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    For my analysis‚ I chose a painting by Jean Ingres called “Jupiter and Thetis”. It is a reflection on the roman myth of Jupiter (Zeus in Greek mythology). The myth behind the painting is important to understand before you try to analyze it. In the myth‚ Thetis‚ a goddess of the sea‚ heard a prophecy that said she was destined to bear a son greater than his father. This made him a threat to many people due to his father being a very powerful man. During the Trojan war she was desperate to protect

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    order to show the culture of his time. Yasumasa Morimura also appropriated work‚ recreating manet’s in order to challenge cultures and gender roles in society through his work “futago” (1988). Jean Ingres challenged how the nude was portrayed and positioned‚ this is evident through his work “la grande odalisque” (1814). In turn the gurilla girls‚ a well known feminist organization who bring up contemporary issues through the appropriations of Ingre’s work created “what does a girl have to do to get hung”

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    believed to be the figure of perfection; softness‚ curves and long thick hair. One of the paintings shown in Ways of Seeing” video is a painting by Jean Auguste Ingres called La Grande Odalisque. This painting was commissioned by Caroline Murat‚ Queen of Naples in 1814[ii]. Beauty is clearly expressed in this painting. Although Ingres’ ideal of female form is anatomically impossible with the enhancement of the overly long back appearance‚ her figure is the ideal curve. It is boneless. Her pose and

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    (2). On the other hand‚ in 1814‚ Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres painted the “Grand Odalisque”‚ also influenced by Titian’s “Venus of Urbino”. This is the painting that is usually credited with breaking the Neoclassicism period and opening the doors to Romanticism. The technique of this painting is oil and there is a strong Oriental influence to it (3). The composition represents an

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    Napoleon’s stance in the painting shows power‚ and self-confidence. When Napoleon was crowned Emperor‚ Neoclassical art was used to legitimate his empire. Artist Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres was known for creating neoclassical art with a “looser” interpretation. Some of Ingres’ work‚ such as the Grande Odalisque‚ was with women posing in a similar form to Greek nude women. Neoclassicism even influenced early U.S. presidents‚ such as Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson utilized the democratic ideals from

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    1785 Jacques Louis-David‚ Oath of the Horatii‚ 1784-1785 Angelica Kauffmann‚ Cornelia Pointing to her Children as Her Treasures‚ 1785 Romanticism: Antoine-Jean Gros‚ Napoleon in the Plague House at Jaffa‚ 1804 Jean-Auguste Dominique Ingres‚ Large Odalisque‚ 1814 Adéläide Labille-Guiard‚

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    Artists of different time periods have made it clear that social movements and happenings have a great deal of importance in their work. Whether it is sculptures‚ paintings on walls in buildings like churches‚ or on canvas‚ the way that social movements and the ways in which society has changed their ways of looking at things‚ in particular women‚ have been depicted in artwork for centuries. In various forms of art throughout history‚ women are shown as sex symbols‚ weak‚ as servants to men and as

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    on things that were going on in that particular period of time‚ it’s like they painted with their hearts and not their heads. (http://www.huntfor.com/arthistory/c17th-mid19th/romanticism.htm) An example of Romantic art is Odalisque with a Slave‚ by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres . This painting shows emotion and freedom‚ you can see it in the pose and by the look in her eyes that the

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    His work “Oath of the Horatii‚” is inspired by the forthcoming French revolution‚ the mood of self-sacrifice is illustrated rather than self-indulgence. The new age of stoicism art was a form of propaganda for the republic. Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres was a star pupil of David‚ but he went even further than David in devotion to the ancients. His paintings were very Greek and preached logic. His painting‚ “Paganini” has photographic precision‚ which allows his portrait of Paganini to almost exactly

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    Man Ray’s Violin D’Ingres is a perfect example of a modernist photograph. Man Ray pushes both how photography is perceived and what is possible within a photograph in this example. Man Ray himself was an American‚ born as Emmanuel Rudnitsky‚ but moved to Paris and engaged in very non-American photography. Europe lacked the American ideals about what "strait photography" should be. While American schools of photography believed that an art photograph should only be made with a large negative with

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