In the context of this artwork, explain the Part I, #7: Picasso's Studio (1991) of the Descriptions and locations.
Picasso's Studio depicts Willia Marie posing nude for the artist Pablo Picasso with his painting Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907) hanging behind her. Picasso is elderly, the age he would have been during Ringgold's early career, but much older than he would have been when painting Les Demoiselles. In the text, Willia Marie tells her Aunt that the women and African masks in the Picasso painting began to have a conversation during her visit, encouraging Willia Marie to embrace her identities as both a Black person and a woman. Willia Marie also tells her Aunt that while Picasso "has the power to deny" the African inspirations in his art, it "doesn’t matter what he says about where it comes from. We see where, every time we look in the mirror.”Picasso's Studio is in the collection of the Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts.
Pablo Picasso Worcester Art Museum Les Demoiselles d'Avignon Massachusetts