“The Girl on the Bridge” exemplifies the contrat between lovely freshness of youth and the starkness of the natural world.  The girls stop on the bridge, as we would and look at the river, which is spooky and dark.  The girl turns from her friends, thinking her own thoughts.

“Christina’s World”  Christina was badly crippled and couldn’t walk, so she crawled or used a chair to move.  The composition, simple, empty, the great sweep of grass the lonely weather beaten houses and Christina’s body in a faded pink dress become symbols of refusal to meet defeat.

This is one of the many still lifes done during Picasso’s post-cubist period.  Soft objects are angular and a diamond shaped film is draped over the fruit, making that portion of the canvas dark and mysterious, part of a separate world. 

Paul Cezanne the greatest post impressionist master.  Paul’s theory and style of painting is characterized by unemotional, non-narrative, closed compositions that are based on the reduction of every object in nature to the cone, the cylinder, or the cube.