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A 3 page paper which examines two paintings from the Wadsworth Antheneum Museum of Art. The paintings examined are Gustave Courbet’s “Self Portrait” from 1849 and Jackson Pollock’s “Number 9” from 1949. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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from modern art of the 20th century, as well as wondrous collections of European artwork in various forms. The following paper examines two particular paintings. The paintings examined are Gustave
Courbets "Self Portrait" from 1849 and Jackson Pollocks "Number 9" from 1949. Wadsworth Antheneum First and foremost it is not the job of this writer to attend the museum
for the student and as such they cannot offer up how the student reacted to a visit to this museum, what they expected to see, and what their impressions were.
The student should present these reactions themselves, focusing on items that caught their eye, architecture of the building itself and whether they were impressed. In relationship to the paintings
to be discussed, "Self Portrait" by Gustave Courbet is a work that is actually done with black chalk on paper. It dates from 1849, 100 years before the Pollock painting
to be discussed, and is from Europe. The subject, as the title suggests, is a picture of the artist. It is a picture that clearly shows Courbet as a very
average and perhaps even weathered man. It is filled with a depth in relationship to shadowing of hat and wrinkles in the face, and the pipe, and thus is very
rich with character. Apparently Courbet was from a very wealthy family and yet this picture presents him very much as a common man, something of a peasant. On the
museum website one author notes that, "The defiant and arrogant expression Courbet assumes in this drawing, however, surely reflects his identification with the peasantry and his disdain of the social
and artistic status quo of nineteenth-century France" (Wadsworth Antheneum Museum of Art, 2006 [2], 2006). In addition, this is but one of several self portraits, another one that also possesses
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