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Here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by Pablo Picasso

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star of shmoop's new hit game show painted by Picasso or a random six-year-old [Man pointing to a game show board for Painted by Picasso]

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we'll get someone to play with us one of these days all right I'll take a look at

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the image right there not by a six-year-old here's the question Les

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Demoiselles d'Avignon represented the beginning of which of the following art [Le Demoiselles d'Avignon painting]

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movements and here your potential answers [mumbling]

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Oh we forgot to add E) weirdism and F) creepyism but those would

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all be way too obvious so let's just stick with the original form instead of

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trying to work out the answer by looking at the art because well we need a break [Woman in art picture staring]

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from the freaky stare coming at us from the squatting creeper there in the

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corner let's use the date as a starting point if Pablo painted this in 1907

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would that date fit with the timeline for A) futurism? Well, not quite seeing as

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futurism and art movements that played with new advances in digital technology [men delighted with a TV]

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didn't come out until about well 1909 and we know what you're thinking digital

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technology in 1909 but err well people we're not talking about adobe photoshop

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and macbooks here in this context we mean that the art was a commentary on [People looking at paintings]

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new advancements like the car and the airplanes which is for the better really

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because we'd hate to have seen Picasso's brilliant brushstrokes being replaced [Painting of a Picasso's image]

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with a much more convenient and just as lazy.. brushstrokes photoshop filter

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there yep, we use it here at shmoop all the time. Impressionism doesn't fit

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timeline either seeing as it was prominent in the 1870s and 1880s well

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before this work was even started impressionist artists communicated their [Claude discussing the brush stroke]

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perspective on the mundane through their work painting images of natural

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landscapes, daily life and portraits of your third period history teacher like [History teacher unimpressed holding a ruler]

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that Fauvism was a short-lived art movement that lasted from 1904 to 1908

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which yep, fits the dates for this painting it also emphasized strong color

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and unrealistic values which also might sound accurate however when we say [Colorful painting and girl appears]

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strong color we mean strong like Dwayne the rock Johnson

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these colors make Picasso colors look well Michael Cera strong in comparison [Dwayne Johnson and Michael Cera together]

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not our answer Picasso's surreal dissonant and fantastical art marked the

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period of modernism that was popular throughout the late nineteenth and early [

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twentieth centuries. Its best associated with art where traditions were thrown [Man painting]

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out the window in exchange for experimentation which definitely

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describes this painting now Pablo maybe next time you could experiment with

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something a little less terrifying you know like a nice portrait of an

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absolutely horrifying weeping woman great just great glad you're taking your [A painting of a weeping woman]

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public's notes to heart.

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