Les Demoiselles d'Avignon Les Demoiselles d'Avignon Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (The Young Ladies of Avignon, and originally titled The Brothel of Avignon) is a large oil painting created in 1907 by the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso. The work, part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art, portrays five nude female prostitutes from a brothel on Carrer d'Avinyó (Avignon Street) in Barcelona. Each figure is depicted in a disconcerting confrontational manner and none is conventionally feminine. The women appear as slightly menacing and rendered with angular and disjointed body shapes. Three figures on the left exhibit facial features in the Iberian style
The Nature of Truth way Richard Wright's "Native Son" is a thriller. And it's an erudite reader's novel in the way of Philip Roth's "The Human Stain" is. Troncoso's work places the reader on a knife's edge of suspense, while challenging the reader to examine and question "The [very] Nature of Truth", whether that truth be racially defined, intellectually constructed, or a scepter rising from ancient ideals of right and wrong... Troncoso's "The Nature of Truth" informs his mature works—"From This Wicked Patch of Dust" and ""—as they examine the ideas of borders, their permeability, and their dualistic nature of the real and the