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Developments of Cubism with reference to Picasso. Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, Picasso's earliest cubist work, was an important painting because it represented a fundamental change and breakthrough in the history of modern art. It indicates the new direction of Cubism that he was pursuing and introduced a new way of handling pictorial space and form. One that did not simply seek to imitate nature as if 'seen through a window' but assumed a more objective approach of analysing form depicting what we know to be there rather then just what we see. Iberian and African sculpture and the Post - Impressionist Paul Cezanne, the most prominent influences in Picasso's beginnings with Cubism, are particularly evident in Les Demoiselles d'Avignon. He was struck by the impact of the bold shapes and the energy conveyed in primitive art, reflected in his simplifying of forms geometrically, and deforming them with definite contours and sharp edges. He...

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