Girl before a Mirror 

Can Wang

First, I want to talk about the picture of the painting, the painting is kind of mix of lines, stitching patterns and distortion, the overall tone is dark. The background is with a pair of Arab-style diamond-shaped mid-dotted, which is repeated and makes the whole picture look a little like Oriental Indian feeling. The girl’s face, chest, buttocks and mirrors are used with smooth round line, the girl’s arm, the hair is soft. The picture is red, yellow, purple-based, half bright: that is the girl’s youth; half is sad: it is unique youth scars. Bold lines to depict a girl is rare, but it can also add a little of the Spanish wildness.

The main picture is a blonde girl, her two hands are on the both sides of the mirror. At the time, Picasso’s paintings have utilized the light in the face, from different angles presented by the different colors. The gentle and bright sunshine of afternoon came from outside the house, the girl’s half of the face seems to be infected with the sun’s halo, bright yellow and with a little reddish. Because of the strong light, the color of her face in the mirror shows some dark, and the rose color, and that may be a careful makeup. What a bright sunshine, What a beautiful afternoon, the girl’s mood must be very happy. But the appearance of the painting shows a little sad feeling. The background of the mirror is no longer happy bright yellow, instead of a melancholy cool tone – purple; girl’s eyes did not look directly at the mirror, but glanced to the side; her eyes are filled with sadness instead of naive, even the eyes of the faint light halo seems to be the tears on her face; her slightly tilted nose seems to be angry.

The picture is painted with a girl full of rich feelings, but she seems to be the shadow of the painter himself. The mirror is a magical thing, it can reflect itself, it can make people see the most real oneself, it can make people see their own heart. Exactly is what the painter is, he is looking for a breakthrough in the life of the export, the outside world is as the same sunshine of the afternoon, colorful, but which is what he really want, is the extremely luxurious creation? he did not want anything, those halo, those substances, or those praise. He wants freedom, you can enjoy the beauty of tear for this freedom, for this innate wild, he can ignore all the criticism of the outside world. As the girl in front of this mirror, no one can give what she wants, even this cluster of bright sun can not give her. Only the freedom can rule her world.