Quiz on week 6 images

Discussion topic:
VAN GOGH's ear, Sigmund FREUD, and the image of the troubled artist

Assignment:
Complete the readings and prepare answers for the following questions in your journal.

1) Outline the basic tenets of FREUD as D'ALLEVA explains them. In order to do a Freudian analysis of VAN GOGH's self-portraits, what sort of evidence might you need (either within the works or external to them)?
2) COLLINS writes that the psychoanalytic study of art (in which a work can be studied as a symptom of its maker's psychosis) has been largely discredited. What, if anything, does he argue could be salvaged from this approach?
3) What functions and interpretations does ZEMEL assign to VAN GOGH's self-portraits (see examples below)?
4) Create your own self-portrait in your journal (be it a sketch, painting, or collage). Make sure you bring your journal to section!

	Vincent VAN GOGH (1853-90) Self-Portrait in Grey Felt Hat 1887 Oil on canvas 44 X 37.5 cm. Amsterdam: Van Gogh Museum		Vincent VAN GOGH (1853-90) Self-Portrait in a Straw Hat 1887 Oil on canvas Amsterdam: Van Gogh Museum
	Vincent VAN GOGH (1853-90) Self-Portrait as a Painter 1888 Oil on Canvas 65.5 X 50.5 cm Amsterdam: Van Gogh Museum		Paul GAUGUIN (1848-1903) Self-Portrait with Bernard (Les Misérables) 1888 Amsterdam: Van Gogh Museum
	Vincent VAN GOGH (1853-90) Large Plane Trees 1889 Oil on canvas 73.4 x 91.8 cm. Cleveland Museum of Art		Vincent VAN GOGH (1853-90) Starry Night 1889 73 x 93 cm. New York: Museum of Modern Art
	Vincent VAN GOGH (1853-90) Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear 1889 Private collection

Readings:
* STOKSTAD , AH , "The Object Speaks: Large Plane Trees ," p. xlvii; "Nineteenth-Century Art in Europe and the United States," pp. 940-41; "Post-Impressionism," pp. 993-998
* ZEMEL, "Self-Portraits: the Construction of Professional Identity"
* COLLINS, "Art & Psychoanalysis: Van Gogh and Gaughin on the Couch"
* D'ALLEVA, "Psychology and Perception in Art"