Romaine Brooks 答案

1. True or false?

• Romaine Brooks was an American male artist.
• False. She was an American female artist who didn’t mind dressed in manly clothes.

2. True or false?

• Romaine Brooks was an artist who dared to challenge conventions and the art critics at the time liked her works.
• True. She had the means to do so.

She was a wealthy upper class woman who could do whatever she pleased.

3. True or false?

• Romaine Brooks had to sell most of her works after she had settled down in Paris because she was in desperate need of money.
• False. She didn’t have to sell paintings because she was rich and she painted because she loved art.

4. Which of the following is true?

1. Romaine Brooks was into cross dressing and gender switch.
2. Romaine Brooks’ life in Paris was not very artistically inspiring.
3. Romaine Brooks never really liked to live in Europe.
4. Romaine Brooks painted freely with an unlimited palette.

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5. True or false?

• Romaine Brooks had a great childhood and the artist later inherited a lot of money.
• False. Even though she later inherited a lot of money from her family, she had a real miserable childhood. (Her memoir is called “No Pleasant Memories.”

6. True or false?

• Romaine Brooks had a lot of friends in Paris that belonged to the lower middle class.
• False. Her friends were poets, photographers, wealthy artists and socialites.

7. True or false?

• Romaine Brooks admired Picasso and Matisse and tried very hard to imitate their artistic styles.
• False. She painted freely and never cared much about Picasso and Matisse.

8. True or false?

• Romaine Brooks painted women and personal friends but somehow rejected nudity.
• False. She embraced nudity and eroticism. She drew inspiration from Manet’s Olympia and did her own version.

9. True or false?

• The women portrayed in Brook’s paintings were lonely and vulnerable because they weren’t very happy in real life.
• False. The women in Brooks’ painting might look sad to the viewers, but in real life, they lived a great life.

10. True or false?

• Romaine Brooks’ paintings can be melancholic and sometimes even erotic, but they also exude a sense of modernity and freedom.
• True.