Last Saturday I visited the Museum of Modern Art with a friend from high school to see the Demoiselles d'Avignon. I have to admit, I don't usually go to museums and artistic events with this friend so this was a new experience for the both of us. I did not have too much time to spend so I did not have the chance to see some of the other fascinating things that I passed on my way to Demoiselles d'Avignon. However, it was very fortunate knowing that we would return with our class to discuss some other paintings. Picasso's painting, Demoiselles d'Avignon was quite a remarkable painting. It was one of the largest paintings I have ever laid eyes upon and could not help but notice the blues, the browns and women's skin color. Immediately recognizable was the fact that there were five nude women posing with their arms over their head or against their legs. I was able to understand that the women were in fact nude for a reason however I was not able to uncover that they were located in a brothel, until later. Overall the painting was disoriented because the immediate separation of colors and shapes. The bodies of the women were also depicted with angular lines rather than curves and some of their faces were darker or distorted with shades of green and blue. I thought the painting was out of the ordinary compared to the paintings I am accustomed to however our class discussion provided a great deal of insight. I would have never realized that the two women whose arms are over their head could actually have been in a posture that depicts them as lying down. Clearly, there is much more to the painting then five nude women and a dish of fruits. From this experience I learned the concept of cubism being the breaking up of a subject matter and reassembling it into an abstract form.