Worksheet for 4/4
on Whitney Chadwick, "The Female Earth,"
Chapter 4 from Women Artists and the Surrealist Movement
(on reserve in Mortensen Library)
Foreign vocabulary
Herbe á la Lune Moon Grass
L’Ancre The Anchor
L’Helice The Propeller
Écremage creaming
Femme-arbre tree-woman
Les Deux Desmoiselles The Two Young Women
L’Avant Printemps Just Before Spring
Rêve Dream
La Dormeuse The Dreamer (female)
I venticinque della Campagne Romana The Twenty-five of the Roman
Countryside
1. List the vocabulary works (in English) that you don’t understand. Look up their definitions in the dictionary and write them down. If you don’t find definitions, note that. Provide a minimum of five words.
2. Note down the arguments that you find in this chapter for why women should be connected with the concept of nature.
3. Note two of the most interesting ways in which Surrealist women artists used the connection of women and nature in their art.
4. What do you see as the positive and negative effects of the Surrealist
women’s’ connection of the concepts of women and nature?