Essay “To Kill The Nineteenth Century” By Tamar Garb
Gertrude Stein and her brother Leo had been friends of Picasso for two years before Picasso's portrait of Stein was completed in 1906. By having Picasso’s friendship asan advantage, she began to collect some of his art pieces which more likely Stein became to be affectionate and enthusiastic of Cezanne artworks. It can be implied that Stein started to have anattachment through the compositional techniques of Cezanne. For this matter, Stein became more expose and susceptible to Picasso’s negative response of traditional modes of representation. Besides, she wasone of the first spectators to believe that Les Demoiselles d’Avignon was primarily a painting of the modernist era. Essentially, from her dedicated study of Cezanne, Stein was able to analyze andlearn how to delineate Picasso artworks.
The modernist writer could identify with experimentation of the art piece the “rejection of traditional aesthetic principles.” Hence, Stein indicated,and from many spectators, that it wasn’t interpreted in the sense of “beauty” but in the sense of “ugliness” and “brutally” which was to admire its “innovative power”. However, Stein preferred to beaccredited as “ugly giants” as well as the artists that created it such as Matisse, Picasso, and Gertrude Stein. As it is stated, “The ‘brutality’ of each of their works was the outcome of the process...
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