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Master Study Assignment

Glenn Hirsch, Instructor

The Venus of Urbino is a 1538 painting by the Italian master Titian. It depicts a nude young woman, identified with the goddess Venus, reclining on a couch in the sumptuous surroundings of a Renaissance palace. Devoid of any classical or allegorical trappings – Venus displays none of the attributes of the goddess she is supposed to represent – the painting is a portrait of his patron’s girlfriend and is meant to shock the society of that time.

Olympia is a 1865 painting by Édouard Manet which is a parody of Titian’s Venus, and is meant to shock the society of its time. It shows a nude white woman ("Olympia") lying on a bed being brought flowers by a black servant. Olympia's confrontational gaze caused astonishment when the painting was first exhibited because a number of details in the picture identified her as a well-known prostitute.

Mel Ramos is a pop artist who painted this parody in 1960.

Jenny Kuhla, 1975.

Skip Rohde, 1995.

Manet Monet Van Gogh

What is ‘style’ ?

HiroshigeRembrandt Manet

Portrait in a style after Michelangelo

Angela Pryor

After Leonardo’s Last Supper

Portrait in a style after Thomas Gainsborough and Richard Diebenkorn

Elinor Schnarr

Portrait in a style after Thomas Gainsborough and Richard Diebenkorn

Elinor Schnarr

Assignment:

(1) Your study of a master

(2) A second painting in response

study of Richard Diebenkorn and responseLyndsay Erickson

study of Georgia O’Keefe and 3 responses

Study of John Lundin and response

Study of John Singer Sargent and response

Study of Karl Schmidt-Rottluff and response

Study of Karl Schmidt-Rottluff and response

Portrait master studies:

the student response is

a self-portrait

as if the master did a portrait of them.

Study of Amadeo Modigliani and self-portrait responseMarissa Geoffrey

Study of Kazimir Malevich and student self-portrait response

Study of Van Gogh and self-portrait resopnseBecke Aller

study of Picasso and student self-portrait response

Study of Eugene Delacroix and self-portrait response Kat Mergens

Study of Lucian Freud and self-portrait responseRenee Kelley

Study of Emile Nolde and student self-portrait response

Study of Maurice Quentin de Latour and self-portrait response

study of David Park and self-portrait response

study of Johannes Vermeer and student self-portrait response

study of Kathe Kollwitz and student self-portrait response

study of José Clemente Orozco and student self-portrait response

study of Lucien Freud and self-portrait response

Study of Jenny Saville and self-portrait response

study of Paul Gauguin and self-portrait response

Study of Max Beckmann and response Aaron Dowell