In "The Mirror" Picasso uses these thick, overpowering lines to convey, by contrast with the lightness of the flesh, a female body aflame with sensuousness. ... In fact, all the inessential features of the room, the wallpaper, the suggestion of a door, the armchair and the bath-robe, have been cleared out to make way for a simple, concentrated view of the woman's body and the mirror against a simplified wallpaper design: it is as if the "camera" had zoomed in for a close-up. ... This is to do with the depiction of flesh. ... We have noted how Picasso played around with the texture of his...

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She feels depressed with the society around her. ... When Clarissa returns home to the small attic room she is secluded and lonely. She thinks of her experiences with Sally with whom she had been intimately involved. ... She is viewed from many angles. ... He also refers to nature, a typically female symbol as filling the vacuum up with sex and "refined pleasures" (Shaw,2000 P. 8.) ...

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