Western painting the feelings of emotional liberation and hedonism. Pablo Picasso made his first cubist paintings based on Cézanne's idea that all depiction of nature can be reduced to three solids: cube, sphere and cone. With the painting "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" (1907), Picasso created a new and radical picture depicting a brothel scene with five prostitutes, violently painted women, reminiscent of African tribal masks and his own Cubist inventions. Cubism was jointly developed from about 1908 through 1912 by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, whose "Violin and Candlestick, Paris" (1910) is shown here. The first clear manifestation of Cubism was practised by
Of Angels and Angles Of Angels and Angles "Of Angels and Angles" is a track by The Decemberists off their album Picaresque. It is the eleventh and final song on the album. Its title is likely an allusion to the phrase "Non Angli, sed Angeli." ("Not Angles, but Angels.") In legend, this was a Latin pun allegedly said by Pope Gregory I after a response to his query regarding the identity of a group of fair-haired Anglian children whom he had observed in the marketplace. Alternatively, it could be a reference to Saul Alinsky, author of "Rules for Radicals" which contains the line "...is