Slog - Comments on Dumb Impressionist Fact of the Day

Comment by reverend dr dj riz

reverend dr dj riz — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 13:38:21 -0800

what, where or when is a 'woman's prime'?

Comment by inkweary

inkweary — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 13:45:45 -0800

I don't care for wattles on either sex.

Comment by Kyleen

Kyleen — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 13:48:42 -0800

Degas was notoriously misogynistic. Also, creepy. Check out his painting "the rape". Most of his paintings are of women, he was fairly obsessed I would say.

Comment by Is it always about the poon?

Is it always about the poon? — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 13:55:05 -0800

@3:

Someday, I'd love to see someone open the Erica C. Barnett Museum of Art. Maybe you could be a curator, Kyleen.

Much like Hitler's traveling "Entartete Kunst" exhibit, we could have a reinterpretation of paintings through a radical seperatist lense, with all the attendant tut-tutting and such on the cards next to each work.

The museum shop could sell sterling silver castration shears and tea cozies shaped like Andrea Dworkin.

Comment by umvue

umvue — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 14:04:34 -0800

Why do you label this poor fact "dumb"?

I find it interesting in that we all feel a horror for the necks and shoulders of women past their prime but Degas, god rest his soul, felt a "particular" horror. It piques my curiosity to learn just how particular his particular horror was.

Comment by Kyleen

Kyleen — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 14:05:38 -0800

That would be an interesting museum, at least. And the crowd it would draw, oh my.

I guess what I was getting at is something like this isn't too much of a surprise for Degas. As his interesting relationship with women has been historically noted.

Comment by j beezer

j beezer — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 14:30:07 -0800

i feel that same particular horror upon seeing old lady hands on the bus.

ghaggghhhh1hh1!! i don't want to get old.

Comment by Gloria

Gloria — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 18:17:54 -0800

A man was misogynistic in the 19th century?

Oh my God.

Comment by ellarosa

ellarosa — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 22:26:24 -0800

8, i would surmise that levels of misogyny were roughly the same in the 19th century as they are now, but sexism levels were much higher.

and necks and shoulders were all you could see of older women's bodies in his day (they weren't showing off their breasts after "a certain age"), so it's not surprising that he would only notice the differences in those areas.