How do we know WHO is beautiful?
Was man created in God’s image or the other way around?
Otherworldly Figures Gods and Goddesses
Venus of Willendorf, 30,000 – 25,000 BCE
Ishtar – Syrian Goddess of Love
Ancient Greek, Venus de Milo,
Ancient Greek, Posedin
Ancient Greek - Eros
Tlazoltetol – Aztec Goddess of Love
Xochipilli – Aztec God of Love
What can we infer about what was important to the people who made these two sculptures?
Titian, Venus de Urbino,
William Bouguereau, A Young Girl Defending Herself Against Eros, 1880
Jean Ingres, Jupiter and Thetis, 1811
Freya – Norse Goddess
Radha and Krishna
Indian Goddess
M. F. Hussain, Bharatmata
How can portrayal of the human form tell us something about the “human condition?”
The East
Japan
Japanese painting
Shin Hanga - Japanese print – Artist Unknown, early 20 th century
Goyo Hatschiguchi, Woman after Bath, 1920
Artist Unknown, Japanese Print, 1921
China
Ming Dynasty – Four Beauties
Yue Minjun
Yue Minjun, Sun, 2000
India
India – Couple from Temple at Karle
M. F. Hussain, Bharatmata, 2006
Dhruva Mistry, Walking Man, 1981
Dhruva Mistry, Reclining Figure, 1983
Navjot Altaf, Untitled Blue Woman, 2000
Pre-Columbian American
Pre-Columbian figure from Veracruz, Mexico,
Pre-Columbian Sculpture from South America
Africa
Burkino-Faso
Gabon
Zaire/Congo
Nigerian
The West
King Mycerinus, Ancient Egypt, 2520 BCE
Greek Kourous
Roman copy of a Greek Discus Thrower
The Doom, St. Peter’s Church, Suffolk
Lochner, scenes from Hell, 1435
Verrechio, David, 1447Donatello, David, 1440Michelangelo, David, 1504
Bottecelli, The Birth of Venus, 1482
Titian, Venus de Urbino, 1538
Peter Paul Rubens, Venus at the Mirror, 1615
Peter Paul Rubens, The Three Graces, 1638
William Blake, Europe Supported By Africa and America, 1796
Jean Ingres, Jupiter and Thetis, 1811
Eugene Delacroix, Louis D’Orleans Showing his Mistress, 1826
Eugene Delacroix, The Death of Sardanapalus,1828
Adolfe Bougereau, Birth of Venus, 1879
Gustave Courbet, The Painter’s Studio, 1855
Edward Manet, Luncheon on the Grass, 1863
Eduard Manet, Olympia, 1863
Paul Cezanne, Bathers, 1881
Paul Cezanne, Grandes Baigneuses, 1905
Auguste Rodin, The Age of Bronze, 1877
Auguste Rodin, The Kiss,
Edgar Degas, Dancer, 1880
Henri Matisse La Serpentine, 1909 The Serf, 1903
Pablo Picasso, Les Madmoiselles d’Avignon 1908
Pablo Picasso, Marie-Therese Walter, 1909
Rene Magritte,
Salvadore Dali, Retrospective Bust of a Woman 1931
Alexander Archipenko Gondelier, 1914 Torso in space, 1936
Aristide Maillol, Las Tes Ninfa, 1938
Marino Marini, Danzatrice, 1949
Picasso
Ernst Barlach
Gaston Lachaise
Domnisoara Pogany, 1931 The Kiss, 1908 Constantin Brancusi
Jacques Lipchitz Sailor with Guitar, 1914
Auguste Malliol The River, 1943 Action in Chains, 1969
Umberto Boccioni, Unique Form in Contemporary Space, 1913
Nuam Gabo Konsruktiver Kopf # 1, 1915
Raoul Hausmann, Mechanical Head, 1919
Yves Klein, Blue Venus,
Nikki de St. Phalle, Black Venus,
Willem DeKooning, Seated Woman, 1950
Willem DeKooning, Woman I, 1950
Willem DeKooning, Large Torso, 1974
Mel Ramos, Olympia, 1972
H.C. Westermann The Evil New War God, 1958 Memorial to the Idea of Man if He Was An Idea, 1958
Marisol John, Washington,and Emily Roebling Crossing the Brooklyn Bridge for the First Time, 1989
Ed Keinholz, The State Hospital, 1966
George Segal
George Segal, views from The Holocaust, 1979
Duane Hanson
Robert Graham Source Figure, 1991 Untitled (back), 2003
Walking man Dancers Jonathan Borofsky
Chris Burden, Doorway to Heaven, 1973 Gilbert and George, The Singing Sculpture, 1971
Tim Hawkinson, Inflatable Self Portrait, 1993
Adrian Arleo
Tip Toland
Ernst Barlach Kathe Kollwitz Constantin Brancusi Jonathan Borofsky Alexander Calder Edgar Degas Ed Kienholz
The Guerilla Girls, 1989
Adolfe Bougereau, Birth of Venus, 1879 Excerpt from “The Birth of Venus II,” by Seamus Ryan Are these two images art or pornography?
How do these images comment on the portrayal of women in art?
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