Posted on 07/12/2005 7:06:11 PM PDT by Republicanprofessor
I thought I’d take a leaf from Liz’s book and do a quasi test on line. No grades (the best kind of test). Some of these were in the posts, but I also thought I’d get similar works by the same artists (and a couple of new ones) just to really challenge you.
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I have not. Thanks very much for that tidbit. I would LOVE to see it in person! We are planning a trip to D.C. sometime and I will definitely fit in a visit to see it.
1. Manet, with Berthe Morisot (herself a painter) also posing as the first woman.
2. The Goya that inspired the above Manet.
3. Winslow Homer, The Bridle Path. I think this is the Crawford path that goes through the Presidential Mountains in NH, but I can't tell if it is Mt. Washington, Mt. Jefferson or what because the background is so vague.
4. Also a Homer, a later ocean scene.
5. Monet, Japanese Bridge, probably after 1900, from his place at Giverny in France (a garden he designed).
6. Renoir, Dance in the City. One of three dance works, all of which were on view at a Renoir retrospective in Boston a few years ago.
7. Cezanne; a lake in Switzerland. Bravo to those who liked it or recognized it.
8. van Gogh, self portrait.
9. Matissse, Joy of Life 1905.
10. Matisse, Harmony in Red
11. Kandinsky, Improvisation, c. 1913. Bravo to those who recognized this.
12. Picasso, Woman with Mandolin
13. Braque, one of his works from the early L'Estaque series, but this one is without the tell-tale houses.
14. Magritte. This one fooled me at first. Why is this unusual? Duh....
15. Miro, Women of the Night.
16. Dali, a unusual one, but definitely recognizable. Bravo to all.
17. Hartley. An unusual one again, but I found it on line and loved it. circa 1914, so like the German series but lighter in color.
18. O'Keeffe. Do you find this sexual?
19. Sheeler, yes, the River Rouge artist. Good work. This is called Upper Deck and belongs to Harvard. Note, this is not the usual image you'd think of on the upper deck of a cruise ship...Where are the sexy bathers and deck chairs?
20. Demuth, another precisionist. I had not seen this one before either, but like it very much.
That's it for now. Thanks for your interest and participation.
Thanks, Prof. That was fun.
"18. O'Keeffe. Do you find this sexual? "
Well I didn't until I looked again..............
I honestly don't remember if we chose our own groups or if we were assigned; however, I ended up with a womyn's study student and a female phys-ed major...our choice of moral issue was of course, porn. I volunteered to take care of the research, which I diligently conducted, and after going through some blatantly heinous stuff, some of the stuff done by more technically competent and artsy photogs (i.e. guccione), some racier art exhibits, and some older sculpture and traditional painting I put together a longish collection of photos and presented them to the class as a test where each image had to be identified as "Art or Porn." The members of the class went through and after taking the test, I merely had a show of hands as to who selected what. I barely needed to say a single word in my entire portion of the presentation as with a few exceptions, the majority of images could not be neatly pigeonholed into one or the other category. I was lauded for having elicited such strong class participation, even from some students who hardly ever opined on anything. Our best conclusion is that the separation between art and porn is a less than quantifiable or definable synthesis of context, subject matter, and indeed, the viewer's role (not necessarily reaction or opinion).
I dare not post it here for fear of being banned...;-)
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