Week 4 - Haussmann’s Paris: Degas, Caillebotte, Morisot, and Cassatt by Vick https://padlet.com/vicksoulimansura/m8tgs5hqjuxmrgnw The Haussmannisation of Paris beginning in the second half of the 19th century with its new urban structures (vast avenues, train station, and public parklands for entertainment and leisure for instance), brought a new modern way of life and a new form of geographical segregation. This was demonstrated by the façades and occupation of the Haussmannian buildings and, in terms of equities and pinnacles of wealth, by the great Opera Garnier. The Paris Opera was a place in which spectacles and entertainment took place, providing subjects for the paintings of the artists we will be looking at (such as Degas, Renoir and Mary Cassatt). How did these spaces that were available for women to paint differ from those of men according to the social criteria of the day? Could women artists such as Mary Cassatt and Berthe Morisot, experience the modern city in the same way as their male counterparts? In this lecture, we will draw attention to the women artists that were part of the Impressionist circle who have now acquired considerable critical reappraisal by scholars. en-us 2020-09-15 04:30:10 UTC 2024-06-04 01:24:35 UTC hello@padlet.com Correcting Museum Labels Activity vicksoulimansura https://padlet.com/vicksoulimansura/m8tgs5hqjuxmrgnw/wish/746685273 In their Art Museum Activity Book, particularly their “Activity #5: Correcting Wall Labels” the Guerrilla Girls corrected a label on a work of art by Baron Francois-Pascal-Simon Gerard (French, 1770-1837) displayed at the MET. 
In the same vein, you will be presented with an existing museum label (from a website). In small groups, identify where the label could be improved and rewrite it in a way that it restores/emphasises the women artists’ agency (both as artists and women).

  • In the comment box, explain briefly why the label is problematic and why it could be improved.
  • Type your new label in the comment box of the post assigned to your group.

]]> 2020-09-15 05:00:21 UTC https://padlet.com/vicksoulimansura/m8tgs5hqjuxmrgnw/wish/746685273 Reading discussion vicksoulimansura https://padlet.com/vicksoulimansura/m8tgs5hqjuxmrgnw/wish/746715931 Pollock, Griselda, “Modernity and the spaces of femininity” in her Vision and Difference. Femininity, Feminism and the Histories of Art, London: Routledge, 1988, pp. 50-90. 
 
1.     Who is Griselda Pollock? What is the argument presented in her essay “Modernity and the spaces of femininity”?

2.     Griselda Pollock charges TJ Clark of having failed to consider the experience of women in his analysis of the painting of modern life because he says nothing about the female spectator of Manet’s Olympia and The Bar at the Folies Bergère.  She asks, “Could Berthe Morisot have gone to such a location to canvas the subject? Would it enter her head as a site of modernity as she experienced it? Could she as a woman experience modernity as Clark defines it at all?” How would you answer these questions? 

3.     In your understanding, what are “the spaces of femininity”?

4.     What does Pollock suggest about “spatial order within paintings” when considering the works of Cassatt and Morisot? 

5.     At the end of her essay Pollock says: “The spaces of femininity still regulate women's lives.”  Do you agree? If so, how and where might this be seen? 
]]> 2020-09-15 05:17:13 UTC https://padlet.com/vicksoulimansura/m8tgs5hqjuxmrgnw/wish/746715931 Comparative visual Analysis vicksoulimansura https://padlet.com/vicksoulimansura/m8tgs5hqjuxmrgnw/wish/746751274
How can ideas about space and the gaze be seen in depictions of women in these two paintings?
 ]]> 2020-09-15 05:37:24 UTC https://padlet.com/vicksoulimansura/m8tgs5hqjuxmrgnw/wish/746751274 Museum Label #1 vicksoulimansura https://padlet.com/vicksoulimansura/m8tgs5hqjuxmrgnw/wish/746854529 https://npg.si.edu/object/npg_NPG.84.34 ]]> 2020-09-15 06:31:33 UTC https://padlet.com/vicksoulimansura/m8tgs5hqjuxmrgnw/wish/746854529 Museum Label #2 vicksoulimansura https://padlet.com/vicksoulimansura/m8tgs5hqjuxmrgnw/wish/746855994 https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/207849]]> 2020-09-15 06:32:15 UTC https://padlet.com/vicksoulimansura/m8tgs5hqjuxmrgnw/wish/746855994 Museum Label #3 vicksoulimansura https://padlet.com/vicksoulimansura/m8tgs5hqjuxmrgnw/wish/746857856 https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/10409]]> 2020-09-15 06:33:00 UTC https://padlet.com/vicksoulimansura/m8tgs5hqjuxmrgnw/wish/746857856 Museum Label #4 vicksoulimansura https://padlet.com/vicksoulimansura/m8tgs5hqjuxmrgnw/wish/746858937 https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/435702]]> 2020-09-15 06:33:31 UTC https://padlet.com/vicksoulimansura/m8tgs5hqjuxmrgnw/wish/746858937