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Larger Image	Larger image may be viewed by UofL faculty, staff, and students only (log-in required using ULink username/password) at: http://echo.louisville.edu/login?url=http://vrc-web.louisville.edu/Jpegs/430/437-46.jpg
Title	Girl before a Mirror, detail.
Creator	Picasso, Pablo (Spanish painter, sculptor, and printmaker, 1881-1973)
Date	1932
Cultural Context	Spanish European Western European
Style/Period	Cubist Modern (styles and periods) Abstract (fine arts style)
Theme	Paintings (visual works) Oil paintings (visual works) Figurative art Figures (representations) Girls Composite views Profiles (figures) Front views Nudity Mirrors Cheval mirrors Cheval glasses Reflections (perceived properties) Symbolism (artistic concept) Abstraction Ambiguity Viewpoint Perception Contrast Psychology Detail views
Subject	Paintings Oil paintings Abstract paintings Abstract works Girls Mirrors Reflections Mental states Details
Description	"Another stylistic shift in Picasso's work that was influenced by Cubism has been called Surrealism. This term literally means 'above real' and denotes a truer reality than that of the visible world. In the Girl before a Mirror of 1932, Picasso aims at psychological reality. He uses the multiple viewpoint in the service of symbolism, although the precise meaning of this picture has remained elusive and has been the subject of many interpretive discussions. The girl at the left is rendered in a combined frontal and profile view, but her mirror reflection is in profile. It is also darker than the 'real' girl outside the mirror, and the torsos do not match. […] The device of the mirror to create multiple views is not new. Picasso was certainly familiar with Manet's Bar at the Folies-Bergères, Velázquez's Venus with a Mirror, and Las Meninas, all of which use mirrors to expand the viewer's range of vision. Here, however, the formal differences between the girl and her reflection suggest that outer appearances are contrasted with an inner, psychological state. One French term for mirror is psyché, which means 'soul,' and this provides a clue to the picture's significance. It reinforces the notion that Picasso transformed the multiple views of Cubism into multiple psychological views, which simultaneously show the girl's interior psychic reality and exterior appearance." (Excerpt, p. 893)
Material	Oil on canvas Oil paint (pigmented coating) Paint Canvas
Measurements	5 ft 4 in x 4 ft 3 1/4 in (1.62 x 1.3 m)
Technique	Oil painting (technique) Painting (image-making)
Work Type	Paintings Oil paintings Abstract paintings Abstract works
Repository	Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) (New York, New York)
Source	Adams, Laurie Schneider. Art Across Time. 2nd ed. 2 vols. New York: McGraw, 2002. (p.887).
Rights	Photograph reproduced in Adams courtesy: Gift of Mrs. Simon Guggenheim. Photograph �� 2001 The Museum of Modern Art, New York/ © 2001 Estate of Pablo Picasso/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
Digital Publisher	University of Louisville Department of Fine Arts/Allen R. Hite Art Institute Visual Resources Center
Format	image/jpeg
Digital File Name	VRC 437-46.jpg
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