Hong Kong Visual Art Criticism Incubation Programme 2019-2020
State Tretyakov Gallery: the Female Images in 19th-Century Europe
Carey Wong Lai Hung
Struggles and life of European women from all classes. These paintings scattered in different halls of the Gallery, coupled with other impressionist and realist paintings, as if they were daily life of Europe and Russia. The following four paintings were selected as they depicted the audacious image, struggles and imaginary image of women, which remains special topics. From suffering to defiance, it symbolises the awakening of European females. This essay will shed lights on the works by Ivan Kramskoi, Pavel Fedotov, Evgraf Sorokin and Mikhail Vrubel, who were dominant in the Russian art world in the 19th Century.
導師評語：
[1] OK。可以多加一點女性被繪畫的歷史脈絡。
[2] 對於歷史裡的繪畫，很多時談到社會情境、文化語境，較少觸及藝術風格。不過，要談藝術風格與手法，也不是不可以的，雖然二十世紀前的藝術風格相對穩定。
[3]為何談到中國畫？因為這作品跟中國畫有關？
[4] Poem?
[5]那要否跟顧愷之的洛神一起討論？
[6] 為何是這些畫者？為何是這四張畫？這四張畫帶出女性怎樣的形象與社會地位？