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I decided that the Guggenheim Museum in Manhattan would be the best choice to go to for this particular assignment. Not only because it has a wide variety of modern artist’s paintings but also for its fabulous architectural structure, though that is not what I was there for. So I’ll get to the point here. Pablo Picasso painted the first two works of art that I liked. The first to catch my eye was Woman Ironing. The woman is portrayed very simply, a woman of survival. Picasso expresses and symbolizes the image of a lower class woman with a melancholy palette of blues. What intrigued me about this painting is that unlike most of Picasso’s other paintings this one is not an abstract view of expression, although he uses many angular shapes and lines to contour the woman. I feel that when I look at this painting it is automatically seemed to be sad, but I cannot say that for myself. Picasso has embodied his subject so much and has created so much strong emotion that it m