Paintings such as Eduard Manets" Le Dejeuner Sur I"herbe are a clear example of modernism. ... Picassos" Les Demoiselles D"Arignon does violence to the human form by means of radical simplifications, arbitrary and harsh color combinations, and extreme distortions of human anatomy and proportions. ...

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Many people tend to think that the quality and value of art is related to its level of realness – how perfectly illustrated in relation to the human observer. However, it was not long before artists, like Cezanne, Picasso and Braque, and later on Hockney, began to explore a more natural approach t...

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