Jasmine Estevez

Pablo Picasso; Woman Plaiting Her Hair

This painting was created by Pablo Picasso in the year of 1906. It is of a woman wearing nothing. She seems to be slouched on her knees touching her hair which is really long. The painting captured my attention because she wasn’t what people would call perfect nowadays but I loved it. This is what people should look up to. You shouldn’t be ashamed of your body but love yourself the way you are. The lady in the painting doesn’t look happy nor sad. I feel like she’s in front of a mirror fixing her hair and just staring at her body. Her bottom half is fading away or probably covered with some sort of robe. All the artist is really concentrated on is her bodies top half. This painting is a great portrait of what we humans look like and are. We aren’t perfect people who sit up straight and have perfect bodies. Everyone has their own flaws and you just have to accept it or live with the disappointment. While looking at this I wondered what Pablo was thinking about when he drew this. Was this his ideal picture of a women drawn on paper. Artists I believe draw what they see or feel and maybe he knew of someone who expired him to draw this. The painting is just focused on her touching her hair meanwhile the background is just a cloudy looking color. So you don’t really care about the background when looking at Pablo’s painting but you are concentrated on her. She’s a thick woman with long hair and then you begin to think and really look into her face just to try and figure out what this painting is really portraying to us. Over all the Museum of Modern Art had many great paintings and even sculptures that I enjoyed looking at. Some just stood out to me more than the others like this painting.