Ah, such a big thing about one painting! *Les Demoiselles d'Avignon* was Picasso's wild, jagged painting of women, and people say he was inspired by African masks he saw at the Trocadéro Museum in Paris. But yaar, keeping it rolled up for nine years? That's the real clue—he knew it was too harsh, too broken from tradition, even for his own circle.
As a student here, learning the *shastras* of classical Indian art, I see it differently. That painting isn't about African masks alone; it's about breaking the *murti*, the sacred form itself. We are taught that form holds the divine, but Picasso smashed it to pieces. No wonder he hid it—such violence to the figure would feel like a sin in my *guruji's* studio, where every line of a hand has meaning for centuries.
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