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Midterm Essay In Cezanne’s Mont Sainte-Victoire, Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, and Leger’s The City, there are clearly visible similarities in the pictorial structures of the paintings. In viewing Mont Sainte-Victoire, Cezanne depicts the landscape scene with angular planes and distorts the natural forms of the environment. The subject matter he depicts is still clearly understandable. It is just not represented naturally. Cezanne also paints the objects with the appearance of being molded or fused together, creating unity in the work and a shallow sense of space. These characteristics can be seen a little more drastically in Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, where Picasso uses sharp, geometric lines and angular, overlapping planes, and dehumanizes the figures by giving them distorted bodies and mask-like faces. Picasso also creates a flat appearance by “fusing the figures together without much indication of deep space in the scene or of weight in the forms” (Picasso’s Art p.54). Some of the feat