"Loss of Innocence"

Innocence is a child-like ignorance to the use or presence of something evil. Something intangible can be lost when it is impossible for one to return to the same mental state that one had when the object or concept was "present". Dark shades tend to hint to something bad and/or evil. One can assume that in the painting, these dark shades represent the revelation of something maleficent to the woman featured in the painting. The colors in this piece seem to get darker as one looks from the left to right of the painting. One can assume then, that towards the left of the painting, more innocence was present in that version of the woman (shown three times throughout) then later on in the right side of the painting. To those who are not innocent, being naked is known to be a bad thing. This loss of innocence, occurring to the woman, is the cause for her trying to cover her bare body with her hair and with the cloth. It is a common belief that innocence is lost when one loses their virginity, which is what seems to be happening in the left of the painting, when the woman is with the man. He is holding onto her, on the left, and trying to blow the cloth off of the middle figure (which is also her).