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Myth and Sexuality: Glyn Philpot's Oedipus
Notes taken by Edward Tanguay on November 16, 2019 (go to class or lectures)
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fashion, 1910s, Berlin, Picasso, palette, callow, Fascists, Craven, nubile, politesse, Veronese, Ricketts, Andrea, portrait, masterish, homosexual, Manuelito, Dix, royalty, Victoria, emasculated, struggle, Ross, fluidity, Holbein, masculinity, Grosz, Brummell, Oedipus, tomb, Italian, gay, sexually, indiscreet
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Glyn Philpot (1884-1937)
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made a name for himself in Great Britain in and 1920s
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fasionable society painter
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as art student became fascinated with painting by Renaissance painters
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Titian (1488-1576)
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Paolo (1538-1588)
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Mantegna (1431-1506)
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Hans the Younger (1497-1543)
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depth of contstruction and subtle
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somber authority
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subtleties of applying glazes over underpainting to build up richness and texture
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1906, "we shouldn't strike out methods of our own"
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1909, public reputation cemented with The
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1910 exhibition of the Modern Society of Portrait Painters
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entered the world of London society
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1920s
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a dozen major portrait commissions per year
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leading figures within British and society
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Sir Banister Flight Fletcher, architect
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Sir Oswald Mosley, found of British Union of
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John Henry Whitley, Speaker of the House of Commons
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dubbed the Beau of painting
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1778-1840, iconic figure in Regency England and for many years the arbiter of men's
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personal category of portraiture
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found constant relaxation from the rigueur and forced of portrait painting
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devoted almost exclusively to male subjects
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youthful optimism of young men
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callow, adj. inexperienced and immature
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jaded charm of broken-nose boxers
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male African and African American sitters
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only his sister Daisy were privy to his private artworks
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homosexuality
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maintained an extensive network of friends and acquaintances
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Robert (1869-1918) Canadian journalist, art critic and art dealer
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early lover of Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
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open homosexuality
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Charles (1866-1931) and Charles Shannon (1863-1937)
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one of the great couples of British art
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Sir Philip Sassoon (1888-1939)
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homosexual art collector
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late 1920s
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friends were worried that Philpot's art was becoming too for comfort
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1931
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forced to confront many contradictions his art presents
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politically dangerous and charged world
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traveling to affected him profoundly
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decadent nightlife
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grimly satiric art
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George (1893-1959)
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Otto (1891-1969)
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Paris
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glass studio apartment
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reinvent himself
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engaged with , surrealism
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explored the erotically heightened milieus of the modern metropolis
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his art was changing as much as his personal life
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lilacs and blues
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1932
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Leicester Galleries in London
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decadent Berlin night life
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intimations of a sexual
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flaunted his hitherto unspoken homosexuality
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new modes of expression are continually necessary
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Scotsman Newspaper: "Glyn Philpot Goes Picasso"
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portrait commissions dried up
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increasingly beset financial problems
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Thomas (1888-1969)
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American art critic from Kansas
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anti-modernist and homophobe
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1934 Modern Art, railed against the perceived decorative nature of modern art
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the artist is losing his
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two sexes are being merged into an androgynous third
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Picasso is the most offensive element in modern art
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Oedipus, 1932
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today: National Gallery of , Melbourne
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strangely and scantily clad Oedipus figure
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nubile, adj. (of a girl or woman) sexually attractive
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primative looking features
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strong echoes of Oscar Wilde's in the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, 20th arrondissement
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powerful grip on the painting's figure
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encapsulates the artist's at this time with his sexuality
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this was the artistic equivalent of coming out
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suddenly Philpott's art no longer looked masculine or reassuringly old-
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it seemed feminized, or , to use Craven's term
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