Many 1909 still-lifes of Picasso experimented with the viewpoint of the objects presented. An emphasis on open figuration and abstraction was placed upon his subsequent works of art from this period, not yet incorporating elements of texture and collage. Subject wise, the artist chose to convey relatively unemotional subject matters such as still lives and landscapes, underlining the dimensions and revealing the sculpturesque essence of the object. This is displayed through the color in the works of this period, consisting of a muted color palette of monochromatic browns, grays, and blacks. ![]() Picasso’s Analytic Cubism period was about how to see an object or figure rather than what the artist was looking at. Thus, distorted characters with unnerving African masks replacing their faces consumed Picasso’s works of art produced from 1907-1909 most famously, Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (1907). The initial aim was to create an illusion of three-dimensional space populated by deformed beings on the two-dimensional plane of the canvas. Additionally, the artist experimented with the use of space within his works. Through monumentalizing and simplifying shapes, Picasso’s figures began to look like wooden or stone idols their faces resembling ritual masks. Inspired, Picasso strived to convey the powerful message implicit from this art and transform it into his own. Instead of being a household decoration, this art served as a type of magic for the ancient people taming the incomprehensible and hostile spirits who controlled life. ![]() ![]() Here, primitive idols, statues, and masks embodied the mighty forces of nature from which primitive man did not distance himself. Picasso first encountered African art at the Ethnographic Museum exhibition in Trocadero in 1907.
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