Teens talk about Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, MoMA

Teens ask curator Joachim Pissarro about Picasso's painting Les Demoiselles d'Avignon as part of Red Studio, MoMA's site for teens.

The Museum of Modern Art celebrates this painting in a special exhibition, Picasso's Demoiselles d'Avignon at 100, May 9--August 27, 2007.

For information about this exhibition, please visit http://www.moma.org. For more information about Red Studio, MoMA's site for teens, please visit http://www.moma.org/redstudio.

© 2007 The Museum of Modern Art, New York

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[profhum]

As a professor myself, the title "Teens talk about Picasso" made me curious. Would they say what my students say? The students couldn't get a word in edgewise! They just sat there while an authority figure rapped. He even said "if you tried this you'd mess it up!" Not once did I hear "what do you think?" or any recognition that this generation might have its own contribution to make. Lousy teaching.

[MoMAvideos]

This video is an excerpt of a longer segment on the Red Studio site, which also includes discussions with other artists and curators led by teens.

[cecbnl]

Everyone is entitled to their own opinion of course, but you do know that Picasso was a classically trained artist and could paint your portrait to look like a photograph. His abstraction and cubism and intricate and full of depth and detail; to compare him to an elementary school student is ludicrous. I don't necessarily like all of his work, but I appreciate the symbolism and the passion of his paintings.

[stixs887]

in the art world theres a bunch of prostitutes lollll

[ChristopherMcCandles]

"Every artist who came after that had to measure himself or herself towards this particular painting." what are we teaching this generation? Although an artist must look back in order to learn, they cannot hope to survive if they think they are in some shadow of "the greats." Also it should be noted that this painting was ridiculed when it came out as well.

[derblae52]

RESPONSE TO CECBNI EVEN THOUGH PICASSO WAS CLASSICALLY TRAINED BY HIS FATHER AND OTHERS HIS TECHNICAL SKILLS DID NOT LEAN TOWARDS THE TYPE OF ACADEMIC FACSIMILE YOU IMPLY. HE WAS A MASTER DRAFTSMAN THAT COULD ABSTRACT TO HIS TEMPORMENT AND TIME

[RhondaSuhrie]

@rendervixen That's YOUR opinion. For some CRAFT alone can be emotional. It's wrong to state that skillful painting is not art. Please learn to have at least some respect for other's likes. You don't seem to have much appreciation for traditional art.

[goatmanartist]

I would like to see the other part where the students comment on "Picasso`s" art work

[AlligatorZebra]

haha beautiful? it wasnt meant to be beautiful at all.

[apocalypsynch]

The MoMA couldn't get better video quality together?

[joye25]

So beautiful painting, my favourite!

[chandru1103]

"Those that do not want to imitate anything, create nothing"

-Salvador Dali

[mabood1212]

Great piece