tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1925559605333281866.post566944889380455607..comments2024-03-22T17:01:37.019-06:00Comments on Anna Rose Bain's Art Blog: Continued - Nudity in Art from a Christian PerspectiveAnna Rose Bainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16322593283981299235noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1925559605333281866.post-21045508062670137962011-02-10T20:42:22.477-07:002011-02-10T20:42:22.477-07:00You're right - that's because there was no...You're right - that's because there was no argument in the end! Thanks for calling me out on that - I was in such a hurry to close that I didn't back up my statements. So I'll conclude the discussion about Gauguin tonight. Thanks!Anna Rose Bainhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16322593283981299235noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1925559605333281866.post-91317751792092793732011-02-10T12:30:04.583-07:002011-02-10T12:30:04.583-07:00Muchly good!
I didn't follow the argument at ...Muchly good!<br /><br />I didn't follow the argument at the end. How are Gauguin's women objectified? Is it because he is 'depersonalizing' them, in Brooks language? It sounded at first as if Gauguin was making of his 'models' just as much a mythical Eve as the Renaissance painters were making of their models a mythical Venus, and by accomplishing this, Gaugain had restored to art the Ideal of Beauty, which it lost somewhere in the Enlightenment. No doubt a revised idea of beauty, which posited true beauty in some unattainable pre-lapsarian utopia, rather than in a vision that still announced itself to mankind from time to time, but an Idea all the same.Matthew Taylornoreply@blogger.com