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You learn a lot about art in school. Some paintings, some sculpture, some literature. Maybe some buildings and poems, perhaps a play, and if you’re really lucky you might get to watch a bit of Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring. I remember being twelve or thirteen in French class (on the second floor of left wing of the middle school) and being shown the 1986 film Manon des Sources, sitting in a group of tweens transfixed by the beauty of Emmanuelle Béart, giggling at non-sexual (and some sexual) nudity, scandalized as our teacher stood in front of the projector and explained how she’d be skipping over the scene where a man pierces his own nipple with the hair ribbon of a young woman he’s obsessed with. While I learned little in the ways of vocabulary or grammar, I certainly gained a deeper understanding of the French Condition. This is all to say: we are often taught about art. We are rarely taught how to look at art. Enjoying and understanding complex art is a fundamentally pretentious

You learn a lot about art in school. Some paintings, some sculpture, some literature. Maybe some buildings and poems, perhaps a play, and if you’re really lucky you might get to watch a bit of Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring. I remember being twelve or thirteen in French class (on the second floor of left wing of the middle school) and being shown the 1986 film Manon des Sources, sitting in a group of tweens transfixed by the beauty of Emmanuelle Béart, giggling at non-sexual (and some sexual) nudity, scandalized as our teacher stood in front of the projector and explained how she’d be skippin

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