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The Mona Lisa CurseThe Mona Lisa Curse Questions: 1. Do you agree with the opinion expressed by the author, Robert Hughes, that the image of Mona Lisa is so familiar that it has been deprived of meaning? What do you think the meaning that the picture conveys is? 2. What shift in people’s attitudes to art does the documentary show? In what context does Damien Hirst’s famous centre-piece “For the Love of God” occur in the documentary? 3. What do we come to know about Robert Hughes and the origin of his profound interest in art? 4. What is Robert Hughes’ attitude to contemporary art? 5. “Good business is the best art.” Whose quote is it? What meaning does it acquire in the context of this documentary? 6. What emblematic event does Robert Hughes point out as the turning point in people’s perception of art? 7. How have museum cultures changed? 8. What do we learn about the Mona Lisa, its creation, the period of its creation and the peculiarities of the picture? 9. What vistas did work in the USA open up for Robert Hughes? Why was the figure of Robert Rauschenberg so formidable in American Art? 10. What is your attitude to art collectors? Why does Mr Vogel say that when they started collecting pictures they could afford it, now they cannot, and that means progress. In what ways did Robert and Ethel Scull differ from the Vogels? Do you shart Robert Scull’s opinion that with art, acquisition is the most important and exciting kind of involvement? 11. Comment on the following quotation from the documentary: “Branding strategies and franchise strategies are an essential part of museum evolution.” 12. What is meant by the curse in the title of the documentary? How is the idea of “curse” is played up by the director?
The Mona Lisa Curse Questions: 1. Do you agree with the opinion expressed by the author, Robert Hughes, that the image of Mona Lisa is so familiar that it has been deprived of meaning? What do you think the meaning that the picture conveys is? 2. What shift in people’s attitudes to art does the documentary show? In what context does Damien Hirst’s famous centre-piece “For the Love of God” occur in the documentary? 3. What do we come to know about Robert Hughes and the origin of his profound interest in art? 4. What is Robert Hughes’ attitude to contemporary art? 5. “Good business is the best art.” Whose quote is it? What meaning does it acquire in the context of this documentary? 6. What emblematic event does Robert Hughes point out as the turning point in people’s perception of art? 7. How have museum cultures changed? 8. What do we learn about the Mona Lisa, its creation, the period of its creation and the peculiarities of the picture? 9. What vistas did work in the USA open up for Robert Hughes? Why was the figure of Robert Rauschenberg so formidable in American Art? 10. What is your attitude to art collectors? Why does Mr Vogel say that when they started collecting pictures they could afford it, now they cannot, and that means progress. In what ways did Robert and Ethel Scull differ from the Vogels? Do you shart Robert Scull’s opinion that with art, acquisition is the most important and exciting kind of involvement? 11. Comment on the following quotation from the documentary: “Branding strategies and franchise strategies are an essential part of museum evolution.” 12. What is meant by the curse in the title of the documentary? How is the idea of “curse” is played up by the director?
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