Remember to ask for your parents permission and to bring your Stuy ID. This will get you into the museum for free.
Visit the "Infinite Jest - Caricature and Satire from Leonardo to Levin" exhibit and comment, on this post on the image of the creature in Frankenstein and how the images in this exhibit display appearances. How do characteristics of monstrosity or deformities present themselves in this exhibit.
Check the hours of when the museum is open and have a great time.
Tiffany from Period 4:
ReplyDeleteThe image of the creature in Frankenstein is one of massiveness and deformity. It is a creature depicted so ugly and terrifying that it scares away all humans. Its ugliness is a physical form of the faults in humans. In this exhibit, some images are simply displayed with distorted appearances such that it looks inhuman. Some are portrayed simply as wild creatures or animals. Some images, though, have a character or several persons looking different either in appearance or what they wear such that it contrasts or stands out from the others. In the case of one black and white [drawn?] image, a skinny man is shown very close to a light shading and the chunkier people are shown in more of the dark shading. Characteristics of monstrosity or deformities are shown through an exaggeration of a feature on an otherwise normal human face.
All of the prints and sketches in this exhibit featured people drawn in unrealistic, grotesque ways. Many of them have proportionately large heads with exaggerated features. Other drawings depict people in history with their faces on the bodies of animals. One piece of art showed a man's face with the body of a cat, resembling the Chesire Cat. People are purposely drawn to be unsightly and foolish. In one drawing called "The Prince of Whales," there is a large whale with a person's face on it (presumably the Prince of Wales) who is spouting water happily while chaos goes on all around him. Deformities are presented through the strangeness of the subject's body, such as lacking an upper body and only having an enormous head and a pair of legs or riding a larger-than-life porcupine. In some sketches, people are not drawn as animals but with features closely resembling one, such as an oxen-like face or a snout-like nose. In such drawings as the mentioned, monstrosity is clearly depicted.
ReplyDeleteThe images and pictures shown in Infinite Jest were of particular interest. I found it rather interesting how they depicted humans with weird deformities and monstrosity qualities. For example, there was a book on display which showed the similarities of a dog to a human, a cat to a human, and a donkey to a human. Many of these pictures showed abnormal body parts and sometimes animal body parts with a human head. They were grotesque yet it was very interesting to look at. These drawings showed an obvious exaggeration to the deformities.
ReplyDeleteThe pictures are similar to the depiction of frankenstein's creature because it shows people as ugly and deformed. For example, the prince of wales is depicted as a whale and is very ugly. Also there were pictures of people with abnormal deformities. For example, a woman with long neck,and a person with a abnormaly large nose. The monster is depicted as very scary looking and ugly and also there was a picture of bush with dick cheney, depicted as a huge purple monster whispering to bush behind a wall. I think Dick cheney is similar to the monster in image big,monsterous and scary
ReplyDeleteUhmm, not sure what else there is to say at this point being that 4 people already commented but i can add on that no matter how ugly and deformed the creatures looked it was like they were all happy about what they were doing and that they were all heading in one direction. Like Frankenstein, one could say that they lacked humane physical appearances and characteristics but they made up for that for semmingly having humane emotional characteristics. uhmm.. i also took pictures on my phone if you need proof i was there...
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ReplyDeleteThe creature in Frankenstein exhibited qualities of monstrosity and provoked disgust in others simply by his appearance. This is similar to those in the "Infinite Jest - Caricature and Satire from Leonardo to Levin" exhibit, where demeanors expressing monstrosity and distorted depictions of human expressions were used. Yet, in Frankenstein, the creature’s image caused fear or abhorrence, while in contrast, those in the exhibit were intended to be satirical. Examples included animal heads on humans, extreme physiques, exaggerated body parts, and figures of people made of objects. People are shown as specific “types” through excess exaggeration, e.g., eating and drinking types, gambling types, and fashion types.
ReplyDeleteI'm very mad right now because my google account didn't work and my comment disappeared so now i have to retype it. Just in case the username messes up like last time my name is Dions Wang From 4th period.
ReplyDeleteThe creature in Frankenstein is ugly because of his features. For example he has yellow eyes which is a horrible contrast to the rest of his body. Also his skin is yellow and he is made of different body parts of animals and humans. The monsters in Infinite Jest are also ugly because of their features. For example, one on them has a face on his body and another has two heads. The difference is that while the creature is made to look human-like the monsters in Infinite Jest look like they are created soley to be monsters. The monsters in Infinite Jest are ugly, but they still seem more humanlike in their actions. There were monsters marching and having fun, but the creature in Frankenstein kills people and is miserable.The monsters in Infinite jest are more human-like on the inside even though they're uglier. In contrast the creature is more monstorous on the inside even though he is more human like on the outside.
The images in Infinite jest were quite interesting yet grotesque. The gallery creatively portrayed monstrosity as a kind of poking fun at someone. I noticed how monstrosity was often portrayed as large as opposed to small. One of the drawings portrayed the prince of Wales as the prince of Whales. It showed a play of words a mockery of his snobbery. Siegfried Woldhek drew a portrayal of George Bush and Dick Cheney. Cheney's features were enlarged and his nose was crooked. George was relatively diminutive in comparison and was cowering behind a pink curtain. A aristocratic lady was portrayed as a fungus. Her hat being the top of the mushroom and her neck was the stem of it. Most of the deformities represent the personality of these figures.
ReplyDeleteThe images in Infinite Jest were quite similar to the figure of the monster of Frankenstein in that they both appear to be formed by many different body parts strung together as one form. The body parts did not appear proportional with each other and caused both the monster in Frankenstein and the artwork to appear quite gruesome. However, the reasons for this appearance are different for the two. Frankenstein's monster was made of many different people's dead body parts and butchered animal parts giving the final appearance a look of pure disgust. This was a result of Frankenstein's negligence to provide him with a proper form. In the pictures displayed at Infinite Jest, most of the people had either enlarged or distorted features that while serve to make the subject at hand look ugly, they are not I believe its sole purpose. Some of the people displayed here are well-known people who have their features distorted (or in the case of the Prince of Wales, have been replaced by features of animals). These alterations to their appearance imply criticism that the artist has of his or her subject. In the portrayal of the Prince of Wales, the author may believe that the Prince of Wales is as stupid as a whale or has as thick of a head. The author also might have altered the appearance of his subject purely out of hatred for their subject. The author may have hoped that by doing so, he or she would associate monstrosity with their art subject. This is quite different from why Frankenstein has an ugly appearance.
ReplyDelete--What's with the time on this blog? It is currently 6:40 but it says that it is 3:40. Is is set to Pacific Timezone?
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