Discussion 2.4
Be sure to watch the video and the reading provided before this exercise
please do not plagiarism
https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-art-…
https://www.the-american-interest.com/2018/07/13/t…
Rethinking the canon
After reading the articles preceding this exercise, how has your understanding of this week’s topics changed?
Specifically….
- What were your initial reactions to Gauguin’s paintings, before you read more about him? After you learned more, did you start to see his works in a different way? Did you start to interpret them different or did new aspects of his work stand out to you?
- How can you relate this back to our discussion back week about Japonism? In what ways are Gauguin’s obsessions with “primitivism” similar or dissimilar to Japonism?
- Imagine you take a friend to a modern art museum and you walk into a Gauguin exhibition. How would you go about explaining his work to them in a way that relates his form and formal choices with his content and his ideologies?
