A little background of this picture from Wikipedia:

Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (The Young Ladies of Avignon) is a large oil painting of 1907 by the Spanish artist Pablo Ruiz Picasso (1881–1973). The work portrays five nude female prostitutes from a brothel on Avinyó Street in Barcelona. Each figure is depicted in a disconcerting confrontational manner and none are conventionally feminine. The women appear as slightly menacing and rendered with angular and disjointed body shapes. Two are shown with African mask-like faces and three more with faces in the Iberian style of Picasso's native Spain, giving them a savage aura. In this adaptation of Primitivism and abandonment of perspective in favor of a flat, two-dimensional picture plane, Picasso makes a radical departure from traditional European painting. The work is widely considered to be seminal in the early development of both Cubism and modern art. Demoiselles was revolutionary and controversial, and led to wide anger and disagreement, even amongst his closest associates and friends.

In class, Greg pointed me towards this picture to include in the discussion surrounding the picture I took of the girl in the picture frame wearing the mask. He explained the correlating themes of isolation and alienation, as well as theuse of masks. How does the background of Les Demoiselles d'Avignon affect the way you see my picture. Do you think there is any symbolic meaning or interpretation of what Les Demoiselles d'Avignon means in the 21st century? What about the significance of who is masked and who is not?