OPEN YOUR EYES: A brief look at the nude

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OPEN YOUR EYES A brief look at the nude

• Humanities 1301
• Professor Schlanger

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Botticelli 1485 Birth of Venus
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Raphael 1517 The Three Graces
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Titian 1538 Venus of Urbino
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Rubens 1613 Venus at the Mirror
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Ingres 1814 Odalisque
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Courbet 1861 Nude Woman with a Dog
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Manet 1863 Olympia
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Sacred and Profane?
Titians Venus 1538
Manets Olympia 1863
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Degas 1886 The Tub
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Gauguin 1891 Two Nudes on a Tahitian Beach
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Picasso 1901 The Blue Room
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Cezanne 1905 The Large Bathers
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Henri Matisse The Dance 1910
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Henri Matisse Joy of Life 1909
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Picasso 1907 Demoiselles dAvignon
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From Gertrude Steins Picasso

• Picasso said once that he who created a thing is
  forced to make it ugly, In the effort to create
  the intensity and the struggle to create this
  intensity, the result always produces a certain
  ugliness, those who follow can make of this thing
  a beautiful thing because they know what they are
  doing, the thing having already been invented,
  but the inventor because he does not know what he
  is going to invent inevitably the thing he makes
  must have its ugliness.
• Picasso when he saw an eye, the other one did
  not exist for him and only the one he saw did
  exist for him as a painter.. . One sees what one
  sees, the rest is reconstruction from memory and
  painters have nothing to do with reconstruction,
  nothing to do with memory, they concern
  themselves only with visible things, and so the
  cubism of Picasso was an effort to make a picture
  of these visible things

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Duchamp 1912 Nude Descending a Staircase