#class 18

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OMG I just discovered the class 18 and Yes? Please? Friend?

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pre-class response, class 18, group B

I feel what stood out to me the most was the difference in tone that Tacitus and Herodotus took in describing Germans and Persians, respectively. Herodotus had a condescending tone (or ambiguous at times) when he compared Greece to Persia, and implied that Greece was better than Persia in many ways.

However, in Chapter 7, Tacitus states

"In the choice of kings they are determined by the splendour of their race, in that of generals by their bravery. Neither is the power of their kings unbounded or arbitrary” 

In this text, although Tacitus makes comparisons between the Germans and Romans, he doesn’t do so with condescension. In fact, it seems as though he’s more objective about evaluating the society he’s a part of (Rome) and the Germans who inhabited the borders of the empire. One could argue that he might even be putting down the Roman Empire and how it works, but considering he was a senator (Wikipedia), that doesn’t seem as likely, because he also states in chapter 15: “Now too they have learnt, what we have taught them, to receive money”. This shows that he acknowledges the Romans are better in some aspects as compared to the Germans. 

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About to get ready for spring15 orientation!

Uarts I miss you! Can't wait to see the new students next week!

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Today's post was originally published in June 2012. Members from Class 18 Buffalo 4 are now living, working, and serving all over the country after graduating from AmeriCorps NCCC in November 2012.

What’s your reason for joining NCCC? Get at least ten reasons to join NCCC from Buffalo 4 in this introduction video about why they joined NCCC.  

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conclusion of expressionism

ernst ludwig kirchner

der blaue reiter

wassily kandinsky

collective constant with symbols that all humans understand he had synaesthesia he had visual-audio synaesthesia

color with a specifically symbolic rather than descriptive

alexej von jawlensky

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the beginnings of expressionism

pessimism

edvard munch Madonna (1894-1895) Madonna (Conception) (1895) The Dance of Life (1900) Vampire (1895-1902) The Sick Child (1885-1886) The Cry [The Scream] (1893) 

hooray addictions and substance abuses

christian krohg The Sick Girl (1880-1881)

it was pretty common to lose children back then child mortality rate was high

james ensor Entry of Christ into Brussels in 1889 (1889-1890)

wearing masks you could never be yourself with modern urban industrial capitalism you had to wear a mask or you would be too vulnerable long live socialism the arrival of the marching band (communism) way in the back is christ (only identifiable by the halo and donkey) nobody would even notice if christ came back, who even cares go atheism 

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early legacies of post-impressionists: the nabi

paul serusier The Talisman (Landscape of the Bois d'Amour) (1888)

everyone was scared that non-representation would tear art apart serusier and his contemporaries are transitionaries between post-impressionism and fauvism

paul bonnard Nu a contre jour (Nude against the Light) (1908)

intimisme: "speaking in a low tone, suitable to confidences" before now, painters were limited to public spaces, to not be seen or heard and return to their studios but now they were invited into private, intimate scenes

henri matisse The Open Window (1905)

fauvism violently done like a wild animal did it fuck representational color fuck concrete representation just do it messily

matisse hung out with seurat and stuff

henri matisse Le bonheur de vivre (1905-1906)

let's fantasize about pagan rituals in the woods orgies amongst the trees let's all be naked

henri matisse La Desserte (Dinner Table) (1896-1897)

henri matisse Male Model (1900)

henri matisse Portrait of Madame Matisse (The Green Line) (1905)

henri matisse Woman with the Hat (1905)

andre derain London Bridge (1906)

andre derain Turning Road, L'Estaque (1906)

on the test, there will be a "what do these have in common" question; the answer is: they all represent l'estaque

maurice de vlaminck The River Seine at Chatou (1906) Picnic in the Country (1905) Portrait of Andre Derain (1906)

raoul dufy Sainte-Andresse Jetty (1906) Street Decked with Flags, Le Havre (1906)

georges roualt Prostitute before a Mirror (1906)

henri matisse Harmony in Red (The Dessert) (1908)

equal attention is paid to all parts of the painting it's kind of a 2D space thing about artist emotions 

there will be a thing with a bunch of pictures and go "what do they have in common?" like eight or nine paintings that look nothing alike the answer is that they are all by matisse

henri matisse Dance (II) (1909-1910) Music (1909-1910)

finally we're getting patrons for artists again some guy was collecting matisse's work before he died and commissioned the above

henri matisse The Red Studio (1911)