20th-century Western painting modern painting. It reflected Matisse's incipient fascination with primitive art: the intense warm color of the figures against the cool blue-green background and the rhythmical succession of the dancing nudes convey the feelings of emotional liberation and hedonism. Initially influenced by Toulouse-Lautrec, Gauguin, and other late-19th-century innovators, 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; see gallery) Picasso created a new and radical picture depicting a raw and primitive brothel scene with five prostitutes, violently
Crucifixion, seen from the Cross Crucifixion, seen from the Cross The Crucifixion, seen from the Cross is a c. 1890 watercolor painting by the French painter James Tissot. The work is unusual for its portrayal of the site, the women witnesses, and bystanders from the perspective of Jesus on the cross, rather than featuring Him as the center of the work; His figure is nearly not shown (His feet can be seen at the bottom of the picture). It is part of the series "The Life of Jesus Christ", a series of 350 watercolors of events from the Gospels completed by Tissot. He prepared for