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I posted a few weeks ago about my project for Thematic Exposure, the art history tutorial I’m taking with Andy Spence and three fellow students. Quick refresher - We are each working with a theme and putting together our own (hypothetical) exhibit of works that span different times and cultures. I started out working very broadly with erotic art as a way to explore different conceptions of sex and morality. I’ve narrowed things down to look at erotic art as a way of taking sex, which is generally considered to be intimate, and making it public. My exhibit is driven by questions like: What makes sex in art tasteful/acceptable? How has art influenced cultural understandings of sex as an intimate v. public act? How do we distinguish between art and pornography? This week I looked at Bosch’s “The Garden of Earthly Delights,” a favorite painting of mine (which I saw in Madrid last month!). The triptych implies that sexual indulgence leads to eternal damnation. Yikes. I’m using this piece to consider connection(s) between sex, art, and Christianity. Next week I want to work with something more modern - perhaps I may go the film route? ~ Holly, ‘13

I posted a few weeks ago about my project for Thematic Exposure, the art history tutorial I’m taking with Andy Spence and three fellow students. Quick refresher - We are each working with a theme and putting together our own (hypothetical) exhibit of works that span different times and cultures.

I started out working very broadly with erotic art as a way to explore different conceptions of sex and morality. I’ve narrowed things down to look at erotic art as a way of taking sex, which is generally considered to be intimate, and making it public. My exhibit is driven by questions like: What makes sex in art tasteful/acceptable? How has art influenced cultural understandings of sex as an intimate v. public act? How do we distinguish between art and pornography?

This week I looked at Bosch’s “The Garden of Earthly Delights,” a favorite painting of mine (which I saw in Madrid last month!). The triptych implies that sexual indulgence leads to eternal damnation. Yikes. I’m using this piece to consider connection(s) between sex, art, and Christianity.

Next week I want to work with something more modern - perhaps I may go the film route?

~ Holly, ‘13

~ Thematic Exposure Tutorial ~ Meg blogged last week about her project for the “Thematic Exposure” tutorial with Andy Spence (looting & archaeological sites). I’m also in that class, and I’m feeling pretty pumped about my project. As a refresher, we’re spending the first 7 weeks of class working on a time-based exhibit, and the second 7 weeks on a culture-based exhibit. I’m still developing my theme and narrowing things down right now, but sex and erotic art are my broadest focus. I’m interesting in exploring the eternal presence of sex and why it is the subject of moral debate, given that it always has and always will be practiced. Has the representation of an intimate act in a public form (art) shaped our views at all? For my first piece, I’m working with vintage photographs. The picture above was taken by Bellocq, a photographer from the early 20th century who took photos of prostitutes in Storyville, the legal red light district of New Orleans. He was friends with these women, and captured them in a natural way (particularly given the stiff, posed nature of portraits at this time). His images are really beautiful. I’m excited to narrow my focus and see where my exhibit goes from here. Holly

~ Thematic Exposure Tutorial ~

Meg blogged last week about her project for the “Thematic Exposure” tutorial with Andy Spence (looting & archaeological sites). I’m also in that class, and I’m feeling pretty pumped about my project.

As a refresher, we’re spending the first 7 weeks of class working on a time-based exhibit, and the second 7 weeks on a culture-based exhibit. I’m still developing my theme and narrowing things down right now, but sex and erotic art are my broadest focus. I’m interesting in exploring the eternal presence of sex and why it is the subject of moral debate, given that it always has and always will be practiced. Has the representation of an intimate act in a public form (art) shaped our views at all?

For my first piece, I’m working with vintage photographs. The picture above was taken by Bellocq, a photographer from the early 20th century who took photos of prostitutes in Storyville, the legal red light district of New Orleans. He was friends with these women, and captured them in a natural way (particularly given the stiff, posed nature of portraits at this time). His images are really beautiful.

I’m excited to narrow my focus and see where my exhibit goes from here.

Holly

“They just might be whores, though.” - professor Andy Spence in my advanced work art history tutorial talking about artists who make stuff for the Pope. Sometimes stuff like this happens. - Meg ‘12

“They just might be whores, though.” - professor Andy Spence in my advanced work art history tutorial talking about artists who make stuff for the Pope.

Sometimes stuff like this happens.

- Meg ‘12