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In case you're wondering, here is a video of the Pablo Picasso - Girl before a Mirror piece at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City

https://www.moma.org/collection/works/78311

This image of a young woman and her mirror reflection is riotous in color and chockablock with pattern. It is one of the last in a major series of canvases that Picasso created between 1931 and 1932. According to The Museum of Modern Art’s founding director, Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Picasso said he “preferred this painting to any of the others,” which speaks to the painting’s dazzling visual and thematic complexity. Its primary subject is the time-honored artistic theme of a woman before her mirror, reinvented in strikingly modern terms. The girl’s smoothly painted profile, in a delicately blushing pink-lavender, abuts a heavily built-up and garishly colored frontal view in yellow and red. Allusions to youth and old age, sun and moon, light and shadow are compressed into a single multivalent face.

The female protagonist of Girl before a Mirror actively reaches out to embrace the mirror that frames her reflection—a nominally fleeting image that paradoxically displays a pronounced physicality. The picture’s rigorous symmetrical organization creates a structure against which the curves of the model’s head and body, as well as those of her reflection, register all the more strongly. Her ithyphallic left arm and testicular breasts continue the game of visual punning seen in Picasso’s other paintings and sculptures of the time, in which facial and bodily features double as male and female sex organs.

You can see a video of our full day there at: https://youtu.be/5jTCK3tzhn8 that includes the following artworks:

Barbara Kruger - Thinking of You. I Mean Me. I Mean You.
Vincent van Gogh - The Starry Night
Georges-Pierre Seurat - Port-en-Bessin, Entrance to the Harbor
Pablo Picasso - Les Demoiselles d'Avignon.
Henri Rousseau - The Dream
Henri Matisse - Dance (I)
Germaine Dulac - La Coquille et le clergyman (The Seashell and the Clergyman)
René Magritte - The Menaced Assassin
Pablo Picasso - Girl before a Mirror
René Magritte - The False Mirror
Joan Miró - Relief Construction
Salvador Dali - The Little Theater
René Magritte - The Lovers
Salvador Dali - The Persistence of Memory
Piet Mondrian - Composition No. II, with Red and Blue
Claude Monet - Water Lilies
Andy Warhol - Campbell’s Soup Cans
Lee Bontecou - Untitled
Joan Mitchell - Ladybug
Jackson Pollock - One: Number 31

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