Jean-Paul Sartre

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European Postwar Existentialism
1949 a founding feminist text rooted in
existential doubts about the true nature of
Being. One is not born a woman, one becomes
one.
1943
Jean-Paul Sartre Simone de Beauvoir 1938 Paris
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Jean Fautrier (French, 1898-1964) Art Informel,
tachisme, Head of a Hostage, 20," oil on panel,
1944, one of over thirty hostage paintings and
sculptures that he made during the occupation of
Paris alluding to Nazi atrocities Fautrier is
said to have witnessed there.
These paintings addressed the most important
issue of their time, epitomizing a 'new human
resolve' against the horrors of war." -
Fautrier
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Jean Fautrier, Large Tragic Head, bronze, 1943
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Jean Fautrier Nude 1960oil on canvas,
tachisme35 in. x 57 1/2 in.
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Germaine Richier (French, 1904-1959) Crucified
Christ, 1950, Notre-Dame de Tour Grâce d'Assy,
France. Post-humanist? (lower right)
Richiers teacher, Emile-Antoine Bourdelle,
Hercules, 1909. What became of the heroic human
body in Western art? Why?
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Richier, The Shepherd of Landes, 1951 (right) Le
Griffu, 1952Bronze, 98 x 94 x 74 cm
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Germaine Richier, Praying Mantis, 1949, bronze,
47 height, Middelheim Sculpture Museum, Antwerp
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Alberto Giacometti (Swiss, 1901-1966), (left)
City Square, 1948, bronze, c. 8 x 25 x
17(right) Giacometti, Portrait of a Seated Man
(Diego), 1949, oil on canvas, 80 x 64 cm.
2 of 5 casts. Guggenheim collection photos,
lower, shows artists preferred viewpoint
(eye-level, close up), which alters the viewers
perception of scale
Portraits are the stopping point of an agonized
struggle with perception as proof of existence
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Giacometti, The Palace at 4 a.m., 1932,
construction in wood, glass, wire, and string, 25
x 28 x 15 in. Prewar Surrealist work
Artists sketch, 1932
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Giacometti, Woman with Her Throat Cut, bronze,
1932, prewar Surrealist work drawing from the
artists dreams and imaginings
MoMA New York, 2005
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(left) Poseidon, Greek, c. 575 BC, bronze, found
in the Aegean Sea in 1926 gods as men(right)
Giacometti, Man Pointing, 1947, bronze, 70 inches
high, Existential man thrown naked into the
void (Heidegger, German WWII era existential
philosopher). The classical Poseidon was a source
for Giacometti.
Sacramentos Poseidon
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Jean Dubuffet French, 1901-1985 Art Brut,
Large Sooty Nude, 1944, o/c, 64H (right) Tree
of Fluids, 1952 compare (center) Willem de
Kooning, Woman I, 1952Art addresses the mind,
not the eyes. (Dubuffet)
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Jean Dubuffet, Art Brut, Fleshy Face with
Chestnut Hair, 1951, Oil mixed-media, 28H
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Brassai, (Gyula Halasz, French b. Romania, 1899 -
1987)(left) Swastika Graffiti (right) Passion
Graffiti, both Paris, 1939
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Henry Moore (English 1896-1986) Tube Shelter
Perspective,1941, chalk, pen and watercolor, 8
1/2 x 6 1/2 in., one of thousands of such
drawings Moore made during WWII.
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Henry Moore King and Queen 1952 bronze
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Henry Moore Working model for Reclining Figure
for Lincoln Center 1963-65 plaster
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Henry Moore Reclining Figure for Lincoln
Center 1963-65 bronze
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Francis Bacon (British, 1909 -1992), (left)
Painting, 1946, oil and pastel on linen, 6' 6" x
52 MoMA NYC (right) Head Surrounded by Sides
of Beef, oil on canvas, 1954
Black umbrella was the symbol of British Prime
Minister Neville Chamberlains policy of Nazi
appeasement before WWII. An attempt to remake
the violence of reality itself (Bacon)
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Francis Bacon, Study after Velazquez's Portrait
of Pope Innocent X, 5 x 4 ft, 1953(right top)
source Velazquez, Pope Innocent X, 1650 (right
below) a still from Sergei Eisensteins 1925 The
Battleship Potemkin, Odessa steps sequence
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Francis Bacon, Three Studies for Figures at the
Base of a Crucifixion, 1944, oil and pastel on
canvas, triptych on wood fiberboard, each 37 x 29
inches. The crucifixion was for Bacon a symbol
of humanitys sadism. (lower right) crucial
source Picasso, On the Beach (La Baignade),
1937. Picasso encouraged Bacon and bought his
work early on.
Aeschylus The Eumenides The Furies, the hidden
side of the human psyche, with Orestes
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(left) Francis Bacon, Three Studies of figures on
Beds, 1972, oil and pastel on canvas, triptych,
each panel 66 x 4 10(right) source Eadweard
Muybridge, photograph from The Human Figure in
Motion, 1887
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Sothebys May 14, 2008, a 1976 Francis Bacon
Triptych Fetches 86,281,000