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It is interesting to compare her with his "Woman with Pears" of the same year, another portrait of his mistress Fernande Olivier. The sculpture shows the difficulties that Picasso had to contend with: cubism had really been developed for twodimensional pictures, and it was rather difficult to transfer this new idea to the three dimensions of a sculpture. Although he succeeded in applying analytical cubist principles to the facet-like structure of the surface, he did not do the same for the shape of thehead.Theinnerstructureof theheaddid not lend itself to such an analysis into segments.

The consideration of the point of viewing a work of sculpture sometimes affects the design and execution of a work; for example, when sculpture is destined for a greatly elevated position, as on a church facade, it may well be very simply designed and boldly executed, in order that the spectator shall be able to understand its message almost at a glance. Some work, too, which is in such a position, shows Signs of adjustment in the proportions of the limbs of a figure to counteract the pronounced foreshortening when seen from below. Closely connected with these considerations are those which have to do with the Lighting for which the work is made, and the distance at which it is normally viewed.

These significant pti poses have generally been served by sculpture ( considerable size, and there is no doubt that largi ness promotes an effect of impressiveness i sculpture as it does in architecture. This i borne out by the observation that most sculptur which has been made merely to embellish or t delight is definitely under life-size or even of th statuette category. A notable exception to thi rule is found in fountain sculpture from the 16t! century on, where the architectural or arborea setting often requires commensurate scale in tb sculpture.