Les Demoiselles d'Avignon di Picasso

Let's analyze the work that, by initiating proto-Cubism, broke the rules of Western figuration, eliminating the distinction between figure and background, multiplying viewpoints, making the illusionistic search for a perspective space superfluous, and effectively representing (or presenting) the hypothesis of the "fourth dimension" for the first time. 00:00 Introduction 01:22 The Subject 02:28 Artistic References 07:58 The First Draft of the Work 08:30 The Sailor and the Medical Student (Desire and Rationality) 11:33 Still Lifes (and the Memento Mori) 12:42 Analysis of the Work (Art Genres) 14:00 Primitivism and African Masks 16:10 Female Figures Anything but Sensual 15:52 Simultaneity of Viewpoints and Two-Dimensionality 18:07 The Philosophical Brothel