3. On the left
the studies (copies);
On the right,
student self-portrait
in the style of the
master
From the top down:
•Max Beckmann
•Alexei Jawlensky
•Amedeo Modigliani
•Diego Rivera
4. A master study allows you the chance to try a different style
(Student study of Maurice Quentin de Latour)
5. A master study allows you the chance to try on a different hat
(Student study of David Park)
6. A master study allows you to confront an artist “ancestor.”
(Student study of Kathe Kollwitz)
13. Here are a series of reclining goddesses.
Each artist recalls the art that has gone before.
Each artist
in a ‘dialog’ with the past.
14. This Renaissance painting recalls Roman and Greek traditions.
(Titian, late 17th
century, Venus of Urbino)
15. And here is a point of view by one of the few celebrated women painters of the same era
as the previous slide.
(Artemisia Gentileschi , late 16th
century, Cleopatra)
16. In this wildly controversial painting, Paul Gauguin satirizes the high-
serious European tradition of the white reclining goddess.
(Paul Gauguin, late 19th
century)
17. In this wildly controversial painting, Manet satirizes the high-serious
European tradition of the white reclining goddess.
(Édouard Manet, Olympia, 1863)
18. In this wildly controversial painting, Mel Ramos (c.1960) satirizes the
high-serious European tradition of the white reclining goddess.
19. Master Study Assignment
(a) You paint an exact copy of a
master’s painting, paying close
attention to color and composition
(b) Then, you then do a second
painting using your own subject but in
the master’s style (color palette and
brush style)
(c) bring both paintings back to your
next class