Uh, Bashkirtseff once wrote how she felt about a classmate’s work . She thought her classmate’s art was much better than her own, and it gave her an incentive to do better. Overall, the competition in the women’s art classes gave women more confidence. Confidence that they could also compete in the art world after their schooling . And even though Bashkirtseff couldn’t study in the same classes as men, she was having an impact as an artist . Um, just look at the Salon . What do you know about the Salon?
Female student:
It was a big exhibition, um, a big art show that they had in Paris every year. The art had to be accepted by judges .
Male student:
It was a big deal. You could make a name for yourself.
Professor:
You could have a painting or sculpture in the Salon and go back to your home country saying you’d been a success in Paris . Um, it was sort of a seal of approval . It was a great encouragement for an artist’s career. And by the last two decades of the nineteenth century, one fifth of the paintings in the Salon were by women—much higher than in the past . In fact, Marie Bashkirtseff herself had a painting in the Salon in 1881 . Interestingly, this masterpiece, called In the Studio, is a painting of the interior of Julian’s art school . Um, it’s not in your textbook—I’ll show you the painting next week … Uh, the painting depicts an active, crowded studio with women drawing and painting a live model . It was actually, Bashkirtseff actually followed Julian’s savvy suggestion, and painted her fellow students in a class at the school with the artist herself at the far right—a great advertisement for the school when the painting eventually hung at the Salon, for a women’s studio had never been painted before.
Activity 1.4: Conversation Narrator:
Listen to a conversation between a student and her basketball coach.
Male coach:
Hi, Elizabeth .
Female student:
Hey, Coach. I just thought I’d stop by to see what I missed while I was gone.
Male coach:
Well, we’ve been working real hard on our plan for the next game . . . I’ve asked Susan to go over it with you before practice this afternoon, so you’ll know what we’re doing .
Female student:
Okay .
Male coach:
By the way, how did your brother’s wedding go?
Female student:
Oh, it was beautiful . And the whole family was there . I saw aunts and uncles and cousins I hadn’t seen in years.
Male coach:
So it was worth the trip.
Female student:
Oh definitely. I’m sorry I had to miss practice, though. I feel bad about that.
Male coach:
Family’s very important .
Female student:
Yep. Okay, I guess I’ll see you this afternoon at practice, then. Just a minute. There are a couple of other things I need to tell you.
Male coach:
Female student:
Oh, okay.
Male coach:
Uh . . . First, everybody’s getting a new team jacket.
Female student:
Wow. How did that happen?
Male coach:
A woman who played here about 20, 25 years ago came through town a few weeks ago and saw a game, and said she wanted to do something for the team, so . . .
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