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 imagined. Without the intellectual questioning of truth in "The Nature of Truth", his mature works, I believe, would not have been possible. Troncoso, primarily known for his US-Mexican Border works, is, as "The Nature of Truth" suggests, the brightest and most able of the modern Border writers and thinkers. And somewhere in Troncoso's raising within the Border's transnational diaspora, he found that the nature of truth can only be located in the confines of the self, the family, the community, and our own definition of the truth." ----A reviewer from "Janus Head", a journal of Continental Philosophy, Literature, and Phenomenological