New Objectivity - 917

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This fashionable image of the modern body contrasted with another, less dynamic, heavier, and more voluminous one, as the example of Pablo Picasso shows. Already in the second decade of the twentieth century, the artist had developed an image of women marked by strong volumes, as illustrated in The Reader of 1920. His turn away from Cubism to a neoclassical, more realistic formal language was why Gustav F. Hartlaub placed Picasso on the list of artists in his first plan for the exhibition on New Objectivity.