Room 503 mostly Picasso

 With 'Les Demoiselles d'Avignon at center stage this room shows Picasso's growth toward this extraordinary work.  Painted when Pablo Picasso was 25 years old; 'he jettisoned ideals of Beauty, banished conventions of perspective, and introduced forms inspired by African and Iberian art. Demoiselles has been traditionally presented as the beginning of Cubism-the art of splintered forms and shifting vantage points that revolutionized pictorial language in the years prior to World war 1. But this work may also be understood in other ways and other contexts. Here is a sculpture by Louise Bourgeois and Faith Ringgold, both made decades later, that enter into dialogue with Picasso's sexually charged scene, intensifying the questions that Demoiselles raises about representations of Women, power, and cultural difference.'

1907

'Still Life with Liqueur Bottle' 1909

'Bather' 1908-9

'Boy Leading a Horse' 1905-6.  And a very self-assured boy, no bridle, no rope, just his clenched fist to lead the horse. 

'Woman Plaiting Her Hair' 1906

'Two Nudes' 1906

'Head of a Sleeping Woman' 1907

'Fruit Dish' 1908-09

'The Reservoir' 1909

'Woman with Pears' 1909

'Woman's Head' 1909

'Ma Jolie' 1911-12

'Repose' 1908

'American People Series #20: Die', Faith Ringgold,1967.  Could also be called the '1960's Riots as 'Guernica'.

'Quarantania' Louise Bourgeois, 1970, another gathering of 5 figures.