Question

hat is similar about the two images below?
Les Demoiselles d'Avignon by Pablo Picasso. Several cubist figures wear African masks and are naked.Houses at l'Estaque by Georges Braque. Geometric forms are placed to look like houses with tree like objects.
a.
Both contain earthlike colors.
b.
Both reduce items to basic geometric forms.
c.
They share a similar composition
d.
They were painted by the same artist.

Answer 1

b. Both reduce items to basic geometric forms.

Both paintings simplify and fragment subjects into geometric shapes—an approach central to early Cubism shared by Picasso and Braque.