Picasso was known for co-creating the art of cubism in the 20th century. Cubism influenced many artist during this time period. The art of cubism is when an artist cuts and pastes different images in order to create a new one. Whenever Picasso did portraits of people he would draw a side profile and a front face profile and then merge the two together to create a new face. This allowed the viewer to see the same person or object but from different angles.
Our group decided to tear apart the painting Les Demoiselles d’Avignon. We each drew (to the best of our abilities) a person and then at the end we merged them all together to recreate the painting. Our drawing is very abstract and demonstrates Picasso’s idea of cutting and pasting.