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Restaging the Nude: Matisse's Dance
Notes taken by Edward Tanguay on June 11, 2018 (go to class or lectures)
Choose from these words to fill the blanks below:
agency, academy, foray, looking, codes, fantasy, attic, dancing, female, disfiguring, erotic, spectators, assault, pigment, isolated, Olympia, explosion, controversial, primary, uncharted, academic, 1908
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The Dance (1909)
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one of Matisse's most celebrated and paintings
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a daring into avant garde experiment
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challenged the principles upon with painting was based
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emerged from Matisse's informal academy established in
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invited students to experiment
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to push the potential of line and color into territory
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he evacuated his bodies of the qualities that usually accompany the nude
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resulted in a spectacular of the female body
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was seen by many as an on the eye
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threw to waste the ideals of the nude
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Matisse's Blue Nude
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a disturbingly twisted naked body
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was seen to be more offensive than Manet's
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female form in which the naturalism is heightened
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naked bodies in The Dance are for most viewers not erotic
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and they are unrewarding
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like watching a stone drop into water
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your eye follows the expanding circles and it takes a deliberate, almost perverse effort of will, to keep focusing on the point of first impact
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originally intended to paint on commission for the Russian art patron Sergei Shchukin
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appeared to contemporary viewers as a fragment of a work of art rather than a worked out picture
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a bold experiment of line and color of five women in an open space
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garnered negative criticism
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the flattened-out picture is plain
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the abstracted female bodies and large expanses of bright color, unrewarding
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gender theorists have proposed that the regimes of looking in visual culture privilege a male viewer who exercises an active gaze towards subjects who, occupying a passive position, produce pleasure through reinforcing masculine power in narratives that celebrate male agency
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works such as Matisse's The Dance threaten to upset those regimes of
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five naked female bodies move in a circular formation pulling each other through a dynamic movement that is pleasing to view, along with the harmony that the rhythm of these bodies in space create
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but there is no sexual pleasure here for
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the women's bodies have been evacuated of erotic content
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the expectations in viewing a female nude immediately demand particular viewing , which are frustrated by Matisse's sparse evocation of movement in space
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the subject of the painting has more to do with the color harmonies created by use of and economical line
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the pale pink bodies reminiscent of pot figures
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the bold green of the space upon which the figures are located and the brilliant blue of the sky, combining into an of color which forges a new harmonic regime
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all the pleasure in the work is reserved for the women themselves, who through their dance, have taken over the usually accorded to the viewers of the nude in a selfish act of refusal
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the dancers do not address the spectator, and indeed, they are not even remotely concerned about us
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there is no agency for us, the spectators
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we merely witness the spectacle
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the potential for is limited
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the dancers do not address the spectator
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they don't rely upon the conventions of the for their authority
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they establish their own way of being in their pleasure
Ideas and Concepts:
Matisses's The Dance, restaging the nude, via tonight's Sexing the Canvas course:
"Gender theorists have proposed that the regimes in visual culture privilege a male viewer who exercises an active gaze towards female subjects who, occupying a passive position, produce pleasure through reinforcing masculine power in narratives that celebrate male agency.
Works such as Matisse's The Dance threaten to upset these regimes. Here we see five naked female bodies move in a circular formation pulling each other through a dynamic movement that is pleasing to view, along with the harmony that the rhythm of these bodies in space create.
But there is no sexual pleasure here for us to enjoy. The women's bodies have been evacuated of erotic content. While the expectations in viewing a female nude immediately demand particular viewing codes, these codes are frustrated by Matisse's sparse evocation of movement in space.
The subject of the painting has more to do with the color harmonies created by use of pigment and economical line. The depiction of the pale pink bodies are more reminiscent of attic pot figures. The bold green of the space upon which the figures are located and the brilliant blue of the sky, combine into an explosion of color which forges a new harmonic regime.
All the pleasure in the work is reserved for the women themselves, who through their dance, have taken over the agency usually accorded to the viewers of the nude in a selfish act of refusal."
"Gender theorists have proposed that the regimes in visual culture privilege a male viewer who exercises an active gaze towards female subjects who, occupying a passive position, produce pleasure through reinforcing masculine power in narratives that celebrate male agency.
Works such as Matisse's The Dance threaten to upset these regimes. Here we see five naked female bodies move in a circular formation pulling each other through a dynamic movement that is pleasing to view, along with the harmony that the rhythm of these bodies in space create.
But there is no sexual pleasure here for us to enjoy. The women's bodies have been evacuated of erotic content. While the expectations in viewing a female nude immediately demand particular viewing codes, these codes are frustrated by Matisse's sparse evocation of movement in space.
The subject of the painting has more to do with the color harmonies created by use of pigment and economical line. The depiction of the pale pink bodies are more reminiscent of attic pot figures. The bold green of the space upon which the figures are located and the brilliant blue of the sky, combine into an explosion of color which forges a new harmonic regime.
All the pleasure in the work is reserved for the women themselves, who through their dance, have taken over the agency usually accorded to the viewers of the nude in a selfish act of refusal."
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