Final- Monument matching/ identification Flashcards
The Bath of Venus, Francois Boucher
French Rococo
1751
Found at National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C
The girlish women, with their unnaturally tiny feet, rosebud-pink nipples and wistful glances, were coy symbols of erotic pleasure. Portrayed the woman as goddess of love.
Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, Pablo Picasso, Paris
Cubism
1907
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Picasso’s female nudes have been stripped of their sensuous appeal
The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed with Sun
William Blake
British Romanticism
ca. 1805
Washington, D.C.
illustration to the Book of Revelation
Conversations with angelic emissaries as a source of his imagery
The Persistence of Memory, Salvador Dali
Surrealism (“beyond reality”)
1931
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
illustrates a barren landscape occupied by a leafless tree, three limp watches, a watchcase crawling with ants, and a mass of brain-matter resembling Dali’s own profile.
Le Dejeuner sur l’herbe (Luncheon on the Grass), Edouard Monet
French realism
1863
Found in Paris, France
Manet defied tradition by modernizing a Classical subject- the nude in a landscape. It depicted a nude woman calmly enjoying a picnic lunch with two fully clothed men, while a second, partially clothed woman bathes in a nearby stream.
Female nudity had been acceptable in European art since the early Renaissance, as long as it was cast in terms of classical myth or allegory. In a contemporary setting such nudity was considered indecent. The female image is shown as an object of male desire.
The Broken Column, Frida Kahlo
Mexican folk culture
1944
Found in Mexico City
Kahlo pictures herself in the manner of popular folk images of the suffering Christ; nails and a body brace take the place of punishing thorns and the instruments of torture. Kahlo recorded the experience of chronic pain, both physical and mental.
Kahlo was determined to to present the female image as something other than the object of male desire
