{"id":637,"date":"2016-11-02T01:15:36","date_gmt":"2016-11-02T01:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/philosophyatthemuseum\/?page_id=637"},"modified":"2017-03-27T18:38:38","modified_gmt":"2017-03-27T18:38:38","slug":"portraits-philosophy-question-6","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/philosophyatthemuseum\/portraits-philosophy-question-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Portraits Philosophy Questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/philosophyatthemuseum\/portraits-1\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-26 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/philosophyatthemuseum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2016\/02\/Madame_X_Madame_Pierre_Gautreau_John_Singer_Sargent_1884_unfree_frame_crop-e1456618115390-148x150.jpg\" alt=\"1.What strikes you most prominently about this portrait? 2. How do you think Sargent felt about Madame X? 3. Do you think this is a beautiful painting? What accounts for its beauty 4. If you discovered that this painting caused a scandal, how would that change your understanding of it?\" width=\"148\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/philosophyatthemuseum\/portraits-2\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-27 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/philosophyatthemuseum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2016\/02\/Matisse-Woman-with-a-Hat-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"1. What features of this portrait stand out? 2. How do you think Matisse felt about the woman in the portrait? 3. If you discovered that the woman was Matisse\u2019s wife, how would that affect your understanding of the painting? 4. Is this painting beautiful? Is Mme. Matisse beautiful? Does that matter? \" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/philosophyatthemuseum\/portraits-3\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-410 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/philosophyatthemuseum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2016\/02\/mh_2012_l3_v1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Michael Borges Study, Kehinde Wiley, 2008\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/philosophyatthemuseum\/portraits-4\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-28 size-thumbnail\" title=\"Rembrandt\" src=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/philosophyatthemuseum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2016\/02\/Rembrant_Self-Portrait_1660-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">6. \u00a0Jean-Paul Sartre, the famous Existentialist philosopher, thought that the \u201clook of the other\u201d was always objectifying. Based on the paintings you have looked at, do you think that painters necessarily objectify their subjects? Do we always objectify others? Is that necessarily a bad thing? Does this claim apply any differently to a self-portrait? 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