Name the painting

[Emil Miller]

For us dilettantes, this game is a fascinating excercise of reducing Great Art into two or three words, so that Google will cough up the goods.

The problem is that if the work shown is too esoteric, we have nothing to go on except any clues that are given. It's not like being shown a lot of squiggles of paint so that we immediately know that the work is Pollock's or words to that effect.

[stlukesguild]

Honestly, Brian, Lee Bontecou is far from being obscure. She would be immediately recognizable to almost anyone with a decent knowledge of art of the last half-century. Of course you never can be certain which artists will be difficult. I have posted some I thought were rather challenging only to have someone immediately recognize them... and I have had the opposite occur.

By the way... where is our next mystery painting?

[Emil Miller]

Honestly, Brian, Lee Bontecou is far from being obscure. She would be immediately recognizable to almost anyone with a decent knowledge of art of the last half-century. Of course you never can be certain which artists will be difficult. I have posted some I thought were rather challenging only to have someone immediately recognize them... and I have had the opposite occur.

By the way... where is our next mystery painting?


Well, apart from one or two obvious examples, I am completely ignorant, not to say antipathetic to the work of that period.
I'm also wondering what the next painting will be, Juniper Wolf appears to be undecided as to what to show.

[JuniperWoolf]

...which is exactly why I'm giving my turn to Brian (I don't like paintings).

[stlukesguild]

Brian... if you don't get off your duff and post the next painting, I'm going to post some esoteric Minimalist conceptual piece from an obscure artist from the third world.:toetap05:

[prendrelemick]

So that big red "RUSH" on juniper's post isn't a work of art then!

[Lokasenna]

Brian... if you don't get off your duff and post the next painting, I'm going to post some esoteric Minimalist conceptual piece from an obscure artist from the third world.:toetap05:

Now that's a challenge for Brian to meet, if ever I saw one.

[Emil Miller]

One of the most audacious characters in modern history.



http://a.imageshack.us/img84/5236/wilterhalter13.jpg

[Genocide]

Bah!!!!!

Franz Xaver Winterhalter's Emperor Napoleon III

I give my choosing powers to whomever wants them. :]

[prendrelemick]

http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k78/prendrelemick/mona.jpg

Only kidding.

Try this one

http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k78/prendrelemick/dawns_a_new_day_large.jpg

[Emil Miller]

Dawns a New Day Large

Ashley Jackson.


http://a.imageshack.us/img59/8457/pietergerardvertinxxfig.jpg

[Kyriakos]

Don't know it...

I must say this thread has shown me that i know very little of non-expressionist painting ;)

[Emil Miller]

Don't know it...

I must say this thread has shown me that i know very little of non-expressionist painting ;)

That's the problem if your interest lies in one particular school of painting. Since childhood, I have had an interest in art in general but I know very little of post WWII painting except for some obvious things by Lucien Freud, Francis Bacon etc;probably because they are English artists. During the post-war period, the Americans appear to have taken the lead with people like Rothko, Pollock, Lichtenstein et al. I don't care for their work but the US publicity machine has made it well-nigh impossible to ignore them.

[Jazz_]

Figures in the Snow Covered Streets of a Dutch Town - Pieter Gerard Vertin


http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w184/akita08/Picture-1.jpg

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

Johannes Vermeer “View of Delft”

Next:

http://i963.photobucket.com/albums/ae114/tabuka1/Misc%20Album/painting.jpg

[stlukesguild]

Lyonel Feininger
Sailing Boats

So now I know to post Post-War art if I want to stump Brian... but avoid Freud, Bacon, Rothko, Polloack, and Lichtenstein.:ciappa:

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4137/4903594482_217a1d74cf.jpghttp://farm5.static.flickr.com/4114/4903594404_53404445d4.jpg

[prendrelemick]

Johannes Vermeer “View of Delft”

Next:

http://i963.photobucket.com/albums/ae114/tabuka1/Misc%20Album/painting.jpg

Nice.

[Emil Miller]

Lyonel Feininger
Sailing Boats

So now I know to post Post-War art if I want to stump Brian... but avoid Freud, Bacon, Rothko, Polloack, and Lichtenstein.:ciappa:

The subject matter of the painting is somewhat obscure but it looks as though bark is being stripped from a tree; probably for making paper.
The fact that there are 12 panels to the screen ought to have made it easier to locate, but although I have looked at some books on oriental art and googled the subject, so far there is nothing forthcoming.

As for Freud, Rothko, Pollock, and Lichtenstein, I think pretty well anyone would recognise them these days, unless they had also produced work that didn't conform to what is generally known of them.

[prendrelemick]

Four sages of mount shang by Soga Shohaku.

(dancing bananas etc...)


There will be a short delay while I discover how to post a picture without giving away too much.

[prendrelemick]

http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k78/prendrelemick/ln1.jpg

[Genocide]

That would be Otto Dix's portrait of Sylvia von Harden. I don't like choosing paintings so next person can take my turn. Eventually I'll have to post one again, eh?

[Emil Miller]

[QUOTE=prendrelemick;941222Otto Dix: Portrait of Sylvia von Harden

http://a.imageshack.us/img594/8414/picture1oz.jpg

[prendrelemick]

Pablo Picasso: child with a dove.



http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k78/prendrelemick/goldenladies-1.jpg


Give the Artist and the title of the book it adorns.

[Emil Miller]

Pablo Picasso: child with a dove.



http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k78/prendrelemick/goldenladies-1.jpg


Give the Artist and the title of the book it adorns.

It looks like Aubrey Beardsley although it's virtually impossible to find from the vast number of drawings he did but at a guess I'd say Mallory's Le Morte d'Arthur or Oscar Wilde's Salome.

[Petrarch's Love]

The artist is Will Bradley (http://www.willbradley.com/chron/index.htm ) and the book is The Romance of Zion Chapel by Richard Le Gallienne, as evidenced here:

http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e386/LeonardoD/0406.jpg

Back in a moment or two when I've selected a new image.

[Petrarch's Love]

To continue our book history theme:

http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e386/LeonardoD/mysterypic6.jpg

This may be super obvious to some of our bibliophiles and Lokasenna has an unfair advantage, but I'm putting up anyway. I have an unrequited desire to hold this manuscript some day.

[Genocide]

Ahhh! I know what the painting is I just don't know the name or anything. It's Marco Polo in Venice. I'm not sure what it is. :/

[Emil Miller]

It is an anonymous miniature painting called Marco Polo Leaving Venice.

http://a.imageshack.us/img440/8193/picture2a.jpg

[stlukesguild]

The Flute Concert of Sanssouci by Adolph von Menzel, 1852
It portrays Emperor Frederick II (Frederick the Great) performing.

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4123/4912814831_e6090d1db5_z.jpg

in an installation view:

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4114/4913420012_5e0bdac829.jpg

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

The Triumph of Death (Palermo)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Triumph_of_Death_(Palermo)

Next:

http://i963.photobucket.com/albums/ae114/tabuka1/Misc%20Album/Mysterypainting.jpg


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[stlukesguild]

Moon through Young Sunflowers
Charles Burchfield

A marvelous visionary artist... a mid-west American version of Blake or Samuel Palmer:

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4074/4914288663_50a05ba207_b.jpg

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4101/4914892942_6cd117c147_z.jpg

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4134/4914289101_084cf7450f_z.jpg

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4117/4914289165_e8c28a80eb.jpg

Of course he was a local boy who made good... so of course I'd know him.

Now for our new mystery painting:

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4119/4914916636_4909f136fc_b.jpg

[Olga4real]

http://a.imageshack.us/img594/8414/picture1oz.jpg

Thank you Brian for posting this picture. I was lucky to see this picture on Thursday in National Gallery.

[Emil Miller]

Thank you Brian for posting this picture. I was lucky to see this picture on Thursday in National Gallery.

I have seen it there also, it is a particular favourite of mine.

[Olga4real]

There are very few of pictures in National Gallery which are not my favorites. Not like in Tate Modern :-) I was there on Friday and it didn`t make a deep impression on me.
On the other hand I spent almost 2 days in National Gallery and would go there again and again then when I will be shoppingggg? :confused5:

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

Moon through Young Sunflowers
Charles Burchfield

A marvelous visionary artist... a mid-west American version of Blake or Samuel Palmer:

Of course he was a local boy who made good... so of course I'd know him.

Now for our new mystery painting:


Yeah, yeah…I kicked myself soon after I posted it. As I read further about Burchfield in my copy of “American Drawings and Watercolors”; The Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, I saw that he was a local boy (to you). I knew the jig was up!

Now this current one has me stumped! I liken it to the cut away sectional views of the epidermis with follicles. The earth's crust as epidermis...? I also see geological caharacteristics. Probaly the wine talking.

[stlukesguild]

Two more by our mystery artist:

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4140/4917987671_d73cfaeb07_b.jpg

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4143/4918022389_cbfc9594bc_b.jpg

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

.
St. Lukes, in the name of all that's holy, abstract and obscure, will you please toss us another bone?


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[stlukesguild]

American "outsider" artist.

[Kyriakos]

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4143/4918022389_cbfc9594bc_b.jpg

This reminds me a lot of some stylised computer game graphics. Very interesting :)

[prendrelemick]

Mt Huron range: Joseph Yoakum.

Now for something completely different! (and easier)
http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k78/prendrelemick/seascape.jpg

[Genocide]

Off the bat, I don't know what that is. But it looks really interesting. Would you mind posting a bigger one? I tried zooming in and it got slightly blurry.

[prendrelemick]

http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k78/prendrelemick/rogersseascape.jpg


There you go. As you see, it is a little blurry.

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

You may think it's easier!
Anyhow, just so you know, I am trying.

[Genocide]

Same....

Thanks for making it bigger, by the way. :]

[prendrelemick]

Ok first clue: The Artist came from a very talented Irish family.

http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k78/prendrelemick/rogershorse.jpg

[Emil Miller]

The Singing Horseman by J.B.Yeats.


http://a.imageshack.us/img830/6015/picture4o.jpg

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

.

“Jupiter and Thetis” - Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres

Give me just a moment and I'll have the next one.


By the way Brian, now that you gave us the Prendrelemick's artist name, I was able to name the original challenge that Pren posted: "Queen Maeve Walked upon this Strand"


OK, here is the next one:

http://i963.photobucket.com/albums/ae114/tabuka1/Misc%20Album/Mysterypainting-1.jpg


Gilliatt

[prendrelemick]

[QUOTE=Brian Bean;945348]The Singing Horseman by J.B.Yeats.


Yes, that was the easy clue pic. The mystery pic was: Queen Maeve walked upon this strand.

[prendrelemick]

.

“Jupiter and Thetis” - Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres

Give me just a moment and I'll have the next one.


By the way Brian, now that you gave us the Prendrelemick's artist name, I was able to name the original challenge that Pren posted: "Queen Maeve Walked upon this Strand"


OK, here is the next one:

http://i963.photobucket.com/albums/ae114/tabuka1/Misc%20Album/Mysterypainting-1.jpg





Gilliatt

I was thinking Charles Russell because of the subject, But its not quite his style.

[Emil Miller]

[QUOTE=Brian Bean;945348]The Singing Horseman by J.B.Yeats.


Yes, that was the easy clue pic. The mystery pic was: Queen Maeve walked upon this strand.

You are right, but I forgot that there had been an earlier picture posted.

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

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Here's a clue: "Zuni"



Gilliatt

[prendrelemick]

After reading up on the Zuni and guessing whose portrait it was:-

Frank Hamilton Cushing, by Thomas Eakins.

[prendrelemick]

Here is my all time favourite virgin. extra points if you can name the model.

http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k78/prendrelemick/ohlala.jpg#


What is Jesus pointing at?

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

After reading up on the Zuni and guessing whose portrait it was:-
Frank Hamilton Cushing, by Thomas Eakins.

The idea came from a book I purchased while visting Zuni some years back, but only now decided to actually read.
The Title is "Zuni - Selected Writings of Frank Hamilton Cushing"
Eakins portarait of Cushing is on the cover of the book.

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[Emil Miller]

Here is my all time favourite virgin. extra points if you can name the model.

What is Jesus pointing at?

Virgin and Child Surrounded by Angels by Jean Fouquet

Agnes Sorel, the king's mistress, was said to be the model.

I don't know what the infant is pointing at.


And now for something completely different.


http://a.imageshack.us/img825/2721/14232a.jpg

[prendrelemick]

Mmmm nice, but is it Art? :smilewinkgrin:

[Emil Miller]

Mmmm nice, but is it Art? :smilewinkgrin:

Yes, the artist is recognised as such, although not quite in the same way as Jean Fouquet.

[Genocide]

Okay, this is awkward, but that's Jessica Dougherty... Douherty? Yeah, her work. I went to her site and I couldn't find the name this piece, BUT under the pin-up, it said "Featuring fetish model Miss Bianca Beauchamp." Yeah....

Can't find the name! D:

[Emil Miller]

Okay, this is awkward, but that's Jessica Dougherty... Douherty? Yeah, her work. I went to her site and I couldn't find the name this piece, BUT under the pin-up, it said "Featuring fetish model Miss Bianca Beauchamp." Yeah....

Can't find the name! D:

Her real name is probably more like Sally Bloggs. I put it up more or less as a joke but the name of the painting is, appropriately enough, 'Executrice' .

Now you are supposed to post a painting.

[prendrelemick]

The search for the details of that painting, took me to some very odd web sites, or sights.

[Emil Miller]

The search for the details of that painting, took me to some very odd web sites, or sights.

I thought it might.:biggrin5:

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

Okay, this is awkward, but that's Jessica Dougherty... Yeah....

Can't find the name! D:



Now you [Genocide] are supposed to post a painting.

It appears that Genocide has dissapeared.
Someone needs to take the bull by the horns.
St. Lukes hasn't checked in for a few days...maybe he could offer up the next challenge?

.

[Emil Miller]

I had this one waiting so here it is.


http://a.imageshack.us/img375/8786/100032.jpg

[MarkBastable]

http://a.imageshack.us/img375/8786/100032.jpg



No idea - but I like that a lot. Not even sure I think it's very good, but I do like it.

[stlukesguild]

And now for something completely different.


http://a.imageshack.us/img825/2721/14232a.jpg

Now Brian, you old salty dog, how is it you claim a feigned shock at my posting of the rather reserved nudes of Van Hove... and then you post this?:eek::eek2::eek6:

Not that I'm shocked in any way, mind you...:devil::blush5::smilewinkgrin:

[MarkBastable]

That too, obviously.

[prendrelemick]

I had this one waiting so here it is.


http://a.imageshack.us/img375/8786/100032.jpg


Its one of those you know you've seen, but can't place.

[prendrelemick]

Its not the kind of thing he is known for, but it's a Kandinsky - Autumn in Bavaria.

[Genocide]

Now you are supposed to post a painting.

I never named it, though.... :0


Its not the kind of thing he is known for, but it's a Kandinsky - Autumn in Bavaria.

I would have never guessed that... I mean, I suppose I could see it in choices of color, but that's about it. I like this side of him. Great job to both of you. :]

[Emil Miller]

[COLOR="DarkRed"] Now Brian, you old salty dog, how is it you claim a feigned shock at my posting of the rather reserved nudes of Van Hove... and then you post this?:eek::eek2::eek6:

Not that I'm shocked in any way, mind you...:devil::blush5::smilewinkgrin:

I decided to bring a little levity into the thread and it seems to have worked.
The artist is making a living out of painting male fantasies though I doubt that any of her work will be exhibited in a major gallery. The Tate Modern might conceivably show some examples, as they seem to accept anything there.

[prendrelemick]

Here's the next one.

http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k78/prendrelemick/123.jpg

[stlukesguild]

Garrowby Hill
David Hockney
Museum of Fine Arts (Boston)

The Next Mystery Painting:

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4132/4952690781_82e06779b7.jpg

[stlukesguild]

A few more by our MM:

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4088/4955828860_ed00effe79.jpg

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4088/4955236083_de504038e5.jpg

[stlukesguild]

And a few more...

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4128/4955236095_2dd762ff82.jpg

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4089/4955236203_1ec8100117.jpg

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4149/4952690895_770427637a.jpg

An absolutely marvelous painter... sadly far less known than he should be.

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

Hmm...?
I'm trying.
Must be American, or at least the subject landscapes given the flag and the house architecture.
The first few look like the northeast region, but the last one looks like it could be from southwest such as river valleys in New Mexico.

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[stlukesguild]

American Impressionist. Northeast. I've driven through this region of the US any number of times in the winter and the artist has brilliantly captured the colors, the architecture, the landscape, etc...

[Sebas. Melmoth]

Grandma Moses?

[Emil Miller]

Grandma Moses?

:biggrin5:

[stlukesguild]

Grandma Moses couldn't paint this well if her life depended upon it. Next clue: Pennsylvania.

[Olga4real]

Daniel Garber 'Bayou' 1935 - this artist is not one of well-known painters in Europe, I must say.

Here is something to find out.

http://www.online-literature.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=1607&stc=1&d=1283710857

[stlukesguild]

Daniel Garber 'Bayou' 1935 - this artist is not one of well-known painters in Europe, I must say.

As if any of the Russian artists you have posted are. :rolleyes5:

In reality I'm not overly fond of most American Impressionists. The French are unrivaled there. Garber, however, strikes me as something of an American Vuillard... an underrated late Impressionist... and he share a preference for earthy colors ala Vuillard.

[Olga4real]

Daniel Garber 'Bayou' 1935 - this artist is not one of well-known painters in Europe, I must say.

As if any of the Russian artists you have posted are. :rolleyes5:

I must disagree with you about Russian artists. A more or less educated person here in Europe is familiar with Peredvizhniki.

Here are some more pictures from my mystery artist.

http://www.online-literature.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=1612&stc=1&d=1283793538

The following work caught my attention when I attended the exhibition of this artist a couple of days ago:

http://www.online-literature.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=1611&stc=1&d=1283793487

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

Olga,

I know the name of the artist and the title of the second painting you posted, but for the life of me I can’t find a picture or title of the original challenge.

If I beg for mercy and name the artist and the second painting, will that suffice?


Gilliatt

[stlukesguild]

duplicate

[stlukesguild]

A more or less educated person here in Europe is familiar with Peredvizhniki.

Perhaps this is true in Eastern Europe where Russian culture was forceably shoved down the throats of the nations under the Soviet sphere of influence, but I have read far more than a fair share of art history books... many written by Europeans... and Russian art is largely ignored prior to the 20th century when Russian artists such as Kandinsky and Malevich became leading figures of Modernism. I highly doubt that most educated persons in Europe have even heard of Peredvizhniki. Russian Realists and Impressionists are about as irrelevant to the history of art as American artists of the same period. The academic painters of Britain and France from the same period remain minor figures within the history of art... but far more recognized than Peredvizhniki or George Caleb Bingham. Of course this is not a judgment as to the merits of the work. There are many fine artists that never influenced the larger international development of art but may be quite important within the regional or national traditions.

[Olga4real]

Olga,

I know the name of the artist and the title of the second painting you posted, but for the life of me I can’t find a picture or title of the original challenge.

If I beg for mercy and name the artist and the second painting, will that suffice?


Gilliatt

It's ok if you name the artist and the second or third picture. I give you the name of the mystery picture in language of the artist 'Cukortolvaj'. An exhibition of him is going on here in my town and I was lucky to see these works 'in person'. :-)

[Jazz_]

Is the last one "A Tender Chord" by Mihály Munkácsy?

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

Is the last one "A Tender Chord" by Mihály Munkácsy?

Jazz,

You beat me to it.
That is exactly what I had in the waiting for my response, except that I am positive it is "A Tender Chord"

It is interesting to note, based on my endless image search, that Munkacsy appears to recycle the same subjects and/or the same backdrop settings in several of his paintings.

Your comment about attending an exhibition a couple of days ago was my clue to figuring it out.

Anyhow, Jazz do you want to take the honors of posting the next mystery painting ?


Gilliatt

[Jazz_]

Gilliatt - I have noticed his tendency to recycle subjects ;)
Thanks for the confirmation :D

http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w184/akita08/Paint.jpg

[Olga4real]

Olga,

I know the name of the artist and the title of the second painting you posted, but for the life of me I can’t find a picture or title of the original challenge.

If I beg for mercy and name the artist and the second painting, will that suffice?


Gilliatt


The title of the picture I posted previously is 'The Little Sugar Thief'

[Emil Miller]

I have been engaged elsewhere during the last few days, and return to find that nationalism is once again in vogue as regards choice of paintings. Whilst, having been guilty of this myself, there is a tendency to turn inwards in search of artists, can we not try to be more worldly wise in our choice of paintings? Even though it makes choosing a subject slightly more exacting.

[stlukesguild]

Seriously, Brian, I am as far from having a nationalist preference when it comes to art as you can get. If asked to name my 20 favorite artists I doubt one American would make the list. Michelangelo, Rembrandt, Rubens, Titian, Bonnard, Ingres, Vermeer, William Blake, Veronese, Velasquez, Van Dyck, Van Eyck, Van der Weyden, Van Gogh, Goya, Matisse, Max Beckmann, Paul Klee, Picasso, Giotto, Botticelli, Utamaro, Hiroshige, Bizhad, Simone Martini, Raphael, Albrecht Durer, Bellini, Giorgione, Fra Angelico, Fra Fillipo Lippi, Giselbertus... to say nothing of the unknown artists who created the Book of Kells, the Lindesfarne Gospels, the Beatus of St. Sever, the sculpture of Chartres, Rheims, Vezelay, and the Kandariyâ Mahâdeva Temple... as well as numerous other masterworks of medieval, classical, and non-Western art by anonymous artists would all come well before any American artists. American art first really enters upon the international scene at the height of Impressionism and early Modernism... at a time in which the French, Germans, and Spanish clearly dominated art with a few exceptions. American art becomes the dominant voice on the international art scene at the time of Abstract Expressionism through the present... and while I admire DeKooning and Rothko, they are far removed from my own artistic ideals... I'd take Dubuffet, Giacometti, Morandi, Bacon, and Freud any day for art of the period. As for contemporary art... yes there are some Americans on my list of admired favorites... but I suspect that I feel the same about certain "art stars" like Warhol, Basquiat, Jeff Koons, Julian Schnabel, and David Salle as you likely feel about Damian Hirst, Tracy Emin, and Gilbert and George.:icon_bs::sick::ack2::prrr::puke:

[Emil Miller]

I wasn't implying that you prefer American art but there have been some pretty rare US paintings posted recently. That goes for other nationalities also. It takes a good deal of research tracking them down if they are not known already.
I have to agree about the artists you don't particularly care for, especially Randy ***hole as he is sometimes indelicately referred to over here, and I won't stray into the area of Jackson Pollock. I noticed that you left out Roy Lichtenstein for some reason.
As for the British contingent you mentioned, I find them to be either ludicrous or unspeakable; especially Gilbert and George. I was on an underground train a few years ago when Tracy Emin got on and sat opposite me, needless to say, I did the right thing and ignored her throughout the journey. Talk about charlatanism.

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

...but there have been some pretty rare US paintings posted recently. That goes for other nationalities also. It takes a good deal of research tracking them down if they are not known already.


I suppose I am guilty with my Charles Burchfield posting. It was a random selection from a book on American drawings and watercolors. My Eakins selection was right under my nose on the cover of the book I am currently reading. An attempt at a literature connection.
In fact my choice for the next painting I will post, came about from a book cover.

The current challenge is proving difficult as well. Given Jazz's location and Brian's blowing the whistle on nationalistic tendencies, I presume the landscape is Australian, perhaps inspired by Kings Canyon, Alice Springs...?

Gilliatt

[Olga4real]

Brian let me disagree with you regarding nationalism. Posting works of artists from our countries makes this game challenging. On the other hand it is a chance to introduce artists from our countries to other people. I think there is nothing wrong with advertise great artists who are groundlessly forgotten or ignored.
Is it nationalism being Russian and posting Hungarian artist's works :-) ?

[Kyriakos]

Perhaps the game can take a turn in the future to more known artists, so that more people can participate? ;)

[Jazz_]

Gilliatt - you are pretty close. It is very close to Kings Canyon (same state/general area) ;)

And it is a famous Indigenous Australian artist - who lived in the MacDonnell Ranges and mostly focused on watercolours... hope that helps.

Another of his paintings:
http://www.picturestore.com.au/images/products/medium/ALYOUN01.jpg

[Olga4real]

Albert Namatjira

Simpsons Gap

and the second one is

Young Ghost Gum

I'll post something later.

[Jazz_]

Nice work - your turn :D

[Olga4real]

Here it goes:
Sorry I must edit it to remove the signature.

http://www.online-literature.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=1620&stc=1&d=1284029743

[Emil Miller]

Brian let me disagree with you regarding nationalism. Posting works of artists from our countries makes this game challenging. On the other hand it is a chance to introduce artists from our countries to other people. I think there is nothing wrong with advertise great artists who are groundlessly forgotten or ignored.
Is it nationalism being Russian and posting Hungarian artist's works :-) ?

Olga, please don't think I am against nationalism in respect of paintings, I also have posted some British artists on this thread, but if the picture is extremely difficult to trace, people may lose interest in posting other pictures.
I normally try to post something that could be difficult but not so hard that it is virtually impossible to trace.

[prendrelemick]

That view of Venice is so often painted that I imagine artists jostleing each other on foggy atmospheric mornings

Venice in grey weather. John Singer Sargent

[Olga4real]

That view of Venice is so often painted that I imagine artists jostleing each other on foggy atmospheric mornings

Venice in grey weather. John Singer Sargent

Well done Prendrelemick!!!:party:

[prendrelemick]

Perhaps the game can take a turn in the future to more known artists, so that more people can participate? ;)


I know nothing about painting, but I can participate easily. The game for me is to try and discribe the picture in no more than four words, so that Google can find it. For instance the last one, I recognised it as Venice and an Impressionist work, so the words "Impressionist Venice" soon found it. A kind of game within a game and an interesting excercise.

Here is the next one.
http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k78/prendrelemick/greentrees.jpg

[Olga4real]

Prendrelemick this picture looks so familiar that it hurts but I can't remember anything in particular. Will you help us posting more pictures from your mystery artist?

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

I will second that motion.

There appears to be an upper case "M" in the signature, so I spent some time researching artists signatures, but no luck.


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[Emil Miller]

I will second that motion.

There appears to be an upper case "M" in the signature, so I spent some time researching artists signatures, but no luck.


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Well Gilliatt, I don't think it's Michaelangelo.:D

[prendrelemick]

My computer is playing up, and will not let me post another picture at the moment.

So the clue is:- You're right Brian, its not Michaelangelo!

[prendrelemick]

Through the magic of System Restore, here's another, a bit less abstract.

http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k78/prendrelemick/imagesCAL261RZ.jpg

and another
http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k78/prendrelemick/ntp7.jpg

[Olga4real]

Mikhail Fiodorovich Larionov (1881-1964)
Rain,

Was uncovered

A Girl at the Hairdresser's

[Olga4real]

http://www.online-literature.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=1621&stc=1&d=1284272686

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

...There appears to be an upper case "M" in the signature, so I spent some time researching artists signatures, but no luck.



Well Gilliatt, I don't think it's Michaelangelo


Mikhail Fiodorovich Larionov (1881-1964)...

By Jove, there was an "M" in the name !
Good job Olga.

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[prendrelemick]

Mikhail Fiodorovich Larionov (1881-1964)
Rain,

Was uncovered

A Girl at the Hairdresser's

Well done Olga. I wasn't very impressed with his stuff, Apart from "Rain" which gets more and more interesting the longer you stare at it.

[stlukesguild]

Mikhail Fiodorovich Larionov

Back to the obscure Russians?:shocked:

That's it... it's back to hermetic American Minimalist installation artists next time up.:ihih::patriot:

[Olga4real]

Two more pictures from our artist:

http://www.online-literature.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=1624&stc=1&d=1284407545


http://www.online-literature.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=1625&stc=1&d=1284407545

[Olga4real]

Keyword for the mystery artist is The Eight.

[stlukesguild]

Sunflowers, Rocky Neck
John Sloan

The "Ashcan School" were OK... but I only really liked Bellows (who handled paint in a bravura manner unlike any other American painter of the period) and Robert Henri (not to mention Edward Hopper... who is something else altogether).

OK... our new mystery painting:

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4110/4991718430_13b62d6a14.jpg

[stlukesguild]

A few more paintings by our mystery painter:

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4124/4994459096_5e12127f74.jpg

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4112/4994459132_ae045e0552.jpg

[MarkBastable]

No idea - but those red boots look like handmade bespoke boots by Anello and Davide. When I was in my twenties, and despite being broke, I bought several pairs of those - in exactly that colour, with Cuban heels - and they took me through a joyous, ambitious and turbulent decade of my life, which I still think of as the Red Boot Years.

[Scheherazade]

When I was in my twenties, and despite being broke, I bought several pairs of those - in exactly that colour, with Cuban heels - Say it ain't so...

Red lipstick you sport in your avatar is one thing but red boots???

How are we supposed to picture you as a "curmudgeon" now?

[MarkBastable]

Say it ain't so...

Red lipstick you sport in your avatar is one thing but red boots???

How are we supposed to picture you as a "curmudgeon" now?


The red boots chimed perfectly with the blue-streaked black hair, the eyeliner and the dangly silver earring.

Curmudgeons do not spring fully-formed into being at fifty. They develop gradually from bright, optimistic, carefree Alice Cooper fans crushed by the vagaries of opportunities unfulfilled and made bitter by the removal of their vital organs at the hands of faithless women.

....Er.

I expect.

[stlukesguild]

Our artist was well respected for his work in illustration... especially children's books. He was knighted. One of his children is actually far better known within the art world than he... being a respected Modernist.

[Jazz_]

Sir William Nicholson - the clue about the son helped quite a bit :p

The Silver Casket
Miss Simpson's Boots
The Lustre Bowl

[Jazz_]

http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w184/akita08/painting.jpg

[Emil Miller]

Apres le Dejeuner by Renoir

http://img148.imageshack.us/img148/2640/fauv3.gif

[Scheherazade]

Maurice De Vlaminck's "The Potato Pickers"?

[Emil Miller]

Maurice De Vlaminck's "The Potato Pickers"?


Well done, now you are supposed to post a painting.

[Scheherazade]

Fairly easy one:

http://img339.imageshack.us/img339/4278/painting1.jpg

[Emil Miller]

It's vaguely familiar. It looks like a painting used for a book cover illustration.

[Scheherazade]

This artist mostly worked with female subjects but others paintings are not as... demure as this one.

[stlukesguild]

Gustav Klimt
Lady with cape and Hat, Three Quarter View
1897/98

I was certain it was either Klimt or Munch having repeatedly run across the drawing in one of my books.

Our new mystery painting:

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4132/5002565823_7a0bd82bec_b.jpg

[Emil Miller]

Madonna and child by Marianne Stokes


http://img841.imageshack.us/img841/8329/l62c.jpg

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

Finally, I can figure one out!

Noel Coward "St Margarets Bay"

http://www.dover.gov.uk/museum/information_resources/articles__factsheets/coward__fleming.aspx

I immediately recognized the White Cliffs.
Give me a moment and i'll have one for you


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[Gilliatt Gurgle]

OK, here's the next one:


http://i963.photobucket.com/albums/ae114/tabuka1/Misc%20Album/Mysterypainting-2.jpg


At the risk of being too obscure, I'll give you a clue up front.
The selection was inspired by another book cover.

EDIT - ...cover on a book that I finished a few weeks ago by a British author.
(The painter is not British)



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[Gilliatt Gurgle]

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Two more from our mystery painter:

http://i963.photobucket.com/albums/ae114/tabuka1/Misc%20Album/Mysterypaintingclue1.jpg


http://i963.photobucket.com/albums/ae114/tabuka1/Misc%20Album/Mysterypaintingclue2.jpg


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[MarkBastable]

Is it Dadd?

Oh hang on - he was British....

Scratch that.

[Olga4real]

I know the artist and know two additional pictures but haven't found the mystery picture title.

[Jazz_]

Ilya Repin

Preparation for the Examination
Sadko in the Underwater Kingdom
Leo Tolstoy Barefoot

http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w184/akita08/pa.jpg

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

"Preparation for Examiniation" is the book cover image on my copy of "Under Western Eyes" by Joseph Conrad.


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[stlukesguild]

More Russians:rolleyes5: Time to pull out the esoteric American Minimalist Installation artists.:sosp:

[prendrelemick]

Still trying Jazz. It demonstrates that there are rewards even to an unsucessful search. I now know there was an Orientalist Art movement.

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

More Russians:rolleyes5: Time to pull out the esoteric American Minimalist Installation artists.:sosp:

Haha
I thought that might get your goad, but I assure you that Russian obscurity was not my intent. I was merely continuing my book cover theme.
After reading the credits to the cover art, I thought to myself; “This will surely bring down the wrath of St. Luke’s and the ‘esoteric American minimalists’ ”.

Have mercy on us.

Now to the challenge at hand.


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[Jazz_]

I tried to avoid using another Australian (or European) painting ;)

He is famous for combining traditional Indian art with European techniques...

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[Emil Miller]

Victory of Mehananda by Ravi Varna



http://img839.imageshack.us/img839/6706/pictureno11.jpg

[Olga4real]

Berthe Morisot

On the balcony.
Painted: 1871-72

I'm afraid the following picture will be too easy.

http://www.online-literature.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=1626&stc=1&d=1285266673

[prendrelemick]

That must be Pompeii

[Emil Miller]

The last day of Pompei by Karl Bryullov

Sorry but I couldn't get a larger version.

http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/1420/p068.jpg

[Emil Miller]

As a clue to the above painting, I think you might consider a conflict fought on Russian territory during the 19th century.

[stlukesguild]

Always the damn Russians!:sosp:

[Scheherazade]

As a clue to the above painting, I think you might consider a conflict fought on Russian territory during the 19th century.Crimean War?

SLG> What's up with you and the Russians?

[Jazz_]

Elizabeth Thompson (Lady Butler)

I believe the name is Balaclava - is that right?

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[Emil Miller]

Elizabeth Thompson (Lady Butler)

I believe the name is Balaclava - is that right?

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Absolutely correct!

[Jazz_]

Yay - my turn :D

http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w184/akita08/ht.jpg

[stlukesguild]

Salvador Dali
An Homage to Millet (l'Angelus)
aka: Dawn, Noon, Afternoon and Evening
1979

Next:

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4124/5030855733_d0f8b8b0db_b.jpg

[Olga4real]

Always the damn Russians!:sosp:

What's wrong with Russians? Setimes it seems to me that you don't really like Russians can you tell me why?

[stlukesguild]

Seriously? Russian art is largely second-rate 'til the 20th century. And I'm not saying this out of any sense of nationalism. American art is also largely second-rate until the 20th century. Russian music and literature, on the other hand, comes into its own in the 19th century, but there is a reason that most art history books barely mention any Russian painter prior to the 20th century with the exception of Andrei Rublev and other icon painters. It would seem, however, from the number of times the 19th century Russian realists have popped up that they were major players along side the French.

By the way... the mystery painting is not by an American.:p He was an important figure among a movement that brought Modernism to his native land and part of a group that would have a major impact upon the Abstract Expressionists.

[stlukesguild]

Another painting by our mystery artist:

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4089/5037952264_64d88ba5c9_z.jpg

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

I'm not giving up!


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[stlukesguild]

A couple of major paintings by our mystery artist who was no obscure minor figure as might be gleaned by the scale of these works:

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4084/5040421380_a2fc02644b_b.jpg

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4148/5040421518_35372748a4_b.jpg

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

Finally !!!
Geez that was exhausting.

"Funerary Monument to Industrial Capitalism"

By Juan O' Goram

At first I was hung up in Italy based on the colors in the banner of the first painting.
Your following images took me to Mexico and had me going down the trail of Rivera.
The museum photo was the key. I searched "murals in Mexico museums" and found the your last image.

Please allow me to take a breather before I post the next image.

BTW, thanks for introducing Goarm.
I will peruse his work a little further.


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[Gilliatt Gurgle]

BTW, the other paintings are as follows:

2nd painting: "PROYECTO DE MONUMENTO AL NACIMIENTO DE VENUS"
3rd : "Independence Alter Piece"
the last: "The Hisrory of Michoacan"

edit

Here's the next painting.

http://i963.photobucket.com/albums/ae114/tabuka1/Misc%20Album/Mysterypainting10_1-1.jpg


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[stlukesguild]

Juan O'Gorman was a truly interesting figure. He was born in Mexico City to an Irish father and Mexican mother. He became an architect and worked on several major projects bring a Modernist style influenced by Le Corbusier to Mexico. An important early commission included designing the home of Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo. His later architectural work owed much to Frank Lloyd Wright. Throughout his career, O'Gorman also worked steadily as a painter, producing several major murals. As such he was part of the Mexican Mural Movement instigated by Diego Rivera which sought to establish a visual cultural history for Mexico in much the same way as the Renaissance frescoes had done for Italy. Many American artists worked as assistants for Rivera, O'Gorman, Siquieros, Oroszco, etc... and brought their skills back to the US where they often created murals for libraries and government buildings during the 1930s and 1940s as part of the WPA. This experience with art on a grand scale and art with Nationalist goals would have a major impact upon Abstract Expressionism. O'Gorman apparently died of suicide at age 76 after discovering that he had a heart condition that would make further artistic efforts impossible.

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

Thanks for the introduction to Juan O'Gorman. I noticed a reference to his architectural background on one of the web sites I searched, which further piqued my interest in him.

A couple of clues regarding the current challenge:

The painter was born in France and eventually moved to the U. S. and became a citizen.

Portraits of Grant and Sherman.


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[stlukesguild]

Constant Mayer (1832 – 1911)
Love's Melancholy

The style had me thinking late German Romanticism.

The next one is an absolutely beautiful painting:

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4126/5053835707_a782f0ee4b.jpg

[Emil Miller]

Thanks for the introduction to Juan O'Gorman. I noticed a reference to his architectural background on one of the web sites I searched, which further piqued my interest in him.

A couple of clues regarding the current challenge:

The painter was born in France and eventually moved to the U. S. and became a citizen.

Portraits of Grant and Sherman.


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...Sorry Gilliatt

I made an entry error .

[Scheherazade]

The next one is an absolutely beautiful painting:

"Blowing Bubbles" by Chaplin?

[Emil Miller]

Surely not this one ?


http://img580.imageshack.us/img580/1056/74077635.jpg (http://img580.imageshack.us/my.php?image=74077635.jpg)

[stlukesguild]

Charles Chaplin it is... although not the one of the Hitler mustache fame. You're up Scheherazade.

[Scheherazade]

I have to admit, this is not an artist I am familiar with but I had seen this painting and liked it so I looked it up for this game:

http://img197.imageshack.us/img197/788/38643945.jpg

[Emil Miller]

The Death of the Firstborn by Charles Sprague Pearce



http://img839.imageshack.us/img839/310/justanotherpicture.jpg

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

Francesco Hayez
"Nude with Skull and Cross"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesco_Hayez

Give me a moment to find the next one.

The next one:

http://i963.photobucket.com/albums/ae114/tabuka1/Misc%20Album/MysteryPainting-3.jpg


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[stlukesguild]

The Kimbell Art Museum claims that this is a painting by the young Michelangelo after Martin Schongauer's famous print, The Temptation of St. Anthony

http://artinvestment.ru/en/news/artnews/20090515_michelangelo_painting.html

Our next art work:

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4154/5063423213_433f7b8ee4_b.jpg

[Emil Miller]

Condottierre by Antonello da Messina1475



http://img219.imageshack.us/img219/44/a5444417eac17c0ed50e6a7.jpg

[Scheherazade]

"My Wife, the Queen" by Prince Philip.

[Emil Miller]

I think the correct title is The Queen at Breakfast but you are close enough.

[Scheherazade]

http://img413.imageshack.us/img413/9735/painting1e.jpg

[Emil Miller]

Woman Kneeling by a Wall Drinking Water From a Jar by William Adolphe Bougereau



http://img843.imageshack.us/img843/5707/paintingt.jpg (http://img843.imageshack.us/my.php?image=paintingt.jpg)

[Scheherazade]

Woman Kneeling by a Wall Drinking Water From a Jar by William Adolphe BougereauI think the correct title is "La Soif" (Thirst) by Bouguereau but you are close enough.

:smilewinkgrin:

[Emil Miller]

A clue to the mystery painting:
The artist was German.

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

"The Shepherd Boy" by Franz von Lenbach

The next painting:

http://i963.photobucket.com/albums/ae114/tabuka1/Misc%20Album/MysteryPainting10_14.jpg


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[prendrelemick]

Hmm, some sort of wedding, perhaps in Arcady

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

Hmm, some sort of wedding, perhaps in Arcady

My ignorance is showing. I had to look up "Arcady", then realized the variant I am familiar is "Arcadia". Now that I'm on the same page, you are getting warm with your interpretation of the subject, but it is known by another term.

Clue: The painter also practiced architecture



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[stlukesguild]

A better clue might be a reproduction a bit larger than a postage stamp.:sosp:

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

Believe me, I tried.
That was the largest I could find.

Let me see if I can dig up another painting, or should I say; "fresco".

OK, here are two more by the mystery painter:


http://i963.photobucket.com/albums/ae114/tabuka1/Misc%20Album/MysterycluePainting1.jpg


http://i963.photobucket.com/albums/ae114/tabuka1/Misc%20Album/Mysterycluepainting2.jpg



Ha ! Is that big enough for you? !



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[stlukesguild]

Much better... at least I can recognize the nationality of the artist and the period:

Pietro da Cortona
The Golden Age:

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4104/5093927893_9bc4281e50_b.jpg

-from page 1 of the Google Image Search

Next Mystery Painting:

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4129/5093945773_10e17a13a2_b.jpg

[stlukesguild]

Another by our mystery artist:

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4085/5096554133_4213981bba_b.jpg

[JuniperWoolf]

My boyfriend guesses: "Cimabue?"

[prendrelemick]

the subject looks like the ascension.

[Kyriakos]

Looks like a mixture of byzantine iconography with tones of the orient :)

[Emil Miller]

Thye second is a picture of the ascension by Loenzo Monaco but I have been unable to trace the first picture.

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

"The Three Marys at the Tomb" by Monaco Lorenzo or should I say Lorenzo Monaco?
and Brian named the second painting.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_Three_Marys_at_the_Tomb_1396_Monaco_Loren zo.jpg

http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/artObjectDetails?artobj=253190


Sorry Brian, I had them named for a while now, but I was taking time to process the next image.

Here it is:

http://i963.photobucket.com/albums/ae114/tabuka1/Misc%20Album/MysteryPainting10_20.jpg



Gilliatt

[Emil Miller]

Saturday Night 1935 by Archibald J. Motley Jr.



http://img299.imageshack.us/img299/9696/pictureagain.jpg

[prendrelemick]

Here it is:

http://i963.photobucket.com/albums/ae114/tabuka1/Misc%20Album/MysteryPainting10_20.jpg



Gilliatt

Wow!.

[Emil Miller]

Wow!.

Yes, not the place to go for a quiet pint of newkie and a game of dominoes eh. :biggrin5:

[Emil Miller]

Here is another painting by our mystery artist.

http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/3608/57619980.jpg

[Emil Miller]

OK folks, this is no obscure artist, his work is well known and fetches large sums at auction. He was a naturalised French citizen and a one time member of Les Fauves. Unfortunately, his signature is prominently displayed on many of his paintings so I have had to resort to those without the tell tale name.

http://img835.imageshack.us/img835/863/dk3p.jpg

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

Wow!.

Yes; the same reaction I had when I came upon Motley's "Nightlife" at the Art Institute in Chicago. "Nightlife" is very similar to "Saturday Night"


OK folks, this is no obscure artist, his work is well known and fetches large sums at auction. He was a naturalised French citizen and a one time member of Les Fauves. Unfortunately, his signature is prominently displayed on many of his paintings so I have had to resort to those without the tell tale name.

Brian,

I am trying.
I just went through the "Fauvest" artists listed in the Wikipedia search.
What am I missing? !!!

Don't answer, I'll continue burning the midnight oil.



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[Emil Miller]

Yes; Don't answer, I'll continue burning the midnight oil..

In order to conserve the midnight oil I will give another clue. This man loved to paint women; especially those wearing hats.

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

Brian,
After several reprimands from my project manager, several pots of coffee and several glasses of wine, I now have the answer:

Painter – Kees van Dongen

Original Challenge painting:
“Marocaines au cap Spartel”
1910

Second and third paintings respectively:
“Anita au coeur vert"

Portrait of Commandant Requin

Next painting:


http://i963.photobucket.com/albums/ae114/tabuka1/For%20Name%20the%20painting%20game/MysteryPainting10_28.jpg


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[sixsmith]

I make that as Bernini. I'm going to check this, hang on.

[sixsmith]

Saints Andrew and Thomas.

[prendrelemick]

Brian,
After several reprimands from my project manager, several pots of coffee and several glasses of wine, I now have the answer:

Painter – Kees van Dongen

Original Challenge painting:
“Marocaines au cap Spartel”
1910

Second and third paintings respectively:
“Anita au coeur vert"

Portrait of Commandant Requin



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Thank goodness! I ran out of midnight oil last week with that one.

[Emil Miller]

Now all we need is for Sixsmith to post another.

[sixsmith]

Here we go.

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

Brief Bernini aside -
Gian Lorenzo Bernini a dominant figure in Roman Baroque art more popularly associated with his magnificent sculptures and architectural accomplishments.
Bernini gave us treasures such as the “baldechino” centered under the dome of St. Peters in Roma, “Aeneas, Anchises and Ascanius”, “Ecstasy of Saint Theresa” and a particular favorite of mine; “Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi” at Piazza Navona.
Examples of architectural contributions include the Piazza of St. Peters with the embracing arms of the colossal colonnade and Sant'Andrea al Quirinale in Roma.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Peter's_baldachin

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gian_Lorenzo_Bernini_cat01.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Estasi_di_Santa_Teresa.jpg/250px-Estasi_di_Santa_Teresa.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fontana_dei_Quattro_Fiumi




Here we go.

More like; "here we go again"
Better brew up another pot of Joe.



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[sixsmith]

Another work from our mystery artist:

[Jazz_]

George Bellows:
Pennsylvania Station Excavation
Both Members of This Club

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

Nice job.
That one had me stumped


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[Jazz_]

Thanks - I had no idea at first, but I recognised the second painting :p


http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w184/akita08/p4.jpg

[MarkBastable]

The Raft of the Medusa by Gericault

Incidentally, Jazz, given the historical incident depicted, I think your tagline is particularly appropriate to the picture.



Next...


http://i447.photobucket.com/albums/qq193/markbastable/image2.jpg

[sixsmith]

Bathing Women - Kazimir Severinovich Malevich




Next (an easy one):

[Emil Miller]

Mural 1943 by Jackson Pollack



http://img607.imageshack.us/img607/8877/pictures066.jpg

[stlukesguild]

Here is another painting by our mystery artist.

http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/3608/57619980.jpg

I was certain that this was Kees van Dongen... but I just couldn't seem to find this or the original painting on the "image" searches I ran. I long loved van Dongen's work... along with Bonnard's, Modigliani's and Matisse's.:smile5:

[Emil Miller]

I was certain that this was Kees van Dongen... but I just couldn't seem to find this or the original painting on the "image" searches I ran. I long loved van Dongen's work... along with Bonnard's, Modigliani's and Matisse's.:smile5:

Yes St Lukes, I realise that my entries were not the obvious paintings of this artist, but I agree that his paintings are, from my limited perspective, excellent examples of their kind.

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

... but I just couldn't seem to find this or the original painting on the "image" searches I ran...


...I realise that my entries were not the obvious paintings of this artist...

Believe me when I tell you, it was difficult finding the answer !


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[Emil Miller]

Believe me when I tell you, it was difficult finding the answer !


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I first came across van Dongen years ago when one of his paintings was used for the cover of a paperback of The Great Gatsby. In checking him out, I found this among his more well known works but, as you can see, his name is very legibly painted on the canvas.


http://img585.imageshack.us/img585/6549/vandongen1.jpg

[Emil Miller]

A clue to the mystery painting.

There is little information available about the artist but he is a Russian.

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

Thanks, I was about to put in a request for a clue.
My initial thoughts from a few days ago:
The failed attempt on Moscow given the vast snow covered steppe or Battle of the Bulge.
Another Russian huh?


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[Emil Miller]

Thanks, I was about to put in a request for a clue.
My initial thoughts from a few days ago:
The failed attempt on Moscow given the vast snow covered steppe or Battle of the Bulge.
Another Russian huh?.

Yes, I should have checked him out before posting the painting. I thought he might have been an official war artist but, from what I can gather, he was born long after the war. Under these circumstances, I may have to post another picture.

As the existing painting is unusually difficult to trace, I will tell you that it is called German Dead and was painted by one V.Safronov.
The next painting is on a similar theme and should be easier to pin down by those who know their modern European history.

http://img713.imageshack.us/img713/5915/til1luce001z.jpg

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

Ahhh...I didn't realize you posted the answer!
I found the answer earlier this evening.
Here's where I found it:

http://www.allworldwars.com/Soviet%20War%20Paintings.html

Oh well, on to your next challenge.


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[Emil Miller]

Ahhh...I didn't realize you posted the answer!
I found the answer earlier this evening.
Here's where I found it:

http://www.allworldwars.com/Soviet%20War%20Paintings.html

Oh well, on to your next challenge.


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Sorry Gilliatt,

That's where I found it also but it appears that the artist is the one born in 1961 and therefore it's not an actual wartime painting in the way that those by Paul Nash are. There are some landscapes painted by a V.Safronov but I don't know if it is the same man as I believe that the name is fairly common in Russia and there is not much forthcoming concerning him.
Anyhow, the second painting is much better than the first.

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

A bit easier; Maximilien Luce “Une rue de Paris en Mai 1871, La Commune”

http://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/collections/index-of-works/notice.html?no_cache=1&zsz=5&lnum=15

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximilien_Luce

I searched “Paintings of dead revolutionaries on road” and it appeared on page 8 images.
Clues :
Barricade rubble = must be French!
Inclusion of young lady = revolutionaries

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Commune

Interesting piece of history.

The next challenge:

http://i963.photobucket.com/albums/ae114/tabuka1/For%20Name%20the%20painting%20game/MysteryPainting11_13.jpg


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[Emil Miller]

Yes Gilliatt,

The Franco Prussian war and Paris Commune is related in Zola's brilliant novel La Débâcle and still lurks around the fringes of French politics to this day.
The second empire is a particularly fascinating period of French history and it is a pity that it ended in that way. I think the painting of the aftermath is very evocative of the period.

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

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A couple of clues.

The painter:

http://i963.photobucket.com/albums/ae114/tabuka1/For%20Name%20the%20painting%20game/MysteryPaintingclue11_16.jpg



Another manufactured painting by our mystery artist:



http://i963.photobucket.com/albums/ae114/tabuka1/For%20Name%20the%20painting%20game/Mysterypaintingclue211_16.jpg



Gilliatt

[Emil Miller]

Gothic Church on a Cliff by the Sea -Karl Friedrich Schinkel.

I knew Schinkel was an architect but I didn't know he was also an artist,
even though I had seen his painting The Queen of the Night somewhere or other.



http://img190.imageshack.us/img190/5504/anothertry.jpg

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

Lyonel Feninger "The Lady in Mauve"

You happened to choose a painter that I admire, so it was a bit easier to figure out.
A couple of Feninger favorites of mine include:
"Gables I, Luneburg"
http://www.smith.edu/artmuseum/collections/paintings/
and
"Jesuiten III"
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9d/Lyonel_Feininger%27s_painting_Jesuiten_III_%28Jesu its_III%29%2C_1915.jpg/200px-Lyonel_Feininger%27s_painting_Jesuiten_III_%28Jesu its_III%29%2C_1915.jpg


Next painting:

http://i963.photobucket.com/albums/ae114/tabuka1/For%20Name%20the%20painting%20game/Mysterypainting11_18.jpg




Gilliatt

[Epistemophile]

van gogh

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

Close enough, although we are also looking for the title of the painting which in this case is "Cottage with Woman Digging".

Epistemophile - Your turn to post the next painting.


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[Kyriakos]

Since Epistemophile seems to be missing, here is a new painting (an easy one) to get things going again :)

http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/2360/76680.jpg

[Kyriakos]

Should i post a clue? I thought it was a pretty easy one :)

Clue: although not greek, this painter was in Greece when he was young.

[Kyriakos]

A more famous painting by the same artist:

http://img195.imageshack.us/img195/2117/enan.jpg

[MarkBastable]

The second one is The Uncertainty of the Poet, by Chiciro. Which led me to discovering that the first one is The Enigma of the Hour.

Here's the next one...

http://i447.photobucket.com/albums/qq193/markbastable/pic4.jpg

[Kyriakos]

It is indeed the enigma of the hour :)

Don't know the current one.

[Lokasenna]

It's 'Queen Eleanor' by Frederick Sandys. I can't remember where I've seen it, but the title popped into my mind as soon as I looked at it.

Right, here's one off the top of my head, though I suspect it won't remain a mystery for very long:

http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i48/Naeblis1963/quiz2.jpg

[Emil Miller]

Hercules at the Crossroads (Jealousy) by Albrecht Durer


http://img232.imageshack.us/img232/9380/anotherpainting000.jpg

[stlukesguild]

Paul Gauguin
The Sleeping Child
1884
http://www.lessing-photo.com/dispimg.asp?i=40120619+&cr=70&cl=1

Next:

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5283/5208127822_343c675fa5.jpg

[Emil Miller]

Paul Gauguin
The Sleeping Child
1884
http://www.lessing-photo.com/dispimg.asp?i=40120619+&cr=70&cl=1

Next:

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5283/5208127822_343c675fa5.jpg

Christ in Judgment Heaven and Hell.

It appears to be a Russian painting but I haven't been able to trace the artist.

[stlukesguild]

Nope... not Russian... and a rather major painter at that.

[Emil Miller]

I thought there might be a Russian connection because of the wording at the bottom of this picture.
However, The painting is Christ the Judge by Fra Angelico

http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/9506/angelicofrachristthejud.jpg

[Emil Miller]

http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/9501/56432.jpg
Shot at 2010-11-26

[stlukesguild]

Edgar Germain Hilaire Degas
The Cotton Exchange
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Edgar_Germain_Hilaire_Degas_016.jpg

One of my absolute gods of art. I don't think anyone has drawn as well since.

Next!

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5003/5209981579_1709de2d28_z.jpg

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

Hmmm...
I keep coming back to the Sphinx and Oedipus. However, I have been unsuccessful in working that angle.


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[Emil Miller]

It looks very much like Salome with the head of John the Baptist but I don't know the significance of the winged creature.

[sixsmith]

Is it Nicholas Kalmakoff? Salome Sphinx?

[stlukesguild]

Bingo!

[sixsmith]

Er, could somebody else please post another painting? I'm unable to upload an image.

[Emil Miller]

http://img257.imageshack.us/img257/6133/picture10008.jpg


A clue as to the artist . This man originally trained to be a painter and decorator of houses but became one of the most famous artists of the 20th century.
If I posted another painting by him he would easily be recognised; which is why I posted the above that is in a less fragmented style than much
of his other work.

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

Georges Braque - "Terrace of Hotel Mistral" 1907

One of the progenitors of "Cubism" along with Picasso, although the "Terrace of Hotel Mistral" was completed just prior to Braque's transition into the pure "hard" geometric aspects associated with Cubism.

Next:

http://i963.photobucket.com/albums/ae114/tabuka1/For%20Name%20the%20painting%20game/MysteryPainting12_03.jpg



Gilliatt

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

A clue:

"Keep silent unless what you are going to say is more important than silence"

(Translated from latin)


another clue

A self portrait of the mystery painter:

http://i963.photobucket.com/albums/ae114/tabuka1/For%20Name%20the%20painting%20game/mysterypaintingclue.jpg


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[stlukesguild]

After Salvator Rosa
Jason Poisoning the Dragon
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:After_Salvator_Rosa_-_Jason_Poisoning_the_Dragon.jpg

Rosa was an Italian Baroque painter who in many ways was seen as a precursor to Romanticism. His often phantasmagorical paintings were an undeniable influence upon such Romantic painters as Goya, Delacroix, Fuseli, etc...

Next up:

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5124/5242668345_a70d8cd2cd_b.jpg