Brittany, Jazzmin, Phyllis, Sara

Brittany: In the most famous melting clocks painting, you said the blob in the middle is supposed to be a self portrait and then you said you could almost make out a figure. it you turn your head 90 degrees to the left, you can see an eyebrow and the lashes of a closed eye...

Jazzmin: I liked how you began, with a very strong sounding thesis. However, you didn't seem to prove it, and i don't see the relation to Basquiat. I thought you were going to show that graffiti art can show one what the expectation of an individual in a specific society were, but instead you starting talking about how Basquiat was really great. Also, you thesis sounded great, but maybe more for an anthropology or sociology paper than art history.

Phyllis: I love Oldenburg, I was going to do a comparison with his floor cake and something else for our last paper. I think its interesting that his art can be so large scale yet still allow people to walk right by it, like the clothespin. Maybe you could talk about public art and how if a piece is in a museum (floor cake) versus in a public corner (clothespin) people look at it differently.

Sara: Your presentation got cut off, so I'm not so sure the purpose of the comparisons at the end, but it seemed like it was going to be very interesting. I liked the idea of the three types of women, do you know the origin of this classification scheme? Like, is it commonly known, or did you come up with it, or was it from your research? Were you saying that feminist art uses the image of the holy mother to show that there's more types of women?