Les Demoiselles d’Avignon 1907 – Pablo Picasso
What makes Picasso’s painting Les Demoiselles d’Avignon one of the most influential Western paintings of all time?
– Powerful, nude women
– Racism
– Geometrical figures can seduce too
Yellow-Red-Blue 1925 by Wassily Kandinsky
What makes Yellow-Red-Blue such a perfect exemplar of Wassily Kandinsky’s special color theory?
– Joy in a yellow bottle
– A heroic blue marble
– The transitional magic of messy red
The Magpie by Claude Oscar Monet
Why was Monet’s painting, The Magpie controversial when it was introduced?
– Shadows in color
– Shifting emotions traverse a – snowscape
– Observing the scene from a magpie’s perch