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The common interpretation of the subject of Les Demoiselles d'Avignon is that is is commenting on the anxiety surrounding venereal disease, a life-threatening sexual affliction that widely affected prostitutes in Paris during the 1900s.1. True2. False

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Answer: False

Explanation: Picasso picked this subject matter precisely because it was a cliche to him, he wanted to show that originality of art does not solemnly depend on narrative, or morality, but in formal invention. That is why people viewed his painting giving another meaning to Les Demoiselles d'Avignon as a painting "about" brothels, prostitutes or colonialism

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