One of Picasso's earlier works, "A young girl".

Later in life, Picasso revisited the Young Girl "aesthetic". Implicit within his variegated, post-structuralist rejections of traditional notions of beauty is an enigmatic but methodological affirmation of the necessarily revolutionary role of the true artist. Upon comparison with the first "Young Girl", one observes that the head is more deformed, the hair more unkempt and stringy, the eyes more chaotic, and the caption more jagged. All of these innovations reflect Picasso's simultaneous maturation as a sophisticated artist and visionary and his typological emergence from the repressive, pro-colonialist cocoon of bourgeouis materialism.