Picasso

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selles, or projected it through a more violent dislocation of form. Even the melon, that sweet and pulpy fruit, looks like a weapon" (24). But are there any other reasons why Picasso gives these women these shocking forms?
As an artist living in Paris at the beginning of the new century, Picasso wanted to find a new artistic language that could express the vitality of the new millennium. Although the world was rapidly changing, artists had not kept pace and were still wallowing in the aesthetic ideas of the nineteenth-century. The real world had radically changed, for it had become mechanized by technology. Moreover, philosophers such as Alfred Whitehead and F. H. Bradley and the physicist Alfred Einstein were altering the way modern man perceived reality: the world of old Newtonian values of absolute space and time was rapidly crumbling. Instead, modern man was being forced to live in a world where there are no simple locations and where all relations are plural. Picasso posed the problem to himself of how to capture this new acceleration of life and consequent plurality of points of view on a canvas. He proposed to solve this aesthetic problem by creating a n...