{"id":3397,"date":"2017-10-24T13:20:08","date_gmt":"2017-10-24T13:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/courses.suzannechurchill.com\/eng394-f17\/?p=3397"},"modified":"2017-10-24T13:20:31","modified_gmt":"2017-10-24T13:20:31","slug":"3397","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.suzannechurchill.com\/eng394-f17\/2017\/10\/24\/3397\/","title":{"rendered":"Leigha and Bean Lesson Plan: Picabia&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Objectives- <\/b><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><b> What kind of artists they were&#8230;<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>How did their relationship influence their art?\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>What was it like for women vs men in the avant-garde (larger overarching theme)?<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>1st. Introduction: (~2 mins) <\/b> <b> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0[Leigha]<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Although the driving force behind the art itself is to express yourself and show the world what you have to offer, an equally (if not more) important driving force or goal is to be well known- for people to be impacted by what you have created. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In our previous classes, we have analyzed the winners and losers of the avant-garde. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Some repeating (and tragic) patterns we have found show that men were most often the ones who sustained livelihood- they are the ones in the textbooks, they make up the history of the avant-garde, while females who were equally invested in the avant-garde have fallen to the wayside and we as present-day historians and investigators of the avant-garde have a responsibility to investigate and study these female figures complete stories. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Picabia&#8217;s are the perfect example of the problem we are faced with- the man in this heteronormative relationship became a face of Dada and Avant-garde in both Europe and the states. While Gabrielle was a strong female figure who wrote heavily about what she observed, and was an amazing art critic, and was in the center of the avant-garde itself. She was also present in many of the intimate groups of the begins forces behind the avant-garde movement yet is barely ever recognized. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>2nd. Discuss Gabrielle\u2019s essay (~10 minutes)<\/b> <b> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0[Bean start us off]<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Plan for discussion:<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Go around and share their thesis statements- where did they develop these thesis statements from? do they agree with one another? <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Questions they might have or problems they might have with her writing <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Closure of discussion- final page <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Driving questions and focuses:<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Other than the subject of the essay, what is dada about the piece? <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">How would you describe her approach? Does the perspective teach you anything about her, if so what? <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">What can you learn from this about her relationship with Picabia and Duchamp? <\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">By using the context of both readings, what do you think about Picabia\u2019s and Duchamp\u2019s relationship? How does it compare to Picabia and Buffet\u2019s relationship? <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">How is Picabia\u2019s relationship with Duchamp portrayed in the article versus Buffet\u2019s essay? <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Her use pronouns <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Potential bias\/accuracy of her analysis of Picabia and Duchamp- she wrote this after they divorced<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>3rd. Go through 4 paintings of Picabia (~10 minutes) <\/b> <b> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0[Leigha starts us off]<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Discuss what it is, what its medium is, what it represents, when it was made, and then what their differences are <\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We are going to go through three paintings that we saw as strong examples of both Picabia\u2019s importance and versatility as an artist<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Paintings and their titles \u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Dada La Sainte Vierge (translates to the blessed virgin) <\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ol>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Year published: March 1920 (peak time at which Dada was flourishing in Paris) <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">How or where published: in his magazine <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">391<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (today you can find it at the Mus\u00e9e National d&#8217;Art Moderne)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Theme: what is art? Art can be whatever we say it is! <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Why it\u2019s important: <\/span>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cIt delivers blasphemous and anti-art blows in equal measure\u201d (Hopkins 15) because of both the title and the nature of the image itself- there is potential irony (or a\u00a0pun as Hopkins puts it) in its meaning- a virgin is supposed to be pure and- if I had painted a blessed virgin in this same regard it may have just been a blank sheet of white paper! <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">So Hopkins debates are this anti-art or anti-religion? <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Other information in case of questions or if our discussion goes this way: around the same time he produced a painting called Jeune Fille (1920) which was a white sheet with simply a black circle in the center and Jeune Fille written around the circle (Hopkins 16). Also, 391 was a magazine published in Spain by Picabia almost as a \u201csister publication\u201d the New York Avant-Garde magazine which he was also involved in (Buffet 257). <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b><i>Ici, C&#8217;est Ici Stieglitz Foit et Amour<\/i> from Object Portraits <\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Year published: 1915 <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">How or where published: in the journal <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">291 <\/span><\/i><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Theme: representing personal stories, in this case, humans, with the complex machinery that was developing in this time period <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Why it\u2019s important: Buffet actually mentions these works on page 257 and 258 in her article that we read in preparation for this class- this obsession was a movement within dada (she does not talk about this piece in particular but of another picture in this set) Picabia himself became indulged in technological work like this one in 1915 <\/span>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to Artsy- the online gallery you examined for class \u201cPicabia channeled this negative energy into his illustrations for the combined July\u2013August 1915 issue of the periodical 291. He rendered caricaturist Marius de Zayas as a perpetual motion machine and journalist Agnes Meyer as a spark plug. These diagrams of energy-producing contraptions contrasted sharply with the representation of Stieglitz depicted as a combined broken camera bellows and stationary vehicle. Despite this implicitly downbeat criticism, the elder photographer kept the original ink drawing and collage (1915; Metropolitan Museum of Art) for his own \u201clikeness\u201d until his death in 1946.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I really thought this singular painting could not stand alone so on the top right I also put \u201cMachine Tournez Vite\u201d (1916) and another piece from his own publication aforementioned <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">391<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">; no. 6 (1917)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b>Edtaonisl<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (let them tell you about what they see and pick up from the painting first)<\/span>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Year published: 1913 <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Theme: cubism <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Why it\u2019s important: he actually was inspired to paint this while on the ship to NY (for the Armory show) and saw a Dominican priest watch and be fascinated by this polish dancer. The painting importance not only lies between the blend of the two figures (they are both on this boat yet so different) but also the contrast of two figures. There is also a motion of both the rocking ship and the dancer herself, according to The Essential Guide, 2013, p.255.Once again there is this underlying irony where this religious pious figure is gawking at and essentially finding pleasure or fascination in this woman. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">4th<\/span><b>. Split the classroom into half- team Picabia and team Buffet.<\/b><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Buffet\u2019s writing excerpt or another writer that we have studied<\/span>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">3 excerpts of hers and 2 of other writers<\/span>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I need to be able to explain why it can\/can\u2019t be identified as hers: point of view, who is speaking, when was it written<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cIt was a strange period of gestation and adaptation; new works brought nothing but doubt, dismay, anxiety until minds could adjust themselves and corresponding new reflexes could be created.\u201d<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Buffet, 1949 <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Some memories of pre-dada: Picabia and Duchamp <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">p.256<\/span>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Observational point of view<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cHE can compress every aesthetic principle in one line.\u201d<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Mina Loy, \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Aphorisms on Futurism\u201d<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">1914 <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/articles\/69405\/aphorisms-on-futurism\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/articles\/69405\/aphorisms-on-futurism<\/span><\/a>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Loy, 1914. About the futurists &#8211; contrasts to Dada because not about aesthetics. Dada is about the effect it has on the audience, the questioning, the confusion, embracing the ability to think. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cthe end of this amazing figure will never be cleared up.\u201d<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Buffet, \u201cArthur Cravan and American Dada\u201d 1957 (Cite in the annotated bibliography: Motherwell, Robert, editor. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Dada Painters and Poets: An Anthology<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Wittenborn, Schultz, Inc., 1951, pp. 13-17, 255-267. Print.)<\/span>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Finished without a conclusion, in Dada fashion; no definite message; \u00a0about Arthur Craven. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThere is singularly nothing that makes a difference a difference in beginning and in the middle and in ending except that each generation has something different at which they are all looking.\u201d <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cComposition as Explanation\u201d Gertrude Stein, 1940 <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/articles\/69481\/composition-as-explanation\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/articles\/69481\/composition-as-explanation<\/span><\/a>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sounds like a train of thought &#8211; not Buffet. She has observed Picabia and Duchamp go through many stylist changes in one lifetime. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cWe were convinced of the arbitrariness and falsity of our poor creation, the world.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201d <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Buffet, 1949 <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Some memories of pre-dada: Picabia and Duchamp,<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> p.255<\/span>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The intent of most dada work was to show how the world could be different or to look at it differently; this shows that they felt it needed to be different. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">If they ever produced something together (20 min):<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">What would it be? <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">How would it be made? <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Who would take what roles in its creation? <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">When would it be made? <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Where would they display it? <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Who would\/where would advertise it? <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">And why<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">(Explain that it can either be a work of art, or they can describe the features of a work of art that they think it would be like)<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Have each group work on their work for 10 min <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Each group presents the how and why then discuss as a class the similarities and differences between the 2 groups (10 min) <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Objectives- What kind of artists they were&#8230; How did their relationship influence their art?\u00a0\u00a0 What was it like for women vs men in the avant-garde (larger overarching theme)? &nbsp; 1st. Introduction: (~2 mins) \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0[Leigha] Although the driving force&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/courses.suzannechurchill.com\/eng394-f17\/2017\/10\/24\/3397\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.suzannechurchill.com\/eng394-f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.suzannechurchill.com\/eng394-f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.suzannechurchill.com\/eng394-f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.suzannechurchill.com\/eng394-f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.suzannechurchill.com\/eng394-f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3397"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/courses.suzannechurchill.com\/eng394-f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3399,"href":"https:\/\/courses.suzannechurchill.com\/eng394-f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3397\/revisions\/3399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.suzannechurchill.com\/eng394-f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.suzannechurchill.com\/eng394-f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.suzannechurchill.com\/eng394-f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}