Discussion Topic: Unpacking Picasso’s Les Demoiselles D’Avignon

What strikes me the most is the way this was painted. It was painted in a very weird way. It was given weird shapes and colors. As you can see the two women on the right doesn’t eve have human faces. Maybe he was trying to portray them as no monsters? The women all the way on the left has a complete different skin color from her body and from her face. I think the picture was controversial for its time because the people of its time probably has never seen any art work like this. It’s very bizarre