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Paper Abstract: Analysis of the Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres oil painting. Discusses the title and content of the 1859 painting, and its revision in 1863. Representation of women. Frankness of the artist's expression; sexual fantasy. Implied message of painting regarding French colonialism. Art historian Walter Friendlaender's account of the painting. John Berger's "Way of Seeing." Paper Introduction: John Berger's Ways of Seeing makes many suggestions about how to look at works from the great period of Western oil painting (1500-1900). He argues that the traditional ways in which art history looked at painting involved a great deal of mystification, that is, "the process of explaining away what might otherwise be evident" (Berger 15-16). In Berger's view mystification involves explanations of the meanings of pictures, the reasons why they were painted, and what they meant to the painters and the owners. Analyses that mystify cover up certain aspects of this art; specifically those related to domination--domination of women by men, of the weak by the powerful, and of the not-rich by the rich. A closer look at one picture demonstrates how careful interrogation of what is in front of the viewer brings out information and possible meanings that are not Text of the Paper: The entire text of the paper is shown below. However, the text is somewhat scrambled. We want to give you as much information as we possibly can about our papers and essays, but we cannot give them away for free. In the text below you will find that while disordered, many of the phrases are essentially intact. From this text you will be able to get a solid sense of the writing style, the concepts addressed, and the sources used in the research paper. art history looked at paintinginvolved a why they were painted and by the powerful and of the of art historians of the past historian Walter Friedlaender in Ingres' painting was originally a Museum inParis was oil on canvas on wood It provides has to ask as soonas s same age and body and facial-type The vast sprawl of to the manwho owns the that it is anything other painter candevise within the limits of But ultimately these womenpossess only one major trait availability extends in time and number the usual are few however they are noteworthy in that isexotic Such sights are not to be seen fact that this is just the way things are' in northernEuropeans Third the women are not engaged in any Theyare simply engaged in ordinary rituals of bathing and Near-Eastern setting is not simply anexcuse lesser extent the Near East were very important the theory of empire was propagated and in done at the outset of feminized weak and available Without inherently unproductive' culture that supports such phenomena as Ingres' imaginary painting As far as the treatment of the foreign a woman's bath in Adrianople Montagu was male ownersand viewers of the work to summon he is a little more frank Friedlaender does allow that says that Ingres always showed his fascination by this as a type of female account of thesexual appeal of the picture simply to please the painter himself although makes the strictly sexualappeal of the picture obvious a tremendous vitality He concludeswith a discussion of is undoubtedly true that Ingres by the continuing vitality ofthe elderly painter is somewhat like of maintaining such power even of woman who interested him sexually same man he always was a man' being uses only thefuture tense thereby indicating what one will more consciously indicating the pleasures that the topaint fine pictures The future is sometimes as important to The Transformation of Classicism in the Art of Abrams lookat works from the great period of Western Berger's viewmystification involves explanations of this art specifically those related in frontof the viewer brings out information of the painting with an work with a diameter of inches cm The of women as wellas some ideas it seems to be located in a fantasy of the exotic notion of the harem of the artist's expression of this notion is surprising with small variations in as many a few very few fabrics the vase man for whomthey spend their time feel to it Even though the thing there is a slight pretense that thispainting represents subject The departure from theclassical tradition of representing one or travelers' tales and fantasy and apparentlyunaware that the women in decorum that arepart of the conventional the languorous heat of the bath But colonial empire and theIslamic regions of punitive expedition against the Bey ofAlgiers turned ofsettlement including the Algerian Arabs and Berbers that thatmay be a part of its unstated message but of this foreign other' underlying the sexual nature and very indirectly on its implications the immediate source of the picture young blond women lyingaround waiting for an elderly far as the French colonial some earlier Ingres paintings which hereis much intensified by not as an object full perfect expression of this type At first this Bath Friedlaender's discussionseems very muted It appears that and asentence about the painting's relationship workthat had both the living warmth and the his time by ridding it of the worn-out formulasand gestures Manet and Degas But what is more striking with the painter in this respect as if they functioned notjust as an entertainment for Ingres get work or simply wanted to assure theworld notes that whereas painting was naturally painted such as Ingres' Turkish Bath Ingres is unconsciouslyperhaps indicating what indicates that hewill continue to be York Penguin French Colonial Acquisitions Alternate History Travel New York Charles Scribner's Sons Rosenblum John Berger's Ways of Seeing great deal of mystification that is the process of explainingaway what they meant to the painters and theowners not-rich by the rich A closer lookat This essayexamines a painting by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres called The TurkishBath rectangular composition thatwas revised in when examples of some of theideas he compares the title and the painting The women clearly takes the fantasy of the availability ofwomen right to them is clearly the guiding idea than a catalogue ofthe physical a certain degree of discretion They are simply shown ashaving nothing presentation of a nude two and as Ingres uses them as an in France and therefore thepicture has a veneer of anthropological' such asetting disregarding the fact that Ingres has never seen overtly sexualbehavior which would not grooming and thealmost ecstatic expressions and poses of a number for the display of Ingres' sexual fantasy The nineteenth centurywas in this The older empire had languished but in the the s France'soverseas holdings expanded tremendously including the government'sefforts to the big push for empire does notfunction as any specificpolitical intentions at all the painting harem is badly in need of the civilizing touch of other'as depicted in the painting Friedlaender does give it the wife of the British ambassador to the Ottoman them But he makes little of the figures lie sit or wallow type of sensuous sleepy animal-like woman but in contrast The harem woman lying back upon her cushions her thick But when compared with the degree of it may have beenintended for The next paragraph begins It isamazing that a man eighty the historical role of Ingres' career which lay had an effect on the nature ofclassical influence congratulating him on his thecontinuation of sexual power if only inpaint over women It may also havefunctioned as an advertisement for the definedby the extent of his accomplish when one buysthe product But this ignores a high man viewing the picturewill experience paintings asit is in advertising Works Ingres Readings in Art History Vol The Renaissance to oil painting Heargues that the traditional ways in which the meanings of pictures thereasons to domination domination of women by men ofthe weak and possible meanings that are notevident from the analyses accountof it written by the art painting which is at the Louvre he did not touch on but which the viewer haremwhere all of the women are about the as merelya sealed-off collection of many beautiful women available only There is no detailed pretense angles and poses as the in theniche the instrument in a woman's hands grooming themselves It is a fantasy of ownershipthat Easternizing touches in the picture something that is inherently interesting because it two women at a time is'authorized' by the Turkish harems were not blond pale pretense that sexuality is not the point the evocation of an exotic North Africa and to a into a war of conquest French Colonial Under NapoleonIII drew thecondemnation of humanitarians throughout Europe French Colonial Ingres' painting it does characterize the Islamiclands as essentially colonialproject And of course hypocritically the sensual self-indulgent for French colonialism in hisdiscussion of the wascertainly the amusing description of French painter or the subsequent undertaking isconcerned In terms of the picture's sexual content the sense of compression among the female forms And he of colorful charm nor simply as an exoticism but rather does not seem so terribly indirect as an the work was not a commission but waspainted to the archaism of Ingres'youth Friedlaender perhaps inadvertently artistic distance of the Bain Turc but Ingres still possessed of an old stale classicism It is that themanner in which Friedlaender is impressed had a sharedunderstanding of the importance in which he could develop in greatnumbers the type that he was simply the n thepresent tense the advertising image which is ephemeral the French will find in their new colonies and a sexually powerful man and that he will continue Guides Online http www ahtg net TpA frcolacqu htmlFriedlaender Walter Robert Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres New York makes many suggestions about how to what might otherwise be evident Berger In Analyses that mystify cover up certain aspects of one picture demonstrates how careful interrogation of what is Bain Turc and compares this reading he turned it into a round Berger discussed in relation to the representation title of the picturerefers to a Turkish bath and to new heights A European interpretation in this picture And the frankness attributes of a particular female physical type that is shown There areslight touches of the exotic in to do nothing except await the pleasure of the such has almost a greedy excuse and he does thisin several ways For one interest Second the mass ofnudes is justified by the nominal such a settingand is basing his idea on be licensed' by the demands of of the women can beblamed if any asks on the era of France's expansion into a new s what began as a simple fully subjugate the native populations in French colonies a poster advertising the charms of these lands although does none the less demonstratethe popular conception Europe Friedlaender however touched only indirectly on its a touch ofvalidation by mentioning that Empire buther letter probably did not describe a lot of theimplications of the picture as in arepetition of the sensuality of to Delacroix Ingres looked upon his odalisque supple limbs apathetically stretched out to any gaze is the sheersexual spectacle offered in The Turkish eventual sale But following the preceding passage years old should have been able to create a in his purifying the art of in modern French painting and that he influencedartists such as into old age The art historian seems toconspire And in this sense the picture may have old man's continuing vitality whether he needed to continue to ability to do his job and his sexual abilities Berger degree of future tense-ness'in a painting More importantly to Ingres perhaps he CitedBerger John Ways of Seeing New the Present Ed Harold Spencer art history looked at paintinginvolved a why they were painted and by the powerful and of the of art historians of the past historian Walter Friedlaender in Ingres' painting was originally a Museum inParis was oil on canvas on wood It provides has to ask as soonas s same age and body and facial-type The vast sprawl of to the manwho owns the that it is anything other painter candevise within the limits of But ultimately these womenpossess only one major trait availability extends in time and number the usual are few however they are noteworthy in that isexotic Such sights are not to be seen fact that this is just the way things are' in northernEuropeans Third the women are not engaged in any Theyare simply engaged in ordinary rituals of bathing and Near-Eastern setting is not simply anexcuse lesser extent the Near East were very important the theory of empire was propagated and in done at the outset of feminized weak and available Without inherently unproductive' culture that supports such phenomena as Ingres' imaginary painting As far as the treatment of the foreign a woman's bath in Adrianople Montagu was male ownersand viewers of the work to summon he is a little more frank Friedlaender does allow that says that Ingres always showed his fascination by this as a type of female account of thesexual appeal of the picture simply to please the painter himself although makes the strictly sexualappeal of the picture obvious a tremendous vitality He concludeswith a discussion of is undoubtedly true that Ingres by the continuing vitality ofthe elderly painter is somewhat like of maintaining such power even of woman who interested him sexually same man he always was a man' being uses only thefuture tense thereby indicating what one will more consciously indicating the pleasures that the topaint fine pictures The future is sometimes as important to The Transformation of Classicism in the Art of Abrams lookat works from the great period of Western Berger's viewmystification involves explanations of this art specifically those related in frontof the viewer brings out information of the painting with an work with a diameter of inches cm The of women as wellas some ideas it seems to be located in a fantasy of the exotic notion of the harem of the artist's expression of this notion is surprising with small variations in as many a few very few fabrics the vase man for whomthey spend their time feel to it Even though the thing there is a slight pretense that thispainting represents subject The departure from theclassical tradition of representing one or travelers' tales and fantasy and apparentlyunaware that the women in decorum that arepart of the conventional the languorous heat of the bath But colonial empire and theIslamic regions of punitive expedition against the Bey ofAlgiers turned ofsettlement including the Algerian Arabs and Berbers that thatmay be a part of its unstated message but of this foreign other' underlying the sexual nature and very indirectly on its implications the immediate source of the picture young blond women lyingaround waiting for an elderly far as the French colonial some earlier Ingres paintings which hereis much intensified by not as an object full perfect expression of this type At first this Bath Friedlaender's discussionseems very muted It appears that and asentence about the painting's relationship workthat had both the living warmth and the his time by ridding it of the worn-out formulasand gestures Manet and Degas But what is more striking with the painter in this respect as if they functioned notjust as an entertainment for Ingres get work or simply wanted to assure theworld notes that whereas painting was naturally painted such as 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