1. Bây Giờ: Journal #1
Class Art Exhibition
Team A and D = 1 Pt
Team B and C = 2 Pt

2. Food and Shelter
Reproduction and Sexuality
Session 3
Exploring Art: A Global Thematic Approach
Ms. Beka

3. Before I go on…
All the female students get 1
additional bonus point for
coming to class today. Sorry, male
students, no bonus point for you.

4. FOOD AND SHELTER
Art is used to serve, store and enjoy food,
while structures are built not only to provide
shelter,
but also to enhance and enrich lives through
their aesthetic designs.
 (shelter: protection from bad weather)
 (enhance: improve)
 (aesthetic: concerned with beauty, or
artistic)

5.  Art that Glorifies Food
 (glorifies: admires, gives praise and honor to
FOOD & SHELTER
someone or something)
 Baroque Era
 Pop Art
PREVIEW
 Art and the Act of Eating
 Last Supper

6. Art That Glorifies Food
Baroque Era
 A 17th century art movement known for complex
forms, bold decoration, exaggeration, artifice, and
theatrics.
 (exaggeration: bigger or better than reality)
 (artifice: clever tricks to fool/deceive someone)
 (theatrics: overly emotional and dramatic behavior)

7. Art That Glorifies Food
Baroque Era
 A 17th century art movement known for complex
forms, bold decoration, exaggeration, artifice, and
theatrics.
JAN DAVIDSZ DE HEEM. A Table of Desserts, 1640.

8. Art That Glorifies Food
Pop Art
 Mid 1950’s
(Britain), late WAYNE THIEBAUD. Pie Counter, 1963.
1950’s (USA)
 Pop Art (Popular
Art) is usually very
colorful, bold and
arrogant. It
resembles
advertisements,
comics, or pop
entertainment.

9. Art That Glorifies Food
Pop Art
 Mid 1950’s
ANDY WARHOL. Campbell’s Soup
(Britain), late
Cans, 1962.
1950’s (USA)
 Pop Art (Popular
Art) is usually very
colorful, bold and
arrogant. It
resembles
advertisements, co
mics, or pop
entertainment.

10. Art That Glorifies Food
Pop Art
 Does art have to be
original to be art?
 Does art have to be
difficult/creative/
challenging in
order to be art?
 How is visiting an
art gallery
different from
walking around
METRO? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGGk7x6PK0Y

11. Art and the Act of Eating
LEONARDO DA VINCI. Last Supper, 1495-1498.
 Context of meal =  Perspective
historical event
 Central Figure
 Composition Balance
 Shape

12. REPRODUCTION AND
In addition to food and shelter, human
reproduction and sexuality are basic for
producing
offspring or
the survival of the human race. that are
objects
children
SEXUALITY
believed to have
In various cultures, art has aided and
magical power
pictured human fertility, reproduction
and sexuality, especially with charm-
like figures, phallic
symbols, fetishes, erotic images, and
paintings and sculptures of marriage commitment
related to or looking a strong
and children.
like a penis, to depict to/attachment, or an
male dominance object worshipped for
its magical powers
relating to sexual desire or
excitement

13.  Art Depicting Primordial and Human
SEXUALITY PREVIEW
Couples
REPRODUCTION &
 Primordial Couples
 (primordial: from the beginning of time, the
first)
 Human Couples
 Art About Sexuality in Western Culture
 The Feminine Body and the Gaze
 Sexuality, Politics and Consumerism

14. Primordial Couples
Art Depicting Primordial and Human Couples
 In western art and western religions
(Jewish, Christian, and Muslim), the focus
is on Adam and Eve.
 (primordial: from the beginning of
time, the first)
 (expulsion: exile, ejecting, sending out)
 (paradise: [in this case] the Garden of Eden
where everything was perfect)
 MASACCIO. The Expulsion from
Paradise, 1427.

15. Human Couples
Art Depicting Primordial and Human Couples
 The union of couples is
important in western art.
 JAN VAN EYCK. Wedding
Portrait, 1434.
 Perspective
 Composition/Balance
 Symbolism…

16. Human Couples
Art Depicting Primordial and Human Couples
 Chandelier
 Removed Shoes
 Mirror
 Oranges
 Dog

17. Human Couples
Art Depicting Primordial and Human Couples
 Raised Hand
 Open Bed Drapes
 Small Statue of St.
Margaret
 Whisk Broom
 “Johannes de eyck fuit
hic”

18. Human Couples
Art Depicting Primordial and Human Couples
 What does a typical Vietnamese
wedding look like?
 TEAM ACTIVITY
 Depict a typical wedding
ceremony…
 What symbols should you include?
 Fertility, Fidelity, Family, Religion,
Values, Hopes?
 What type of balance/composition
or perspective will you choose?

19. The Feminine Body and Gaze
Art About Sexuality in Western Culture
 How does sexuality work in an image when only a
single figure is depicted?
 In western culture, the meaning of such images
depends on the subject of the picture,
for whom it is made,
and why it is made.

20. The Feminine Body and Gaze
JEAN-AUGUSTE-DOMINIQUE INGRES. Grande Odalisque,
1814.

21. The Feminine Body and Gaze
JEAN-AUGUSTE-DOMINIQUE INGRES. Grande Odalisque,
1814. female
slave or
concubine house for
concubines
 Odalisque in a Turkish harem or servants
 19th century female nudes in Europe and the USA
were made for 19th century men. strongly
suggested
 The sexual exchange implied was completed by a
male’s gaze.
looking
steadily or
intently

22. The Feminine Body and Gaze
JEAN-AUGUSTE-DOMINIQUE INGRES. Grande
Odalisque, 1814.
“As far as one knows, there simply exists no art, and certainly
no high art, in the nineteenth century based on women’s erotic
need, wishes or fantasies. to make someone react
“…the imagery of sexual delight or provocation has always
been created about women for men’s enjoyment, by men…
“Controlling both sex and art, [men] and [their] fantasies
conditioned the world of erotic imagination.”
(Nochlin 1988: 138-139)
influenced or determined

23. The Feminine Body and Gaze
JEAN-AUGUSTE-DOMINIQUE INGRES. Grande
Odalisque, 1814.
TEAM DISCUSSION »
 What are your thoughts about Nochlin’s quote?
 Do you think it is okay for men to “[control] both sex and
art”? Why or why not?
 Are women like food to be “consumed” for appetite and
pleasure? Why or why not?

24. The Feminine Body and Gaze
JEAN-AUGUSTE-DOMINIQUE INGRES. Grande
Odalisque, 1814.
Remember at the beginning of the lecture
when I gave the female students a bonus
point, but not the male students?
Women, how did you feel?
Men, how did you feel?

25. The Feminine Body and Gaze
JEAN-AUGUSTE-DOMINIQUE INGRES. Grande
Odalisque, 1814. » EDWARD MANET. Olympia, 1863.
COMPARE AND
CONTRAST »
 Olympia looks similar to
Grande Odalisque.
 The figure of a
prostitute instead of a
goddess or loyal
concubine (scandalous!)

26. The Feminine Body and Gaze
JEAN-AUGUSTE-DOMINIQUE INGRES. Grande Odalisque,
1814. » EDWARD MANET. Olympia, 1863.
 Head Position
 Flower, Necklace, Bra
celet
 Black Cat
 Placement of Hand
 Ignoring Maid

27. The Feminine Body and Gaze
JEAN-AUGUSTE-DOMINIQUE INGRES. Grande
Odalisque, 1814. » EDWARD MANET. Olympia, 1863.
 TITAN. Venus of
Urbino, 1538.

28. Sexuality, Politics, & Consumerism
Art About Sexuality in Western Culture
 Original Political
Context: 1960’s Anti-
War Protest Slogan
 Artwork Political
Context: Abortion
Rights Slogan in 1989
 Current Context:
Sexual Rights, Racial
Equality
BARBARA KRUGER. Untitled (Your
body is a battleground), 1989.

29. Sexuality, Politics, & Consumerism
Art About Sexuality in Western Culture
 “Your body is a
battleground.”
 (Be careful your body
or life is not controlled
or conquered by the
political powers with
which you disagree.)
 (Fight/protest for the
freedom to use your
body as you wish.)

30. Sexuality, Politics, & Consumerism
Art About Sexuality in Western Culture
 1960’s =
 If you disagree with
the war in
Vietnam, protest for
the end of the war.

31. Sexuality, Politics, & Consumerism
Art About Sexuality in Western Culture
 1989 =
 If you think abortion
should remain
legal, protest against
President Bush who
wants to illegalize/ban
abortion.
 Women, your body is
yours, you must have
the freedom to do with
it as you please.

32. Sexuality, Politics, & Consumerism
Art About Sexuality in Western Culture
 Current Sexual Context
 If you think sexuality
should be expressed as
one wishes
(homo/hetero), protest
against anything that
limits a person
sexually.

33. Sexuality, Politics, & Consumerism
Art About Sexuality in Western Culture
 Current Racial Context
 If you think all races
and ethnicities
(cultural, skin color
and genetic
background) are
equally important,
valid, and human, then
protest against
anything that
disagrees.

34. Sexuality, Politics, & Consumerism
Art About Sexuality in Western Culture
TEAM DISCUSSION »
This slogan has been recycled from its original context.
Do you agree with its message in 1989?
 Does a woman have the freedom to do whatever she
wants to with her own body?
 If so, does that include having an abortion?
 Is abortion considered murder?
 When does the embryo/fetus/unborn offspring become a
human (if its heartbeat is stopped, it’s considered
murder)?

35. Sexuality, Politics, & Consumerism
Art About Sexuality in Western Culture
TEAM DISCUSSION»
Potential, Actual
 Who is this person?
 When did he first show
signs of having potential
genius?
 Do you know he was
adopted?
 Did you know his birth
mother chose to not
abort him?

36. Sexuality, Politics, & Consumerism
Art About Sexuality in Western Culture
TEAM DISCUSSION»
Potential, Actual
 Who is this person?
 Kermit Gosnell
 “Medical Clinic”
unsupervised
 “Helps” women
 Killed 1 mother, 7 babies
(abortion survivors)

37. Sexuality, Politics, & Consumerism
Art About Sexuality in Western Culture
TEAM DISCUSSION»
Women’s Rights?
 Who is this person?
 Gianna Jessen
 Abortion Survivor
 Burned alive
 “Where were my rights?”
 No condemnation,
redemption. 1:00-4:00: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0pvR1v8Gjc

38. Sexuality, Politics, & Consumerism
Art About Sexuality in Western Culture
TEAM DISCUSSION & ACTIVITY »
Life and Death
 When does life begin?
 When does life end?
 As a team, sketch your thoughts on the above questions.

39. Sexuality, Politics, & Consumerism
Art About Sexuality in Western Culture
TEAM DISCUSSION »
This slogan has been recycled from its original context.
Do you agree with its message of sexual context currently?
 Should sexuality be limited to only male and female, or
should there be other categories?
 What stereotypes a woman in the Vietnamese culture?
 What are some stereotypes for men in this culture?

40. Sexuality, Politics, & Consumerism
Art About Sexuality in Western Culture
TEAM DISCUSSION & ACTIVITY »
Should sexuality be limited to only male and female, or
should there be other categories?
 What stereotypes a woman in the Vietnamese culture?
 What are some stereotypes for men in this culture?
 Team A and B, draw a stereotypical Vietnamese man.
 Team C and D, draw a stereotypical Vietnamese woman.

41. Sexuality, Politics, & Consumerism
Art About Sexuality in Western Culture
TEAM DISCUSSION »
This slogan has been recycled from its original context.
Do you agree with its message of racial equality currently?
 Do you think all races, people with different skin and
ethnic backgrounds, are equal?
 Is it okay to discriminate (treat unfairly/hate) someone
because of their ethnic background?

42. Sexuality, Politics, & Consumerism
Art About Sexuality in Western Culture
TEAM ACTIVITY»
This slogan has been recycled from its original context.
Do you agree with its message of racial equality currently?
 As a group, draw a typical Chinese man or woman.
 What does your drawing express about your team’s views
of racial equality?

43. Sexuality, Politics, & Consumerism
Art About Sexuality in Western Culture
TEAM ACTIVITY»
SPEAK UP. One of the functions of art is that it is a means
of protesting injustice.
 Today we discussed social injustices. Regarding which
issue are you most passionate?
 Work in pairs or as a team to create an artwork against the
social injustice you want to protest.

44. Homework:
• Journal Entry #2, Due
Session 5
• Team A – Prepare
Talkback Time on Survival
and Beyond