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stlukesguild

12-23-2010, 03:46 PM

Pablo Picasso
Portrait of the Artist's Mother

I initially thought it was Gauguin, as it has many elements of Gauguin's style... but Picasso was profoundly impacted by Gauguin early in his career. Gauguin's mother on the other hand, was imminently more attractive... at least she is so in the eye of the artist:

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5167/5286359466_41b6b2a0cd_b.jpg

stlukesguild

12-24-2010, 12:47 AM

Let's go with something seasonal:

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5010/5286745631_07d19ea91b_z.jpg

stlukesguild

12-25-2010, 12:25 PM

A few more by our mystery "master":

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5043/5290693550_18a1e2477b_b.jpg

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5246/5290090467_8150429b85_b.jpg

stlukesguild

12-27-2010, 03:22 AM

German...

Gilliatt Gurgle

12-28-2010, 12:03 PM

Painter: "Master Bertram"
The first painting is the "Nativity" panel and the second is the "Creation of Animals" panel, both of which are part of the greater "Grabow Alter Piece".

Wiki link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_Bertram

Amazing work and appropriate fot the season.
I'm off to find the next challenge.

Next mystery painting
Continuing the seaonal theme:

http://i963.photobucket.com/albums/ae114/tabuka1/For%20Name%20the%20painting%20game/MysteryPainting12_28.jpg

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Gilliatt Gurgle

12-30-2010, 11:05 AM

A clue.

Here's another creation by our mystery painter. However, this work is not a painting, it is a mosaic:

http://i963.photobucket.com/albums/ae114/tabuka1/For%20Name%20the%20painting%20game/Clue12_30.jpg

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Gilliatt Gurgle

12-31-2010, 11:45 PM

A clue to the clue above:

Dante - Baptism

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prendrelemick

01-02-2011, 04:54 PM

The mosaic is on the Baptistry ceiling in Florence. Coppo de Marcovaldo is the artist. The first one is, believe it or not, Madonna and Child

Gilliatt Gurgle

01-03-2011, 11:06 AM

Great!
Also referred to as "Madonna del Bordone".
Interesting story I discovered about the painting according to Wiki. Coppo was imprisoned in Siena and paid his ransom by executing the painting, which is located in Santa Maria dei Servi. As you mentioned, the mosaic is in the Battistero di San Giovanni which is near the Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore.

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prendrelemick

01-03-2011, 11:28 AM

A little detour into the world of sculpture.

http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k78/prendrelemick/7.jpg

Kyriakos

01-08-2011, 04:49 AM

Can you provide some clues? :)

Kyriakos

01-08-2011, 02:19 PM

Since so many days passed from the initial pic, i say we give the poster till tomorrow to update his puzzle. Else anyone can post something new then (or i will) ;)

Kyriakos

01-09-2011, 03:53 PM

Ok, here is the next challenge :)

http://img839.imageshack.us/img839/4117/paintingk.jpg

MarkBastable

01-09-2011, 04:16 PM

Munch - Red Virginia Creeper

Next...

http://i447.photobucket.com/albums/qq193/markbastable/image2-1.jpg

prendrelemick

01-09-2011, 04:39 PM

A little detour into the world of sculpture.

http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k78/prendrelemick/7.jpg

Sorry folks. It was an Antony Gormley.

MatthewFarlow

01-09-2011, 04:56 PM

http://faculty.smu.edu/sweisenb/Inness,%20The%20Lackawanna%20Valley,%201855.jpg

This painting can be found in National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C..

MarkBastable

01-09-2011, 06:26 PM

Hang on, Matthew. You need to name the previous unsolved one first. The one that's mostly black, in the current case.

Gilliatt Gurgle

01-10-2011, 09:30 PM

Sorry folks. It was an Antony Gormley.

Thanks for letting us know, it wasn't for lack of trying on my part.

Hang on, Matthew. You need to name the previous unsolved one first. The one that's mostly black, in the current case.

Just to confirm, the current challenge painting is Mark’s as seen in post 538.
At first blush, it appears to be pieces of Chinese food on black velvet, or at least the lowest object looks similar to crab Rangoon. hmmm...

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Kyriakos

01-13-2011, 01:58 PM

People are reminded to post clues if no one can find the painting.
Also, if more than 2 days go by, i suggest we move to a new one ;)

MarkBastable

01-14-2011, 03:06 AM

The artist was a paramour of Tracey Emin - but I like him despite that.

prendrelemick

01-14-2011, 04:55 AM

His name will be on that tent then.

Gilliatt Gurgle

01-15-2011, 10:25 PM

The artist was a paramour of Tracey Emin - but I like him despite that.

Mark's mystery "painting" (photograph) is titled:
"Burning Flowers I" by Mat Collishaw

We'll go with Matthew's painting for the next challenge:

http://faculty.smu.edu/sweisenb/Inness,%20The%20Lackawanna%20Valley,%201855.jpg

This painting can be found in National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C..

MarkBastable

01-15-2011, 10:30 PM

People are reminded to post clues if no one can find the painting.
Also, if more than 2 days go by, i suggest we move to a new one ;)

I think two days is too little. Many people come here less often than that - and even having seen a picture, it could take a couple of days to think about it, mentally catalogue it and perhaps research it.

What's the hurry? A week, I'd say.

By the way - well done, GG.

Kyriakos

01-16-2011, 01:28 PM

How about three days for a clue? If a week passes by the thread may die out :)

stlukesguild

01-18-2011, 01:40 AM

George Inness
“The Erie and Lackawanna Railroad”
1855

stlukesguild

01-18-2011, 02:09 AM

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5128/5366452026_6a86a95584_z.jpg

:biggrin5:

stlukesguild

01-19-2011, 09:55 PM

A few more by our mystery artist:

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5089/5371106515_6578730d09_z.jpg

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5086/5371106609_1ee570da26_z.jpg

Gilliatt Gurgle

01-20-2011, 12:01 AM

stlukesguild

01-20-2011, 12:35 AM

Far too easy. This is a painting of figures behind the parapet from Paolo Veronese's Sala dell'Olimpo in the Villa Barbaro:

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5125/5372030232_ffbafb1f91_b.jpg

I'm a huge fan of Venetian painting... Titian, Bellini, Giorgione, Tintoretto, and Veronese. One of the greatest schools of painting to ever exist.

stlukesguild

01-20-2011, 01:19 AM

Ellen Altfest
The first one is "Butt"
I began my search with "crack kills", but no luck, then I tried "paintings of plumbers crack" which dredged up a whole lot of uncomfortable images.

The second and third images; "Rotted Gourd" and "Green Gourd" was the trick. I searched "paintings of rotted gourd" and there it was on the first page!

I found it interesting how she utilized wood flooring or deck in each of the paintings. Wiki describes her work as being "noted for its precision and trompe l'oeil accuracy".

Altfest is clearly influenced by Lucian Freud... who may be the single most influential artist at the moment. I can easily think of a half-dozen rather well-known artists whose work is undeniably indebted to Freud. Freud employs a similar color scheme... that rather "dead" English color that Howard Hodgkin rails against... noting that the English assume anything brightly colored lacks seriousness as art. There is also a similar handling of paint and use of the floorboards:

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5007/5372052836_7c4cd0770a_z.jpg

Our new mystery painting:

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5047/5371498291_8db716d93f_b.jpg

Gilliatt Gurgle

01-22-2011, 06:51 PM

Far too easy. This is a painting of figures behind the parapet from Paolo Veronese's Sala dell'Olimpo in the Villa Barbaro...

Villa Barbaro is a particular favorite of mine among Palladio’s villas along with Villa Capra in Vicenza. I recall constructing a basswood model of Villa Barbaro as part of an architecture school assignment. I remember visiting Villa Capra, though the frescoes there are the work of Alessandro and Giovanni Battista Maganza and Anselmo Canera.

Now to your challenge - “Far too easy”, especially when the artist’s name is fairly prominent in the lower right corner.

Sorry St. Lukes, I couldn’t resist the temptation to glance at it.
Antonio Lopez Garcia - “Membrillero 1961”. The texture of the leaves and fruit is interesting, like velour, suspended against a backdrop of stars (?).

Would you like to select another one St. Lukes?

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MatthewFarlow

01-22-2011, 11:37 PM

I'm still amazed St. Luke got mine! Bravo!:hurray:

stlukesguild

01-24-2011, 06:27 PM

Would you like to select another one St. Lukes?

No... go ahead and post. You got it fair and square. I just didn't notice the signature.

Gilliatt Gurgle

01-24-2011, 09:19 PM

OK, will do.
Here's the next mystery painting:

http://i963.photobucket.com/albums/ae114/tabuka1/For%20Name%20the%20painting%20game/MysteryPainting01_24.jpg

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stlukesguild

01-24-2011, 09:54 PM

Gasthof zur Muldentalsperre
2000-2002
Peter Doig

At first I thought it was by Daniel Richter who employs a similar imagery and handling of paint.

The next mystery painting:

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5212/5385833351_11bc12b1b5_b.jpg

Gilliatt Gurgle

01-25-2011, 09:05 PM

Well, that didn't take you long to figure out the Doig. It was an entirely random pick out of "The Essential Guide" book I purchased at the Art Institute a couple of months back.
I will look into Richter.

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stlukesguild

01-25-2011, 10:20 PM

A few more by our mystery painter:

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5020/5389232832_df20b0c5e9_b.jpg

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5214/5388626403_d19d554843_b.jpg

stlukesguild

01-27-2011, 02:54 PM

Our artist... as should be obvious... is a contemporary American. He has worked as both an illustrator and a fine artist, but his fine art paintings are infused with certain stylistic elements of illustration... especially a somewhat naive manner similar to the illustration of childrens books.

Our artist was born in Louisiana and currently lives in California. He attended school in Louisiana as well as the San Francisco Art Institute and the
California Institute of Art.

I'm giving more clues than usual because I know this is a tough one.

stlukesguild

01-28-2011, 01:56 PM

Born in New Orleans, currently resides in Los Angeles.

Was featured on artistaday.com.

Gilliatt Gurgle

01-28-2011, 10:56 PM

This is a tough one.
I spent some time perusing "artisdaday" but no luck so far.

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stlukesguild

01-30-2011, 02:33 AM

Our mystery artist shares a first name with your truly.

Gilliatt Gurgle

01-30-2011, 09:41 PM

Good Lord!!!
OK, I believe I have it:

David Mellon "Thistle"

Other two paintings are "Funeral" and "Firefly"

I need to take a breather and collect myself after that search.
I'll have a painting soon.

EDIT

Here is the next challenge:

http://i963.photobucket.com/albums/ae114/tabuka1/For%20Name%20the%20painting%20game/MysteryPainting01_30.jpg

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Gilliatt Gurgle

02-01-2011, 08:19 PM

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The mystery artist is from Spain.
Another painting (watercolor) by our artist:

http://i963.photobucket.com/albums/ae114/tabuka1/For%20Name%20the%20painting%20game/MPClue01_31.jpg

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MatthewFarlow

02-01-2011, 10:32 PM

Juan Gris - Flattery 1908 and Three Lamps 1910
WOOT!

At first, I thought that they were some rare Picassos, but then figured that they were probably from someone less popular from the same time period and style and native country.

Next painting:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/30/Thomas_Hill_-_Sugar_Loaf_Peak,_El_Dorado_County.jpg

Lokasenna

02-02-2011, 06:07 AM

Got it! Thomas Hill's Sugar Loaf Mountain.

I'll post the next one in a moment.

Lokasenna

02-02-2011, 06:08 AM

Here we go!

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

Lokasenna

02-03-2011, 06:00 AM

Hmm, I'll admit this one may be a bit tricky.

Ok, here's a clue: the artist is Hungarian.

Lokasenna

02-03-2011, 02:16 PM

Crikey, have I killed the thread? Perhaps I shouldn't have picked such a stinker.

Clue Two: the painting hangs in the Hungarian National Gallery in Budapest.

Lokasenna

02-04-2011, 08:32 AM

Hello..? Hello..? Echo!

Seriously guys, I'm running out of clues.

Clue three: the painting is 19th century.

Gilliatt Gurgle

02-04-2011, 09:18 AM

Lokasenna

02-04-2011, 10:41 AM

Hello Lokasenna,
This is just me talking, but I wouldn't fret too much about the lack of response within a day. For me personally, it is difficult to find a block of time to search due to work, etc.
It seems that the avareage time between clues is about two days.
Of course, that's entirely up to you.

BTW, I spent a little time last night on your painting.

Gilliatt

Ah, sorry then!

It's been a while since I actually got a painting on this thread, so I've sort of lost my grip on the time frame. Looking at the last few paintings, it seemed pretty quickfire!

MarkBastable

02-04-2011, 11:58 AM

I'm likely to be in Budapest the week after next. It may be that I'll actually have to go and look for the damn thing.

mrv

02-04-2011, 02:33 PM

Here we go!

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

It's Tivadar Alconiere. Is that much enough?

Lokasenna

02-04-2011, 02:51 PM

It's Tivadar Alconiere. Is that much enough?

It is indeed! As for the title, it's not massively inspiring or imaginative - but if the other posters are happy, I'll concede defeat on the name alone!

MatthewFarlow

02-04-2011, 11:12 PM

I feel as though I'm stealing!

Allegoric Riding Portrait by Tivadar Alconiere

This next one brings us to southern China.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mNvhfjwQqc8/S9DS57-JjGI/AAAAAAAACZk/ZO7W8yRPBZ4/s1600/Ma_Yuan_Walking_on_Path_in_Spring.jpg

stlukesguild

02-04-2011, 11:27 PM

Shan Jing Chun Xing Tu (Mountain Stroll in Spring)

Ma Yuan

Southern Song (1127-1279)

Color on Silk

stlukesguild

02-04-2011, 11:37 PM

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5179/5417064963_40485bb9d2_b.jpg

MarkBastable

02-05-2011, 03:21 AM

The Reader of Novels, Antoine Wiertz

Next....

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

Gilliatt Gurgle

02-05-2011, 08:49 PM

MarkBastable

02-05-2011, 11:30 PM

Mark,
Looks like your image was removed from photobucket, however I recall the picture from a brief glance earlier this morning.

"Lilith" by John Collier

Apparently it was, yes. How incredibly freaking pathetic.

Just for completeness, this was it

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_B6DHn8FM0y4/TKiGRWNzvZI/AAAAAAAAAQY/vCUPk80QC2k/s1600/275px-Lilith_(John_Collier_painting).jpg

Gilliatt Gurgle

02-06-2011, 09:07 PM

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A clue, here's a picture of the mystery painter in his Civil War uniform:

http://i963.photobucket.com/albums/ae114/tabuka1/For%20Name%20the%20painting%20game/MPclue02_06.jpg

Olga4real

02-08-2011, 02:15 PM

Mark,
Looks like your image was removed from photobucket, however I recall the picture from a brief glance earlier this morning.

"Lilith" by John Collier

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lilith_(John_Collier_painting).jpg

The next mystery painting:

http://i963.photobucket.com/albums/ae114/tabuka1/For%20Name%20the%20painting%20game/MysteryPainting02_05.jpg

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"Morning on the Hudson, Haverstraw Bay," by Sanford R. Gifford,, 1866, Terra Foundation for the Arts, Daniel J. Terra Collection, Chicago.

I'll post something later.

Olga4real

02-08-2011, 03:04 PM

Here is my mystery painting, not a difficult one.

http://www.online-literature.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=1721&stc=1&d=1297191809

Good luck!

Gilliatt Gurgle

02-08-2011, 09:26 PM

"Morning on the Hudson, Haverstraw Bay," by Sanford R. Gifford,, 1866, Terra Foundation for the Arts, Daniel J. Terra Collection, Chicago.

Good job Olga.
One of so many paintings that captivated me during a recent visit to the Art Institute in Chicago.

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Lokasenna

02-09-2011, 05:15 AM

Got it, it's Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot's A Village Street, Dardagny.

I'll post my next one in a moment.

Lokasenna

02-09-2011, 05:20 AM

http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i48/Naeblis1963/whatcanitbe.png

Here we go, mystery pic. I won't be as trigger-happy on the clues this time either.

Olga4real

02-10-2011, 03:36 PM

Good job Olga.
One of so many paintings that captivated me during a recent visit to the Art Institute in Chicago.

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Yes Gilliatt, I liked the picture too, that's why I spent a couple of hours to find out the name of the artist. Thank you for the post!

Got it, it's Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot's A Village Street, Dardagny.

Congrats Lokasenna, you were really fast! I like Corot and didn't mind that many of people are familiar with his works.

Lokasenna

02-10-2011, 05:26 PM

Congrats Lokasenna, you were really fast! I like Corot and didn't mind that many of people are familiar with his works.

Thanks! It rang a vague bell from somewhere, and I was able to track it down fairly quickly.

MarkBastable

02-10-2011, 06:14 PM

Isn't that the cover of Pratchett's unremittingly dark and hence unpublished Discworld novel Rick of the Medusa?

Lokasenna

02-11-2011, 05:37 AM

Isn't that the cover of Pratchett's unremittingly dark and hence unpublished Discworld novel Rick of the Medusa?

Not as far as I'm aware. It's a 'proper' artist, but Pratchett may have appropriated the work.

I'm going to be away from my computer until Sunday, so here's a first clue to keep you going: the painting dates to the last few years of the 19th century.

prendrelemick

02-11-2011, 06:17 AM

It does look like an illustration from a story, the Vikings meet a Harpy

Lokasenna

02-13-2011, 05:49 AM

Another picture by our mystery artist:

http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i48/Naeblis1963/Ilikeit2.jpg

I'll give you two pointers about it:

1. That isn't Christ.

2. Look in the top left corner.

And Prendrelemick, you aren't too far off!

prendrelemick

02-13-2011, 02:05 PM

I really hope that's not the "beautiful" Edith Swan Neck and Harold.

Lokasenna

02-14-2011, 07:50 AM

I really hope that's not the "beautiful" Edith Swan Neck and Harold.

Mercifully (for Harold) it is not! However, you're certainly still poking in roughly the right direction.

Here is a picture of our artist:

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

The two pictures I've posted already are indicative of his later career and style, so here's one from earlier on:

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

I don't really want to give you his nationality, because that would make it too easy - however, you could bear in mind that he is one of his country's most famous and iconic artists.

Gilliatt Gurgle

02-14-2011, 11:18 AM

Finally got it !

The original challenge painting:

Akseli Gallen-Kallela (1865-1931)
"The Defence of the Sampo"
Tempera 1896

Other two pieces:
"Lemminkäinen's Mother"
and
"The Aino Triptych"

I decided to search "Famous painters of _____" I first plugged in Iceland due to your recent trip, then Finlnd and what do you know!?

Here is one link that shows several of his works:

http://www.gallen-kallela.fi/europeoftales/ETAITGallen-Kallela.htm

Coincidentally, I recognized that first image; "Bil-Bol" from a copy of a MOMA book I have on the modern poster.
I'll have the next painting shortly.

EDIT

Next painting:

http://i963.photobucket.com/albums/ae114/tabuka1/For%20Name%20the%20painting%20game/MysteryPaintingFeb14.jpg

Gg

Lokasenna

02-14-2011, 11:45 AM

Finally got it !

The original challenge painting:

Akseli Gallen-Kallela (1865-1931)
"The Defence of the Sampo"
Tempera 1896

Other two pieces:
"Lemminkäinen's Mother"
and
"The Aino Triptych"

I decided to search "Famous painters of _____" I first plugged in Iceland due to your recent trip, then Finlnd and what do you know!?

Here is one link that shows several of his works:

http://www.gallen-kallela.fi/europeoftales/ETAITGallen-Kallela.htm

Coincidentally, I recognized that first image; "Bil-Bol" from a copy of a MOMA book I have on the modern poster.

Well done indeed!

I fell in love with Gallen-Kallela's work last year when I finally got round to reading Kalevala - most of his paintings illustrate scenes from it. It's the great codex of Finnish mythology (which is why I was encouraging Prendrelmick to go in that direction), and the linguistic beauty and vivid imagery of it is caught masterfully in painted form.

prendrelemick

02-15-2011, 12:41 PM

Finland! The only Scandinavian country's artists I didn't search!

Gilliatt Gurgle

02-16-2011, 08:19 AM

A few clues:

Our painter was also an accomplished architect.
Designed a "School of Art" for his home country (not American btw)

Two more pieces by the mystery painter:

http://i963.photobucket.com/albums/ae114/tabuka1/For%20Name%20the%20painting%20game/MPclue1.jpg

http://i963.photobucket.com/albums/ae114/tabuka1/For%20Name%20the%20painting%20game/MPclue2.jpg

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Janine

02-16-2011, 03:15 PM

Gustav Klimt I believe...early years he studied as an architectural painter.

Baudolina

02-16-2011, 03:33 PM

Charles Mackintosh. The second one gave it away.

Gilliatt Gurgle

02-16-2011, 08:06 PM

Charles Mackintosh. The second one gave it away.

Baudolina,
Looks like you are new to the forums, so welcome.
Charles Rennie Macintosh is the artist, however the object of the game is to name the painting as well.
Since you are new to the game, I will show some mercy. hehe

The original challenge painting is titled "The Fort" (Fort Mailly).

And now Baudolina, it is your turn to post the next mystery painting.
Make sure the artist name does not appear on the painting.

Gilliatt

Baudolina

02-16-2011, 08:47 PM

Indeed,:blush:

How do I include an image?

MatthewFarlow

02-16-2011, 09:01 PM

Baudolina

02-16-2011, 10:27 PM

http://loqueesesencial.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/creacion-de-las-aves-remedios-varo-1957.jpg

MarkBastable

02-17-2011, 07:08 AM

When typing a response, one may wish to include an image. Here is how:

Step One - Find the image you would like to include on the internet. It must be just the image and not an image on a blog.

Step Two - Copy the URL.

Step Three - As you type your response, in the tool bar, there is a yellow icon with mountains. Click it.

Step Four - Past the URL here. Click Okay.

Step Five - Type the rest of your post and click submit reply!

Actually, that's not quite it. If you link to the picture's address on the web, it will show up when people reply to the post containing the image - which is a bit of a giveaway. For instance, the name of the artist and the painting is included in Baudolina's post. (Don't look - take my word for it.)

Usually people copy the image to a file-sharing site such as Photobucket and change its name - then no one can get at the source of the image as copied.

Baudolina

02-17-2011, 07:23 AM

OK, for now it's an honor system!

stlukesguild

02-17-2011, 09:00 PM

Remedios Varo
Creation of the Birds

http://blog.maureenyoungart.com/page/2.aspx

No need for me to peek. As a huge fan of Heironymus Bosch, I was immediately enamored of Varo, whom I first came across while still in art school. She was herself a major Bosch fanatic.

stlukesguild

02-17-2011, 09:01 PM

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5059/5454394795_7ed6aa7a57.jpg

MatthewFarlow

02-17-2011, 09:09 PM

Ah! That may have been how someone got Sugar Loaf Mountain in a matter of hours. I thought it would be a real stumper.

Lokasenna

02-18-2011, 05:37 AM

Ah! That may have been how someone got Sugar Loaf Mountain in a matter of hours. I thought it would be a real stumper.

Nah, give me a bit of credit! Like the source of most of my art knowledge, it's on a poster in the department.

stlukesguild

02-19-2011, 11:19 AM

The current MM is surely ideally suited (or not) to the bibliophile:

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5297/5458148633_1b76e074d1.jpg

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5092/5458148575_eeae8a36fa.jpg

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5136/5458148535_e8989eeace.jpg

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5218/5458755782_6876fcf3a2.jpg

Installation view of our mystery artist's work in exhibition:

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5176/5458148435_21858f86b2_z.jpg

stlukesguild

02-21-2011, 02:09 PM

Our artist's works was inspired by... and employs part of the result of one of the most recent man-made disasters. It is at once a comment upon the the fragility of culture and history and a accusation of those who allow for the destruction of the past.

Gilliatt Gurgle

02-21-2011, 06:36 PM

Hmmm, tough one.
The demolition of an historical library?
Flooding of New Orleans?
The destruction of the printed word by the overwhelming forces of E- readers, computers ?

Looks like the name on one book is "E. B. "Zeke" Colvan" ?

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mortalterror

02-22-2011, 04:33 AM

I remember that guy. Saved a bunch of books from the Baghdad library after it was looted and burned and made ****ty art out of them. God, those are terrible.

MarkBastable

02-22-2011, 05:50 AM

I rather like them.

mortalterror

02-22-2011, 03:50 PM

I rather like them.

Someone always will.

Gilliatt Gurgle

02-22-2011, 09:08 PM

I remember that guy...

What guy?

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mortalterror

02-22-2011, 09:57 PM

What guy?

'Bout a year or two ago, some guy posted on the forum, how in 2003 when Baghdad was invaded the museums and libraries were looted and burned. He saved a couple of books from the rubble, took them home, and made those pieces StLuke's posted. He has a little blog about it he linked to somewhere, about what it's like living in Iraq with no electricity and stuff. Stlukes was all for this guy's stuff 'cause it looks just like the garbage he used to make, and I remarked on the irony of saving books from a fire to make art that should be burned. I don't remember which thread it was.

stlukesguild

02-22-2011, 10:25 PM

I wouldn't put much store by Mortal's art criticism. He has about as much of an eye for art as you average teenage headbanger... with cataracts.:biggrin5: By his standards pretty much the whole of 20th century art is an abomination... except for those artists who paint as if it were still the 19th century... or earlier.

stlukesguild

02-22-2011, 11:43 PM

By the way... mortal has dropped enough clues that finding this artist shouldn't be much of a challenge.

mortalterror

02-23-2011, 01:00 AM

By his standards pretty much the whole of 20th century art is an abomination... except for those artists who paint as if it were still the 19th century... or earlier.

I like plenty of artists who worked in the 20th and 21st centuries. The late impressionists, Alma-Tadema, Repin, Hunt, Rodin, Boldini, Dali, some Picasso, Magritte, Lempicka, Stuck, Ernst, Escher, Marc, Bacon, Chagall, Hasui, Hopper, Klimt, Mucha, Malczewski, Orozco, Rivera, Siqueiros, Renau, Camarena, Helnwein, Melamid, Tubke, Triegel, Cappiello, Levy-Dhurmer, Varo, Banksy, Fairey, The Mac, Blume, Jess, certain Nerdrum, Biggers... I just don't like the one's you like.

stlukesguild

02-24-2011, 11:27 PM

I've been able to find the art through a Google image search employing phrases such as "Iraqi Art Destroyed Books" "Iraqi Collage Damaged Books"

Really... with Mortal's clues this shouldn't be that hard.:frown2:

mortalterror

02-25-2011, 12:07 AM

Really... with Mortal's clues this shouldn't be that hard.:frown2:
Yeah, 'cause all the college kids have a Qasim Sabti hanging on their dorm room wall. I might as well solve it. Over at his website http://www.qasimsabti.com/gallery_books-covor.htm the picture you posted is listed as #40 Book cover & collage 35 X 25 cm 2004. I couldn't find another name.

mortalterror

02-25-2011, 03:49 AM

http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h268/Saliari/123.jpg

mortalterror

02-26-2011, 06:07 AM

Chinese, Ming dynasty.

mortalterror

02-26-2011, 05:29 PM

The work is Buddhist.

mortalterror

02-27-2011, 06:28 PM

It's in the Smithsonian.

mortalterror

02-28-2011, 09:45 PM

The characters depicted are known as "luohan."

mortalterror

03-01-2011, 06:12 AM

Smithsonian->Freer Collection->Chinese Art->Browse artworks in this section

MatthewFarlow

03-01-2011, 08:31 AM

Five hundred Luohan
1427

Daohong , (Chinese, early 15th century)
Ming dynasty

Good One! Next Painting:

http://i473.photobucket.com/albums/rr93/theadverbs/MagicofBooks.jpg?t=1298982686

MatthewFarlow

03-01-2011, 09:05 PM

Another one by our Canadian mystery artist:

http://www.glogster.com/media/2/10/84/80/10848031.jpg

Gilliatt Gurgle

03-01-2011, 10:01 PM

Got it:

Artist - Rob Gonsalves
The first painting is "Written Worlds"
The second piece is "Towers of Knowledge"

Escher inspired?

Next mystery painting:

http://i963.photobucket.com/albums/ae114/tabuka1/For%20Name%20the%20painting%20game/mysterypainting03_01.jpg

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stlukesguild

03-01-2011, 11:13 PM

John Marin
Brooklyn Bridge

Marin was famous for these watercolors of the Brooklyn Bridge.

stlukesguild

03-01-2011, 11:39 PM

Not exactly a painting... but certainly an art work that might interest the true bibliophiles:

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5132/5490338885_895d8c67cf_b.jpg

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5017/5490933544_c0791612ec_b.jpg

stlukesguild

03-03-2011, 07:12 PM

Another by our mystery artist:

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5012/5495081117_ee6f04e4d5_b.jpg

stlukesguild

03-07-2011, 09:08 PM

Chinese.

Gilliatt Gurgle

03-07-2011, 10:29 PM

John Marin
Brooklyn Bridge

Marin was famous for these watercolors of the Brooklyn Bridge.

I had a hunch you would nail that one pretty quick.
The Art Institute in Chicago is currently exhibiting a number of Marin's watercolors. I made one last visit to the museum to see the exhibit before my Illinois work assignment ended.
(I'm back home now)
Now to your next challenge.

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Gilliatt Gurgle

03-09-2011, 12:32 AM

Not exactly a painting... but certainly an art work that might interest the true bibliophiles:
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Artist: Xu Bing
Installation: "Book From Heaven"
It appears that he created a "book" series, such as "Book From the Sky", "Book From Heaven", "Book From the Ground", etc.

Next mystery painting:

http://i963.photobucket.com/albums/ae114/tabuka1/For%20Name%20the%20painting%20game/MysteryPainting03_08.jpg

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Gilliatt Gurgle

03-10-2011, 09:52 PM

Clue:

Japanese

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Gilliatt Gurgle

03-12-2011, 10:20 AM

Couple more clues:

Lived during the 18th century.

The person represented in the ink on paper work, is actually a popular Chinese hero from the 7th century.

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Gilliatt Gurgle

03-21-2011, 11:30 PM

Sorry; I was away on vacation.
Another clue: Kimbell Art Museum

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MatthewFarlow

03-22-2011, 07:51 AM

Soga Shohaku, Japanese (1730–1781), Shoki Ensnaring a Demon in a Spider Web

http://www.adkforum.com/photos/d/4179-18/Homer+2.jpg

mona amon

03-23-2011, 04:36 AM

At last! Something that I recognise! :D

Canoe in the Rapids by Winslow Homer

Here's the next one -

http://www.tate.org.uk/collection/N/N05/N05154_9.jpg

Olga4real

03-23-2011, 03:55 PM

"A Cat" circa 1904-08 by Gwen John (British, 1876-1939)

Thank you Mona! I love this post! I can't post anything right now but I will soon.

Olga4real

03-23-2011, 04:18 PM

Ok, I am ready to post. Since the latest posts were mostly aquarelles I will continue it.

Here it is:
http://www.online-literature.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=1745&stc=1&d=1300911453

Olga4real

03-24-2011, 12:51 PM

Here is another picture painted by this master. He, by the way, is a contemporary artist who represents a continent which hasn't been exposed in this thread so far.
http://www.online-literature.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=1746&stc=1&d=1300985455

MessyRoom

03-24-2011, 04:04 PM

I don't know if this has been done before, if there's an active thread for it, but if there isn't this is a game where a person posts a painting and you have to write its title and the painter :)
If no one can guess then you give one or two clues, and if again no ones knows you should reveal the answer ;)

So let's start with something that is probably relatively easy, since it is a famous painting:

http://img401.imageshack.us/img401/2091/20080608062435.jpg

It looks like a naked insane man eating a naked headless woman.

Olga4real

03-25-2011, 03:36 PM

This is Australian Impressionist and Realist,
here is the next of his works:
http://www.online-literature.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=1747&stc=1&d=1301081747

Olga4real

03-26-2011, 04:30 AM

Here is some more information about the artist. He was born in Yugoslavia but in 1970 his family immigrated to Australia. He had his first solo exhibition in 1977 at Eastgate Gallery, Brighton, Melbourn.

http://www.online-literature.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=1748&stc=1&d=1301128230

MatthewFarlow

03-26-2011, 10:08 AM

Olga4real

03-26-2011, 02:52 PM

I really like these paintings a lot.
The tough thing is, I can't seem to find the titles of the paintings that you posted.
They are all by Joseph Zbukvic and I believe the last one is entitled Seaside, although I may be mistaken. Good pick.

Next up, and I expect this to last a matter of hours, is:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/4/4233333_06e2a8a626.jpg

I like your picture too! Honestly. The mystery picture's title is 'Wet day, Venice'
Well done Matthew!
Zbukvic is not a well known artist I felt uncomfortable after I posted it. I was afraid nobody will find out.

Olga4real

03-26-2011, 03:16 PM

Bansky anonymous British graffiti artist, political activist.

Rat you lie!

The next one:

http://www.online-literature.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=1749&d=1301167746

Olga4real

03-27-2011, 07:09 AM

The next clue:

http://www.online-literature.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=1750&stc=1&d=1301224132

Olga4real

03-29-2011, 01:19 PM

The artist is Italian, born in 1930.
Here is the next picture:

http://www.online-literature.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=1753&stc=1&d=1301419105

Olga4real

03-30-2011, 05:11 PM

Final clue:

http://www.online-literature.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=1754&stc=1&d=1301543760

Gilliatt Gurgle

04-01-2011, 07:45 AM

Since you ended up having to giving us the painter's name, I may as well go ahead and respond. A testament to our poor performance.

Artist: Umberto Levi
Original challenge painting: Notte Veneziana

http://www.galleriaalritrovo.it/Collettiva/Levi%20Umberto/Levi%20Umberto.htm

I have to get ready for work now. The next mystery painting will be posted later (Friday evening CDT)

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Gilliatt Gurgle

04-01-2011, 10:40 PM

...The next mystery painting will be posted later (Friday evening CDT)

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OK, here's the next painting:

http://i963.photobucket.com/albums/ae114/tabuka1/For%20Name%20the%20painting%20game/MysteryPainting04_01.jpg

Gg

MatthewFarlow

04-02-2011, 10:29 PM

Cool Painting!
I got it by typing "stormy bay painting" into google. If not for that, I would have been stumped:

Thunder Storm on Narragansett Bay, Martin Johnson Heade, 1819-1904

Next up:
http://thumbs.imagekind.com/member/9351bbc0-3972-480f-acf0-c0f7970c9d3d/uploadedartwork/650X650/2e93c887-c50b-43b5-b06c-449aab0f6509.jpg

Gilliatt Gurgle

04-03-2011, 12:28 PM

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Hmmm…Krispy Kreme invades the “Forbidden Planet” with support from Berenstain Bears “Space Grizzlie’s” ?

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

...Or Eric Joyner’s “Robots and Donuts”

Next challenge:

http://i963.photobucket.com/albums/ae114/tabuka1/For%20Name%20the%20painting%20game/mysterypainting04_03.jpg

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Gilliatt Gurgle

04-05-2011, 07:24 AM

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Clue:
Speaking of robots, there is a connection between them and our mystery artist.

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Gilliatt Gurgle

04-05-2011, 09:19 PM

Couple more clues:

Born in Bohemia
Both he and his brother were writers.

Another painting:

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

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Gilliatt Gurgle

04-08-2011, 07:50 AM

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Credited with creating the word "robot".
Died while being held captive at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.

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Lokasenna

04-08-2011, 08:30 AM

The artist is Josef Capek, and the original painting is called 'Prostitute'. The other is called 'Harmonikár'.

I only got it thanks to your clue and a quick reference to the OED!

Next picture will be up shortly.

Lokasenna

04-08-2011, 10:05 AM

Here we are. I've absolutely no idea whether this will be easy or hard, but here we go:

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

achraf

04-08-2011, 10:09 AM

hi guys can you help me by providing a free site for best books.

Lokasenna

04-09-2011, 02:21 PM

Okay, here's another one from our mystery artist:

http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i48/Naeblis1963/anewmystery2.jpg

Gilliatt Gurgle

04-09-2011, 02:31 PM

Thanks for the clue.

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Gilliatt Gurgle

04-10-2011, 09:27 AM

Artist: Carl Larsson

First painting: “Midvinterblot” (Midwinter Sacrifice)
Second painting: “Breakfast Under the Big Birch”

I particularly enjoy the second one with its softer palette in combination with line work. Reminds me of Shepard’s illustrations for Milne’s “Winnie the Pooh”.

I'll have the next one soon.

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Here is the next challenge:

http://i963.photobucket.com/albums/ae114/tabuka1/For%20Name%20the%20painting%20game/mysterypaintingApril10.jpg

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Lokasenna

04-10-2011, 05:35 PM

Artist: Carl Larsson

First painting: “Midvinterblot” (Midwinter Sacrifice)
Second painting: “Breakfast Under the Big Birch”

I particularly enjoy the second one with its softer palette in combination with line work. Reminds me of Shepard’s illustrations for Milne’s “Winnie the Pooh”.

Well done! I didn't know whether people would struggle with this one - I knew nothing of Carl Larsson till recently. I'm currently doing some writing that touches upon the legendary Swedish king Domalde (or Dómaldi as he is in Old Norse), and I'd come across Midvinterblot in my research.

Gilliatt Gurgle

04-12-2011, 07:43 AM

Well done! I didn't know whether people would struggle with this one - I knew nothing of Carl Larsson till recently. I'm currently doing some writing that touches upon the legendary Swedish king Domalde (or Dómaldi as he is in Old Norse), and I'd come across Midvinterblot in my research.

I struggled at first, until you posted the second image. My search combined a combination of knowing where your interests lie (likely countries) and narrowing down a period.

A few clues for the current work:
Japanese
Created in 1930
technique is know as "woodblock print"
one of a series

MatthewFarlow

04-12-2011, 09:36 PM

I think I caught you. Is it Hiroshi Yoshida? I can't find the exact print, but this one is just so similar that I am convinced:
http://www.fujiarts.com/japanese-prints/k108/194k108f.jpg

If it's not, then I am surprised.

Gilliatt Gurgle

04-12-2011, 11:10 PM

Close enough.
Hiroshi Yoshida is correct.
The challenge painting is "Waiting for the Tide"

Your turn Matthew

MatthewFarlow

04-13-2011, 07:15 AM

Okay then. First I will see if you can tell from the photograph alone - no hints.

http://i16.servimg.com/u/f16/11/31/26/83/resim510.jpg

Gilliatt Gurgle

04-16-2011, 02:08 PM

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No painting?

The photo looks like the work of.......

EDIT...
Hmm, my Dolly Parton image failed.

Anyhow, I will go with Salvador Dali (?)

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Shalot

04-17-2011, 01:37 AM

A few more by our artist... a contemporary "master":

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4140/4869685114_e80e94b65b_z.jpg

a little girl carrying a heart-shaped purse staring into a large dark tunnel...

love love love it.

sorry, I interrupted the game. I have no paintings saved on the computer to post except for a painting of Chewbacca riding a squirrel fighting Nazi soldiers and I have no idea who did it (but if anyone knows...PM me).

oh here it is (i think - if I can still remember how this photobucket schit works)

http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n25/Shalot_bucket/Chewbacca.jpg

Lokasenna

04-24-2011, 08:09 AM

I've been able to find copies of the photo on the internet, but nowhere that gives the name of the photographer.

Perhaps a clue..?

stlukesguild

04-24-2011, 11:36 AM

Stanley J. Forman
Fire on Marlborough Street
July 22, 1975

It reminds me of this equally iconic photograph by Weegee of children sleeping on a fire escape in NYC:

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5230/5649461587_083006d3b5.jpg

Our next mystery artist:

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5105/5650054000_dbf92e9d11.jpg

Lokasenna

04-24-2011, 12:43 PM

Haha, I've got it!

It's Anders Zorn's Karleksnymf.

Although I hadn't seen that one before, I recognized the style - I do know a thing or two about Scandinavian art!

I'll post another one up after I've had my dinner!

Lokasenna

04-24-2011, 02:16 PM

Right, I don't know how this one will fare for you, but let's see:

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

Lokasenna

04-25-2011, 06:09 PM

Okay, here's a clue - the person in the portrait is a famous figure indeed, much more so than the artist.

Lokasenna

04-29-2011, 03:46 AM

Right-ho, a couple of clues:

1. Our artist is German.

2. Three of his sons were also noted artists. Here is the artist's own family portrait:

http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i48/Naeblis1963/brandnewmystery2.jpg

Gilliatt Gurgle

04-29-2011, 11:12 PM

Got it-
Painter: Carl Joseph Begas
The original challenge: Portrait of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy

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

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

That was sneaky. I thought it was a girl!

Off to find the next one...

Here we go:

http://i963.photobucket.com/albums/ae114/tabuka1/For%20Name%20the%20painting%20game/MysteryPainting-1.jpg

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Lokasenna

04-30-2011, 03:59 AM

That was sneaky. I thought it was a girl!

Ah, the gender of the subject was going to be by next clue!

Well done!

Gilliatt Gurgle

05-01-2011, 08:03 AM

Clues:

French

And

Another painting:

http://i963.photobucket.com/albums/ae114/tabuka1/For%20Name%20the%20painting%20game/Mysterypaintingclue-1.jpg

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Gilliatt Gurgle

05-03-2011, 10:37 PM

Couple more clues:

Artist lived during the 17th century.

The original challenge painting is a photo I took at a museum I frequented while working in Illinois.

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Gilliatt Gurgle

05-06-2011, 08:49 PM

Hmmm...perhaps this thread has worn out it's welcome or the mystery painting is too tough?

OK, couple more clues:
The painting is currently held at the Art Institute in Chicago
The painter was born in Paris and one of the founders of the French Academy (all according to Wiki)

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faithosaurus

05-06-2011, 11:02 PM

Is it Eustache le Seur? Maybe? Heh.

Gilliatt Gurgle

05-08-2011, 09:08 AM

Is it Eustache le Seur? Maybe? Heh.

You don't sound too sure of yourself, perhaps you are being meek. Verify, then boldly proclaim it is Eustache Le Sueur! in which case you would be correct, although, we are also looking for the name of the painting.
Since this last challenge dragged on too long, I will provide the name of the painting: "Meekness".

Faithosaurus, if you are still monitoring this thread, it is your turn to post the next mystery painting.

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faithosaurus

05-08-2011, 01:47 PM

All right, haha. I am sure that it is Eustache le Seur!

Here's one:

http://i55.tinypic.com/207xf7m.jpg

stlukesguild

05-08-2011, 11:17 PM

The Calumny of Apelles
c. 1494
Sandro Botticelli

stlukesguild

05-08-2011, 11:41 PM

The next mystery painting:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2024/5702278418_deb2ecc2a2_z.jpg

stlukesguild

05-11-2011, 09:50 PM

Italian.:sosp:

stlukesguild

05-12-2011, 11:25 PM

Born in Padua. Late Mannerist strongly influenced by Titian and the Venetian School.

A few other paintings by him:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2301/5715089324_5f1c926402_z.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3057/5715089358_8c7f082b08.jpg

Gilliatt Gurgle

05-13-2011, 10:02 PM

Alessandro Padovanino Varotari - "Venere e Marte sopresi da Volcano"
"Mars and Venus surprised by Vulcan"

The other two paintings are: "Sleeping Venus with Putti" and "Reclining Venus with Cupid"

I figured he was Italian and something from mythology, but that was as far as I got for some time.

The next mystery drawing:

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

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stlukesguild

05-14-2011, 09:53 PM

Winslow Homer
Fisherwomen at the Beach

This is but one of many drawings of this theme by Homer:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3457/5720812052_9fed2243f4_z.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2136/5720254929_eb62fbd688_z.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2130/5720811918_ab1baec792_z.jpg

stlukesguild

05-14-2011, 10:06 PM

From images of the sturdy, hard-working American, to the decadent European:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2652/5720291091_99b623186c_b.jpg

Gilliatt Gurgle

05-14-2011, 10:40 PM

Winslow Homer
Fisherwomen at the Beach

This is but one of many drawings of this theme by Homer:...

I wasn't aware of the series. The one I chose is currently held at the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth.
It is titled "Blyth Sands".

An upcoming exhibition at the museum:

http://www.cartermuseum.org/exhibitions/the-allure-of-paper-drawings-and-watercolors-from-the-collection

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Gilliatt Gurgle

05-15-2011, 07:49 PM

From images of the sturdy, hard-working American, to the decadent European:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2652/5720291091_99b623186c_b.jpg

Whew… I just spent an inexcusable amount of time perusing Bayros.
The key word being decadent…decadent down to the bed posts!
Franz Von Bayros
"Lesbian Scene, Plate 13 from La Grenouillere, c.1912"

I’ll have the next one after I finish my cold shower.

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Edit -Continuing the working women theme:

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

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stlukesguild

05-15-2011, 10:40 PM

I first came across the randy Marquis in art school. While working in the library I came upon an old leather bound collection of his intaglio prints which wer far more decadent than anything I'd come across by Schiele, Klimt, Beardsley, or the rest of my decadent favorites. Bayros moved freely in the upper echelon of Viennese society. He actually married the stepdaughter of Johann Strauss Jr. As might be expected, the erotic content of his art raised eyebrows and led to legal problems, Bayros was banished from Vienna for a period and moved to Munich. His legal hassles led him to frequent moves: Paris, Rome, Venice, etc... Upon returning to Vienna at the time of the First World War he felt himself to be an outsider. He died of a cerebral hemorrhage in 1924.

The next Mystery Master is:

Paul Gauguin
Breton Women at the Turn

I might note that whereas Bayros fantasies are rather disturbing, Gauguin's actual sex-capades with underage Polynesian girls (after abandoning his wife and children) are actually more disturbing.

stlukesguild

05-15-2011, 10:51 PM

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5097/5725096758_9b491994ef.jpg

joelavine

05-16-2011, 10:19 AM

Dali. El Masturbador Pequeno?

joking.

stlukesguild

05-18-2011, 08:21 PM

Well... the artist was certainly from the same time period. He was more known for his 3-dimensional work than his paintings... but his paintings are still greatly admired.

Gilliatt Gurgle

05-18-2011, 10:01 PM

...The next Mystery Master is:

Paul Gauguin
Breton Women at the Turn

I might note that whereas Bayros fantasies are rather disturbing, Gauguin's actual sex-capades with underage Polynesian girls (after abandoning his wife and children) are actually more disturbing.

My Gauguin selection was inspired by my current reading of “The Moon and Sixpence” by William Somerset Maugham. I learned of Gauguin's "sexcapades" while reading the introduction.

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Ah, I know this person by their “modular” features particularly the hands. I figured Picasso was too obvious, so I didn’t bother going there. Your 3D reference was the clue and in fact Miro briefly crossed my mind, until I zeroed in on the hands.

The mystery artist / architect is Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, aka “Le Corbusier” (One of Emil Miller’s favorite architects..hehe)
The painting is “Le Canapé”

I was fortunate enough to have the opportunity to visit four of Corb’s built designs; Villa Savoye (France), Notre Dame du Haut (France), Heidi Weber Museum (Zurich) and Sainte Marie de La Tourette (France).
Corbusier also dabbled in furniture design.

The next softball challenge:

http://i963.photobucket.com/albums/ae114/tabuka1/For%20Name%20the%20painting%20game/MysteryPainting-2.jpg

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Gilliatt Gurgle

05-21-2011, 09:05 AM

Clue:

Collaborated with the previous mystery painter.

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stlukesguild

06-14-2011, 11:14 PM

I thought someone got this already. OK... enough already! It's almost been a month. Let's get some clues and get this solved and move on!!

Jeez!!

:smash:

stlukesguild

06-14-2011, 11:19 PM

Still Life with Dishes
Amedee Ozenfant- 1920

What's wrong with these people... I can do this drunk.

:smash::smash::smash:

Next!

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2670/5834518191_386daa08b7_b.jpg

mona amon

06-15-2011, 12:22 AM

Is it by M C Escher? Couldn't find it on Google images.

stlukesguild

06-15-2011, 12:25 AM

Nope... Escher worked almost exclusively in the graphic arts: prints.

Gilliatt Gurgle

06-16-2011, 09:25 PM

I thought someone got this already. OK... enough already! It's almost been a month. Let's get some clues and get this solved and move on!!

Jeez!!

What's wrong with these people... I can do this drunk.

It seemed to me that the thread was losing its luster, so I let it drift after that last give away clue.
Like my now sainted mother always said.."All it takes is a little hooch to get people back in the game".
Back to the challenge at hand.

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mona amon

06-17-2011, 12:36 AM

Nope... Escher worked almost exclusively in the graphic arts: prints.

Hmm...I thought it didn't look weird enough or impossible enough. No idea what this is, then!

stlukesguild

06-17-2011, 11:43 PM

Here's another painting by our mystery master:

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5304/5843806909_96510aa38f_b.jpg

Our artist's background may be quite surprising considering the style of the paintings.

free

06-20-2011, 08:12 AM

Tower...?

I have no idea, but it's beautiful.

stlukesguild

06-20-2011, 02:49 PM

Contrary to all appearances our artist is Asian.

Kyriakos

06-21-2011, 02:57 PM

Hello, just thought i could say "hi", if anyone remembers me :)

I will try to participate in the game, if i know the answer- don't know the current one.

stlukesguild

06-27-2011, 10:54 AM

Born in Tokyo
Studied at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts

Gilliatt Gurgle

07-02-2011, 05:17 PM

The artist is Minoru Nomata, but I am having trouble finding the name of the specific paintings.
It appears that the paintings are from a series titled “Ruins” (?).
One site categorized the work as "fantasy architecture".
I discovered the artist by searching "surrealist architecture paintings".

Is that good enough?

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Gilliatt Gurgle

07-04-2011, 04:55 PM

...Is that good enough?

I'm trusting that was good enough and proceed with posting the next challenge:

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

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mona amon

07-05-2011, 01:38 AM

Rosalba Carriera
- Young Lady With Parrot.

Next one -

http://www.reproduction-gallery.com/oil_painting_reproduction_gallery/Paul-Klee-Full-Moon-1919-large-1045879947.jpg

Kyriakos

07-05-2011, 02:51 PM

Is it by Paul Klee?

mona amon

07-05-2011, 11:59 PM

Yes it is, Kyriakos. Over to you!

The painting is called Full Moon.

Kyriakos

07-06-2011, 03:12 AM

This painting has no title, so only the painter is needed :)

http://i.imgur.com/32sSL.jpg

Janine

07-06-2011, 04:45 AM

Anxious to find out who it is since I think the painting is very cool. Love the way the figures emerge from the brown cliffs and the man at the base is so diminished in size compared to the loaming figures - awsome!

The Young Lady with Parrot is beautiful - stunning really. Love her eyes!

Kyriakos

07-07-2011, 07:18 AM

Hint: The painter was murdered.

stlukesguild

07-07-2011, 10:41 AM

What is especially stunning about Rosalba Carriera's portrait of A Young Lady With Parrot, is that is was actually "painted" with pastel.:eek:

stlukesguild

07-07-2011, 10:57 AM

The painter was Zdzislaw Beksiński
The title is Morsir

Apparently Beksiński was a LOTR fan.

stlukesguild

07-07-2011, 11:34 AM

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5320/5912618568_ac1c10c060_b.jpg

MarkBastable

07-09-2011, 01:14 PM

The painter was Zdzislaw Beksiński
The title is Morsir

Apparently Beksiński was a LOTR fan.

It can only be a matter of time before Opeth use that as an album cover.

Gilliatt Gurgle

07-16-2011, 11:09 AM

Perhaps a clue is in order?

I've tried - nudes on kraft paper, ...on scraps of paper, collage of nude women, nudes surrounding nursing mother.

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stlukesguild

07-17-2011, 02:52 AM

Sorry... a few more images by our mystery painter:

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6006/5945630230_d1becb7b6d_z.jpg

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6008/5945072481_3182b6ae70_b.jpg

The above two images are examples of this artist's work that I have come across on gallery web-sites. The works are are indeed on paper. There are elements in his work suggestive of Klimt, Gauguin, Jim Dine, R.B. Kitaj, and Degas... but his current major project(s) builds more upon the works of the great Italian masters and makes frequent reference to them.

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6016/5945630128_2216592ba3_z.jpg

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6139/5945073195_001720f47e_b.jpg

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6138/5945630478_36cfc71360_b.jpg

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6143/5945072955_72e2e2a55d_b.jpg

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6122/5945073065_a5c7506ac8_b.jpg

Kyriakos

08-04-2011, 10:31 AM

I think that you should give the answer and it will be open floor :)

stlukesguild

08-04-2011, 01:30 PM

Sorry... haven't checked in in a while. Our artist is English, emigrated to Australia; moved back to England in his 20s where he worked as an art director. he later moved to France where he has been working as a professional artist. His recent body of work, focused upon the nude, has been undertaken in a French cathedral which he is also in the process of restoring.

I'll throw more clues on tomorrow if that doesn't help enough.

Gilliatt Gurgle

08-07-2011, 07:19 PM

St. Lukes, this one is kicking may a**
Duvel is not helping either.

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stlukesguild

08-07-2011, 11:00 PM

Born in 1943, the artist majored in architecture at Melbourne University. The artist's major work over the last decade began as a series of preliminary drawings intended as "cartoons" for a series of frescoes to cover the walls of a cathedral in Provence which the artist was involved in attempting to restore. This fresco project was abandoned due to a continual problem with rising damp in the walls, and the various drawings were exhibited (and sold) in a gallery exhibition in Belgium. The artist is involved in a second series of temporary "frescoes" on paper installed for the time being in the same cathedral in Provence.

stlukesguild

08-07-2011, 11:01 PM

If you have no luck with this, post something so that the thread pops up on the New Posts search and I am reminded to add further clues.

stlukesguild

08-08-2011, 11:39 AM

The cathedral is in Malaucène, France.

Gilliatt Gurgle

08-08-2011, 11:05 PM

I don't feel too proud seeing that you practically gave it to us, but....

Michael Bastow
"...mixed media drawings on seven collaged paper panels, evoking the seven ages of woman."

Quoted from the following :
http://www.michael-bastow.com/chapelsaintalexis/chapel.html

An inspiring place to work, though the dampness would pose problems.
I'll need some time to round up the next challenge.

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Gilliatt Gurgle

08-09-2011, 07:42 AM

Here's the next challenge:

http://i963.photobucket.com/albums/ae114/tabuka1/For%20Name%20the%20painting%20game/Mysterypainting-3.jpg

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stlukesguild

08-09-2011, 11:55 AM

OK... I'm going to let that one go for a while and give someone else a chance because its simply too easy.

Gilliatt Gurgle

08-09-2011, 09:56 PM

I know, I know...it was a lazy effort on my part and I knew you would have it pegged in no time.
We'll let it ride for a while assuming others are participating.

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Gilliatt Gurgle

08-11-2011, 10:55 PM

Some clues:

A portrait of the artist by Ottavio Leoni:

http://i963.photobucket.com/albums/ae114/tabuka1/For%20Name%20the%20painting%20game/MPclue-1.jpg

Italian, born in Milan

Come on, somebody besides St. Lukes.

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stlukesguild

08-12-2011, 12:30 AM

Come on people! The man virtually invented the Baroque in art. He has to rank among the 10 most influential artists in the whole of Western art history. :sosp:

mortalterror

08-12-2011, 02:48 AM

Caravaggio, The Conversion of St. Paul.

Gilliatt Gurgle

08-14-2011, 09:03 PM

Mr. Terror, would you like to post the next painting?

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stlukesguild

08-15-2011, 10:43 PM

Mortal asked me to post the next Mystery Painting. Considering how easy the last was I thought I'd post something almost as easy in order to perhaps motivate a few others to participate:

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6081/6047680629_c3b29504d1_b.jpg

mona amon

08-21-2011, 12:48 AM

For me easy would be

http://www.mauritshuis.nl/index.aspx?chapterid=2341&contentID=18308&SchilderijSsOtName=Titel&SchilderijSsOv=Girl%20with%20a%20pearl%20earring%

http://www.google.co.in/imgres?q=well+known+paintings&um=1&hl=en&sa=N&biw=1920&bih=907&tbm=isch&tbnid=EQvrdv46s362OM:&imgrefurl=http://www.jtc-art.com/category/things-ive-learned&docid=iiNbhuiLiS6xAM&w=500&h=411&ei=Ox9OTv3IDsLUrQfm0rXGAw&zoom=1

http://www.google.co.in/imgres?q=well+known+paintings&um=1&hl=en&sa=N&biw=1920&bih=907&tbm=isch&tbnid=0yE3fc6iffZWCM:&imgrefurl=http://allthingsmundane.wordpress.com/2010/03/03/who-were-they-identifying-subjects-in-8-famous-paintings/&docid=ZDodI0OFSBBzjM&w=603&h=720&ei=Ox9OTv3IDsLUrQfm0rXGAw&zoom=1

LOL :biggrin5:

Anyway I got this one by Googling 'Venetian portraits' - Portrait of a Venetian Gentleman by “Giorgione and Titian” ? :confused:

Next one -

http://www.google.co.in/imgres?q=iranian+realist+painter+iman+maleki&um=1&hl=en&sa=N&biw=1920&bih=907&tbm=isch&tbnid=12ptofJ6m9XSZM:&imgrefurl=http://moralandfun.blogspot.com/2009/09/iman-maleki.html&docid=b7py_LJjstgc_M&w=311&h=320&ei=JopQTuzHMJDrrQeCr_CsAg&zoom=1

EDIT: Sorry the pictures aren't showing, at least on my computer. Can someone post the next painting?