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Girl Before a Mirror, created by Pablo Picasso, in March of 1932 is a paradoxical piece of work which can be found ironic. By piling paradox upon paradox the artist was looking for a solution but ended merely in incoherence. However, first, we must analyze paradoxes; in The Girl Before a Mirror male and female contadictions exist. Refering to the left figure which I find to be female, however, her head resembles the head of a penis and the figure as a whole suggests an erect penis. The figure on the right has a male head but a very female lower half while the figure as a whole again has the form of an erect penis, the girl's buttocks doubling as male testicles. Then in the individual figures we see deliberate contradictions. In the left-hand figure the face seen in profile is confident and assertive while the full-face view suggests a retiring sadness; the roundness of the body, which suggests pregnancy, is contradicted by the thick, harsh straightness of the figure's back. In the right-hand figure the two breasts have contrasting green patterns and at the top of the figure's bottom the black lines suggest a frontal view of the female genitals. And finally, the figure on the right should logically be a mirror-image of the figur