"Les DamoisellesD'Avignol"
Pablo Picasso
1907
Here is Picasso is knee-deep into his Cubist Period. Form is reduced to sharply angled masses. What better way to get to the essence of the human body? (I love the Egyptian all-seeing eyes that he uses here. They are so large, expressive, aching.)
Surround that lemon with the shapeless egg white/The straight black line may well come from you/the dawn is behind your painting/
