Picasso paints Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
1907
In a Montmartre studio Pablo Picasso turned five brothel women into angular shards of African mask and pink flesh. His friends were horrified. He rolled the canvas up and left it in a corner for years. When it emerged, painting in the West had been cracked open and scattered into cubes.
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