Two are holding up their curtains and three are posing. There is a table with fruit on it at the bottom of the painting. Some of the objects are shown from two different points of view. He also painted African masks on two of the prostitutes. Although Picasso's creation was new modern art, he received many critics when he exhibited it in 1916. he was trying to dethrone as king of the avant-garde), some appropriation of African masks, a hint of casual realism in one of the hands and a of fruit at the bottom front, and all cubism 1.0” (Plagens). These were some of the features that viewers were concerned about, especially the last one. Cubism was an artistic style that used pieces of objects, geometric shapes, and abstract details. “Everything in the painting is broken and then crushed, like a face pressed against a window, into a sharp, shallow space that seems about an inch deep” (Plagens). Only two prostitutes have a face that matches their body. The other three have bodies that don't match the rest of the body from the neck up. There are some geometric shapes grouped in the background. However, with everything