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
Mother and Child, 1865 by Frederic Leighton
Why is Lord Frederic Leighton’s masterpiece Mother and Child still so popular?
– Symbolism in lilies, shoes, birds, and a grape
– When a mother frames your whole world
– The Baron painter Leighton: rich, famous and still relevant
Woman Combing Her Hair 1936 – Julio Gonzalez
How does Woman Combing Her Hair 1936 stand out as an abstract sculpture?
– Wild gestures in iron
– Welded with Picasso’s friendship
– Ruminations on a pelvic curve