Within Lichtenstein's comics period, there was a period where he exclusively painted close-ups of women. Girl With Hair Ribbon comes from this period. In Girl, as with everything from that sub-period, the highly stylized beauty of the woman's face makes for an overpowering pure femininity in the painting. However, a certain narrative quality also pervades the painting. Even though taken out of context, the image still retains some of the narrative qualities of the comic it was taken from. The woman is looking out towards the viewer, with an expression that hints at longing, pensiveness, or perhaps even fear. We the viewers are left with a tiny fragment of a story, but a fragment nonetheless. The image, then, is not a mere portrait of femininity, but of the affect the unseen phenomenon of the comic's original story have on what can see in the frame.