IRL 500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Australian Aboriginal Religion And Mythology, Stereotype, Ethnology
30 Jun 2016
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Prostitutes: new idea was that they weren"t painted as sexy, were fractured and jagged. 4th dimension of painting--painting where you can move in time and space. Innovator because he painted conceptually--as he thought, not as he saw. Mirrored faces are just dabs, not finished--there"s a haze, legs of trapeze artist. Fruits on plate is symbol for sex/transient earthly pleasure. The painting of a tree is not a tree--it is a vertical accent on a flat surface . Hard to see where the bushes begin and end because of brushstrokes. Reflections change, water isn"t static = his painting is more realistic than typical idyllic landscape. Racist colonial period from french west africa **but he didn"t go to africa, doesn"t know there are thousands of different tribal cultures. Stereotyping, cultural homogeneity, thinking other cultures are inferior. New discipline called ethnology: assumptions that there is a neutral culture against which everyone else is judged (aka european culture)
