This past week has been rough.
why?
well
1) its my last week here, and i'm homesick, but i dont want to leave here at all
2) class has been BOOOORING.
- but this is only because we've moved into modernism. and i don't get it. modern art confuses me to no end. We've been to Villa Savoye, which is Le Corbusier's work and its the foray into a modern home style. We also discussed Gustav Moreau who is not really modern, but a very eccentric painter, who's work I actually enjoyed. We also went to the musee Rodin which was nice because I got to see the Gates of Hell, and The Thinker, and the Three Slaves, and a plaster cast of The Kiss, which has a bronze interpretation outside of the Orangerie, where Monet's Water Lilies are. Today we went to the Centre Pompidou...which was the most ugly building in the world. it was terrible.
also, we had a guest speaker today. She was supposed to talk about the movement of women artists, but somehow, it ended up being a whole recap of art from the whole 20th century which a thematic focus on sex. everything we saw was related to phallic symbols, and wow, lots of sexual themes. it was a little much.
however, because class started late today (330 PM) i went back to musee d'orsay this morning to go look at a couple seurat's and van gogh's and courbet's. i ended up finding corbet's origin of the world which is an explicit painting of the female, which had I known in the moment, would have been an excellent foray into the theme of the day.
So over looking at naked people. also, it doesnt help that france does not censor things shown on TV. so women are literally naked on commercials and tv shows which are seen by families. LITTLE KIDS WATCH THESE THINGS. also, little kids have the life here. they get to go to all these national monuments with school as a part of their curriculum, but at the same time, i dont know how i would feel if my child one day in the future was looking at naked bodies, albeit painted, from a very young age. not sure about that.
regardless, it was a swell morning.
i will add pictures later because my internet is being terrible right now.
why?
well
1) its my last week here, and i'm homesick, but i dont want to leave here at all
2) class has been BOOOORING.
- but this is only because we've moved into modernism. and i don't get it. modern art confuses me to no end. We've been to Villa Savoye, which is Le Corbusier's work and its the foray into a modern home style. We also discussed Gustav Moreau who is not really modern, but a very eccentric painter, who's work I actually enjoyed. We also went to the musee Rodin which was nice because I got to see the Gates of Hell, and The Thinker, and the Three Slaves, and a plaster cast of The Kiss, which has a bronze interpretation outside of the Orangerie, where Monet's Water Lilies are. Today we went to the Centre Pompidou...which was the most ugly building in the world. it was terrible.
also, we had a guest speaker today. She was supposed to talk about the movement of women artists, but somehow, it ended up being a whole recap of art from the whole 20th century which a thematic focus on sex. everything we saw was related to phallic symbols, and wow, lots of sexual themes. it was a little much.
however, because class started late today (330 PM) i went back to musee d'orsay this morning to go look at a couple seurat's and van gogh's and courbet's. i ended up finding corbet's origin of the world which is an explicit painting of the female, which had I known in the moment, would have been an excellent foray into the theme of the day.
So over looking at naked people. also, it doesnt help that france does not censor things shown on TV. so women are literally naked on commercials and tv shows which are seen by families. LITTLE KIDS WATCH THESE THINGS. also, little kids have the life here. they get to go to all these national monuments with school as a part of their curriculum, but at the same time, i dont know how i would feel if my child one day in the future was looking at naked bodies, albeit painted, from a very young age. not sure about that.
regardless, it was a swell morning.
i will add pictures later because my internet is being terrible right now.
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