Picasso, only 25, was still a young artist in 1906, but one with maturity in his aesthetic approaches. Leaving behind bohemia and pessimism, his work was full of life and expansive, even sensual. He would advance towards libertarian considerations and yearned for the re-founding of artistic experience. Picasso approached the representation of Arcadian adolescence as the symbol of a new beginning. The painted body takes on its own emancipation. The artist directly explored the power of the scopic drive and the relationship it bears to sleepless female intimacy.