoiselles d'Avignon.
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Warner (1995), 221. Furthermore, Perrault emphasizes the danger posed to women from men, as in his moral written for "Little Red Riding Hood"—wolves wait in the forest (or in the drawing rooms) for les jeunes demoiselles (the young maidens).Carpenter (1984), 319. Bluebeard shown in this illustration printed by Edmund Evans, c. 1888.
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Had not Picasso signed himself 'Paul' in Gauguin's > honor.Richardson 1991, 461. Both David Sweetman and John Richardson point to the Gauguin sculpture called Oviri (literally meaning 'savage'), the gruesome phallic figure of the Tahitian goddess of life and death that was intended for Gauguin's grave, exhibited in the 1906 retrospective exhibition that even more directly led to Les Demoiselles.
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According to Christopher Green, Picasso: Architecture and Vertigo, New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University, 2005, , p. 51 this is "generally accepted" although denied by Picasso himself.Arthur I. Miller, Einstein, Picasso: Space, Time and the Beauty that Causes Havoc, New York: Basic, 2001, , p. 92: [A]lthough the sharp change in the right-hand demoiselles occurred after Picasso's visit to Trocadéro, . . . .
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Benoît-Joseph Marsollier (also known as Benoît-Joseph Marsollier des Vivetières, (Paris, 1750 – Versailles, 22 April 1817) was a French playwright and librettist. He is particularly noted for his work in opéra comique. In 1780 he also led the first exploration of the Grotte des Demoiselles. His librettos include Nina, L'irato, and Les deux petits savoyards.
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Salmon gave "26 Avenue d'Antin" as the address and called the exhibition the "Salon d'Antin". Artists included Pablo Picasso, who showed Les Demoiselles d'Avignon for the first time, Amedeo Modigliani, Moïse Kisling, Manuel Ortiz de Zárate, and Marie Vassilieff. Poiret also arranged concerts of new music at the gallery, often in combination with exhibitions of new art.
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He explains, > The Demoiselles is generally referred to as the first Cubist picture. This > is an exaggeration, for although it was a major first step towards Cubism it > is not yet Cubist. The disruptive, expressionist element in it is even > contrary to the spirit of Cubism, which looked at the world in a detached, > realistic spirit.
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Joris–Karl Huysmans, Decadent novel À rebours, or, Against Nature, Paris, 1891 Paul Adam was the most prolific and representative author of symbolist novels. Les Demoiselles Goubert (1886), co-written with Jean Moréas, is an important transitional work between naturalism and symbolism. Few symbolists used this form. One exception was Gustave Kahn, who published Le Roi fou in 1896.
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There are a number of megaliths in Langon and in the surrounding area (particularly in the neighboring town of [St. Just]). One such arrangement has been named the "Demoiselles de Langon", or the "Damsels of Langon". The arrangement consists of around 20 stones, averaging around 1 metre (3 ft) in height. The Corbinieres viaduct spans the Vilaine river.
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He spent his first night in the studio of his friend Picasso, whose head he modeled as a sculpture. There he was able to contemplate Picasso's seminal proto-Cubist painting Les Demoiselles d'Avignon. Shortly thereafter, Juan Gris introduced him to Magali Tartanson, whom he married in 1915. During this period, Gargallo was influenced by the work of Picasso.
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Henri Thiéry (Paris, 1829 – Bougival, 1 August 1872) was a 19th-century French journalist and playwright. The fondator and director of the Journal des Demoiselles, a regular collaborator of Amédée de Jallais, his plays were presented on the most important Parisian stages of the 19th century: Théâtre des Délassements-Comiques, Théâtre des Folies-Dramatiques, Théâtre du Palais- Royal etc.
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According to Christopher Green, Picasso: Architecture and Vertigo, New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University, 2005, , p. 51 this is "generally accepted" although denied by Picasso himself.Arthur I. Miller, Einstein, Picasso: Space, Time and the Beauty that Causes Havoc, New York: Basic, 2001, , p. 92: [A]lthough the sharp change in the right-hand demoiselles occurred after Picasso's visit to Trocadéro, . . . .
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Marie-Louise de Beauvoir née Cousin (17 August 1776, Pas-de-Calais-1855), was a Belgian pioneer educator. She was the founder of the first secular school for girls in Belgium, the «Maison d’éducation de demoiselles» in Liége, which was to be regarded as the perhaps most fashionable girls school in the country, and was its manager in 1816-1852. One of her students was the pioneer educator Léonie de Waha, who founded a college for girls, l'école supérieure de demoiselles (1868, from 1878 known as lycée Léonie de Waha). She was married to the French politician Louis-Etienne Beffroy de Beauvoir, and followed him to Liége when he was exiled during the Bourbon Restoration for having voted for the execution of Louis XVI of France during the French revolution.
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Ganache or crème ganache was originally a kind of chocolate truffle introduced by the Paris confectioner Maison Siraudin in about 1862 and first documented in 1869.'Jeanne', "Correspondance: Jeanne à Florence", Journal des Demoiselles 37:27 (1869) It was named after a popular vaudeville comedy by Victorien Sardou, Les Ganaches ("The Chumps")Oxford English Dictionary 3rd edition online, 2015, s.v. (1862).
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Amélie de Dietrich, née de Berckheim (1776–1855) was a French-German industrialist.Correspondance des demoiselles de Berckheim et de leurs amis, précédée d'un extrait du Journal de Mlle Octavie de Berckheim I.II. Verfasser/in:Octavie von Berckheim; Henriette von Berckheim; Ph Godet, Verlag:Neuchâtel:Delachaux et Niestlé;Paris!Monnerat P, 1889. She managed the ironworks in Jaegerthal after her late spouse from 1806 to her death.
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In July 1916, Les Demoiselles was exhibited to the public for the first time, and not in the gallery of Kahnweiler. It was included in the Salon d'Antin, an exhibition organized by André Salmon.Billy Klüver, A Day with Picasso, The MIT Press, 1999. Bypassing the problem of color, simply by eliminating color from his paintings, Picasso in 1908 concentrated on form.
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The film is a version of Demy's autobiographical notebooks, an account of Demy's childhood and his lifelong love of theatre and cinema. Varda paid homage to her husband in Jacquot de Nantes, Les demoiselles ont eu 25 ans (1993), and L’Univers de Jacques Demy (1995). Demy died on October 27, 1990 at the age of 59.Interview, Têtu, November 2008.
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In 1907, when Picasso began to work on Les Demoiselles, one of the old master painters he greatly admired was El Greco (1541–1614). At the time El Greco was largely obscure and under-appreciated. Picasso's friend Ignacio Zuloaga (1870–1945) acquired El Greco's masterpiece, the Opening of the Fifth Seal, in 1897 for 1000 pesetas."The Vision of Saint John".
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Le bonheur de vivre (The Joy of Life) is a painting by Henri Matisse. Along with Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, Le bonheur de vivre is regarded as one of the pillars of early modernism. The monumental canvas was first exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants of 1906, where its cadmium colors and spatial distortions caused a public expression of protest and outrage.
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There is controversy concerning the identity of the saint: both Tudy of Landevennec and Tudwal have been suggested. The eleventh- century church is dedicated to St Tudy. 240px The port grew because of its sheltered position protected from the prevailing southwest winds. The fishing port is important (2004-6: around 7000 tonnes per annum landed), and specializes in langoustines, called "demoiselles de Loctudy".
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Essaï collaborated with Michel Legrand. They co-produced 25 songs together for "Les Demoiselles de Rochefort" and had a successful run at Palais des Congrès in Paris.Then he wrote " S'aimer est interdit " for the famous musical comedy "Le Roi Soleil" for Warner Music France. That album went double Platinum with over 3 million tickets sold during the three years of its run.
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The building is now the Musée de Montmartre.Dictionnaire historique de Paris, (2013), La Pochothèque, () Pablo Picasso, Amedeo Modigliani and other artists lived and worked in a building called Le Bateau-Lavoir during the years 1904–1909. In this building, Picasso painted one of his most important masterpieces, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon. Several noted composers, including Erik Satie, also lived in this neighborhood.
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Pablo Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon. An oil painting depicting five prostitutes from a brothel in Barcelona. Prostitution in Spain is not addressed by any specific law, but a number of activities related to it, such as pimping, are illegal. In 2016, UNAIDS estimated there to be 70,268 prostitutes in the country, although other estimates put the number in the 300,000 - 400,000 region.
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Joseph Csaky, Jacques Lipchitz and Louis Marcoussis collaborated with Miklos in 1927 on the decoration of Studio House of the French fashion designer Jacques Doucet, rue Saint-James, Neuilly. Doucet had seen the work of Miklos at the 1920 Salon des Indépendants. Doucet was also an art collector of Post- Impressionist and Cubist paintings. He purchased Les Demoiselles d'Avignon directly from Picasso's studio.
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Salmon gave "26 Avenue d'Antin" as the address and called the exhibition the "Salon d'Antin". Artists included Pablo Picasso, who showed Les Demoiselles d'Avignon for the first time, Amedeo Modigliani, Moïse Kisling, Manuel Ortiz de Zárate and Marie Vassilieff. Another of Poiret's exhibitions, also organized by Salmon, was La Collection particulière de M. Paul Poiret, from 26 April to 12 May 1923.
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The tomb of Comtesse de Bassanville at 150px She was the disciple of Henriette Campan. She started writing at the age of 40 under the pseudonym Comtesse de Bassanville (Countess of Bassanville). She founded the Journal des jeunes filles. Moreover, she was the direction of Le moniteur des dames et des demoiselles from 1986 to 1850 and of Le dimanche des familles from 1856 to 1858.
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West African Vodun religious objects were at first viewed by outsiders simply as religious fetishes. Later they became valued as art objects, and then as symbols of the African diaspora. They have been interpreted as modern art and also as traditional art. It is said that Pablo Picasso was inspired by traditional West African sculpture when he made his proto-cubist painting Les Demoiselles d'Avignon.
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Those paintings included series' entitled The Bath, After the Bath, and Playing with Jimmy. Butler developed his own impressionist style with light palettes and loose brushstrokes, reminiscent of works done by Édouard Vuillard and Pierre Bonnard. From his garden he painted landscapes showing the church of Giverny, The Demoiselles (small haystacks) and the grain stacks. After a lingering illness, Suzanne Hoschede died in 1899.
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Pablo Picasso's paintings of massive figures from 1906 were directly influenced by Gauguin's sculpture, painting and his writing as well. The savage power evoked by Gauguin's work lead directly to Les Demoiselles in 1907. According to Gauguin biographer David Sweetman, Pablo Picasso as early as 1902 became an aficionado of Gauguin's work when he met and befriended the expatriate Spanish sculptor and ceramist Paco Durrio, in Paris.
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Art historian Jack Flam further emphasizes the color ratios (the use of black) and composition between the canvas and the MNAM painting and two of the most important works of 1916, Les Demoiselles à la rivière and Les Marocains. These arguments lead to the conclusion that The Painter and His Model was painted by Matisse toward the end of 1916, and possibly finished early 1917.
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Picasso returned to Paris in May, 1901, resumed residence in the studio that he had shared with Casagemas, visited the site of Casagemas's suicide, and eventually had an affair with Germaine. During the years to follow, Picasso painted various death portraits of Casagemas. Germaine remained part of Picasso's life for many years and was later one of the models depicted in Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon.
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Athénée Royal Vauban is a Francophone secondary school in Charleroi, Belgium. For much of its history it was a school for girls, originating from a private school opened by Mrs Dupuis in 1831. The royal decree of 26 Septembre 1881 created a state school for girls, Ecole Moyenne de l'Etat pour Demoiselles. It was officially designated a Royal Antheneum as per the Decree of the Regent of 27 August 1947.
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He later moved to London. Hamilton created roles in Robert Helpmann's Hamlet (1942), Miracle in the Gorbals (1944) and Adam Zero (1966); and in Roland Petit's Les Demoiselles de la nuit (1948) and Carmen (1949). Hamilton gave Ninette de Valois her famous nickname, Madam, when he created the role of an aging butterfly hunter in Promenade in 1943. In 1954, Hamilton was appointed ballet master with the Vienna State Opera.
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In 1992, after the publication of Demoiselles de Numidie by Éditions de l'Aube. Salim Jay introduced him to Editions de La Différence. The publishing company published Au bonheur des limbes, Ambre ou les métamorphoses de l'amour, L'Enfant de marbre, Une fleur dans la nuit suivi de Sous le soleil et le clair de lune and Un martyr de notre temps. In 2000, he moved from Morocco to Cairo, Egypt.
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Marie and her sister had a welcoming house at Auteuil and provided a beautiful theatre.Gaston Maugras Les Demoiselles de Verrières Paris 1890. A liaison with Maurice de Saxe produced a girl born in 1748, Aurore, who became the grandmother of George Sand.During the last years of his life, Maurice had an affair with a French lady, Marie Rinteau de Verrières, who at that time was only eighteen years old.
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The Grotte des Demoiselles is thought to have initially been formed by the collapse of overlying limestone, made fragile by water erosion. However, some doubt remains as to the source of the water: it may have been an underground stream that has now disappeared, or it may have been a stream that is now about 300 metres (~980 ft) lower, although no link with the latter has been discovered thus far.
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From the 1820s, the dominance of the magazine was broken with an increasing number of rivals such as the Petit courrier des dames (1821-1868), Le Follet (1829-1892), La Mode (1829-1855) and Le Journal des demoiselles (1833-1922), and Journal des dames et des modes finally discontinued in 1839. Another magazine with the same name, Journal des dames et des modes, was published in 1912–14.
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At the beginning of the 1830s, Voïart wrote for the booming educational and feminine press, contributing to the Journal des dames, the Journal des Demoiselles and the Journal des jeunes personnes. In the process of supporting her stepdaughter, the poet Amable Tastu during the bankruptcy of her husband's printing business, together they begin to collect fairy tales. Eager to promote national cultures, she translated the Popular Songs of the Servians (1834).
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"Art in Review; Delia Brown". New York Times. Brown is the recipient of the 2019 Richard Diebenkorn Teaching Fellowship at the San Francisco Art Institute. In her recent work, Brown has stopped using photographs as a source material in favor of a heavy stylization influenced by Futurism and Cubism. These new paintings were exhibited in her 2018 solo exhibition Demoiselles d’Avignon at Tibor de Nagy in New York.
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He started his career in the basement of his house, surrounded by his guitar and a couple of friends. Nuno also had a stage career where he performed in musicals such as Belle et la Bête, Roméo et Juliette, and Les Demoiselles de Rochefort. In the 2000 Belgian national final, Nuno competed as the lead singer of the group La Teuf who finished 6th with the song "Soldat d'amour".
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Au Lapin Agile is a 1905 painting by Pablo Picasso. The harlequin is a self- portrait of the artist. The woman represents his lover Germaine Pichot, formerly the obsession of Carlos Casagemas, a friend of Picasso who committed suicide in 1901 because of an unreturned love for Pichot.The Guardian, Jonathan Jones, The Three Dancers, Pablo Picasso (1925) In 1907 Pichot appeared as one of the models in Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon.
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It offers a marvelously aromatic wine, with a velvety texture which culminates in a persistent and powerful finish in the mouth.Louis Latour Chevalier Montrachet Grand Cru «Les Demoiselles» Chevalier-Montrachet is a Grand Cru in the Côte de Beaune. The name Montrachet is a derivation of the names Mont Rachaz (1252), Mont Rachat (1380) the Montrachat (1473). This evolution highlights why we say Mont-rachet and not Mon-tra-chet.
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The power evoked by his work led directly to Les Demoiselles d'Avignon in 1907. According to David Sweetman, Picasso became an aficionado of Gauguin in 1902 when he befriended the expatriate Spanish sculptor and ceramist Paco Durrio in Paris. Durrio was a friend of Gauguin and held several of his works in an attempt to help his poverty-stricken friend in Tahiti by promoting his oeuvre in Paris.
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During their migratory flight south, demoiselles fly like all cranes, with their head and neck straight forward and their feet and legs straight behind, reaching altitudes of . Along their arduous journey they have to cross the Himalayan mountains to get to their over-wintering grounds in India. Many die from fatigue, hunger and predation from golden eagles. Simpler, lower routes are possible, such as crossing the range via the Khyber Pass.
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Sion is located on the coast between ocean, beach, dune, forest and rocky ledge. The resort has three beaches (Bussoleries, the small beach and the grand beach) and a few cracks visible at low tide. The main beach is made of fine sand and stretches over 10 km (continuing by the "plages des demoiselles " in Saint Jean de Monts). The footpath dunes between sea and is 9 km to St Jean de Monts.
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Charles-Marie- Augustin de Goyon, who would be a senior general of the Second Empire, served as its colonel from 1846 to 1850. Under de Goyon, the regiment earned the nickname of "demoiselles de Goyon", owing to his high standards for drill and dress. During the 1848 Revolution, the officers of the regiment kept their men calm and disciplined, much to the relief of the citizens of its garrison town of Beauvais.
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Les Demoiselles d'Avignon. The two figures on the right are the beginnings of Picasso's African-inspired period. In 1905-06, a small group of artists began to study art from Sub-Saharan Africa and Oceania, in part because of the compelling works of Paul Gauguin that were gaining visibility in Paris. Gauguin's powerful posthumous retrospective exhibitions at the Salon d'Automne in Paris in 1903 and an even larger one in 1906 exerted a strong influence.
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Now widowed, de Waha decided to devote her life to promoting women's emancipation and furthering education for girls. After founding a tailoring school in Tilff, in 1868 she established the "Institut supérieur de demoiselles" (Young Ladies High School) in Liège, engaging competent teachers in a secular environment. Optional lessons in religion were given by Catholic, Protestant or Jewish clerics. The school later expanded, requiring new premises designed by the architect Jean Moutschen.
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His searches on the influence of the modern art by the African art, brought him to be inspired by certain masterpieces as Les Demoiselles d'Avignon by Pablo Picasso, the Self-portrait and sunflowers Vincent van Gogh's. The references to these big masterpieces of the history of art, the influence of the expressionism, the naive art, the contemporary and the meaning of colors, are so many elements to be observed in his canvas.
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Dictionnaire historique de Paris, (2013), La Pochothèque, () Pablo Picasso, Amedeo Modigliani and other artists lived and worked in a building called Le Bateau-Lavoir during the years 1904–1909, where Picasso painted one of his most important masterpieces, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon. Several noted composers, including Erik Satie, lived in the neighbourhood. Most of the artists left after the outbreak of World War I, the majority of them going to the Montparnasse quarter.Dictionnaire historique de Paris, pp.
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The former village was situated on the west side of Shepody Bay, at the foot of Caledonian Hills, in the region where the ground is low, the Chipody marshes. It was part of most of the region of Trois-Rivières. The main water supply is the Chipoudy river. The village corresponds to approximately the territory that lies between Mary's Point and cap des Demoiselles, which is now in the Albert county, south-east of New Brunswick.
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Cécile is not only a character from Lola, which also featured her husband Michel, her lover Frankie and her child, but was mentioned in Les Demoiselles de Rochefort as well. Another mention is of the gambler Jackie from La Baie des Anges.(French) Model Shop is included on Sight and Sound 's list of 75 most neglected films. Films on the list were selected by 75 international critics as "unduly obscure and worthy of greater eminence".
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242 This painting depicted five women: three seated nude, one dressed and reclining on her elbow, and one standing and holding a tray. Guillaume Apollinaire wrote of this painting in the Chronique des arts that "Mme. Marval has given the measure of her talent and has achieved a work of importance for modern painting." The same painting was displayed at the July 1916 Salon d'Antin organized by the poet André Salmon, beside Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon.
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Knocked senseless by the shock, he noticed--just before passing out--a group of young ladies dancing and singing around him. When he woke up, he was back on the surface with his lamb. The modern name of the cave, Grotte des Demoiselles (“maidens' grotto”) reflects this legend; previously it had been known as the Grotte des Fées (“fairies' grotto”). At various times in history the cave has also served as a hiding place and refuge.
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Argentine Bellegarde-Foureau (1842-1901) was a Haitian educator. She was the head of the national network of the girl schools of Haiti, the Pensionnat national des demoiselles, from 1880, and are regarded to have played an important part in the education of girls in Haiti. She was also known as a vocal critic of all abuse from both the liberal and national party, and spoke for solidarity and equal education for sexes as a principle to reform society.
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Salmon called the exhibition the "Salon d'Antin". Artists included Pablo Picasso, who showed Les Demoiselles d'Avignon for the first time, Amedeo Modigliani, Moïse Kisling, Manuel Ortiz de Zárate and Marie Vassilieff. Poiret also arranged concerts of new music at the gallery, often in combination with exhibitions of new art. The 1916 Salon d'Antin included readings of poetry by Max Jacob and Guillaume Apollinaire, and performances of work by Erik Satie, Darius Milhaud, Igor Stravinsky and Georges Auric.
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Often, feminist art history offers a critical "re-reading" of the Western art canon, such as Carol Duncan's re-interpretation of Les Demoiselles d'Avignon. Two pioneers of the field are Mary Garrard and Norma Broude. Their anthologies Feminism and Art History: Questioning the Litany, The Expanding Discourse: Feminism and Art History, and Reclaiming Feminist Agency: Feminist Art History After Postmodernism are substantial efforts to bring feminist perspectives into the discourse of art history. The pair also co-founded the Feminist Art History Conference.
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Gertrude Stein referred to landscapes made by Picasso in 1909, such as Reservoir at Horta de Ebro or Brick factory at Tortosa, as the first Cubist paintings. According to the personal predilections of Kahnweiler, Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon was the beginning of Cubism, and yet he writes: > Early in 1907 Picasso began a strange large painting depicting women, fruit > and drapery, which he left unfinished. It cannot be called other than > unfinished, even though it represents a long period of work.
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Fleuriot published a number of essays under the name Anna Edianez, but very soon her early novels were published under the name Zénaïde Fleuriot. After her early publications she worked for the Journal des demoiselles et la Mode illustrée. Her novel Aigles et colombes (Eagles and Doves) was rewarded by the Académie française with a 1500 Franc prize. She was a constant contributor to "Le Journal de la jeunesse" and "La Bibliothèque rose", whose aim was to provide young people with unobjectionable reading.
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Fang mask is similar in style to what Picasso encountered in Paris just prior to Les Demoiselles d'Avignon. In the early 20th century, African artworks were being brought back to Paris museums in consequence of the expansion of the French empire into Sub-Saharan Africa. The press was abuzz with exaggerated stories of cannibalism and exotic tales about the African kingdom of Dahomey. The mistreatment of Africans in the Belgian Congo was exposed in Joseph Conrad's popular book Heart of Darkness.
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Hans Belting cites in Bilderstreit: ein Streit um die Moderne Jorge Luis Borges's The Duel: "Clara Glencairn entschied sich dafür, eine abstrakte Malerin zu sein." (El informe de Brodie, El duelo, "Clara Glencairn decided to become an abstract artist.") Michael Compton discusses in Das Spiel der Stile – Duchamp und Picabia heute local differences and the role of America and Anti-Americanism. Siegfried Gohr starts Über das Häßliche, das Entartete und den Schmutz with a contemplation about Picassos Les Demoiselles d'Avignon.
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However, he was not the first to exploit the Ariège revolt for literary ends. The first truly historic study on this subject was that of Michel Dubedat, in 1900. Short and incomplete, little different from the spirit of its predecessor, it nevertheless brought a global perspective of the events.Michel Dubedat, "Le Procès des Demoiselles : résistance à l'application du Code forestier dans les montagnes de l'Ariège (1828–1830)", Bulletin de la société ariégeoise des sciences lettres et arts, 1899–1900, pp. 281-295.
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Around 1930, René Dupont took up the subject again with the goal of doing a rigorously historic study by scrutinizing the departmental archives of Ariège. He succeeded in reconstructing in great detail the chronology of the troubles and in presenting an interpretation for them. His work was abundantly reused in the studies which followed.René Dupont, La Guerre des Demoiselles dans les forêts de l'Ariège (1829–1831), Travaux du laboratoire forestier de Toulouse, t. 1, article 27, Toulouse, 1933, 82 p.
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Other notable works include twelve years as choreographer for the Royal Variety Performance, musical theatre in Dublin (including Finian's Rainbow and The Fantasticks) and the West End (including Houdini, Thomas and The King, Irene, The Travelling Music Show and the OEEC Gala at Drury Lane). He choreographed Les Demoiselles de Rochefort with music by Michel Legrand and direction by Jacques Demy, giving him the opportunity to work with Kelly again plus Catherine Deneuve, George Chakiris, Françoise Dorléac and Grover Dale.
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She wrote many children's books; edited la Minerve littéraire, l'Almanach des Dames, and l'Hommage aux Demoiselles; translated some novels from English and wrote novels of her own. She saw much of her work lauded by critics of the day and various academies; most prominently, she was awarded a prize by the Académie Française for her poem, Les Derniers Moments de Bayard ("The last moments of Bayard."). She died in Paris on the 7 March 1825, survived by her son, the geologist and mineralogist, Armand Dufrénoy.
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The most > disturbing of those ceramics (one that Picasso might have already seen at > Vollard's) was the gruesome Oviri. Until 1987, when the Musée d'Orsay > acquired this little-known work (exhibited only once since 1906) it had > never been recognized as the masterpiece it is, let alone recognized for its > relevance to the works leading up to the Demoiselles. Although just under 30 > inches high, Oviri has an awesome presence, as befits a monument intended > for Gauguin's grave. Picasso was very struck by Oviri.
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Sergei Diaghilev Sergei Diaghilev, proprietor of the Ballets Russes, contacted Poulenc in November 1921 with a proposed commission. The original plan was that Poulenc should write music for a ballet scenario with the title Les demoiselles, written by the fashion designer Germaine Bongard. The following July it became clear that Bongard did not wish to go ahead; Poulenc wrote to his friend and fellow member of Les six, Darius Milhaud, that instead "I will probably write a suite of dances without a libretto."Moore, p.
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Two Women in an Art Gallery (1868) Achille Devéria introduced David to the Journal des demoiselles and the Journal des jeunes personnes, for which he produced lithographs from 1839 to 1842. David's albums were often published as a supplement to women's magazines. He drew all the plates for the Le Moniteur de la Mode for fifty years. About 2,600 of David's fashion plates were first published in the Moniteur de la Mode, and then republished in other magazines in France, Germany, Britain, Spain and America.
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Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (The Young Ladies of Avignon, originally titled The Brothel of Avignon) is a large oil painting created in 1907 by the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso. The work, part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art, portrays five nude female prostitutes in a brothel on Carrer d'Avinyó (translated into Spanish: ), a street in Barcelona. Each figure is depicted in a disconcerting confrontational manner and none is conventionally feminine. The women appear slightly menacing and are rendered with angular and disjointed body shapes.
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Although Les Demoiselles had an enormous and profound influence on modern art, its impact was not immediate, and the painting stayed in Picasso's studio for many years. At first, only Picasso's intimate circle of artists, dealers, collectors and friends were aware of the work. While many were shocked and some outraged, influential people such as Georges Braque and Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler were supportive. Soon after the late summer of 1907, Picasso and his long-time lover Fernande Olivier (1881–1966) had a parting of the ways.
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44, . Using the same technique as employed in painting landscapes and still lifes, Large Bathers is reminiscent of the work of Titian and Peter Paul Rubens. Comparisons are also often made with the other famous group of nude women of the same period, Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon. The purchase of the painting, while generally praised, was nevertheless questioned by The Philadelphia Record, which noted that 41,000 (or ten percent) of Philadelphia's residents were without bathtubs, and that the money could therefore have been better spent elsewhere.
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Amongst records of her expenses and household there is a list of her ladies in waiting. The names (modernised) of the "dames" or married women are; Lady Arran, Lady Cassillis (senior), Lady Erskine, Lady Elphinston, Lady Livingston, and Coullombe (senior). The unmarried "demoiselles" were Margaret Hume, Margery Livingston, Jean Elphinston, Jean Murray, Annabell Murray, Margaret Steward, Anne Scot, Margery Kirkcaldy, Coullombe, Barbara Sandilands, Barbara Kennedy, Cassillis, Crespy, Crespanville, with the wife of Alexander Durham, the daughter of Lady Livingston, and two female fools.Marguerite Wood, Balcarres Papers, vol.
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The substrate of the river has only a very minor importance, because the larvae reside mainly in the vegetation. An important factor for the occurrence of blue-wing demoiselles is the oxygen in the water. The larvae is much more sensitive to oxygen deficiency than the larvae of the banded demoiselle, hence it needs a sufficient oxygen saturation of the water. Waters with high levels of sediment and sludge, which is consumed by bacterial decomposition of oxygen are, accordingly not as a habitat for the larvae.
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In historical reflection, a few issues have been pointed out include questioning the origins of this genre of art for Picasso. Primitivism as an aesthetic was often used by Europeans borrowing from non-Western cultures. While it is clear Picasso was inspired heavily by aesthetics from cultures not his own many art historians and critics have argued that this sort of borrowing was a modernist expression. Art historian Kobena Mercer covers Picasso's Demoiselles d'Avignon in his book on black diasporic art titled Travel and See.
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Inspector Denis shows Victorine Meurend a picture of the body, which, horrified, identifies her friend Virginie. Victorine denounces the Inspector's contempt for the demi-mondaines women of which she is a member: : At the police station, Sergeant Nozière and Inspector Denis linked this murder to a series of murders of young women. They speculate in order to find the motive for the crimes and the culprit. They allude to several works of art: Gustave Courbet's Les Demoiselles des Bords de la Seine and Manet's Olympia.
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The War of the Maidens () was a rebellion that took place in the French department of Ariège from 1829 to 1832, and continued in a less intense fashion until 1872. It was the most well-known struggle among those that developed in the Pyrenees in the 19th century. A demoiselle is a young woman. The name guerre des demoiselles comes from the fact that the countrymen disguised themselves as women, with long white shirts or sheep skins, scarves or wigs, and blacked or concealed faces.
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Chevalier-Montrachet sits higher up the same hillside as the Montrachet appellation, producing arguably one of the best white wines in the world. In 1913 Domaine Louis LATOUR purchased this 0,51 hectare vineyard from the widow of Léonce Bocquet, who initiated renovations of a part of the Clos de Vougeot. This vineyard carries the name "Les Demoiselles" in hommage to the daughters of an early 19th-century Beaune General, Adèle and Julie Voillot, who were the owners of the vineyard and who died without marrying.
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In a situation where the established avant garde was straining against the constraints imposed by serving the world of appearances, African Art demonstrated the power of supremely well organised forms; produced not only by responding to the faculty of sight, but also and often primarily, the faculty of imagination, emotion and mystical and religious experience. These artists saw in African art a formal perfection and sophistication unified with phenomenal expressive power.Johnson, Picasso's Demoiselles d'Avignon and the Theater of the Absurd. 102–113Richardson, J. Picasso's Apocalyptic Whorehouse.
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Sweetman writes, "Gauguin's statue Oviri, which was prominently displayed in 1906, was to stimulate Picasso's interest in both sculpture and ceramics, while the woodcuts would reinforce his interest in print-making, though it was the element of the primitive in all of them which most conditioned the direction that Picasso's art would take. This interest would culminate in the seminal Les Demoiselles d'Avignon."Sweetman, 562–563. According to Richardson, > Picasso's interest in stoneware was further stimulated by the examples he > saw at the 1906 Gauguin retrospective at the Salon d'Automne.
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Pablo Picasso, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907). This proto-cubist work is considered a seminal influence on subsequent trends in modernist painting. Frank Lloyd Wright, Solomon Guggenheim Museum 1946–1959 Modernism is both a philosophical movement and an art movement that arose from broad transformations in Western society during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The movement reflected a desire for the creation of new forms of art, philosophy, and social organization which reflected the newly emerging industrial world, including features such as urbanization, new technologies, and war.
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In 2007, the dairy of de Lens was published by La Cause des Livres. It was prepared for publication in the 1920s, however, the project fell through due to the death of her husband in 1926. Extensive fragments of the diary were used by the Taraud brothers in their novel Les Bien aimées (The Beloved), published in 1932. The diary was found among their papers in the manuscript department of the National Library of France by Philippe Lejeune, who was working on his book Le Moi des demoiselles.
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Stein met her life partner Alice B. Toklas on September 8, 1907, on Toklas's first day in Paris, at Sarah and Michael Stein's apartment.Mellow (1974), p. 107 On meeting Stein, Toklas wrote: Soon thereafter, Stein introduced Toklas to Pablo Picasso at his Bateau-Lavoir studio, where he was at work on Les Demoiselles d'Avignon. In 1908, they summered in Fiesole, Italy, Toklas staying with Harriet Lane Levy, the companion of her trip from the United States, and her housemate until Alice moved in with Stein and Leo in 1910.
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The two friends then wrote Tower of the Wolf, a novel written in the tormented style of the period. After school he moved to Paris, where he worked for le Figaro, alongside Léon Gozlan, Auguste Jal, Jules Janin, Alphonse Karr, Nestor Roqueplan, George Sand, Jules Sandeau. He also contributed to several journals such as the Journal des Demoiselles and The Museum of Families, and later founded the Journal Le Guetteur in Saint-Quentin. After getting "a beautiful success of goosebumps"Charles Monselet, Statues et statuettes contemporaines, Giraud et Dagneau, Paris, 1852, p. 39.
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In her book (published 1929/1930) Justine credits Marie Rivoire as her first guide in the literary world of the medieval Italian poet and writer Dante Alighieri, which would inspire her for the rest of her live. Around 1895 Justine was sent to finishing school in Brussels, in the vicinity of the Warande Park. This was probably the 'Institution de demoiselles' run by the widow Jouret in the Rue Ducale. Thanks to a guestbook used by the twenty-year- old Justine, we know she was back in The Hague in November 1897.
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The main trees are alder and crack willow in the wetter areas, and elsewhere oak and ash with a shrub layer of hazel. In winter wildfowl are visible and in spring many flower species. Invertebrates include red cardinal beetles, banded demoiselles and the rare and protected Desmoulin's whorl snail.London Wildlife Trust, Denham Lock WoodLondon Wildlife Trust noticeboard in Denham Lock Wood The balsam carpet moth was added to the list of British species when it was found at the Wood in 1955, and it is only known at one other site in Britain.
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Anita Brookner, Greenwich, Connecticut: New York Graphic Society, 1962, p. 114. Picasso said that this art taught him "what painting was all about", seeing it in the museum's African masks, which had been created "as a kind of mediation between [humanity] and the unknown hostile forces that [surround us]",Françoise Gilot and Carlton Lake, Life with Picasso, 1964, repr. New York: Anchor/Doubleday, 1989, , p. 266. and to have been influenced by the masks in the forms of the figures in Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, which eventually led to Cubism.
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Françoise Berd then returned to Europe as a fellow of the Canadian Council for the Arts, where she developed relationships in the film industry. But she only managed to get hired through her own insistence. The producer Philippe Dussart, gave her a job as telephone operator. Then, since she knew English, she was asked to interpret contracts for Jacques Demy who directed The Young Girls of Rochefort (Les Demoiselles de Rochefort), in a coproduction with Warner Bros.. For two and a half years, the productions continued: Godard, Bresson and Robert Hossein (Raspoutine).
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At the Ecole des Arts Décoratifs, the teaching of painting was still very much under the influence of Impressionism. In 1908, however, Impressionism had lost most of its attraction; even Monet had left it behind to explore new forms. At the 1905 Salon d'Automne, Matisse and the other Fauvists scandalized the small world of art by totally freeing color, and in 1907 Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon ignited the controversy of the Cubism revolution and its ingenious deconstruction of space. Latour observed all this, but kept looking for a language of his own.
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Freundlich was born into a Jewish family in Prussia in 1878. He decided to become an artist and moved to Paris in 1908, but he made the sculpture in Hamburg in 1912 during one of his periodic trips back to Germany. Monumental head as an example of degenerate art The work was made in plaster and stood tall. Freundlich was influenced by Cubism and possibly also Rodin's 1890s bronze sculpture, Monumental Head of Iris, as well as "primitive" tribal art, like the masks in Picasso's 1907 painting Les Demoiselles d'Avignon.
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Adam's first novel, Chair molle ("Soft Flesh"), was the story of a prostitute in the Naturalist manner, which led to him being prosecuted for immorality before the Cour d'assises and sentenced to a fortnight in prison and a 500-franc fine.Robert Netz, Histoire de la censure dans l'édition (Presses Universitaires de France, 1997), p. 124. Together with Jean Moréas, he co-wrote Les Demoiselles Goubert, a novel that marked the transition between Naturalism and Symbolism in French literature. His Lettres de Malaisie (1897) was speculative fiction about politics in the future.
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Legrand studied piano and classical music from the time she was four. Jazz critic and composer André Hodeir discovered her in 1957, and she became the lead singer in the most notable French jazz vocal groups of the 1960s, including Les Double Six. Legrand was the original lead soprano of The Swingle Singers and was the vocalist who dubbed the part of Madame Emery in Les parapluies de Cherbourg, the music for which was composed by her brother Michel Legrand. She also sang the part of Judith in his Les demoiselles de Rochefort.
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He became prominent in Paris beginning in 1907 for being among the first champions of Pablo Picasso, and especially his painting Les Demoiselles d'Avignon. Before 1910 Picasso was already being recognized as one of the important leaders of Modern art alongside Henri Matisse, who had been the undisputed leader of Fauvism and who was more than ten years older than he, and his contemporaries the Fauvist André Derain and the former Fauvist and fellow Cubist, Georges Braque."The Wild Men of Paris". The Architectural Record, July 2002 (PDF).
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Dorléac leapt to international stardom with the female lead in That Man from Rio (1964) starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and directed by Philippe de Broca. She followed it with The Soft Skin (1964) directed by François Truffaut. She was in The Gentle Art of Seduction (1964) with Belmondo and Jean-Paul Brialy, with her sister in a support part. Dorléac was one of several French stars in Circle of Love (1964) directed by Roger Vadim, and appeared in a TV show, Les petites demoiselles (1964), directed by Deville and starring De Broca.
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The War of the Demoiselles was a series of peasant revolts in response to the new forest codes implemented by the French government in 1827. In May 1829 groups of peasant men dressed in women's clothes and terrorized forest guards and charcoal-makers who they felt had wrongfully taken the land to exploit it. The revolts persisted for four years until May 1832. This particular instance is considered an act of eco-terrorism due to the fact that the peasants used tactics similar to modern day eco-terrorist groups.
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In the late 19th century, many artists in the French provinces and worldwide flocked to Paris to exhibit their works in the numerous salons and expositions and make a name for themselves. Artists such as Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Cézanne, Jean Metzinger, Albert Gleizes, Henri Rousseau, Marc Chagall, Amedeo Modigliani and many others became associated with Paris. Picasso, living in Le Bateau-Lavoir in Montmartre, painted his famous La Famille de Saltimbanques and Les Demoiselles d'Avignon between 1905 and 1907.Dictionnaire historique de Paris, p. 68.
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Les Demoiselles d'Avignon. The two figures on the right are the beginnings of Picasso's African period. Picasso's African Period, which lasted from 1906 to 1909, was the period when Pablo Picasso painted in a style which was strongly influenced by African sculpture, particularly traditional African masks and art of ancient Egypt, in addition to non-African influences; Iberian sculpture, Iberian schematic art, Paul Cézanne and El Greco. This proto-Cubist period following Picasso's Blue Period and Rose Period has also been called the Negro Period,Howells 2003, p. 66.
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Cadiou was a frequent contributor to the Journal des Demoiselles, a Paris periodical for affluent girls aged 14 to 18, which devoted a portion of its editions to education and science as well as literature, fashion and theater. During her lifetime, her work was reproduced in many newspapers and translated into different languages. Some of her writings can be found under her other names: Maryan-M, or Marie Deschard. Cadiou produced more than 100 known titles including both fiction and nonfiction and numerous title and editions are still in print, as of 2020.
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Picasso Surprise Highlights Sotheby's Strong Sale Carly Berwick, The New York Sun, 3 November 2005. This gouache is one of the first studies for Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, a milestone in 20th-century art. To mark the 10th anniversary of the museum, and his permanent retirement from public life at the age of 92, Berggruen donated a sculpture by Alberto Giacometti, Standing Woman III, to the collection in December 2006. It had in fact already been on loan at the museum until then, standing in the Stüler Building's rotunda.
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The castle then passed into the hands of the Rabat family (in 1343), the d'Arnave family (in 1380), the du Léon family, (1400), the Louvie family (in 1450), the de Béon family (in 1510), the de Goth family (in 1575) and finally the de Montauts (in 1610). The castle was razed by Cardinal Richelieu in the 17th century, and then further damaged during the French Revolution. After the death of Jean-Louis de Montaut, Baron de Miglos, the castle passed to his daughter Jeanne-Françoise and her husband, Jean-Louis Hyacinthe Vendômois. In 1830, the castle was plundered during the Guerre des Demoiselles.
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At the Salon des Indépendants of 1906 the elected members of the hanging committee included Matisse, Signac and Metzinger. Following the Salon d'Automne of 1905 which marked the beginning of Fauvism, the Salon des Indépendants of 1906 marked the first time all the Fauves would exhibit together. The centerpiece of the exhibition was Matisse's monumental Le Bonheur de Vivre (The Joy of Life). Russell T. Clement, Les Fauves: A sourcebook, Greenwood Press, , 1994 The triangular composition is closely related to Cézanne's Bathers; a series that would soon become a source of inspiration for Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon.
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The play features the characters of Albert Einstein and Pablo Picasso, who meet at a bar called the Lapin Agile (French: "Nimble Rabbit") in Montmartre, Paris. It is set on October 8, 1904, and both men are on the verge of disclosing amazing ideas (Einstein will publish his special theory of relativity in 1905 and Picasso will paint Les Demoiselles d'Avignon in 1907). At the Lapin Agile, they have a lengthy debate about the value of genius and talent, while interacting with a host of other characters. Each character in Lapin Agile has a specific role.
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She desired to live some time abroad in order to learn German; she learnt it so swiftly that she lost no time in finishing composing some allegorical playlet in German verses to be played by her schoolmates. Back from Darmstadt, the vivacious child had become a young lady who, under the mask of good manners, calm and even temper, was concealing powerful feelings and an extraordinary sensitiveness. She did not write her first work until she was 17. She attended a girls' school, called l'Ecole Supérieure des Jeunes Demoiselles, where her first compositions acquired some popularity.
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Pablo Picasso was featured twice, first in 1936 with paintings from the Blue Period and the Rose Period, and second in the November 1937 exhibition Twenty Years in the Evolution of Picasso showcasing the painting Les Demoiselles d'Avignon which Seligman had acquired from the Jacques Doucet estate. The Museum of Modern Art acquired the painting for $24,000 raising $18,000 toward the purchase price by selling a Degas painting and obtaining the remainder from donations by the co-owners of the gallery Germain Seligman and Cesar de Hauke.Fluegel, Jane. "Chronology". In: Pablo Picasso, Museum of Modern Art (exhibition catalog), p.
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J. Richardson, Picasso's Apocalyptic Whorehouse, 40-47R. Johnson, Picasso's Demoiselles d'Avignon, 102–113 Picasso's Rose Period turns toward the theme of the fairground and circus performers; subjects often depicted in Post- Impressionist, romantic and symbolist art and verse (from Baudelaire and Rimbaud to Daumier and Seurat), where melancholy and social alienation pervade the saltimbanque. Corresponding to the tone of Picasso, acrobats represent both mystery and enchantment in the poems of Guillaume Apollinaire written in the same period. In 1906, working at the Bateau Lavoir, Picasso continued to explore new directions; portraying monumental female figures standing in abstract interior spaces.
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Picasso's paintings of monumental figures from 1906 were directly influenced by the paintings, sculptures and writings of Gauguin. The savage power evoked by Gauguin's work lead directly to Les Demoiselles in 1907. According to Gauguin biographer David Sweetman, Picasso became an aficionado of Gauguin's work in 1902 when he befriended the expatriate Spanish sculptor and ceramist Paco Durrio in Paris. Durrio, both a friend of Gauguin's and an unpaid agent of his work, had several of Gauguin's works on hand, in an attempt to help his poverty-stricken friend in Tahiti by promoting his oeuvre in Paris.
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The painting was reproduced again in Cahiers d'art (1927), within an article dedicated to African art.Cahiers d'art : bulletin mensuel d'actualité artistique, 1927 (N1,A2)- (N10,A2), Gallica, Bibliothèque nationale de France Richardson goes on to say that Henri Matisse was fighting mad upon seeing the Demoiselles at Picasso's studio. He let it be known that he regarded the painting as an attempt to ridicule the modern movement; he was outraged to find his sensational Blue Nude, not to speak of Bonheur de vivre, overtaken by Picasso's "hideous" whores. He vowed to get even and make Picasso beg for mercy.
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However, after Doucet died in 1929 he did not leave the painting to the Louvre in his will, and it was sold like most of Doucet's collection through private dealers. In November 1937 the Jacques Seligman & Co. art gallery in New York City held an exhibition titled "20 Years in the Evolution of Picasso, 1903–1923" that included Les Demoiselles. The Museum of Modern Art acquired the painting for $24,000. The museum raised $18,000 toward the purchase price by selling a Degas painting and the rest came from donations from the co-owners of the gallery Germain Seligman and Cesar de Hauke.
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The composition of paintings, bringing the figures to the foreground and eliminating the traditional depth and perspective of 19th-century paintings, and flattening the figures presenting them "like the figures in a deck of cards", were new and startling effects, which were criticized in the 19th century but welcomed by the avant-garde in the 20th century. Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, Pablo Picasso (1907) Pablo Picasso, Portrait of Gertrude Stein, 1906. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York An important retrospective of works by Ingres was held at the Salon d'automne in Paris in 1905, which was visited by Picasso, Matisse, and many other artists.
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The original and striking composition of "The Turkish Bath", shown for the first time in public, had a visible influence on the composition and poses of the figures in Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon in 1907. The exhibit also included many of his studies for the unfinished mural l'Age d'or, including a striking drawing of women gracefully dancing in a circle. Matisse produced his own version on this composition in his painting La Danse in 1909. The particular pose and colouring of Ingres's Portrait of Monsieur Bertin also made a reappearance in Picasso's Portrait of Gertrude Stein (1906).
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Fang mask similar in style to those Picasso saw in Paris just prior to painting Les Demoiselles d'Avignon Primitivism gained a new impetus from anxieties about technological innovation but above all from the "Age of Discovery", which introduced the West to previously unknown peoples and opened the doors to colonialism.Diamond, S: In Search of the Primitive, (New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 1974), pp. 215-217. As the European Enlightenment. With the decline of feudalism, philosophers started questioning many fixed medieval assumptions about human nature, the position of humans in society, and the strictures of Christianity, and especially Catholicism.
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Artists including Maurice de Vlaminck, André Derain, Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso grew increasingly intrigued and inspired by the select objects they encountered. Pablo Picasso, in particular, explored Iberian sculpture, African sculpture, African traditional masks, and other historical works including the Mannerist paintings of El Greco, resulting in his masterpiece Les Demoiselles D'Avignon and, eventually, the invention of Cubism.Cooper, 24 The generalizing term "primitivism" tends to obscure the distinct contributions to modern art from these various visual traditions.Cohen, Joshua I. “Fauve Masks: Rethinking Modern 'Primitivist' Uses of African and Oceanic Art, 1905-8.” The Art Bulletin 99, no.
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Her television appearances were followed by a performance with the choreographer Léonide Massine as the miller's wife in his The Three- Cornered Hat and as the lead in the abstract debut of Scènes de ballet which Ashton wrote for her. In 1948, Fonteyn went to Paris to perform as Agathe, a role created for her, in Les Demoiselles de la nuit by the choreographer Roland Petit. The admiration of Petit gave her new confidence and assurance, which showed in her performance in Ashton's Don Juan, though she was injured on the first night, tearing a ligament in her ankle.
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The latter view envisages that undulating terrain triggers the development of ripples through the accumulation of gravel and sand at such undulations. Their formation appears to be influenced by whether the rock material available can be moved by wind while a role of the bedrock structure or the size of the material is controversial. Campo de Piedra Pómez yardangs Wind has also formed demoiselles and yardangs in the ignimbrites. These are particularly well expressed in the Campo de Piedra Pomez area southeast of the Carachipampa valley, a area where yardangs, hoodoos and wind-exposed cliffs create a majestic landscape.
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Leading up to 1910, one year before the scandalous group exhibiting that brought "Cubism" to the attention of the general public, Burgess wrote an influential article titled, The Wild Men of Paris. This illustrated text introduced Proto-Cubist art in the United States for the first time. It included the first reproduction of Pablo Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon. Written after his visit to the 1910 Salon des Indépendants—the well-established anti-establishment art exhibition in Paris—the article drew from interviews with Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, André Derain, Othon Friesz, Jean Metzinger, Auguste Herbin and Béla Czóbel.
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Léonie de Waha Léonie Marie Laurence de Chestret de Haneffe, generally known as Léonie de Waha, (1836–1926) was a French-speaking Belgian feminist, philanthropist, educator and Walloon activist. She is remembered for her support of education for girls and young women and for establishing schools and libraries. In 1868, she founded the Institut supérieur libre de demoiselles, a girls' high school, in Liège, now known as the Athénée Léonie de Waha. As a result of her interest in promoting women's rights, in 1912 she established the Union des femmes de Wallonie which she headed until she died in 1926.
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Unlike other unmarried daughters of the nobility who were born demoiselles, the princesses who were the daughters of the kings of France were born with the rank and title of "dame." A Daughter of France (fille de France) was thus addressed as Madame, followed by her first name or her title if she had one. The treatment was the same with the sole exception that with the eldest, it was not necessary to add the first name, and the simple appellation "Madame" sufficed to designate her. The sister-in-law of the king was similarly treated.
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This period was critical to the evolution of Western modernism in visual arts, symbolized by Picasso's breakthrough painting Les Demoiselles d'Avignon. Today Fathi Hassan is considered a major early representative of contemporary black African art. Contemporary African art was pioneered in the 1950s and 1960s in South Africa by artists like Irma Stern, Cyril Fradan, Walter Battiss and through galleries like the Goodman Gallery in Johannesburg. More recently European galleries like the October Gallery in London and collectors such as Jean Pigozzi, Artur Walther and Gianni Baiocchi in Rome have helped expand the interest in the subject.
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Her poetry collection Invariance, published in 1980, received the Canada-Switzerland Literary Prize. Her novel Les Demoiselles de Numidie (1984) was shortlisted for the Governor General's Award for French-language fiction. In 1993, she received the Governor General's Award for English to French translation for her translation L'Oeuvre du Gallois (Wales' Work by Robert Walshe) in 1993 and for Arracher les montagnes (Digging the Mountains by Neil Bissoondath) in 1997. In 1996, she received the Prix Les Mots d'or, awarded by the APFA (Action pour promouvoir le français des affaires), for her translation of Clicking by Faith Popcorn.
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She notes it is "reminiscent of Picasso's frolicking bather in one of his paintings on the subject, Bather with Beach Ball (fig. 48), 1932," especially in the way Lichtenstein has scaled down the representation and the way he depicts movement. The newspaper ad source provided Lichtenstein with "one of the most common tropes of the day for the image of a woman." The updated Betty Grable- type subject, was a fashionable glamor figure that Lichtenstein used for a symbolic value that ranks her with "iconoclastic female figures, including Manet's Olympia, 1863, Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, 1907 and de Kooning's three series of Women".
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Alexander Archipenko, 1913, Femme à l'Éventail (Woman with a Fan), 108 x 61.5 x 13.5 cm, Tel Aviv Museum of Art Alexander Archipenko studied Egyptian and archaic Greek figures in the Louvre in 1908 when he arrived in Paris. He was "the first", according to Barr, "to work seriously and consistently at the problem of Cubist sculpture". His torso entitled "Hero" (1910) appears related stylistically to Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, "but in its energetic three-dimensional torsion it is entirely independent of Cubist painting." (Barr) Archipenko evolved in close contact with the Salon Cubists (Jean Metzinger, Albert Gleizes, Henri Le Fauconnier, Robert Delaunay, Joseph Csaky and others).
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Robbins had not contented himself to merely enrich the historical account of the beginnings of Cubism, as might have art historians John Golding (1929–2012) and Robert Rosenblum (1927–2006). He "challenged its very scope", writes David Cottington. In his PhD on Albert Gleizes, with access to the Gleizes published memoirs and unpublished papers, and following from personal interviews with the artists widow, Juliette Roche Gleizes, Robbins began to reveal an account of Cubism that pointed towards other influences within the burgeoning movement than those generally accepted. He boldly charged 'an historical tradition which regards the Demoiselles as the origin of cubism' to be unhistorical.
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Once the main characters have reached their moment of insight, "The Visitor", a man from the future, crashes the party. Although the Visitor is never named, his identity can be surmised as Elvis Presley. The Visitor adds a third dimension to Picasso's and Einstein's debate, representing the idea that genius is not always the product of academic or philosophical understanding, or as Gaston refers to it, "Brains". Martin has written: "Focusing on Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity and Picasso’s master painting, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, the play attempts to explain, in a light-hearted way, the similarity of the creative process involved in great leaps of imagination in art and science".
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305 At about the same time he told Igor Stravinsky that after consulting Diaghilev and the designer, Marie Laurencin, "I have a clear conception of my ballet which will have no subject – simply dances and songs."Schmidt, p. 124 The titles of the numbers in the score indicate that Poulenc followed this plan, but he nonetheless retained two important features of Bongarďs proposed work: a choral element, with unseen singers giving a commentary on the action, and the "demoiselles". In an analysis published in The Musical Quarterly in 2012, Christopher Moore describes the former as reminiscent of Stravinsky's Pulcinella, and the latter as "a corps de ballet of flirtatious young women".
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B. Horsley, The Shock of the Old, El Greco at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the National Gallery of Art. Accessed 25 March 2009 The relation between and the Opening of the Fifth Seal was pinpointed in the early 1980s, when the stylistic similarities and the relationship between the motifs of both works were analysed. Art historian Ron Johnson was the first to focus on the relationship between the two paintings. According to John Richardson, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon "turns out to have a few more answers to give once we realize that the painting owes at least as much to El Greco as Cézanne".
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Henri Matisse, Le bonheur de vivre, 1905-6, oil on canvas, 176.5 cm × 240.7 cm, Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, PA Following the Salon d'Automne of 1905, which marked the beginning of Fauvism, the Salon des Indépendants of 1906 marked the first time all the Fauves would exhibit together. The centerpiece of the exhibition was Matisse's monumental Le Bonheur de Vivre (The Joy of Life). Critics were horrified by its flatness, bright colors, eclectic style and mixed technique.Russell T. Clement, Les Fauves: A Sourcebook, Greenwood Publishing Group, 1994 The triangular composition is closely related to Paul Cézanne's Bathers, a series that would soon become a source of inspiration for Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon.
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Henri Matisse, 1905-06, Le bonheur de vivre, oil on canvas, 175 x 241 cm (69 × 95 in), Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania At the Salon des Indépendants of 1906 the elected members of the hanging committee included Matisse, Signac and Metzinger. Following the Salon d'Automne of 1905 which marked the beginning of Fauvism, the Salon des Indépendants of 1906 marked the first time all the Fauves would exhibit together. The centerpiece of the exhibition was Matisse's monumental Le Bonheur de Vivre (The Joy of Life). The triangular composition is closely related to Cézanne's Bathers; a series that would soon become a source of inspiration for Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon.
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It was shown at the Paris Salon of 1879, and was bought for the Musée du Luxembourg. Venus' nude figure takes up the center of the composition, with many admirers gathered around her. Pablo Picasso recast the image of Venus Anadyomene in the central figure of his seminal painting Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907), a modernist deconstruction of the icon, and one of the foundational artworks of Cubism. Venus Anadyomene offered a natural subject for a fountain: the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC has a lifesize bronze plumbed so that water drips from Venus' hair, modelled by a close follower of Giambologna, late sixteenth century.
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135–136Gina M. Rossetti, Imagining the Primitive in Naturalist and Modernist Literature, University of Missouri Press, 2006 In this adaptation of primitivism and abandonment of perspective in favor of a flat, two-dimensional picture plane, Picasso makes a radical departure from traditional European painting. This proto-cubist work is widely considered to be seminal in the early development of both cubism and modern art. Les Demoiselles was revolutionary and controversial and led to widespread anger and disagreement, even amongst the painter's closest associates and friends. Matisse considered the work something of a bad joke yet indirectly reacted to it in his 1908 Bathers with a Turtle.
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Picasso created hundreds of sketches and studies in preparation for the final work, painted in Paris in the summer of 1907.Richardson 1991, 43 He long acknowledged the importance of Spanish art and Iberian sculpture as influences on the painting. The work is believed by critics to be influenced by African tribal masks and the art of Oceania, although Picasso denied the connection; many art historians remain skeptical about his denials. Picasso spent an October 1906 evening closely studying a Teke figure from Congo then owned by Matisse. It was later that night that Picasso's first studies for what would become Les Demoiselles d’Avignon were created.
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Sweetman, 562–563 According to Richardson, > Picasso's interest in stoneware was further stimulated by the examples he > saw at the 1906 Gauguin retrospective at the Salon d'Automne. The most > disturbing of those ceramics (one that Picasso might have already seen at > Vollard's) was the gruesome Oviri. Until 1987, when the Musée d'Orsay > acquired this little-known work (exhibited only once since 1906) it had > never been recognized as the masterpiece it is, let alone recognized for its > relevance to the works leading up to the Demoiselles. Although just under 30 > inches high, Oviri has an awesome presence, as befits a monument intended > for Gauguin's grave.
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Vitrac joined Georges Bataille as one of the signatories of Un Cadavre against Breton and contributed to Documents with articles on "Gaston-Louis Roux" (1929, issue 7), "The Abduction of the Sabines" (1930, issue 6) and a poem, "Humorage to Picasso" (1930, issue 3), dedicated to the artist. From 1931, he worked as a journalist while further exploring burlesque style playwriting, which often operated between boulevard comedy and intimate tragedy. His multi- thematic Coup de Trafalgar (1934) and Les Demoiselles du large (1938) gained as little recognition as his more slapstick plays such as Le Loup-Garou (1939) and Le Sabre de mon père (1951).
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The eggs, in which the embryos develop, are on average about 1.2 millimeters long and have a spindle-shaped structure with approximately 0.2 millimeters wide. At the pointed end are, as with other demoiselles also a hole structure ( Mikropylenapparat ) with four holes to enable penetration of the sperm of the male. In addition, the egg of the banded demoiselle at the front end a funnel-like appendix unknown object, which projects at the inserted egg outwardly from the plant stem. The color of the egg changes from a bright yellow when freshly laid eggs on a yellow-brown to reddish brown when older egg.
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Picasso's discovery of African art influenced the style of his painting Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (begun in May 1907 and reworked in July of that year), especially in the treatment of the two figures on the right side of the composition. Picasso continued to develop a style derived from African, Egyptian and Iberian art before beginning the analytic cubism phase of his painting in 1910. Other works of Picasso's African Period include the Bust of a Woman (1907, in the National Gallery, Prague); Mother and Child (Summer 1907, Musée Picasso, Paris); Nude with Raised Arms (1907, Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid, Spain); and Three Women (Summer 1908, Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg).
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30 In early abstract paintings, the body could be fragmented or dismembered, as in Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon or his structuralist and Cubist nudes, but there are also abstracted versions of classical themes, such as Henri Matisse's dancers and bathers. In the post-WWII era, Abstract Expressionism moved the center of Western art from Paris to New York City. One of the primary influences in the rise of abstraction, the critic Clement Greenberg, had supported de Kooning's early abstract work. Despite Greenberg's advice, the artist, who had begun as a figurative painter, returned to the human form in early 1950 with his Woman series.
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Numerous Fauve and Cubist artists discovered "primitive" tribal art, particularly Black African art, at the Trocadéro Museum.Jean Paul Crespelle, The Fauves, tr. Anita Brookner, Greenwich, Connecticut: New York Graphic Society, 1962, p. 114. The museum held a collection of primitive masks from various areas of the world; Picasso said that he discovered in the African masks "what painting was all about", seeing them as having been created "as a kind of mediation between [humanity] and the unknown hostile forces that [surround us]", and to have been influenced by the masks in the forms of the figures in his proto-Cubist painting Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, which eventually led to Cubism.
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National Gallery, Prague) Unsigned sketch, 1856 (National Gallery of Australia, Canberra) Young Ladies Beside the Seine (Summer) (French - Les Demoiselles des bords de la Seine (été)) is an oil on canvas painting by Gustave Courbet. He painted it between late 1856 and early 1857 and presented it to the Paris Salon jury, which accepted it and exhibited it on 15 June 1857 with two portraits and three landscapes by the same artist. It was bought by Courbet's friend and patron Étienne Baudry (1830-1908), then left by him to the painter's sister Juliette, who left it to the French state in 1906. It now hangs in the Petit Palais in Paris.
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Racine puts on a repeat performance of Esther by the students of Saint-Cyr in the presence of Louis XIV and Madame de Maintenon. The students at Saint-Cyr first learned theatre in plays written by Madame de Brinon, then in the Conversations written for them by Madame de Maintenon on different moral subjects. They then played in tragedies by Corneille and Racine. However, Madame de Maintenon was unhappy to see the Demoiselles playing scenes of amorous passion with too much ardour, and so Racine wrote the students a religious piece, Esther, which Madame de Maintenon planned to put on before the king and court.
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Cubism burgeoned between 1907 and 1911. Pablo Picasso's 1907 painting Les Demoiselles d'Avignon has often been considered a proto-Cubist work. In 1908, in his review of Georges Braque's exhibition at Kahnweiler's gallery, the critic Louis Vauxcelles called Braque a daring man who despises form, "reducing everything, places and a figures and houses, to geometric schemas, to cubes".Louis Vauxcelles, Exposition Braques, Gil Blas, 14 November 1908, Gallica (BnF)Alex Danchev, Georges Braques: A Life, Arcade Publishing, 15 November 2005 Vauxcelles recounted how Matisse told him at the time, "Braque has just sent in [to the 1908 Salon d'Automne] a painting made of little cubes".
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In 1983 Bidlo painted his version of Picasso's “Demoiselles d’Avignon” in the P.S. One studio. This painting was subsequently shown in “Picasso’s Women: 1901-1971” at Leo Castelli Gallery, the “Masterpieces” exhibition at Bruno Bischofberger Gallery and in 2015 at the Grand Palais in Paris. This painting was the beginning of Bidlo's reinventions and recreations of iconic works in the history of modernist masters. He began to produce a large body of painting and sculpture, including a series based on Warhol's “Campbell Soup Cans,” Duchamp's, “Bicycle Wheel” and “Bottlerack,” and major works by Cézanne, Matisse and others. Many of these works were exhibited in 1989 in the “Masterpieces” exhibition.
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Paul Gauguin, 1893–1895, Objet décoratif carré avec dieux tahitiens, terre cuite, rehauts peints, 34 cm, Musée d'Orsay, Paris Gauguin's posthumous retrospective exhibitions at the Salon d'Automne in Paris in 1903 and an even larger one in 1906 had a stunning and powerful influence on the French avant-garde and in particular Pablo Picasso's paintings. In the autumn of 1906, Picasso made paintings of oversized nude women, and monumental sculptural figures that recalled the work of Paul Gauguin and showed his interest in primitive art. Picasso's paintings of massive figures from 1906 were directly influenced by Gauguin's sculpture, painting and his writing as well. The power evoked by Gauguin's work led directly to Les Demoiselles d'Avignon in 1907.
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For instance, patissier Antonin Carême already mentions glazed gâteaux renversés adorned with apples from Rouen or other fruit in his Pâtissier Royal Parisien (1841). The tarte became a signature dish of the Hôtel Tatin. Historians and gourmets have argued whether it is a genuine creation of the Demoiselles (Misses) Tatin, or the branding of an improved version of the "tarte solognote", a traditional dish named after the Sologne region which surrounds Lamotte-Beuvron. Research suggests that, while the tarte became a specialty of the Hôtel Tatin, the sisters did not set out to create a "signature dish"; they never wrote a cookbook or published their recipe; they never even called it tarte Tatin.
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"The question of when Cubism began and who led the way in its development", writes art historian Christopher Green, "is inextricably tied up with the question of what distinguishes Cubist art, how it can be defined and who can be called Cubist". Picasso's landscapes painted at Horta de Hebro in 1909 (executed two years after Les Demoiselles and one year after the "cubes" of Braque's L'Estaque paintings) were considered the first Cubist painting by Gertrude Stein. It is generally recognized, however, that the first Cubist exhibition transpired in 1911. Jean Metzinger, judging from the Burgess interview, appears to have abandoned his Divisionist style in favor of the faceting of form associated with analytic Cubism around 1908 or early 1909.
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His success continued after this initial breakthrough, and his works were selected several times for the Imperial Art Exhibition, , and , as well as exhibitions held by Japanese art groups outside the state-run exhibition circle like and . After returning to Taiwan, the focus of his work shifted to the scenery of his hometown, as he showcased the charm of the Taiwanese landscape with plein-air works painted in Tamsui, Kagi and Tainan. Painter has described Tan's artistic style as clumsy and awkward, which biographer Ko Tsung-min believed was intentional, comparing Tan's work to Vincent Van Gough and Pablo Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon. Besides painting, Tan was also actively involved in Taiwanese art movements.
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Nevertheless, the Demoiselles is the logical picture to > take as the starting point for Cubism, because it marks the birth of a new > pictorial idiom, because in it Picasso violently overturned established > conventions and because all that followed grew out of it.Cooper, 24 Although not well known to the general public prior to 1906, Cézanne's reputation was highly regarded in avant-garde circles, as evidenced by Ambroise Vollard's interest in showing and collecting his work, and by Leo Stein's interest. Picasso was familiar with much of Cézanne's work that he saw at Vollard's gallery and at the Stein's. After Cézanne died in 1906, his paintings were exhibited in Paris in a large scale museum-like retrospective in September 1907.
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From 16 to 31 July 1916 Les Demoiselles was exhibited to the public for the first time at the Salon d'Antin, an exhibition organized by André Salmon titled L'Art moderne en France. The exhibition space at 26 rue d'Antin was lent by the famous couturier and art collector Paul Poiret. The larger Salon d'Automne and Salon des Indépendants had been closed due to World War I, making this the only Cubists' exhibition in France since 1914. Monica Bohm-Duchen, The Private Life of a Masterpiece, University of California Press, 2001, On 23 July 1916 a review was published in Le Cri de Paris:Lettres & Art, Cubistes, Le cri de Paris, 23 July 1916, p.
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He also composed "Un peu de moi" song performed by Anthony Kavanagh all along his tour. From 2001 to 2009, he composed, wrote, arranged and directed songs for Jenifer, Cécilia Cara, Julie Pietri, Grégori Baquet, Michael Youn, Anthony Kavanagh, Michel Legrand, Amaury Vassili, Clara Morgane, and the famous French musicals Le Roi Soleil and Les Demoiselles de Rochefort. In 2006, he was the musical Director of the new Parisian Revue at the Cabaret Bobino. This review has been played for 2 years and most songs were composed by him. In 2009, he was the musical Director of La Bataille des chorales, in which 5 choirs competed, 1st evening TV show on TF1 then.
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The discovery of African tribal masks by Pablo Picasso, a Spaniard living in Paris, lead him to create his Les Demoiselles d'Avignon of 1907. Working independently, Picasso and Georges Braque returned to and refined Cézanne's way of rationally comprehension of objects in a flat medium, their experiments in cubism also would lead them to integrate all aspects and objects of day-to-day life, collage of newspapers, musical instruments, cigarettes, wine, and other objects into their works. Cubism in all its phases would dominate paintings of Europe and America for the next ten years. (See the article on Cubism for a complete discussion.) World War I did not stop the dynamic creation of art in France.
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Born in Tilff in the province of Liège on 3 March 1836, Léonie Marie Laurence de Chestret de Haneffe was the daughter of parents from the nobility: the Belgian senator Hyacinthe de Chestret de Haneffe (1797–1881) and Amanda Laurence de Sélys Longchamps (1809–1838), the elder sister of the Belgian politician Edmond de Sélys Longchamps. Following her mother's death when she was only two years old, she was brought up in Colonster Castle by governesses and private tutors. While still young, she attended the Institut d'Éducation pour Demoiselles in Liège and spent some years in Flanders. On 20 August 1863, she married the lawyer Victor Louis Auguste de Waha-Baillonville with whom she had a daughter, Louise Amanda.
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Pablo Picasso, 1910, Portrait of Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, oil on canvas, Art Institute of Chicago Kahnweiler is considered to have been one of the greatest supporters of the Cubist art movement through his activities as an art dealer and spokesman for artists. He was among the first people to recognize the importance and beauty of Picasso's Les Demoiselles D'Avignon and immediately wanted to buy it along with all of Picasso's works. Picasso wrote of Kahnweiler, "What would have become of us if Kahnweiler hadn't had a business sense?" Kahnweiler's appreciation of Picasso's talents was especially gratifying to the artist, since he was largely unknown and destitute at the time when many of his most famous works were created.
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With the painting Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907), Picasso dramatically created a new and radical picture depicting a raw and primitive brothel scene with five prostitutes, violently painted women, reminiscent of African tribal masks and his own new Cubist inventions. Analytic cubism was jointly developed by Picasso and Georges Braque, exemplified by Violin and Candlestick, Paris, from about 1908 through 1912. Analytic cubism, the first clear manifestation of cubism, was followed by Synthetic cubism, practiced by Braque, Picasso, Fernand Léger, Juan Gris, Albert Gleizes, Marcel Duchamp and several other artists into the 1920s. Synthetic cubism is characterized by the introduction of different textures, surfaces, collage elements, papier collé and a large variety of merged subject matter.
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The rebellion was due to the passing, on 27 May 1827, of a new forestry code, which was applied from 1829 onwards. This new code imposed "new regulations of forest usage, in particular concerning gathering of wood, wood cutting, and above all pasturing (forbidden from now on), the rights of maronnage, hunting, fishing, and gathering." These regulations prohibited what the local people saw as their traditional right to use the forest for pasturing their animals and gathering food. This led to a campaign of civil disobedience in which men dressed as women to hide their identities and which came to be known as the War of the Maidens (la guerre des demoiselles).
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François Baby, La Guerre des Demoiselles en Ariège (1829–1872), Paris, Montbel, 1972 Jean-François Soulet placed the War of the Maidens in a popular protest movement of the Pyrenees world. He cast the revolt in new light by considering it as one of the protests, already ancient, of civil society against the centralizing enterprise of the state. His work showed that the War of the Maidens should be considered as "one link in a long chain of revolts starting well before 1829, continuing well after 1831, and engaging at one moment or another almost all of the Pyrenean valleys." Jean-François Soulet, Les Pyrénées au XIXe siècle: l'éveil d'une société civile, Luçon, Sud Ouest, 2004, p. 708.
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The majority of Louis Latour's Domaine vineyards are in Aloxe-Corton, the original home of the family. Here Latour owns 10.5 hectares (25 acres) of Corton- Charlemagne Grand Cru, one of the most famous white wines of Burgundy. They also own parts of Corton Clos de la Vigne au Saint Grand Cru, Corton Bressandes Grand Cru, Corton Les Chaumes Grand Cru, Corton Les Pougets Grand Cru, Corton Les Perrières Grand Cru, Corton Clos du Roi Grand Cru, Corton Les Grèves Grand Cru. They also own parts of the Premiers Crus “Les Chaillots”, “Les Founières” and “Les Guérets”. Furthermore, Latour owns parts of the vineyards of Chambertin, Romanée-Saint-Vivant and Chevalier-Montrachet “Les Demoiselles”.
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Even so, on 6 September 1715, the regent had visited Madame de Maintenon at Saint-Cyr and guaranteed her that all the privileges acquired by the Maison would be maintained. Under Louis XV, in the absence of Madame de Maintenon, the new ideas of the Maison weakened and the education it provided was criticised,Rebecca Rogers, Les demoiselles de la Légion d'honneur at first by Louis XV himself in the 1730s - he refused to send his daughters to Saint-Cyr. The Mémoires of Madame du Hausset (Paris, 1824) stated "These girls are prudes. (...) They are taught a manner that would make them all ladies of the palace, or they are unhappy and impertinent".
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Fang mask similar in style to those Picasso saw in Paris prior to painting Les Demoiselles d'Avignon Another factor in the shift towards abstraction could be found burgeoning in art circles during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Europeans were discovering Prehistoric art, along with art produced by a variety of cultures: African art, Cycladic art, Oceanic art, Art of the Americas, the Art of ancient Egypt, Iberian sculpture, and Iberian schematic art. Artists such as Paul Gauguin, Henri Matisse, André Derain, Henri Rousseau and Pablo Picasso were intrigued and inspired by the stark power and stylistic simplicity of those cultures.Douglas Cooper, The Cubist Epoch, London: Phaidon in association with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art & the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1970.
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Around 1906, Picasso met Matisse through Gertrude Stein, at a time when both artists had recently acquired an interest in Tribal art, Iberian sculpture and African tribal masks. They became friendly rivals and competed with each other throughout their careers, perhaps leading to Picasso entering a new period in his work by 1907, marked by the influence of ethnographic art. Picasso's paintings of 1907 have been characterized as proto-Cubism, as Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, the antecedent of Cubism. Paul Gauguin, 1894, Mahana no Atua (Day of the Gods, Jour de Dieu), oil on canvas, , Art Institute of Chicago The African influence, which introduced anatomical simplifications and expressive features, is another generally assumed starting point for the Proto-Cubism of Picasso.
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Leading up to 1910 Gelett Burgess interviewed and wrote about avant-garde artists and artworks in and around Paris. The result of Burgess' investigation, "The Wild Men of Paris", was published in the May 1910 issue of Architectural Record; after his visit to the 1910 Salon des Indépendants, the anti-establishment art exhibition in Paris one year before the scandalous group exhibition that brought Cubism to the attention of the general public. An important painting by Pablo Picasso, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, was reproduced in this article; one of the first mentions of the founders of Cubism, Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, and Jean Metzinger to appear in the American press. Other important works were reproduced by Henri Matisse, Auguste Herbin, and André Derain.
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The portrait bears similarities to Jouffret's work and shows a distinct movement away from the Proto-Cubist fauvism displayed in Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, to a more considered analysis of space and form. Early cubist Max Weber wrote an article entitled "In The Fourth Dimension from a Plastic Point of View", for Alfred Stieglitz's July 1910 issue of Camera Work. In the piece, Weber states, "In plastic art, I believe, there is a fourth dimension which may be described as the consciousness of a great and overwhelming sense of space-magnitude in all directions at one time, and is brought into existence through the three known measurements." Another influence on the School of Paris was that of Jean Metzinger and Albert Gleizes, both painters and theoreticians.
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On January 30, 2018, Sulkowicz was documented protesting at two New York City museums and a subway station. During the protest, Sulkowicz posed for several photographs in front of Chuck Close paintings at The Museum of Modern Art and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, a Close mosaic in a subway station, as well as in front of Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon. Sulkowicz wore black lingerie, with home-made pasties made of tape, and covered her body with drawn-on asterisks. Sulkowicz stated that the protest was a response to a New York Times article from January 28, in which members of the art world, responding to allegations of sexual harassment towards artist Chuck Close, debated over the future of art created by individuals accused of improper behavior.
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Pablo Ruiz Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist and theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France. Regarded as one of the most influential artists of the 20th century, he is known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture, the co-invention of collage, and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore. Among his most famous works are the proto-Cubist Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907), and Guernica (1937), a dramatic portrayal of the bombing of Guernica by German and Italian air forces during the Spanish Civil War. Picasso demonstrated extraordinary artistic talent in his early years, painting in a naturalistic manner through his childhood and adolescence.
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Trocadéro Palace, home of the Musée d'Ethnographie du Trocadéro, in the 1890s The Musée d'Ethnographie du Trocadéro (Ethnographic Museum of the Trocadéro, also called simply the Musée du Trocadéro) was the first anthropological museum in Paris, founded in 1878. It closed in 1935 when the building that housed it, the Trocadéro Palace, was demolished; its descendant is the Musée de l'Homme, housed in the Palais de Chaillot on the same site, and its French collections formed the nucleus of the Musée National des Arts et Traditions Populaires, also in the Palais de Chaillot. Numerous modern artists visited it and were influenced by its "primitive" art, in particular Picasso during the period when he was working on Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907).
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The mistresses and other ladies were not nuns but took "simples" or temporary religious vows of poverty, chastity and obedience, as well as vows to "devote their life to the education and instruction of the demoiselles", which Madame de Maintenon judged to be the most important vow of all. They were uniformly dressed in black muslin, with a black bonnet. The students were housed at Saint-Cyr until they reached 20 and were not supposed to leave it until that age, unless in cases of dismissal, marriage or "exceptional family circumstances." When they left the school at the end of their studies, they received a dowry of 3,000 livres either for a suitable marriage or to allow them to enter a convent.
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Around 1906, Picasso met Matisse through Gertrude Stein, at a time when both artists had recently acquired an interest in primitivism, Iberian sculpture, African art and African tribal masks. They became friendly rivals and competed with each other throughout their careers, perhaps leading to Picasso entering a new period in his work by 1907, marked by the influence of Greek, Iberian and African art. Picasso's paintings of 1907 have been characterized as Protocubism, as notably seen in Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, the antecedent of Cubism. Paul Cézanne, Quarry Bibémus, 1898–1900, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany The art historian Douglas Cooper states that Paul Gauguin and Paul Cézanne "were particularly influential to the formation of Cubism and especially important to the paintings of Picasso during 1906 and 1907".
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For example, Degas's Jockeys on Horseback before Distant Hills was sold in the late 1930s for $18,000, in order to purchase Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon with the proceeds and an additional $10,000. By the sale of three other works from the Bliss collection, Vincent van Gogh's The Starry Night was bought in 1941. In 1951, three more works from the Bliss collection were sold to the Metropolitan Museum: Odilon Redon's Etruscan Vase with Flowers, Paul Cézanne's Portrait of Antoine Dominique Sauveur Aubert and Pablo Picasso's Woman in White. Henri Rousseau's Lion in the Jungle and Camille Pissarro's Riverside (both now in private collections) and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec's May Belfort (now Cleveland Museum of Art) and Pierre-Auguste Renoir's Brouillard à Guernsey (now Cincinnati Art Museum) were sold as well.
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In 26-27 June 1906 the first French Grand Prix de l’ACF was held in Le Mans; Rene Hanriot driving a Darracq was joined by his longtime friend Jean Chassagne as a riding mechanic but had to retire due to engine trouble. Chassagne continued working at Darracq as a mechanic for two years until 1908 acting as riding mechanic during the heroic pioneering age of racing to Hanriot, Hautvost and Demogeot. In 1908 Chassagne travelled to the USA for the American Grand Prize, Savannah, where he was again a riding mechanic to Hautvost on a Clément- Bayard. During this period, Chassagne was also working at Clément-Bayard, Senat workshops for airships and race-car engines on the development, assembly and testing of the experimental Demoiselles Santons-Dumont monoplanes.
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Before the war ended, Agar attended the Demoiselles Ozanne to improve her French and while she was there she took weekly oil painting lessons at the Byam Shaw School of Art in Kensington. Agar found the Byam Shaw too academic and pleaded with her family to allow her to look elsewhere to continue her schooling. This infuriated her mother and after an argument with her parents Agar notes in her diary that she got up early, ate lunch with her sisters, and packed her bags and departed from Paddington Station. She left a note for her parents stating that she was on her way to Truro and St Mawes where she would stay with a family friend the De Kays. Then, from 1920–1, she studied under Leon Underwood at his school at Brook Green.
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The influence of African tribal masks led Pablo Picasso to his Demoiselles d'Avignon of 1907. Picasso and Georges Braque (working independently) returned to and refined Cézanne's way of rationally understanding objects in a flat medium; but their experiments in cubism would also lead them to integrate all aspects of day-to- day life: newspapers, musical instruments, cigarettes, wine. Picasso and Braque exhibited their analytical Cubism under an exclusivity contract at the gallery of Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, located on a quiet street behind La Madeleine in the 8th arrondissement of Paris. At the same time, Jean Metzinger, Albert Gleizes, Henri Le Fauconnier, Robert Delaunay and Fernand Léger exhibited alternate forms of Cubism at the Salon des Indépendants and the Salon d'Automne; massive exhibitions that brought Cubism to the attention of the general public.
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The Atlas Society, accessed 30 August 2020 Traditionally, art was usually intended to be a representation of reality and a celebration of human or natural beauty, but by the late 1800s modernists began questioning the boundaries of what constituted art. "[T]he first modernists of the late 1800s set themselves systematically to the project of isolating all the elements of art and eliminating them or flying in the face of them," often by portraying the world as "fractured, decaying, horrifying, depressing, empty, and ultimately unintelligible." The "grand-daddy" of this trend was Marcel Duchamp with his 1916 work Fountain, a urinal he signed and submitted to an art show. Similar works that broke with past aesthetic traditions included Edvard Munch's The Scream (1893) or Pablo Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907).
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Matisse's second version of The Dance signified a key point in his career and in the development of modern painting. It reflected Matisse's incipient fascination with primitive art: the intense warm color of the figures against the cool blue-green background and the rhythmical succession of the dancing nudes convey the feelings of emotional liberation and hedonism. Initially influenced by Toulouse-Lautrec, Gauguin, and other late-19th-century innovators, Pablo Picasso made his first cubist paintings based on Cézanne's idea that all depiction of nature can be reduced to three solids: cube, sphere, and cone. With the painting Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907; see gallery) Picasso created a new and radical picture depicting a raw and primitive brothel scene with five prostitutes, violently painted women, reminiscent of African tribal masks and his own new proto-Cubist inventions.
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The interests that form the bulk of Peter Sahlins’ work include the social and legal history of early modern France and Europe. He has written on a range of topics, including the formation of national identities and frontiers (Boundaries: the Making of France and Spain in the Pyrenees, UC Press, 1989); forest governance, peasant culture and protest in the nineteenth century (The War of the Demoiselles in Nineteenth-Century France, Harvard University Press, 1994); state-building and immigration in seventeenth-century France (with Jean-Francois Dubost, Et si on faisait payer les etrangers? Louis XIV, les immigres, et quelques autres, Flammarion, 1999); the premodern history of nationality law (Unnaturally French: Foreign Citizens in the Old Regime and After, Cornell University Press, 2004); and most recently on animals, 1668: The Year of the Animal in France (New York: Zone Books, 2017).
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Picasso referred to his only entry at the Salon d'Antin as his Brothel painting calling it Le Bordel d'Avignon but André Salmon who had originally labeled the work, Le Bordel Philosophique, retitled it Les Demoiselles d'Avignon so as to lessen its scandalous impact on the public. Picasso never liked the title, however, preferring "las chicas de Avignon", but Salmon's title stuck.Richardson 1991, 19 Leo Steinberg labels his essays on the painting after its original title. According to Suzanne Preston Blier, the word bordel in the painting's title, rather than evoking a house of prostitution (un maison clos) instead more accurately references in French a complex situation or mess, This painting, Blier says, explores not prostitution per se, but instead sex and motherhood more generally, along with the complexities of evolution in the colonial multi-racial world.
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She joined Henderson's company at Prince of Wales's Theatre, Liverpool, together with the rising young actors Squire Bancroft, Marie Wilton and Henry Irving. There, she played in Brough's Ernani (1865), as Max in a burlesque of Weber's Der Freischütz (1866), as Prince Buttercup in The White Fawn, as Massaroni in the burlesque The Brigand, and as Prince Florizel in another burlesque, Perdita. Thompson excelled as "principal boy" in burlesques: "She was charming to look at, a good singer, a really clever dancer, and the life and soul of the scene while on the stage." Other successful London runs from 1866 to 1868 included, at the Drury Lane, Sophonisba in Delibes' Wanted Husbands For Six (Six Demoiselles à marier) and at the Strand Theatre, Blue-Beard (after Jacques Offenbach's version) and Darnley in the very successful The Field of the Cloth of Gold.
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The infirmary was sited away from the dormitories to allow the sick to be isolated and thus avoid the spread of contagious diseases. The rooms reserved for pensionnaires were situated to the east of the buildings, to put them as far as possible from the visitor entrance, situated to the west at the level of the external courtyard. In June 1686, after 15 months of work, Louis XIV gave the domaine to the Maison Royale de Saint-Louis, in letters patent of 18 and 26 June 1686 confirming the founding of the establishment.Jean-Paul Desprat, Madame de Maintenon (1635-1719), ou le prix de la réputation From 26 July to 1 August 1686, the pensionnaires, known as the "Demoiselles de Saint-Cyr", entered the establishment in a grand procession thanks to Louis, who lent them his carriages and his Swiss guards.
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Fang mask similar in style to those Picasso saw in Paris prior to painting Les Demoiselles d'Avignon Another factor in the shift towards abstraction was the increasing exposure to Prehistoric art, and art produced by various cultures: African art, Cycladic art, Oceanic art, Art of the Americas, the Art of ancient Egypt, Iberian sculpture, and Iberian schematic art. Artists such as Paul Gauguin, Henri Matisse, André Derain, Henri Rousseau and Pablo Picasso were inspired by the stark power and stylistic simplicity of artworks produced by these cultures. Around 1906, Picasso met Matisse through Gertrude Stein, at a time when both artists had recently acquired an interest in Tribal art, Iberian sculpture and African tribal masks. They became friendly rivals and competed with each other throughout their careers, perhaps leading to Picasso entering a new period in his work by 1907, marked by the influence of ethnographic art.
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Pablo Picasso Les Demoiselles d'Avignon 1907, Museum of Modern Art, New York Henri Matisse, The Dance I, 1909, Museum of Modern Art, New York Among the movements which flowered in the first decade of the 20th century were Fauvism, Cubism, Expressionism, and Futurism. During the years between 1910 and the end of World War I and after the heyday of cubism, several movements emerged in Paris. Giorgio de Chirico moved to Paris in July 1911, where he joined his brother Andrea (the poet and painter known as Alberto Savinio). Through his brother he met Pierre Laprade, a member of the jury at the Salon d'Automne where he exhibited three of his dreamlike works: Enigma of the Oracle, Enigma of an Afternoon and Self-Portrait. During 1913 he exhibited his work at the Salon des Indépendants and Salon d’Automne, and his work was noticed by Pablo Picasso, Guillaume Apollinaire, and several others.
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His mother's Maternal grandfather was the baron Henri de Lascour or d'Lascour abbreviated, the 1st cousin of Louis Bourbon the King of France, and, she was a Lady-in-Waiting to the Throne of France, her being a Lady de la Maison de la Reine which was a Lady of the House of the Queen, she waited on and was favored by the Queen of France Marie Antoinette. d'Espinassy's sister was the Lady Claire Charlotte d'Espinassy, the author of the famous book Essai Sur L'éducation Des Demoiselles, or Essay on the Education of Young Ladies. d'Espinassy's mother's family were members of the first nobility of south eastern France. His father belonged to a cadet branche of the d'Espinassy, Var, Kingdom of France, he was a Knight of the Royal and Military Order of Saint Louis, once Captain of a French war vessel named Great Saint Simon and later became a General in the Royal French Army.
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His mechanical knowledge, gained early in his education and augmented during his service with the French Navy on early submarines, stood him in good stead both in racing and the development and testing of the latest technology in early aviation for Demoiselles Santons-Dumont monoplanes, the first Hanriot monoplanes and Clément-Bayard. He was also involved in the development and testing of racing cars, namely Grand Prix Sunbeams and the Bugatti type 35. Jean Chassagne was not born into wealth, and competing at the cutting edge of technology could not have been easy. Despite this (or perhaps because of it), he retained a "twinkle in his eye and un air fortement sympathique" throughout his life. Meticulous, resilient, calm with a delicate driving touch and mechanical sympathy ‘Chass’ was held with the utmost regard and affection by his friends and colleagues, the finest engineers and drivers of their time; surely a testimony to his amiable, loyal and easy nature.
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Niece of Montigny (the director of the Gymnase), in 1866 she entered the Conservatoire de Paris in the class of François-Joseph Regnier, which she left the following year to make her debut at the Théâtre du Gymnase in Les Grandes Demoiselles, a one-act comedy by Edmond Gondinet. However, it was at the Eldorado that she first really became known, in a répertoire of "chansons légères" in which her apparent innocence allowed her to make ruder double-entendres than she might otherwise have done. Over time, she adopted "Judic", the name of her husband whom she had married before she was 17. After the Franco-Prussian War and a spell at the Gaîté, where she was the lead in Le Roi Carotte, an "opéra-féerie" by Jacques Offenbach and Victorien Sardou, she entered the Bouffes-Parisiens where she had her first successes as a comic actress in the operettas of Léon Vasseur (La Timbale d'argent) and Offenbach (Madame l'archiduc, La Créole, Bagatelle, etc.).
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During the 19th and 20th centuries, Europe's colonization of Africa led to many economic, social, political, and even artistic encounters. From these encounters, Western visual artists became increasingly interested in the unique forms of African art, particularly masks from the Niger-Congo region. In an essay by Dennis Duerden, author of African Art (1968), The Invisible Present (1972), and a former director of the BBC World Service, the mask is defined as "very often a complete head-dress and not just that part that conceals the face". This form of visual art and image appealed to Western visual artists, leading to what Duerden calls the "discovery" of African art by Western practitioners, including Picasso. Fang mask similar in style to those Picasso saw in Paris just prior to painting Les Demoiselles d'Avignon The stylistic sources for the heads of the women and their degree of influence has been much discussed and debated, in particular the influence of African tribal masks, art of Oceania,Green is careful to use the two terms together throughout his discussion, 49–59 and pre-Roman Iberian sculptures.
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Musée National de la Renaissance, Château d'Écouen, Guide des collections, Éditions de la Réunion des musées nationaux, (2017), p. 8-9 The Cluny Museum re-opened after the German occupation in World War II, and a long debate began on where to put the Renaissance Art. This was not settled until 1969, when the Culture Minister André Malraux proposed opening a new museum in the Château d'Écouen. The chateau, which had been stripped of almost all art, was renovated by architects of the Monument historiques,Rebecca Rogers, Les demoiselles de la Légion d'honneur: Les maisons d'éducation de la Légion d'honneur au XIX siècle (Paris: Plon) 1992.Musée National de la Renaissance, Château d'Écouen, Guide des collections, Éditions de la Réunion des musées nationaux, (2017), p. 8-9 The new collection was chosen from among the objects of the Cluny collection based on chronology and style. The Ecouen museum received Italian Renaissance works created after 1400 and other works after 1500. The new museum also received two important works from the Louvre Museum, The Last Supper by Marco d'Oggiono and the Retable of the Passion by Pierre Raymond.
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66 – 67 In 1912, Vogel began his renowned fashion journal La Gazette du Bon Ton, showcasing Poiret's designs, along with other leading Paris designers such as the House of Charles Worth, Louise Chéruit, Georges Doeuillet, Jeanne Paquin, Redfern & Sons and Jacques Doucet (the Post- Impressionist and Cubist art collector who purchased Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, directly from Picasso's studio). Isadora Duncan performing barefoot during her 1915–18 American tour. Photo by Arnold Genthe Paul Poiret had a lifelong interest in modern art for the purposes of self-promotion and the benefit of his diverse commercial enterprises.Nancy J. Troy, Couture Culture: A Study in Modern Art and Fashion, Cambridge, Mass., MIT Press, 2003 In 1911 he rented and restored a mansion built by the architect Ange-Jacques Gabriel for Louis XV, 1750, called Pavillon du Butard in La Celle-Saint-Cloud (not far from Albert Gleizes' studio and close to the Duchamp residence, where the Section d'Or group gathered) and threw lavish parties, including one of the more famous grandes fêtes dated 20 June 1912, La fête de Bacchus (re-creating the Bacchanalia hosted by Louis XIV at Versailles).
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The painting is recorded in the inventory of Demoiselles Hoofman, also of Haarlem.Campbell (2004), 50 After passing to the Nieuwenhuys brothers, who were leading dealers in art of the early Netherlandish period, it moved to the collector Edmond Beaucousin in Paris, whose "small but choice" collection of early Netherlandish paintings was purchased for the National Gallery, London by Charles Lock Eastlake in 1860; an acquisition that also included two Robert Campin portraits and panels by Simon Marmion (1425–1489).Borchert (2005), 203Campbell (1998), 13–14, 394 This was during a period of acquisition intended to establish the international prestige of the gallery. Probably before 1811, all the background except the red robe on the left and the alabaster jar and floorboards was overpainted in plain brown, which was not removed until the cleaning begun in 1955.Campbell (1998), 394, with photo on 395 In general the "painted surface is in very good condition", although better in the parts that were not overpainted, and there are a few small losses.Campbell (1998), 394 The Magdalen Reading was transferred from its original oak to a mahogany panel (West Indian swietenia)Campbell (1998), 395 by unknown craftsmen sometime between 1828 and when the National Gallery acquired it in 1860.
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