In Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, the painting shows techniques from Cubism with sharp angles, broken lines, and shapes such as triangles and squares to depict people. With this piece, he is abandoning all aspects of traditional art and is in control over his medium with the selective color palette and ambiguous background. The subject is more on the radical side since it seems to depict nude women in highly exposed positions. Picasso is challenging the ideal view and expectation of female beauty by distorting certain features of the body. The only thing similar to the traditional style is some of the skin tones of the women since it is realistic but the shapes and mask-like faces make this scene seem more dreamlike and uncanny.
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