Posted on 05/11/2006 3:04:49 PM PDT by Republicanprofessor
It's been just about a year ago when I started this series of online classes. What I like most is the commnents and discussion afterward: so go to it. What other works do you like by these artists? What artists have I missed? What do you have a problem understanding?
In case anyone has missed the other "classes" or essays I've written up: here you go.
class #10: Postmodernism http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/1473061/posts?page=17
class #9: Pop and Minimal Art http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/1470726/posts?page=2
class 8: Pollock and Abstract Expressionism: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1468241/posts
class 7: American Modernism: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1440373/posts
class 6: Surrealism: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1427099/posts
class 5: Cubism: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1427099/posts
class 4: Expressionism: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1424087/posts
class 3: Cezanne and van Gogh; http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1419876/posts
class 2: Impressionism and Post-Impressionism; http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1414727/posts
class 1: Realism: Manet and Homer; http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1410117/posts
A new series of art history "lectures" designed chronologically from Egyptian art onward:
Art Appreciation/Education series II class #1: Greco-Roman Realism and Early Christian Abstraction http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1491050/posts
Art Appreciation/Education Series II class #2: Romanesque and Gothic Art and Architecture http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1498966/posts
Art Appreciation/Education series II class #3: Art of the Renaissance http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1528015/posts
Art Appreciation/Education series II class #4: Art of the Baroque http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1563367/posts
I have also begun a series on Visits to NYC and the art seen there:
Art Appreciation/Education: Visit to NYC I: Robert Smithson and James Turrell: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1507874/posts
Blue Moon by John Haber: A review of Oscar Bluemner's retrospective at the Whitney (I wanted to write about Bluemner's work as my Visit to NY II, but I decided to post Haber's great article instead.) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1507684/posts
Art Appreciation/Education: Visit to NY III: Elizabeth Murray: Return to Color and Energy http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1512127/posts
One other essay I wrote on Christo and his orange gates in NYC: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1348194/posts
A Visit to Lincoln Center http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1620124/posts
You can also get to these, and other images, on my home page.
Art Appreciation/Education ping.
The last of this series of "lectures."
Forgive the double ping if you are also on the Art Ping list.
Art Ping.
Let Sam Cree, Woofie, or me know if you want on or off this ping list.
bookmark
Rothko's colors are not found in nature - Turner's always are.
Rothko's shapes are symmetrical and static - Turner's never are.
I love Turner. I can't stand Rothko.
BTW, here's my favorite Ingres - showing clearly the impossible distortions that were often hidden in Neoclassical "realism" -
the Romantics were really more realistic, if you see what I mean.
Thank you. I thought Fragonard was spelled with one "n", but I guess spelling was more fluid back then.
My spelling may have been rushed as I did the essay.
Alas. No one is perfect.
That's OK, professor, you've done a great job!
There is something cloying about Ingres that bothers me more than his distortions. But Thetis is pretty rubbery in that work.
Ah, now that I know your interest in life is literary, it explains your knowledge and preferences in art.
Now, I know you must have seen some Rothkos in person, so I can't say that is the matter. The Rothkos with the hard edges are less intriguing than the blurred blocks, to me.
I'm probably pushing Rothko too much lately; I don't know why. Probably because I just finished teaching his work. When the exams are corrected, I'll be burnt out and move on to someone else....
I'm off to the Freeper cruise tomorrow and will be gone for a week. I'm starting to get the FT's already, LOL.
Save my place while I'm gone, heheh.
Leni/Bahama Mama
You must do SO MUCH work for those cruises.
I hope it is awesome.
Maybe sometime my husband (billorites) and I can get away from the kids and come.
Have a GREAT TRIP. And thanks for all your kind words!
He was a French political whore...
Thanks for this entire series...only wish I'd had more time to spend on the discussion end of things!
Thanks for this series. Now I just have to find the time to work through them all.
I hope we will not end up with flame wars between classicists and Romanticists (followed by bannings and suspensions). :)
And I agree with you - Ingres is somehow sicky-sweet and creepy at the same time. And his women aren't women - they're somebody's dream of women.
I prefer Gericault - although his madmen and his guillotined heads aren't for everybody, they are true.
Nice job. I see you've listed your other threads as well.
I look forward to read them. Thanks.
You are one reason FreeRepublic is great.
Thanks RP, these are very potent paintings.
There is an eerieness in Turner unique to him; the painting of his in the MFA in Boston, with the horses tossed overboard, is spectacualr and haunting once you've seen it in person.
Wow. Never saw this before. A regular Dagny and John Galt, eh?
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.