Catalogue of 2015 exhibit at the Fleming Museum. Picasso's major 1907
painting, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, created an uproar in the Paris
art world and laid the foundation for the development of Cubism. The
Fleming Museum's exhibition explored Picasso's extraordinary process in
creating the painting, through innovative installations and advanced
technologies that transformed the museum experience. The painting's
ongoing legacy is examined through the work of a diverse group of
American, African, and European contemporary artists. Picasso found
inspiration for Demoiselles in art history and contemporary visual
culture. Through a variety of new visual technologies, visitors to the
exhibit could understand how he synthesized and transformed these
diverse sources - from Iberian, African, Oceanic, and Egyptian art to
Baroque painting, Cezanne's and Gauguin's work, and colonial
photographers' images of African women - to launch a radically new
artistic vocabulary. The largest section of the exhibition highlighted
the continuing pull of the painting - over 100 years after its
creation - as evidenced in the work of international artists, including
Leonce Raphael Agbodjelou, Gerri Davis, Damian Elwes, Julian Friedler,
Kathleen Gilje, Carlo Maria Mariani, Sophie Matisse, Stas Orlovski, and
Jackson Tupper.
