April 9th, 2011
Art News Headlines: April 9, 2011
Tags/ Posted by Laura LawsonYou marvel at mosslight & owl-screech, question if keening is important—the dirge of bees swarming at the windowsills, the roosters that only crow at night.continue reading this poem
In the News: “Untitled (Lamp/Bear)” on display to be auctioned off by Christie’s; woman charged with second-degree theft of painting by Paul Gauguin; Edouard Manet collection on exhibit at Musee d’Orsay through July 2011; Banksy’s most well known images to be sold at Bonhams; and rescue operation underway to save artifacts from Buddhist monasteries in Mes Aynak, Afghanistan.
July 20th, 2010
How Sigmund Freud Interpreted Eduoard Manet’s “Olympia”
Tags/ Posted by Athena TaylorIn class Archibald would hide behind a book, decapitated by a book.continue reading this poem
One way to interpret a work of art like a painting, is to think of it as dream made manifest in the physical world. Though Freud’s theories have been questioned by many thinkers, we will use his method of dream interpretation as an approach to analyzing a painting.
