Les Demoiselles d'Avignon

High school (ages 12+)
Art & Creativity

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Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

https://smallwhale.org/articles/les-demoiselles-d-avignon

Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. What is the artist?Pablo Picasso
2. What is the year created?1907
3. Why did people get upset when they first saw the painting?The painting was very different from what people were used to, with sharp angles and strange faces, so many people thought it was wrong and even angry.
4. How did the painting help start Cubism?It broke the old rule of showing only one view of a picture and instead showed many angles at once, which later artists called Cubism.

Avant-garde: New and experimental ideas and methods in art, music, or literature.
Iberian Sculpture: Ancient sculptural traditions from the Iberian Peninsula, characterized by geometric forms and stylized figures.
Cubism: An early 20th-century art movement that revolutionized European painting and sculpture by depicting subjects from multiple viewpoints simultaneously.
Modernism: A broad movement in art and culture that rejected traditional styles and embraced new forms of expression and experimentation.