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Old 10-10-2018, 08:01 AM  
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whoops, people didn't get Picasso either

"With Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, the Spanish painter Pablo Picasso offends the Paris art scene in 1907. Showing his eight-foot-square canvas to a group of painters, patrons, and art critics at his studio, Picasso meets with almost unanimous shock, distaste, and outrage.

The painter Matisse is angered by the work, which he considers a hoax, an attempt to paint the fourth dimension. "It was the ugliness of the faces that froze with horror the half-converted," the critic Salmon writes later.

The painter Derain comments wryly, "One day we shall find Pablo has hanged himself behind his great canvas."

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