Cubism Pins and Buttons
Description: Translation: "Picasso Exhibition - The trajectory of the art - Co-sponsored by Mainichi Shimbun and sponsored by Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Education, Japan International Art Promotion Association. April 2, 1983 May 29, 1983 Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Contemporary Art"
Description: 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
