Women & Art Final

Question 1

Answer 1

Praxiteles

Cnidian Venus or Knidian Aphrodite

4th century BC

marble

Question 2

Answer 2

Ghirlandaio

Giovanna Tornabuoni

1488

tempera on panel

Question 3

Answer 3

Titian

Venus of Urbino

1538

oil on canvas

Question 4

Answer 4

Artemisia Gentileschi

Susanna and the Elders

1610

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Oil on Canvas

Artemisia depicts the biblical story of Susanna, a virtuous young wife sexually harassed by the elders of her community. Rather than showing Susanna as coyly or flirtatious (as many male artists had painted the scene), Artemisia takes the female perspective and portrays Susanna as vulnerable, frightened, and repulsed by their demands, while the men loom large, leering, menacing, and conspiratorial in her direction.

Question 5

Answer 5

Clara Peeters

Still Life with a Vase of Flowers, Goblets, and Shells

1612

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Oil

Doesn’t need a model for this type of work

Question 6

Answer 6

Judith Leyster

The Proposition

1631

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Oil?

Question 7

Answer 7

Rubens

Helene Fourment in a Fur Coat

1635-40

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John Berger article. Different than other nudes.

Rubens wife

Question 8

Answer 8

Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun

Marie Antoinette and her children

1787

oil on canvas

Official portrait painter of Marie Antoinette

Question 9

Answer 9

Jacques-Louis David

Oath of the Horatii

oil on canvas

1784

Question 10

Answer 10

Ingres

La Grande Odalisque

1814

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Oil on Canvas

Commissioned by a woman possibly for her husband

Comissioned by Napoleon’s sister, Queen Caroline Murat of Naples

Known for body distortion and elongation

Question 11

Answer 11

Ingres

Caroline Murat, Queen of Naples

1814

oil on canvas

Portrait of Napoleons sister. Comissioned La Grande Odalisque

Stuff in Background Important

Question 12

Answer 12

Lilly Martin Spencer

The War Spirit at Home

1866

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Actually showed women in natural habitat, kids playing around. After important battle

Question 13

Answer 13

Lilly Martin Spencer

Kiss Me and You’ll Kiss the Lasses

1856

Question 14

Answer 14

Rosa Bonheur

The Horse Fair

1853

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Possibly painted herself in disguise as a man

Question 15

Answer 15

Édouard Manet

Olympia

1863

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Naked Vs. Nude

Prostitute

Compare with Venus of Urbino

Naked because reveals something about subject

Gaze

Question 16

Answer 16

Berthe Morisot

The Cradle

1872

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Question 17

Answer 17

Édouard Manet

Portrait of Berthe Morisot with a Fan

1872

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Face covered, clearly an object, can only see leg

Question 18

Answer 18

Edouard Manet

A Bar at the Folies-Bergère

1882

oil on canvas

Question 19

Answer 19

Mary Cassatt

At the Opera

1879

Question 20

Answer 20

Edgar Degas

The Tub

1876–1877

Monotype

Question 21

Answer 21

Gauguin

Manao Tupapau

1892

Image of woman from Tahiti, Tahiti was colonized. Women not freely naked. Laying on back

Question 22

Answer 22

Renoir

The Large Bathers

1887

Question 23

Answer 23

Meret Oppenheim

Object

1936

mixed media

Objects made to be used made inusable

Question 24

Answer 24

Louise Bourgeois

Cumulus I

1969

marble

Question 25

Answer 25

Judy Chicago *The Dinner Party* 1979 mixed media Each plate sculpted to look like a vagina. Both positive and negative, Women just being known for vagina? Only white women represented Unintentional Hierarchy

Question 26

Answer 26

Jenny Saville *Plan* 1993 oil on canvas Plan - Plastic surgery plan written on body. Monstrous in size

Question 27

Answer 27

Kara Walker *Gone, An Historical Romance of a Civil War as it Occurred Between the Dusky Thighs of One Young Negress and Her Heart* 1994 Cut paper and adhesive on wall

Question 28

Answer 28

Cindy Sherman *Untitled Film Still #15* 1978 photograph

Question 29

Answer 29

Marina Abramovic *The Artist is Present* 2010 performance