Looking at Art

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Looking at Art

• An analysis of painting styles

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Assignment 1

• View the six paintings on the following slides.
• Answer the questions expressing your opinion.

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Paintings--Set 1
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• What emotions does this painting evoke?
• What virtues does this painting represent?
• What is the womens role in this painting?
• What are your feelings toward this painting?

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• What emotions does this painting evoke?
• What virtues does this painting represent?
• What qualities might the horses represent?
• What are your feeling toward this painting?

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• What emotions does this painting evoke?
• What virtues does this painting represent?
• What ideal is being represented?
• What are your feelings toward this painting?

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Paintings--Set 2
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• What emotions are portrayed in this painting?
• What mood might have the artist been in?
• What are your feelings toward this painting?
• In what ways might people react to this painting?

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• Who is portrayed in this painting?
• What might the artist be representing?
• What are your feelings toward this painting?
• In what ways might people react to this painting?

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• What emotions are portrayed in this painting?
• What mood might have the artist been in?
• What are your feelings toward this painting?
• In what ways might people react to this painting?

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Assignment 2

• Which set of paintings do you believe would be
  more popular with museum audiences?
• Which set of paintings did you enjoy viewing
  more?
• Which set of pictures best represents the values
  of our society better?

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An Examination of the Entartete Kunst

• Continue presentation to learn about the Nazi art
  exhibit that shook the avante-garde movement of
  1930s Germany.

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Assignment 3

• Read the following information presented on
  Entartete Kunst and answer the questions at the
  end of the section.

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Entartete Kunst --Degenerate Art

• 1937--Nazis hold art exhibit in Munich called
  Entartete Kunst
• Purpose--to exhibit art to public deemed
  degenerate

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Entartete Kunst --Degenerate Art

• 730 pieces of art--112 artists--6 Jews
• 4 years--exhibit toured
• 3 Million--people who saw exhibit
• 95--number who laughed at it

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Entartete Kunst --Degenerate Art

• Degenerate--biological term for a plant or animal
  which no longer belongs to its species
• Degenerate Art--unclassifiable, beyond
  acceptable, non-art
• Also called--Jewish, Bolshevistic, insane, or
  communist, criminal

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Entartete Kunst --Degenerate Art

• The Degenerate styles--Expressionism, Cubism,
  Dada
• The Artists--Kadinsky, Chagall, Klee, Mondrian,
  Picasso
• 20,000 works--confiscated by Nazis

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Photograph of Joseph Goebbels (center) visiting
the Enatartete Kunst exhibit in Berlin on
February 27, 1938.
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Nazi Approved Art

• We shall discover and encourage the artists who
  are able to impress upon the State of the German
  people the cultural stamp of the Germanic racein
  their origin and in the community.
• Adolph Hitler, Party Day speech, 1935

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Nazi Approved Art

• Purpose of Art
• Strengthen the Third Reich
• Purify the nation
• Shape the populations attitude
• Carry a political message

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Nazi Approved Art

• Artistic Themes
• Simple pastoral life (folk)
• Living close to the land
• Health, family, motherhood
• Aryan ideal, muscularity, athletic prowess
• Collective action, competition

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The Role of Art in Our Society

• Have you ever seen art that you considered
  vulgar? explain
• Have you ever seen art that you simply
  considered not to be art? explain
• Is it ever appropriate for the government to
  restrict artistic freedom? explain

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An Examination of the play Corpus Christi

• Continue presentation to learn about the
  controversy over the new play Corpus Christi by
  Terrance McNally.

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Assignment 4

• Read the article Cultural Beat Theater of
  blasphemy.Click below to link to the article.
• Read the scenario that follows and write an essay
  detailing your decision.

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Assignment 4

• You were just hired as Artistic Director of the
  Manhattan Theater Club. The previous director
  has retired and moved to Florida. Rumor has it
  the controversy over the new play Corpus Christi
  caused him to quit.
• You must first decide whether or not you will
  cancel the production of the play. The press has
  been anxious for a statement.
• In the form of a press release, state your
  decision and defend your position. You know
  either way many people will be angry at you. You
  must be diplomatic.

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Resources

• Klee, Paul, Ancient Sound, Abstract on Black,
  1925
• Photograph of Joseph Goebbels courtesy of
  "Degenerate Art" The Fate of the Avant-Garde in
  Nazi Germany by S. Barron.
• Photograph of Man viewing exhibit courtesy of
  Florida Center for Instructional Technology,
  College of Education, University of South
  Florida.
• Corpus Christi annotation from
  Stephen
  Billington, London, England. lthttp//billington.si
  mplenet.comgt

• Paintings
• Farm Family From Kahlenberg, Wissel, Adolph
  (Nazi), 1939.
• Plowing, Junghanns, Julius Paul (Nazi).
• By the Water, Liebermann, Ernst (Nazi), 1936.
• Improvisation 31 (Sea Battle) Kadinsky, Wassily,
  1913.
• Doppelbildnis Karnival (Double portrait,
  carnival), Beckmann, Max, 1925.