Precocious

It’s arduous to imag­ine from this his­tor­i­cal dis­tance how upset­ting Pablo Picasso’s 1907 mod­ernist paint­ing Les Demoi­selles d’Avignon was to Parisian soci­ety at its debut. On its a hundredth anniver­sary, Guardian crit­ic Jonathan Jones described it as “the rift, the break that divides previous and future.” The paint­ing triggered an uproar, even among the many artist’s friends….