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upward moving columns of the forms. The varied shades of pink further shatter the nudes into their component parts. It is this means of exploring lines and planes, mass and volume, color and texture that makes Demoiselles so important to the more radical liberties taken in the later years of Cubism. Picasso's Five Nudes of 1906 are reminiscent of Gauguin's South Seas primitive figures, while Nude in a Forest of 1908 is another more simplified, quieter cubistic example of his primitive phase.

Later in 1907, Picasso had an opportunity to see the Cezanne memorial exhibit held at the Salon d'Autome. Around this time, he also met the French Painter, Georges Brofue. The two artists formed an alliance. Picasso turned to emotionally more neutral subject. In his still life paintings, the elements of cubism are more fully developed. In his painting, Man Smoking a Pipe, the individual brush strokes separated by lines that float to the surface and the similarity between subject and background are more sophisticated, intellectual elements of Analytical Cubism, the beginnings of which are evident in Demoiselles

Art, A History of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture, Volume Two, Third Edition, by Frederick Hartt, Paul Goodloe McIntire Professor Emeritus of the History of Art, University of VA. 1989.

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