LLCE 2 – Lesson 2 (Blank Canvas)

par · 24 mars 2024

🎨”I’M A BLANK CANVAS”

Painting Canvas Studio - Free photo on Pixabay

LLCE

Expression et Construction de Soi
(Mise en scène de soi)

In what way can the “staging” of the self be understood both as a reflection on individuality and art?

(lead question)

INTRODUCTION

SELF-PORTRAITS

🎨 Doc 1

🎯 OBJECTIF: découvrir un auto-portrait et son artiste.

  • Observez les auto-portraits ci dessous , allez chercher sur Internet des informations sur chaque artiste puis choisissez-en un.
  • Lorsque vous avez choisi votre auto-portrait, mettez-vous en groupe (avec ceux qui ont choisi le même auto-portrait que vous).
  • voici le travail à faire :
  1. Find information about the subject (the artist)
  2. Describe the picture.
  3. Analyse how the artists have portrayed themselves. What does the portrait reveal about them?
  • Le rendu se fera sous forme de Pecha-Kucha (vous présenterez oralement votre auto-portrait à la classe) via Canva (1 seul Canva par artiste). Pour cela, cliquez sur le lien correspondant à votre artiste, ci-dessous (le Canva est déjà enregisré, il ne reste plus qu’à le compléter).

Self-portraits: 

  • CINDY SHERMAN → click here
  • VIVIAN MAIER → click here
  • ANDY WARHOL → click here
  • KEITH HARING → click here
  • DAVID HOCKNEY → click here
  • NORMAN ROCKWELL → click here
  • JOHN PATRICK BYRNE → click here

Part 1 – ALTERING THE EGO

THE PORTRAIT

🎨 Doc 2 (text)

GRAYSON PERRY& PERFORMANCE ART

🎨 Doc 3 (video)

Part 2 – DIFFERENT STORIES

THE POWER OF A STORY

🎨 Doc 4 (video)

Part 3 – BREAKING IN

An unexpected encounter

🎨 Doc 5-a (picture)

W.S. “I was your scapegoat, wasn’t I?”

🎨 Doc 5-b (text)

🅰nswers

  1. In this scene, we have Walter Streeter, a famous novelist, and a man who calls himself “W.S.”, and who pretends to be a policeman.
    The scene may take place at Walter’s house or in his office (lexical field of a room:“the clock”, “the sideboard”, “the table”).
    At the beginning, the scene is strange/ weird as the man (who is supposed to be a policeman) reveals that he is William Stainforth, Walter’s recurring character (in his novels)!
    Then, tension increases/rises and the atmosphere becomes tense.
    The dialogue helps us follow Walter’s point of view (and feelings): first he is confused and then he realises that
    -either the man is crazy and maybe he is going to kill him
    -or maybe the man truly is William Stainforth and he has come for revenge.
  2. William Stainforth played different parts in Walter’s stories: he was a pimp, a blackmailer, a murderer (l.5-6).
    He was portrayed/depicted as a true villain by Walter, always nasty/ wicked/ villainous: “you made me as nasty as you could” l.38-39.
    Stainforth blames Walter, his creator, for making him a bad guy, for making him black without an ounce of goodness or kindness in him. He also accuses him of never understanding him. (l.49-55)
  3. Stainforth proposes to spare Walter’s life if the writer manages to redeem his character (W.S) by finding something good in him: “one virtue” (l.63).
    Walter tries to think about it but finally realises that there isn’t any. His character is pure evil. Walter begins to panic when he realises that there is no escape.

Conclusion (on the writer’s responsibility):

The writer is responsible for the characters he creates.
Firstly, a character is a creature made from scratch (= you start from nothing) – Stainforth says: “I was a kid once” (l.54) and the writer must imagine a whole life and personality for his character.
Then, some writers use their characters as “scapegoats” (l.31) or as laughing stocks (“you got some fun out of me, didn’t you?” l.17) as if they were some fictitious punchbags = they have a cathartic* function (a purgation of emotions through a fictitious character).

Finally, this extract may show that
-writers have to be balanced and realistic and avoid a Manichean vision of people (because nobody is pure evil without extenuating circumstances, are they?).
-novelists sometimes becomes obsessed or haunted by the characters they have created, they are unable to escape and become trapped in the stories that they have invented.

Part 4 – BREAKING OUT

“THE ART CRITIC”

🎨 Doc 6-a (picture)

“THE PURPLE ROSE OF CAIRO”

🎨 Doc 6-b (video)

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