FAH101H1 Study Guide - Final Guide: Physiognomy, Edward Fry, Robert Rosenblum
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Give three interpretations and approaches to picassos les mademoiselles (3 para) and then explain which you think is most compelling and why (1 para) Attacking his mistress(?: woman in a chemise, jealous because she was working for other artists, 1907, derain adopted a 13yo orphan. Supine verticality: they are standing, but the way they stand and pose- the rigidity and yet relaxation of their bodies physcologially implies and tells you that they are posing lying down (23/69) 2nd from left: she rests recessive but still accentuates and extends her body. The curtain: the way it opens and is held disrupts the idea of supine verticality. Because when you look at a representation of figure of painting, you feel the pose, if the body is distorted, it shows profound resonance in you, provoke more powerful sense of the weight of the pose. Experiment with ways to distort figures, rather than visual sense of what they look like.
