"Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" - The Girls of Avignon

Japanese: 《アビニョンの娘たち》 - あびにょんのむすめたち
"Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" - The Girls of Avignon

At the beginning of the 20th century, young artists in Paris were rapidly gaining attention for the art of Cézanne, who attempted to conceptualize the structure of nature while retaining the characteristics of impressionism. Starting with Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, completed in 1907, they increasingly tended to discard the details and emotional nuances of objects and emphasize the basic form and volume of the subject, which impressionism had lost sight of. The method that Picasso and Braque began in 1908 was Cézanne's "treatment of nature as a sphere, cylinder, or cone" (letter to Emile Bernard...

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Japanese:

… 20世紀の初頭,印象主義の諸特徴を温存しながらも自然の構造を概念的にとらえようとしたセザンヌの芸術への注目が,パリの若い画家たちの間に急速に高まった。ピカソが1907年に完成した《アビニョンの娘たち》を皮切りに,彼らは事物の細部や情緒的ニュアンスを捨てて,印象派の見失った対象の基本的形態や量感を強調する傾向を強めていった。ピカソとブラックが08年に開始した方法は,セザンヌの〈自然を球,円筒,円錐として処理する〉(エミール・ベルナールあての手紙。…

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