mportant aspects of the painting. One important aspect of Les Demoiselles d?Avignon is its solid composition. Picasso was known to be very interested in the perfection of form and composition. He gained lots of knowledge from the paintings of Cezanne. Cezanne?s painting were highly structured , and stable as he could paint them. In particular Picasso borrowed heavily from Cezanne?s Bathers. One aspect that Picasso incorporated into Les Demoiselles d?Avignon , was the lack of depth. In the Bathers , the figures are packed close to the front of the painting. Even though there is a smaller figure in the back of the painting , it still seems like is close up to front of the painting.7 Cezanne is not the only painter that influenced the composition of Les Demoiselles d?Avignon. El Greco?s The Fifth Seal heavily influenced Les Demoiselles d?Avignon. Picasso often visited the painting at a nearby friends house. The Fifth Seal was a very large and imposing painting. Due to damage it had been cut down into its current strange dimensions. Picasso liked the effect that it produced and used very similar dimensions in Les Demoiselles d?Avignon. The dimensions of The Fifth Seal helped Picasso solve some problems he was having with Les Demoiselles d?Avignon. There is evidence in his sketches that Picasso was having difficulties with the composition. After viewing The Fifth Seal he was able to solve that balance issues that he was having. When Les Demoiselles d?Avignon is viewed , the similarities between the odd squarish rectangle shape and tightly packed figures is very obvious. 8 The above details do not represent the breaking of artistic traditions. They are simple details of the painting and its process. There are many other important aspects that made the painting offensive to his closest friends. One of the most obvious violations of tradition and logic was Picasso?s radical treatment of perspective. Leo Stein , the b...
