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Rose Turner
Brett Whiteley
Edgar Degas
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Framing question
The intimate act of bathing has been a favoured subject for a number of 19th and 20th century artists. Analyse the strategies that Turner, Whitely and Degas have used to establish a feeling of intimacy in their works? Consider the relationship between the human form and the bath. Describe how the bath creates a ‘frame within a frame’ and the way it determines the composition of the image in each of these artworks. Examine how each of the artists uses line in their work and in what ways line can suggest the qualities and sensation of water. Consider the role of the audience in viewing these works.
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Rose Turner
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Milk and Honey: Boys Don’t Cry
Drawing
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Hunter School of Performing Arts
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By placing the male form, in the metaphoric state of adolescence, in and environment with female connotations – the bathroom – I hoped to challenge cultural images of masculinity and femininity. Post Modernism allows for images of 'classic' gender roles to be readily available- Milk and Honey: Boys don't Cry is an effort to challenge an artistic unbalance regarding male representation in the history of art. Working on the notion of being quietly subversive Milk and Honey: Boys don't Cry is a mirror opposite to works that empower the male voyeur, challenging audience expectations and responses according to personal history. The aural dimension of the work saturates the audience in the 'environment', creating a strong sense of intimacy.
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collection
art gallery of
new south wales
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Brett Whiteley (Australia, b.1939, d.1992)
Woman in the Bath 1963
Painting, oil, paper, graphite and tempera on plywood
© Whiteley Estate
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Purchased with funds provided by the Art Gallery Society of New South Wales 2000
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collection
art gallery of
new south wales
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Edgar Degas (France, b.1834, d.1917)
After the Bath circa 1900
Drawing, charcoal
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Margaret Hannah Olley Art Trust 1994
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