Nude under a Pine Tree

<p>For many artists living amid the destruction and rebuilding of postwar Europe, artworks of the past offered a sense of continuity and order. In <em>Nude under a Pine Tree</em>, Pablo Picasso looked to the long tradition of figurative painting, including the female nudes of <a href="https://www.artic.edu/artists/40615">Francisco de Goya</a>. In contrast to his predecessors, however, Picasso placed the monumental figure on rocky terrain, rather than on a plush chaise. He also used bold, modernist forms that reference his own earlier artistic styles: the flattened face, segmented legs and torso, and multiple viewpoints recall some of his Cubist works, and the color palette evokes his classical style of the 1920s.</p>