Name the painting

[Kyriakos]

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

[free]

Chronos by Francisco de Goya

http://www.webexhibits.org/colorart/i/michelangelo-creation-adam-.jpg

[Jazz_]

The Creation of Adam - Michelangelo

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

[Kyriakos]

One of Picasso's cubist paintings perhaps? I will look into it :)

[Jazz_]

Not Picasso, sorry ;)

[Genocide]

Violin and Candlesticks- Braque

[free]

Violin and Candlestick, George Braque


http://www.metapedia.com/wiki/images/Liang_01.jpg

[Genocide]

Birth of Venus- Botticelli

http://i45.tinypic.com/21e271v.jpg

[Jazz_]

Las Meninas - Diego Velázquez

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

[Kyriakos]

Woman with Parasol, Claude Monet :)

For this only the name of the painter is needed, as i think it doesnt have a title:

http://img153.imageshack.us/img153/7547/paitning.png

[Tarvaa]

I think it's Beksinski

This one lives in London at the moment

http://www.tate.org.uk/collection/T/T07/T07987_9.jpg

[Genocide]

Any hints? I don't think it's in the National Gallery...

[Emil Miller]

Any hints? I don't think it's in the National Gallery...

Almost certainly not in The National Gallery but it wouldn't surprise me to find it in the Tate Modern which is where it justly belongs.

[Lokasenna]

It's Dorothy Tanning - Some Roses and Their Phantoms.

Because it's late, and I can't think properly, here's an easy one:

http://johnnymaxim.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/van-gogh-vincent-starry-night-7900566.jpg

[OrphanPip]

Starry Night by Van Gogh

http://i193.photobucket.com/albums/z241/i_feel_tiredsleepy/painting.jpg

[Emil Miller]

Lady Macbeth by Fuseli


http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://www.art-reflections.com/Rolla-L.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.art-reflections.com/Rolla.htm&h=417&w=550&sz=64&tbnid=w2OdlsQGXNvHKM:&tbnh=101&tbnw=133&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dhenri%2Bgervex%2Brolla&hl=en&usg=__6niEbLlhw-uaXMr9E2yiuFL2yVs=&sa=X&ei=bMcyTJ-DDIqI0wT2l-2pAw&ved=0CCIQ9QEwAw

[MarkBastable]

http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://www.art-reflections.com/Rolla-L.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.art-reflections.com/Rolla.htm&h=417&w=550&sz=64&tbnid=w2OdlsQGXNvHKM:&tbnh=101&tbnw=133&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dhenri%2Bgervex%2Brolla&hl=en&usg=__6niEbLlhw-uaXMr9E2yiuFL2yVs=&sa=X&ei=bMcyTJ-DDIqI0wT2l-2pAw&ved=0CCIQ9QEwAw



I suspect that that's Rolla by Henry Gervex, on account of the link leads to a page that shows the picture and its caption, which says 'Rolla - Henry Gervex'.



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

[Emil Miller]

Please accept my apologies for the Henri Gervex mishap.
The picture you posted was 'Rain, steam and speed' by Turner, which appears to have been removed by photobucket.

http://i581.photobucket.com/albums/ss260/brianbean/scan0021-2.jpg

[de Renal]

E. Manet, Nana

[Emil Miller]

Well done.
How about this one?



http://i581.photobucket.com/albums/ss260/brianbean/113.jpg

[de Renal]

August Macke, Russian Ballet

I love them expressionists, looove them :crazy:


http://s768.photobucket.com/albums/xx327/deRenal/sadness/?action=view&current=suede.jpg

[Emil Miller]

August Macke, Russian Ballet

I love them expressionists, looove them :crazy:


http://s768.photobucket.com/albums/xx327/deRenal/sadness/?action=view&current=suede.jpg

Yes I like August Macke too.

I would be interested to see your picture but I'm not able to access it.

[Kyriakos]

Well done.
How about this one?


http://i581.photobucket.com/albums/ss260/brianbean/113.jpg

What a wonderfull painting, which i didnt know :) This is why i started this thread, so we could share such information in a fun way ;)

[de Renal]

Yes I like August Macke too.

I would be interested to see your picture but I'm not able to access it.

I don't know what's happening, I tried to post a painting several times, but it just didn't appear in the post :frown5:
I inserted the copy of URL of the painting, and still nothing.
Is there another way to do it? If it's inapropriate to write about it here, can you, or someone else, please be so kind to tell me where on forum can I find solution of this problem (if there is any, if not - I'll start new thread).
:crash:

@Kyriakos - the topic is great! A lot can be learned! Thanks for starting it!

[de Renal]

success!

http://i768.photobucket.com/albums/xx327/deRenal/sadness/suede.jpg?t=1279179420

[Emil Miller]

success!

http://i768.photobucket.com/albums/xx327/deRenal/sadness/suede.jpg?t=1279179420

I have been unable to trace this painting. Is it a detail of a larger picture?

[de Renal]

No, that is the original format. I mean, the original format of the Internet picture :)
I've seen it last year on an exhibition in Zagreb, and fell in love with it and with the author. :D
Try a bit harder, he is everywhere on the Internet!

[Emil Miller]

No, that is the original format. I mean, the original format of the Internet picture :)
I've seen it last year on an exhibition in Zagreb, and fell in love with it and with the author. :D
Try a bit harder, he is everywhere on the Internet!

I haven't been able to trace the artist. It looks as though it may have been an allegorical painting by Goya, although something about the flowers and cloth seem familiar.

[de Renal]

Hm, maybe it's not that well known as I thought it would be...
It's Otto Dix, german expressionist, and the painting is named Still life with Widow's Veil.

[de Renal]

How about this one:

http://s768.photobucket.com/albums/xx327/deRenal/sadness/?action=view&current=wed2.jpg

[Kyriakos]

Reminds me very much of this, by Chagall:

http://images.allposters.com/images/OWP/H0586L.jpg

[Emil Miller]

Les Fiancees de la Tour Eiffel by Marc Chagall


http://i581.photobucket.com/albums/ss260/brianbean/HitlerMaryWithJesus.jpg

[Kyriakos]

I dont know it. Is it a religious-themed painting?

[Emil Miller]

I dont know it. Is it a religious-themed painting?

Yes it has a religious theme.

[Olga4real]

Adolph Hitler "Mother Mary with the Holy Child Jesus Christ".

http://www.artinthepicture.com/artists/Camille_Pissarro/louveciennes.jpeg

[Emil Miller]

Pissarro: Rue de Louveciennes



http://i581.photobucket.com/albums/ss260/brianbean/derain-turning-road.jpg

[de Renal]

Andre Derain, The Turning Road

http://s768.photobucket.com/albums/xx327/deRenal/sadness/?action=view&current=heavenandhell.jpg

[Emil Miller]

Hieronymous Bosch: The Last Judgement



http://i581.photobucket.com/albums/ss260/brianbean/picasso-recognise.gif

[de Renal]

Hm, I don't mean to be rude but... it's written in the right corner of the cartoon :)
Chris Madden, Picasso Cartoon

I like this one very much:

http://s768.photobucket.com/albums/xx327/deRenal/sadness/?action=view&current=beautiful.jpg

[Emil Miller]

Hm, I don't mean to be rude but... it's written in the right corner of the cartoon :)
Chris Madden, Picasso Cartoon

I like this one very much:

http://s768.photobucket.com/albums/xx327/deRenal/sadness/?action=view&current=beautiful.jpg

I know, I didn't crop it because I only wanted to show the cartoon.

[Emil Miller]

The Witches by Albrecht Durer.

http://i581.photobucket.com/albums/ss260/brianbean/paul-delvaux-1976_robe_de_mariee.jpg

[Kyriakos]

I dont know this particular painting, but the face structure and open space reminds me of De Chirico :)

[Emil Miller]

I dont know this particular painting, but the face structure and open space reminds me of De Chirico :)

Well it's not De Chirico but, yes, it is by a surrealist painter.

[kiki1982]

Unmistakably Delvaux, although I don't know the painting either... Seen it definitely, but can't remember the name, I'm afraid.

...

It turns out to be Robe de Mariée/Bridal Gown

[kiki1982]

http://spookboek.web-log.nl/photos/uncategorized/aardappeleters_van_gogh.jpg

[Emil Miller]

Unmistakably Delvaux, although I don't know the painting either... Seen it definitely, but can't remember the name, I'm afraid.

...

It turns out to be Robe de Mariée/Bridal Gown

You are correct. Aren't you going to post a picture?


EDIT: Sorry I have just seen it.

[Kyriakos]

Van Gogh. I think it is called "the potato eaters"

http://i29.tinypic.com/ra9esh.jpg

The name of the painter is shown, i think he isnt very well known. All that is needed is the title of the painting :)

[Janine]

It is. I recognised it as a Van Gogh and just looked up the title. I hope to see the next one and hopefully recognise it faster.

[Emil Miller]

It's called: Leap of Faith.


http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b257/Lucelucy/Europe%202008/Italy/On%20to%20Florence/Uffizi1.jpg

[stlukesguild]

Niccolò Mauruzi da Tolentino unseats Bernardino della Ciarda at the Battle of San Romano by Paolo Uccello
c. 1435 to 1455, Galleria degli Uffizi

http://www.italian-renaissance-art.com/Uccello.html

[stlukesguild]

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4102/4801245356_d24b04212f_b.jpg

[Emil Miller]

The Virgin in Prayer by Giavanni Batista Salvi a.k.a. Sassoferato.


http://i581.photobucket.com/albums/ss260/brianbean/1191933113_80_177_117_97.jpg

[Kyriakos]

I don't know it..

[Olga4real]

I don't know it..

Me neither. :-(

[Genocide]

David Hockney - Le Parc Des Sources, Vichy

[Kyriakos]

Your turn to post a painting, Genocide :)

[Genocide]

I'm looooking. I'm trying to find one that I really liked, but I can't for the life of me remember the name... it's like I've challenged myself!

Edit:

I'll post it some other time then... here's this one.

http://i30.tinypic.com/25jctc7.jpg

[Olga4real]

I'm looooking. I'm trying to find one that I really liked, but I can't for the life of me remember the name... it's like I've challenged myself!

Describe the painting, what if other people helps you to find it. Do you remember the name of the artist?

[Genocide]

I can't! But it's kind of a morbid, macabre painting. It showed Saturn (Kronos?) eating one of his children because of a prophecy stating he would be overthrown by one of them. I remember the painting being black with Saturn slightly hunched over the body of his child (which was small but had a full grown adult build) with an arm in his mouth. Saturn looked anything but Godly. He looked, I remember thinking, like a homeless man.

Edit: Just realized this sounds kind of creepy painting to have stuck in your head.

[Kyriakos]

It is "Saturn eating his son", by Goya :)

http://www.the-spearhead.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/SaturnGoya450w20q.jpg

[Genocide]

Are you flipping kidding me? ARE YOU KIDDING ME???

This is why I hate thinking.... because I can never do it right! I kept searching for something with "prophecy." Something less literal... but I guess I should know by now that all the creativity is in the painting, not the name. Damnation.

Thanks, Kyriakos.

[Olga4real]

I can't! But it's kind of a morbid, macabre painting. It showed Saturn (Kronos?) eating one of his children because of a prophecy stating he would be overthrown by one of them. I remember the painting being black with Saturn slightly hunched over the body of his child (which was small but had a full grown adult build) with an arm in his mouth. Saturn looked anything but Godly. He looked, I remember thinking, like a homeless man.

Edit: Just realized this sounds kind of creepy painting to have stuck in your head.

Did you mean Peter Paul Rubens' Saturn Devouring His Son (1636) may have inspired Goya.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/dd/Rubens_saturn.jpg

[Emil Miller]

I'm looooking. I'm trying to find one that I really liked, but I can't for the life of me remember the name... it's like I've challenged myself!

Edit:

I'll post it some other time then... here's this one.

http://i30.tinypic.com/25jctc7.jpg

Is this an actual painting or a piece of graphic design like the previous one called Leap of Faith? I think we have to stick to paintings as that is the title of the thread and graphics art too obscure to be recognised or traced.

[Emil Miller]

I'm looooking. I'm trying to find one that I really liked, but I can't for the life of me remember the name... it's like I've challenged myself!

Edit:

I'll post it some other time then... here's this one.

http://i30.tinypic.com/25jctc7.jpg

Is this an actual painting or a piece of graphic design like the previous one called Leap of Faith? I think we have to stick to paintings as that is the title of the thread and graphics are too obscure to be recognised or traced.

[Kyriakos]

Is it certain that the Leap of Faith is graphic design and not a painting?
At any rate i love it :)

And yes, i agree that we should only post paintings.

[Genocide]

I promise it's a painting... or at least when I had to do a quick sketch of it in Intro to Drawing (shading that was beast) it was introduced to us as a painting. You can skip it if you'd like seeing as you guessed Goya's without even having a painting...

Rubens' painting was probably the inspiration for it Goya's. Rubens' is so interesting... it's definitely harsher to see Saturn eating a child over a grown, headless, body.

[Emil Miller]

Is it certain that the Leap of Faith is graphic design and not a painting?
At any rate i love it :)

And yes, i agree that we should only post paintings.

Yes it is graphic design. I checked out the artist and he just designs book and CD covers, posters etc.

[Genocide]

http://www.reproductionsart.com/Dubovskoy_Reproductions.html

Now I feel cheated... that's not the only site I found a picture of it on though...

[Emil Miller]

http://www.reproductionsart.com/Dubovskoy_Reproductions.html

Now I feel cheated... that's not the only site I found a picture of it on though...

Sorry about that but I'm sure that I would never have got it. I have never heard of the artist.

Anyway, try this one.

http://i581.photobucket.com/albums/ss260/brianbean/4FredericRemington.jpg

[Genocide]

Frederic Remington's The Trooper ? Lucky guess. :]

[Genocide]

I think Kyriakos should pick one.

[Emil Miller]

I think Kyriakos should pick one.

Something's going wrong here, I just posted a reply to you previous post and it hasn't registered. So, when I posted the Remington painting, there was no title but it appeared during the actual posting of the picture. Then I had to dash off and when I returned, I saw that the title was there.
OK these things happen so try this one. I hope it doesn't happen again.


http://i32.tinypic.com/35m4is1.jpg

[Olga4real]

Winston Churchill was a better artist than Hitler.
The painting's title is Le Bguinage.

http://www.russianpaintings.net/articleimg/aivazovskiy/big/aivazovskiy_chesmenskiy_battle_1848.jpg

[Emil Miller]

The Battle of Chesma by I.K. Aivazovsky.


http://img842.imageshack.us/img842/8889/olgapicasso.jpg (http://img842.imageshack.us/i/olgapicasso.jpg/)

Uploaded with ImageShack.us (http://imageshack.us)

[Olga4real]

Picasso, Portrait of Olga in the armchair 1917, Picasso's wife and the mother of his son Paulo.

One of my favourite artists:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/12/LevitanI_Lilii_AST.jpg

[Emil Miller]

Water Lilies by Isaac Levitan.


http://i581.photobucket.com/albums/ss260/brianbean/edouardvuillard_thestitch.jpg

[stlukesguild]

The painter was Édouard Vuillard
The titled has been variously given as: Interior, The Stitch, and The Newspaper
c. 1898:

http://www.shafe.co.uk/art/Introduction_to_Modern_Art_12-01-04_-_Symbolism.asp

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4081/4805355052_54cdc45382_b.jpg

[stlukesguild]

Now I suppose this may slow down the guessing a bit... but isn't it somewhat self-defeating if you save and post the painting with the title or author's name so that all another person has to do is click on the painting and hit "save" to discover the author? The same game is played over at Wetcanvas!, the huge art site that I post at, and they are a little bit more sneaky.

[Kyriakos]

It is best to upload the painting to some site, with its name altered ;)

[Emil Miller]

It is best to upload the painting to some site, with its name altered ;)

Yes but if you alter the name which is part of the URL, photobucket deletes the picture.

[Kyriakos]

Personally i save the image to my computer, alter its name, and then upload it to either tinypic.com or imageshack :)

[Emil Miller]

I couldn't get StLukes picture which I think is a medieval illuminated manuscript but I couldn't trace it.

I'm going to try image shack below:

(http://img690.imageshack.us/i/grosz1.jpg/)

It works up to a point. I shall have to find out how to transmit the image rather than the URL.

[prendrelemick]

I know very little about art, but St Lukes has posted the medieval manuscript picture before somewhere, in a piece about William Blake. I dont know the title though.

[Emil Miller]

I know very little about art, but St Lukes has posted the medieval manuscript picture before somewhere, in a piece about William Blake. I dont know the title though.

Yes I remembered it too, but he has posted so many pictures on various threads that I didn't know where to start looking .

[mortalterror]

Yes I remembered it too, but he has posted so many pictures on various threads that I didn't know where to start looking .

You can either go through his blog where he keeps a log of all his artistic essays, or go to his website http://stlukesguild.wordpress.com/ and scroll down the page. It's not even that far down.

[stlukesguild]

Brian, you can save an image off the web to your hard drive and then edit it any way you wish... including "painting" out signatures or changing the name of the file. You then upload to Photobucket or some such other hosting site. Once you have posted it you can always delete the image... although I have tens of thousands of images saved... which is no problem with a newer computers and all their storage capability.

[stlukesguild]

Now, now mortal... considering that I post everything using a Photobucket account, I could always delete the image.:devil:

Clues: The book is alluded to in The Name of the Rose.

It is Spanish.

[Genocide]

I usually use tinypic.com after saving it to my computer with a simple name.

Spanish? Not Italian then? This is a tricky one...

[stlukesguild]

The work in question is Spanish from the Romanesque period. The work exhibits aspects of the Mozarabic style... elements of Moorish African merged with the native Spanish. The book from which this image was taken was surely known to Picasso and influential upon his art... especially upon the painting, Guernica. It is from a book of commentaries upon the book of Revelations that was very popular with Spanish writers/artists of the time.

[Emil Miller]

The work in question is Spanish from the Romanesque period. The work exhibits aspects of the Mozarabic style... elements of Moorish African merged with the native Spanish. The book from which this image was taken was surely known to Picasso and influential upon his art... especially upon the painting, Guernica. It is from a book of commentaries upon the book of Revelations that was very popular with Spanish writers/artists of the time.

Are we talking about the same thing here. Is the last picture that you posted, from a Spanish book?

[Genocide]

I've found a lot of pieces that look like it, but not it. Hmmmm.

[stlukesguild]

Brian... yes... the piece is from a Spanish book... an illuminated manuscript. The text is a Commentary on the Apocalypse written by an 8th century abbot and Visigoth Bishop. The artist, as usual for the time, is anonymous so you merely need to discover the name of the Spanish Abbott/Bishop/Saint and you will find the work in question with a simple Google image search.:ihih:

This text... a Commentary on the Apocalypse... was one of the most popular books of the era in Spain and ended up being illustrated or illuminated numerous times. The resulting illuminated manuscripts are among some of the most fabulous examples of medieval book arts. The mystery painting is from one of the finest of these...

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4118/4810888986_eebf1e9b4e_b.jpg

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4114/4810264035_2a96010b22_b.jpg

[de Renal]

I browsed the net searching for the mysterious abbot, and I think I found something - his name was Saint Beatus of Liebana, a monk, theologian and geographer who lived in the region of Liebana, today's Cantabria in the 8th century (c.730 - c.800).
So, I browsed further and found this:

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

Please, correct me if I'm on the wrong path, but I still can't find the mysterious painting!

[stlukesguild]

Just enter Beatus of Liebana into a Google image search. It shows up on page 3 for me.:confused5:

[de Renal]

It's there alright. But with no title underneath or above it!
Am I blind, or what? :willy_nilly:
And even though the quest is interesting (I found so many exciting information along the way!), you should've picked something easier.
Now come on and tell us, so we can start a new one!

[Genocide]

I like that it was hard. Instead of typing "Beatus of Liebana" I typed in "Beatus de St-Sever" which came out with less results, but some similar.

It doesn't give an obvious name that I can see. D:

[Petrarch's Love]

Well, you certainly gave everyone a challenge with that one, St. Luke's. I'm not too familiar with the Commentaria in Apocalypsin MSS and I can't seem to find that particular image online with any useful information attached, so I looked up some Beatus images on Artstor and, guessing from a brief comparison with the hand that did the script and the artistic style, I am guessing the Facundus Beatus at the Biblioteca Nacional d'Espagna. Am I right? My second guess would probably be the Saint-Sever MS if you hadn't already let on that the book is Spanish, so as a backup to the Facundus I would go for the Morgan Beatus.

If I'm right about one of these then I choose this as the next painting:
http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e386/LeonardoD/mysterypic.jpg

[stlukesguild]

Google has just changed their layout for image search (quite nicely, I might add) but I agree that the specific edition of the book in question is difficult to find. The text was the Commentaries on the Apocalypse by Saint Beatus of Liebana. The specific edition of the text was that of the Commentaries of St. Severe. The Beatus of Sant-Sever was illuminated in the middle of the 11th century by Stephanus Garsia for Gregorio Montaner, the then abbot of the monastery of Saint-Sever, Gascogny (France). The artist (presumably) and author were Spanish... and the style is distinctly Spanish... but it was indeed created in France... and the image I posted was probably the most French of all the images in the book which contains 592 pages and more than 140 miniatures depicting the best and most primitive Romanesque art.

I discovered this absolutely stunning website which presents digital images of the entire book!:eek6: Looking at the stylistic variations of the images, I suspect that Stephanus had the assistance of several other hands working upon this masterpiece of medieval art.

By the way... Mortalterror was right. I have posted this image on LitNet. If someone had googled "Stlukesguild Beatus of Liebana" they would find the image in question with the full attribution in a posting entitled, 20 Works of Art You Want to See before You Die.:ihih:

[stlukesguild]

C'mon Petrarch! Mere Child's play:

Hans Holbein
Portrait of Anne of Cleves
c. 1539

http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/aboutAnneofCleves.htm

[stlukesguild]

OK... a far easier one than last time:

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4122/4814036216_9cba45c751_b.jpg

[stlukesguild]

The mystery artist largely employed a rather new medium... first made popular by a woman artist. Another work by him... probably his most famous:

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4142/4813413343_591135d0f0_b.jpg

[Olga4real]

Jean-Étienne Liotard
The first portrait can be translated in English like: Beautiful Reader.
The second is The Chocolate Girl

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2163/2060233055_419bb5ce67_o.jpg

[stlukesguild]

Mikhail Vrubel
The Swan Princess
Russian Symbolism
c. 1900

http://www.stumbleupon.com/stumbler/genisis2/tag/mikhail-vrubel/

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4142/4816390420_338d1326de.jpg

[stlukesguild]

Our mystery artist did quite a few ink wash paintings...

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4115/4819569618_4e71511463_b.jpg

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4137/4818947663_57741483e2.jpg

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4141/4818947593_490838e86c.jpg

...but was far more known for his efforts in another artistic genre. He has at least two things in common with this artist:

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4122/4819563814_d93e223734_b.jpg

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4114/4818954347_9f400a36f4_b.jpg

[Sebas. Melmoth]

Fav plastic artists:
http://www.amazon.com/PLASTIC-ARTS-101-The-Short-Course/lm/RS3CE47KQLN8D/ref=cm_lm_byauthor_title_full

[Lokasenna]

Well, the last one is William Blake, but I've still no idea who your first example is...

[stlukesguild]

Well... how about a photograph of our artist:

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4073/4820644597_72587fe687_b.jpg

Our artist, by the way, was French. I would assume that he is known... at least in reputation... by the majority of Lit Net members.

[Kyriakos]

Is it Odilon Redon? (looks a bit like him, although i have only seen photos of him as a younger man)

[Emil Miller]

The photograph is of Victor Hugo who was also an amateur artist but I don't know any of his work.


EDIT: I have just checked his work and it is called Design With Fingerprints


http://i581.photobucket.com/albums/ss260/brianbean/gscat-84-Somerset-Maugham-28.jpg

[stlukesguild]

The photograph is of Victor Hugo who was also an amateur artist

I don't know how you define "amateur artist" considering that by the same standards as Hugo, William Blake was but an "amateur poet". Hugo's drawings have fascinated artists in recent years with their strange elements of dark, brooding Romanticism, suggestions of Surrealism... and even abstraction. Hugo produced hundreds of ink drawings/paintings which have recently been afforded recognition in major exhibitions complete with catalogs:

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4137/4822409337_c38aec63b3.jpg

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4140/4823025646_7e0ea9b69b.jpg

[Lokasenna]

The photograph is of Victor Hugo who was also an amateur artist

I don't know how you define "amateur artist" considering that by the same standards as Hugo, William Blake was but an "amateur poet".

Not quite sure I agree with that, I'm afraid! Blake's poetry and painting are inseperable from each other, and I would suggest that there is nothing amateur about either of them. Even just taking the poetry purely on its own, there are few who would argue that Blake wasn't one of the leading figures of Western Romanticism. Hugo was a great writer, one of the best France has produced in her history, but the writings of Blake are certainly comparable, if not even superior.

As for Brian, well, I recognize the subject - it's Somerset Maugham, but I've no idea who painted it, unless it's a self-portrait?

[Emil Miller]

The photograph is of Victor Hugo who was also an amateur artist

I don't know how you define "amateur artist" considering that by the same standards as Hugo, William Blake was but an "amateur poet". Hugo's drawings have fascinated artists in recent years with their strange elements of dark, brooding Romanticism, suggestions of Surrealism... and even abstraction. Hugo produced hundreds of ink drawings/paintings which have recently been afforded recognition in major exhibitions complete with catalogs:[/IMG]


I meant amateur in that he didn't make his living from drawing and painting. I really don't know enough about his work to form a personal opinion on it.

[Genocide]

http://i581.photobucket.com/albums/ss260/brianbean/gscat-84-Somerset-Maugham-28.jpg

Somerset by Graham Sutherland?

http://i808.photobucket.com/albums/zz6/IHateSeagulls/Mmmhm.jpg

[Emil Miller]

http://i581.photobucket.com/albums/ss260/brianbean/gscat-84-Somerset-Maugham-28.jpg

Somerset by Graham Sutherland?

http://i808.photobucket.com/albums/zz6/IHateSeagulls/Mmmhm.jpg

Are we sure that this is an actual painting?

[stlukesguild]

Blake's poetry and painting are inseperable from each other, and I would suggest that there is nothing amateur about either of them.

Obviously, as a Blake fanatic, I would not suggest that he was either an amateur poet or writer... although the reality is that he didn't make a living from his poetry... nor from his original art for that matter... but rather for his efforts as an engraver/designer. His paid labor often involved copying existing images or engraving imagery according to guidelines established by others in order to be used in illustration of books Edward Young's Night Thoughts and Thomas Gray's poetry. Of course the line between amateur and professional in the visual arts has grown increasingly blurred over time... while it has never been clear in literature. Just how many writers actually earned a living from writing? Certainly not Spenser, Keats, Herrick, Donne, Chaucer, or even Dante.

Even just taking the poetry purely on its own, there are few who would argue that Blake wasn't one of the leading figures of Western Romanticism. Hugo was a great writer, one of the best France has produced in her history, but the writings of Blake are certainly comparable, if not even superior.

Again... I would never suggest otherwise. Hugo is great... but I don't think he rivals Blake as a writer... and surely not in his artistic efforts.

[stlukesguild]

Are we sure that this is an actual painting?

Yes... I could be wrong... but somehow I suspect this is not an artist one will find in any museum or major gallery.:shocked:

[Lokasenna]

Blake's poetry and painting are inseperable from each other, and I would suggest that there is nothing amateur about either of them.

Obviously, as a Blake fanatic, I would not suggest that he was either an amateur poet or writer... although the reality is that he didn't make a living from his poetry... nor from his original art for that matter... but rather for his efforts as an engraver/designer. His paid labor often involved copying existing images or engraving imagery according to guidelines established by others in order to be used in illustration of books Edward Young's Night Thoughts and Thomas Gray's poetry. Of course the line between amateur and professional in the visual arts has grown increasingly blurred over time... while it has never been clear in literature. Just how many writers actually earned a living from writing? Certainly not Spenser, Keats, Herrick, Donne, Chaucer, or even Dante.

Even just taking the poetry purely on its own, there are few who would argue that Blake wasn't one of the leading figures of Western Romanticism. Hugo was a great writer, one of the best France has produced in her history, but the writings of Blake are certainly comparable, if not even superior.

Again... I would never suggest otherwise. Hugo is great... but I don't think he rivals Blake as a writer... and surely not in his artistic efforts.

Oh, fair enough - I'm sorry, I misunderstood what you were sayin!

[Emil Miller]

Are we sure that this is an actual painting?

Yes... I could be wrong... but somehow I suspect this is not an artist one will find in any museum or major gallery.:shocked:

I agree and I think it would be a good idea to stop this thread from drying up if we confine the artists and pictures to those that would normally be found museums and galleries, otherwise someone could post pictures of little Johnie's school painting of Noddy and Big Ears and others waste hours looking for it in the belief that might be by Juan Miro.

[Genocide]

This piece was at a gallery I went to a short while back. It wasn't THAT big of a gallery, but it wasn't that small.

I'll give you another one, then.

http://i808.photobucket.com/albums/zz6/IHateSeagulls/Cheeeeeater.jpg

[Emil Miller]

A Woman standing at the Virginal by Jan Vermeer.

http://i581.photobucket.com/albums/ss260/brianbean/explore_art_new_world-1.jpg

[Genocide]

A Woman standing at the Virginal by Jan Vermeer.

Close! But not quite....

[stlukesguild]

Brian... that is most certainly NOT a Vermeer... each and every painting of which I know like the back of my hand. rather it is by one of the other Little Dutch Masters... likely Ter Borch or Jan Steen.

[stlukesguild]

Found it!

Jacob Octervelt
Woman Standing at a Harpsichord, Man Seated by Her
c. 1675-80

http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/jacob-ochtervelt-a-woman-standing-at-a-harpsichord-a-man-seated-by-her/*/x/102/y/-92/z/2

Since when is the National Gallery a little gallery??!!:shocked:

The New Mystery Painting:

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4102/4825055515_5c16abcd79_b.jpg

[Genocide]

I was talking about the previous painting! :D

[Emil Miller]

Brian... that is most certainly NOT a Vermeer... each and every painting of which I know like the back of my hand. rather it is by one of the other Little Dutch Masters... likely Ter Borch or Jan Steen.

Yes, I too had my doubts as it lacks Vermeer's clarity and delicacy but I found it among a collection of Vermeer's paintings and it didn't mention the artist, so I assumed it was a Vermeer.

[Emil Miller]

Found it!

Jacob Octervelt
Woman Standing at a Harpsichord, Man Seated by Her
c. 1675-80

http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/jacob-ochtervelt-a-woman-standing-at-a-harpsichord-a-man-seated-by-her/*/x/102/y/-92/z/2

Since when is the National Gallery a little gallery??!!:shocked:

The New Mystery Painting:

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4102/4825055515_5c16abcd79_b.jpg


Well it looks like an early Corot but I'm unable to find any reference to it.

[prendrelemick]

If its any help those sheep look like a Hampshire Down cross.:lol:

[stlukesguild]

Not Corot. Here is another couple painting by our mystery painter by way of a clue:

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4118/4829453538_cb57022962.jpg

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4138/4828859027_2671ec3a55_b.jpg

[Emil Miller]

It's called Warm Afternoon by Winslow Homer.


http://i581.photobucket.com/albums/ss260/brianbean/untitled.jpg

[stlukesguild]

Paul Nash
Wood on the Downs

http://www.bookroomartpress.co.uk/prints/paul-nash/wood-on-the-downs-43.html

You should have cropped that signature, Brian.:hand:

Seriously, the artist was obviously British. I love the elements of Blake... and Henri Rousseau in the work. Underrated painter in the US, to be sure. Probably no less than Homer in your neck of the woods.

[Emil Miller]

Paul Nash
Wood on the Downs

http://www.bookroomartpress.co.uk/prints/paul-nash/wood-on-the-downs-43.html

You should have cropped that signature, Brian.:hand:

Seriously, the artist was obviously British. I love the elements of Blake... and Henri Rousseau in the work. Underrated painter in the US, to be sure. Probably no less than Homer in your neck of the woods.

You're right, I didn't even notice it. However, I agree with you, he is underrated outside of the UK, probably because his war paintings, giving a British perspective on both World Wars, is what he is best noted for.
Winslow Homer is quite well known over here for a few of his sea paintings i.e The Gulf Stream but mostly among people with an interest in art or sailing.

[stlukesguild]

To be honest, Homer is underrated in the US as well... at least in comparison with other American painters such as Sargent, Hopper, and Eakins... yet the more I look at him the better I realize he is. An absolutely masterful watercolorist and the virtual inventor of the American approach to the sort of native landscapes that Hopper, Sargent, Wyeth, and all the others would build upon.

But enough of that... on to our latest Mystery Master:

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4110/4831644601_257f40de20_b.jpg

Probably easy to find... but another of my favorites.

[Petrarch's Love]

Samuel Palmer
"Early Morning"
1825

Nice choice.


C'mon Petrarch! Mere Child's play:

Hans Holbein
Portrait of Anne of Cleves
c. 1539

OK, here's one that should be a bit less obvious. I'm giving some real consideration to using it as the cover page for my dissertation:

http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e386/LeonardoD/mysterypic2.jpg

[Sebas. Melmoth]

Looks like a portrayl of St. Jerome in his Study by a northern European--Melming or Van Eyck?

http://www.chinaoilpainting.com/upload1/file-admin/images/new20/Charles%20Angrand-782822.jpg

[stlukesguild]

Certainly not... Petrarch would naturally chose an Italian. It is St. Jerome in his Study by Antonello da Messina... (actually no more of a challenge than the Holbein... sorry PL :D ) who is credited with first introducing oil paint to Italy. The story told, by Vasari if I am not mistaken, is that Antonello commissioned a Flemish artist to paint his portrait so that he might learn the secrets of oil painting.

http://www.torrese.it/Antonello.htm

The new Mystery Masterpiece:

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4085/4833012773_be8f805df5_b.jpg

One of my favorite paintings by this artist.

[stlukesguild]

Surely not that hard. Our artist was a major influence upon the work of Pierre Renoir.:smilewinkgrin:

[Petrarch's Love]

Eugene Delacroix
"The Sea from the Heights of Dieppe"
1852

Next, a painting I feel deep personal attachment to. My grandmother used to visit it in a certain prominent museum and loved it so much that she had a very fine and beautiful reproduction painted that hung in her home until her death when it came to my parents' home where I get to contemplate it whenever I am in California for the summer.

http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e386/LeonardoD/mysterypic3.jpg

[Janine]

Oh my gosh,Petrarch, I love this painting. I would venture a guess but I am not sure and I don't have time to post another right now. It's a good choice though. I will copy it for my offline art file. Love the dinnerware in it and the drape is amazing. This is my kind of painting; maybe I should considering buying a print of it when I find out who the artist is.

[Sebas. Melmoth]

It that a still life by Jean Chardin?

[stlukesguild]

Now you're getting somewhere, Petrarch. Not Chardin. Almost certainly Dutch Baroque. My initial thought was Pieter Claesz... he often employs pewter-ware and draperies in a similar manner... but no luck there... so far.

I'll keep looking.:willy_nilly:

[stlukesguild]

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4113/4836119167_666ace344e_b.jpg

What do you know... Mr. Claesz owns the same glass as in Petrarch's painting. Hmmmmm?:confused:

[qimissung]

That is one gorgeous painting, Petrarch.

[Petrarch's Love]

Oh my gosh,Petrarch, I love this painting. I would venture a guess but I am not sure and I don't have time to post another right now. It's a good choice though. I will copy it for my offline art file. Love the dinnerware in it and the drape is amazing. This is my kind of painting; maybe I should considering buying a print of it when I find out who the artist is.


That is one gorgeous painting, Petrarch.

Thanks Janine and gimissung. It is gorgeous. I've seen the original in person, and I must say that my Grandmother's reproduction comes very close to being as beautiful (or as close as you can expect of a reproduction). I never get tired of looking at it. I'll have to post a pic. of the copy later this evening for everyone.

[Petrarch's Love]

Now you're getting somewhere, Petrarch. Not Chardin. Almost certainly Dutch Baroque. My initial thought was Pieter Claesz... he often employs pewter-ware and draperies in a similar manner... but no luck there... so far.

I'll keep looking.:willy_nilly:


http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4113/4836119167_666ace344e_b.jpg

What do you know... Mr. Claesz owns the same glass as in Petrarch's painting. Hmmmmm?:confused:

Thought this might prove a little less obvious. You are, clearly, on the right track in terms of place and time. It's not Claesz, though I'm impressed that you tracked down a painting with the same kind of glass. I've often wondered what sort of glass it is and what it's for. None of the brief entries on the painting make any mention of it, and it's such a distinctive shape. Looks like Claesz is using it for beer. It is entirely possible that the mystery painter saw the Pieter Claesz you posted and got the idea of using that shaped glass from there, since Claesz was clearly an influence.

As a hint, you're in the right museum. That should narrow it down for you.

[stlukesguild]

Jan Jansz. Treck
Still Life with a Pewter Flagon and Two Ming Bowls
1651

http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/jan-jansz.-treck-still-life-with-a-pewter-flagon-and-two-ming-bowls

I misread your original post and thought the painting was in a collection in California... so I spent forever scouring the Norton Simon, the LA County Museum, the collections in San Francisco, etc...:incazzato:

I'm surprised Brian didn't get this one as its in his backyard.

[stlukesguild]

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4152/4838809383_26c2d5907e_b.jpg

The setting should be familiar, PL.:biggrin5:

[Emil Miller]

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4152/4838809383_26c2d5907e_b.jpg

The setting should be familiar, PL.:biggrin5:

Pretty girl, shame about the building.

I did know the Dutch painting but I have only just seen Petrarch's entry. Photobucket have inexplicably altered their format and I am trying to find my way around it.

[stlukesguild]

Photobucket have inexplicably altered their format and I am trying to find my way around it.

Flickr has done the same... but for the present allows me to utilize the older format. I avoid Photobucket because those idiots have deleted every painting I posted that had the least bit of nudity... even the most innocent works by Blake and Degas.

OK... back to the game... time for another clue. Here are a couple more by our artist... and a view of him in his studio:

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4130/4842491232_43ca4a8435.jpg

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4104/4842491314_cf06de0965.jpg

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4092/4842491356_9bcecce516_b.jpg

[Kyriakos]

Its been a while since i've known a painting in this thread... ;)

[Petrarch's Love]

Jan Jansz. Treck
Still Life with a Pewter Flagon and Two Ming Bowls
1651

http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/jan-jansz.-treck-still-life-with-a-pewter-flagon-and-two-ming-bowls

I misread your original post and thought the painting was in a collection in California... so I spent forever scouring the Norton Simon, the LA County Museum, the collections in San Francisco, etc...:incazzato:

I'm surprised Brian didn't get this one as its in his backyard.

Oops! I can see how my post could be misleading. The reproduction, not the original is in California. My grandmother made frequent trips to England for both scholarly purposes and to research her mystery novels (the royalties from which paid for the trips to England), which is why she was frequently at the the London National Gallery. Since some people took an interest in the original, I've uploaded a few quick snaps of the reproduction to my gallery here: http://www.online-literature.com/forums/album.php?albumid=979 Definitely not the original, but close enough that I can pretend I'm looking at a little bit of Dutch Baroque hanging over the piano as I practice my Bach.




Pretty girl, shame about the building.

I did know the Dutch painting but I have only just seen Petrarch's entry. Photobucket have inexplicably altered their format and I am trying to find my way around it.

Is posting using Photobucket causing problems for people? Should I investigate a new image host?

[Petrarch's Love]

Oh man, St. Luke's. I know I've seen that artist's work before (though not in person I think) but the name eludes me entirely. I think I knew it once...this is going to bug me. :crazy: Is it something like Chang or Chan, or am I way off base?

[stlukesguild]

Well... considering that our artist was born in China (but now lives in the US) he might well be expected to have a name like Chang, Chan, Ling, Han, Lee, Chong, Kong, etc... rather as more than a few Americans are named Williams, Smith, Jones... and Kowalsky.:biggrinjester:

[Emil Miller]

Is posting using Photobucket causing problems for people? Should I investigate a new image host?

The problem occurs when you upload a picture from where you have saved it on the hard disc. Formerly, it uploaded the picture to a file containing all your pictures and by holding the cursor over the one you wanted to transmit to LitNet you got a drop down menu with various Urls for different recipients.
Now, however, you get a page for sending pictures by mobile phone and that's it. There is nothing on the page that allows you to use any other medium. So until I find some way of breaking out of the straightjacket, I will be hors de combat.

[stlukesguild]

Brian, Flickr is quite easy to use in the interim.

OK... more clues: Our artist was born in Shanghai in 1978. He moved to the US in the late 1980s and lived in a small town in Iowa. He majored in pre-med biology in college in order to please his parents, but his true desire was to paint. Since 2000 he has lived in Denver and focused upon his art career which has taken off like wildfire.

[Petrarch's Love]

Ha! And the name "Cong" even came to me before seeing St. Luke's hints (Though I did need the biographical information to get the rest of his name). I knew it was something Chinese starting with a "C" and ending with a "G".

Lu Cong
"Chicago"
2008

OK, this may not be too hard to guess--at least for our resident artist--but I've got lots on the schedule today and break time's almost over.

http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e386/LeonardoD/mysterypic4.jpg

[Petrarch's Love]

The problem occurs when you upload a picture from where you have saved it on the hard disc. Formerly, it uploaded the picture to a file containing all your pictures and by holding the cursor over the one you wanted to transmit to LitNet you got a drop down menu with various Urls for different recipients.
Now, however, you get a page for sending pictures by mobile phone and that's it. There is nothing on the page that allows you to use any other medium. So until I find some way of breaking out of the straightjacket, I will be hors de combat.

Oh. I see. I thought you meant posting things from photobucket was causing problems for you seeing them here. I've been uploading things from my disc to photobucket and posting them here. They have changed the set-up a little, but I can still get the little drop down menu with the urls and image tags and what not to post here. I'll look at what I'm doing more carefully later today and see if I can figure out what I'm doing differently. Otherwise, as St. Luke's says, flickr works fine. I just prefer not to clutter up my flickr account with random pics I want to post here.

[Kyriakos]

I dont know the current one. I love some of the darker works in this thread though ;)

[Lokasenna]

I really do love this thread, but it does hammer home just how ignorant I am about the world of paintings.

[Olga4real]

Jacques-Louis David 'Madame Francois Buron' 1769.

Here is the next: http://www.online-literature.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=1541&stc=1&d=1280574341

[Emil Miller]

Its called Climbing Path by Pissaro.
Unfortunately, I am having trouble posting any pictures at the moment so someone else may want to.

[Emil Miller]

This isn't a very good print but I will post it anyway.

http://a.imageshack.us/img529/8465/waltersickert.jpg

[Olga4real]

Walter Richard Sickert Ennui 1913

[Olga4real]

Here is my picture. I know that you will find out easily but my goal is to share something what I like with people, plus it's called art therapy.

http://www.online-literature.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=1542&stc=1&d=1280585264

[Emil Miller]

Pissaro: The Hermaitage at Pontoise. I have liked this painting for years but it would be easy to find because the artist's name is clearly visible on the picture.


http://a.imageshack.us/img51/504/crusaders.jpg

[stlukesguild]

Eugene Delacroix
Entry of the Crusaders into Constantinople
1840

http://www.algeria.com/forums/international-cities-villes-internationales/23800-turkey-2.html

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4148/4846885558_38c630a60c_b.jpg

[Olga4real]

Johann Joachim Winckelmann portrait by Anton Raphael Mengs 1755

I can't post anything right now.

[Olga4real]

Here is my question.

http://www.online-literature.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=1543&stc=1&d=1280645096

[Olga4real]

It is a portrait of an artist.

[Emil Miller]

Portrait of Isaac Levitan by Valentin Serov.

This picture is on the wall of my living room.



http://a.imageshack.us/img44/4940/enchan10.jpg

[stlukesguild]

Raoul Dufy- Interior with Open Window
http://www.1artclub.com/interior-with-open-windows/

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4082/4850069038_27b79b43b3_b.jpg

[Emil Miller]

Balthus: Great Landscape With Trees ( the triangular field).


http://a.imageshack.us/img529/7301/derain2.jpg

[Olga4real]

Portrait of Isaac Levitan by Valentin Serov

For some reason I thought that YOU, Brian, would find out :-)

Your latest picture doesn't show.

[Emil Miller]

For some reason I thought that YOU, Brian, would find out :-)

Your last latest picture doesn't show.

That's strange because it has transferred OK on my computer. Maybe we ought to wait to see if others don't have it also.
Finding out the Serov picture wasn't difficult, because that chair Levitan is sitting in definitely looked Russian to me, and I know you like Russian painters.

[Lokasenna]

Ooh, we have a poster of that one in the department - it's Paysage à Cassis by Andre Derain.

Hmm... Probably an easy one...

http://alloilpaint.com/mabuse/7.jpg

[Emil Miller]

[QUOTE=Lokasenna;932013]Ooh, we have a poster of that one in the department - it's Paysage à Cassis by Andre Derain.

Hmm... Probably an easy one...



This isn't as easy as it appears. I have looked at a large number of pictures of fat women; not, as you may imagine, an agreeable experience but it seems that was how they liked them in those days. Although I was fairly sure that it was by Rubens I was unable to trace it. I take it that it is 17th century Dutch or German.

[Olga4real]

Hmm... Probably an easy one...

This isn't as easy as it appears. I have looked at a large number of pictures of fat women; not, as you may imagine, an agreeable experience but it seems that was how they liked them in those days. Although I was fairly sure that it was by Rubens I was unable to trace it. I take it that it is 17th century Dutch or German.

No Brian it can't be Rubens, it was created before Rubens was born.
The artist name is Jan Mabuse, his real name is Gossaert who lived from 1478 – to October 1532 and the painting title is 'Venus And a Mirror.
Rubens was born 45 years after Mabuse died.

She is not fat - she is curvy. :smile5:

I know that the following painting will be so easy to find out, but I just love it!

http://www.online-literature.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=1548&stc=1&d=1280778127

[Janine]

It's one of the many Water Lilies paintings by Claude Monet; but I have no idea which one specifically. It's really beautiful. I like it, too.

[stlukesguild]

Dang... I knew it was Gosseart but I kept searching under "Vanity".:willy_nilly:

[stlukesguild]

Claude Monet
Water Lilies or Water Lilies, Evening, or Water Lilies, Evening Effect or Water Lilies, Evening Flower (I found all of these titles before finding the collection in which it can be found)
Musee Marmottan, Paris, France


http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4075/4855721608_804dccb58a_b.jpg

[Olga4real]

Dang... I knew it was Gosseart but I kept searching under "Vanity".:willy_nilly:

I was not familiar with with Gosseart I just typed 'Venus with a mirror' into google and it came up. She is Venus obviously :-)

[Emil Miller]

I was not familiar with with Gosseart I just typed 'Venus with a mirror' into google and it came up. She is Venus obviously :-)

I thought it was Diana, because of the helmet and arrow, so I completely missed out on Venus. I actually looked for 'nude with mirror' and similarly failed to get it.

[stlukesguild]

Our mystery artist is a rather well-known American artist.

[Emil Miller]

Our mystery artist is a rather well-known American artist.

I have checked out Warhol and Lichtenstein, as well as Contemporary American Artists, to no avail. Even early Jackson Pollock doesn't get it. I don't believe Edward Hopper could have done it. The painting has overtones of Matisse but that's probably incidental.

[Olga4real]

I am lucky I found it!
It's 'Reclining Nude' and the artist name is Romare Bearden.
I thought it was an African-American artist.
I am not familiar with American fine arts thank you stlukesguild I am learning a lot!

[Olga4real]

http://www.online-literature.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=1555&stc=1&d=1280955160

[Emil Miller]

Hendrick Avercamp - Skaters.

http://a.imageshack.us/img193/2733/unexpectedvisitors28ort.jpg

[Olga4real]

Ilya Repin, They didn't expect. It took for a while to find the English title because the original is 'Ne zhdali' and every Russian schoolboy and girl is familiar with this painting.
Repin is one of my favorites, thank you!

Now I would like to ask you, Brian, to post something instead of me.

[Emil Miller]

Of course, I knew you would get Repin's picture, it is so famous. So here is something equally as famous but very different.


http://a.imageshack.us/img29/7332/matissenude.jpg

[Kyriakos]

Blue nude, by Matisse :)

New challenge:

http://i34.tinypic.com/24vryhz.jpg

[Emil Miller]

Blue nude, by Matisse :)

New challenge:

http://i34.tinypic.com/24vryhz.jpg

Sorry Kyriakos but I changed the picture because Matisse's signatutre was too prominent .

[Kyriakos]

Ok, but this is again by Matisse. I actually knew the other was too, without looking at the sig, but this time you also named it after Matisse (you should always change the title to something that doesnt give hints) ;)

It is Large Reclining Nude by Matisse anyway.

[stlukesguild]

Paul Klee 1930 'The Kettledrum Organ', Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin Ohio

Klee is one of my three or 4 favorite Modernists... probably the first Modern artist whose work I came to love... and this particular painting was virtually in my back yard (I grew up just minutes away from Oberlin).

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4134/4861259581_9650807612.jpg

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

St. Lukes,
You may want to try posting your image again.
At my end anyhow, all I get is the image code.

never mind now i see it

[stlukesguild]

Another painting by our unknown master:

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4119/4862732593_c5caa8871b.jpg

[stlukesguild]

American.

[Olga4real]

American.

It's obvious.

[stlukesguild]

It's obvious.

Should be easy then.:biggrin5:

Our mystery artist studied at the Boston Museum School where he later taught. He was much in demand as a portraitist, and later became a leading figure in the development of American Impressionism.

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4074/4865834828_bf6a2684ac.jpg

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4102/4865217239_1f3c42c49c.jpg

[Olga4real]

It's obvious.

Should be easy then.:biggrin5:



Not really - I am not familiar with American artists. I already know the name of this artist but haven't found the titles of his paintig yet.
It's Frank Weston Benson.

[Olga4real]

The first painting's title is Portrait of Mary Sulivan 1902.

The lates two pictures you posted:

1. Summer in New England
2. Portrait of My Daughters

I will find out the title of the second picture you posted when I am back home.

[Lokasenna]

The first painting was his portrait of Mary Sullivan.

Whose turn does that make it - mine or Olga's? I'm quite happy to defer...

{edit} - and there I've missed it! Your turn, Olga!

[stlukesguild]

She beat you by one minute.:crash:

[Olga4real]

The first painting was his portrait of Mary Sullivan.

Whose turn does that make it - mine or Olga's? I'm quite happy to defer...

{edit} - and there I've missed it! Your turn, Olga!


If you something to post, do it I don't mind, I play for the sake of the game.

[Olga4real]

I changed my mind if you don't mind :-)

http://www.online-literature.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=1561&stc=1&d=1281114187

As a child I was amazed by this picture and always hoped that they would escape.

[Lokasenna]

Got it! It's Konstantin Makovsky's Children Running From A Thunderstorm.

This one shouldn't be too difficult (but then, I said that the last time!):

http://lh4.ggpht.com/_SUBGzd1BG60/SXIZ8Bal23I/AAAAAAABtu0/fAASkHQ1PcM/s640/D%C3%BCrer%2C%20Adam%20%26%20Eve%201507.jpg

[Olga4real]

Albrecht Dürer is one of my favorite artists,
Adam and Eve 1507.
It's unbelievable that this picture was painted more than 5 centuries ago!!!

Here is the next picture:

http://www.online-literature.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=1562&stc=1&d=1281121008

[Emil Miller]

Ivan Repin self portrait.

http://a.imageshack.us/img12/2653/416pxbartolomc3a9esteba.jpg

[stlukesguild]

Bartolomé Esteban Murillo
Two Boys Eating a Pie

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4079/4867536802_7fab81d357_b.jpg

[stlukesguild]

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

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

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4118/4869685198_cbc03ea3df_z.jpg

[prendrelemick]

Aron Wiesenfeld. "Dog"

I love his stuff, there's always a mystery behind them.


I'll post a painting soon.

[Olga4real]

The artist name is Aron Wiesenfeld and the first picture title it Dog if I am not mistaken, the second David and the last one is Train Tunnel.

Sorry while I was looking for a picture to post I missed my turn. Next time.

[prendrelemick]

Sorry Olga, you go ahead.

[Olga4real]

Sorry Olga, you go ahead.

No, no, no!
Please post your picture - I'll post next time.

[Olga4real]

Ok, just to keep the game going I post what I wanted to post last night.

http://www.online-literature.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=1565&stc=1&d=1281264128

prendrelemick will post next time, I hope.

[Jazz_]

Flowers In Vase - Marc Chagall (I love the small figures to the right...)

How about some more flowers? :D

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

[Olga4real]

It's so beautiful! Thank you for posting this picture!
Eduard Monet, Peonies in a Vase, or Vase of Peonies.

And if we talk about flowers, here is my question.

http://www.online-literature.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=1566&stc=1&d=1281286252

[Olga4real]

Here is another work by this artist.

http://www.online-literature.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=1569&stc=1&d=1281300426

[Olga4real]

This artist is a Russian portraitist - here is another portrait made by him:
http://www.online-literature.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=1570&stc=1&d=1281367388

I didn't think it would be so difficult to find out.

[Lokasenna]

It's Alexander Pushkin - I hadn't known the others until I saw that last one.

Right, this is a hard one. What I'm after is the name of the manuscript these illustrations are from, but if you want to provide the artist's name, that's up to you:

http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i48/Naeblis1963/45346534634gh.jpg

http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i48/Naeblis1963/24352356gh.jpg

http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i48/Naeblis1963/343523532gh.jpg

Ha - you're in my world now! We needed some medievalism in here. I'll provide more clues if people get stuck.

[Olga4real]

It's Alexander Pushkin - I hadn't known the others until I saw that last one.

Yes it's a portrait of Pushkin but who is the artist? You haven't named the first original picture either.

[prendrelemick]

Vassili Tropinin, Girl with a pot of roses.


However I have nothing prepared, so lets go with Lokasenna's old comic.

[Olga4real]

Vassili Tropinin, Girl with a pot of roses.


However I have nothing prepared, so lets go with Lokasenna's old comic.

Good job prendrelemick! So you miss your turn to post again?

[prendrelemick]

Ooo, look what I have found.

A bishop, the great Æthelwold, whom the Lord had made patron of Winchester, ordered a certain monk subject to him to write the present book . . . He commanded also to be made in this book many frames well adorned and filled with various figures decorated with many beautiful colours and with gold. This book the Boanerges aforesaid caused to be indited for himself . . . Let all who look upon this book pray always that after the term of the flesh I may abide in heaven Û Godeman the scribe, as a suppliant, earnestly asks this.

Its the Benedictional of St AEthelwold, by Godeman.

[prendrelemick]

Right I'll post something when I manage to hide the signiture.

[prendrelemick]

here we go.

http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k78/prendrelemick/PeterSeverinKroyer45-1.jpg

[Olga4real]

What a great picture! I love it!
Three Fishermen Pulling a Boat
Peter Severin Kroyer

http://www.online-literature.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=1571&stc=1&d=1281386586

[Lokasenna]

@Olga - I'm sorry! I thought it was a self-portrait! There's me getting ahead of myself again.

@prendrelemick - Crikey, that was fast! I had hoped this one would keep people occupied for a while... How did you know?

[Olga4real]

This mystery artist was one of the greatest Russian landscape 'plain-air' painters. Master of 'mood landscape' he worked in genre symbolism and modernist style principles.

Here are two of his works, I hope it helps:

http://www.online-literature.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=1575&stc=1&d=1281459408

http://www.online-literature.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=1574&stc=1&d=1281459201

[Olga4real]

@Olga - I'm sorry! I thought it was a self-portrait! There's me getting ahead of myself again.

No problem, Pushkin did some drawings but he never painted, as far as I know, he was talented in other area.

[prendrelemick]

@Olga - I'm sorry! I thought it was a self-portrait! There's me getting ahead of myself again.

@prendrelemick - Crikey, that was fast! I had hoped this one would keep people occupied for a while... How did you know?


The power of Google.

(and the big red "British Library" sticker in the corner):thumbsup:

[prendrelemick]

I know the artist, who also did one of my all time favourites-

http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k78/prendrelemick/images-3.jpg

But I cant find the first picture anywhere.

[Emil Miller]

Isaac Levitan:In the Vicinity of Bordiguera, in the North of Italy.

That is what threw me, I could see that it wasn't in Russia but I didn't know Levitan had been outside of Russia.

http://a.imageshack.us/img148/5568/huguenot4.jpg

[stlukesguild]

The Huguenot by Sir John Everett Millais

Now is this turning into a nationalist game with Olga and her Russians, Brian and the English, and me with the Americans? So perhaps I should seek out some obscure Minimalist Conceptualist?

[stlukesguild]

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4135/4880525013_0c79ed1a49.jpg

[stlukesguild]

A few more by our mystery artist:

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4120/4882675510_a630e05832.jpg

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4100/4882057223_6496c7b841.jpg

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4115/4882669564_5a9b2fdcf3_b.jpg

Our mystery artist is clearly a top-notch "draftsman".

[prendrelemick]

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4135/4880525013_0c79ed1a49.jpg

I dont know the artist, but I'd like to live in that house.

[stlukesguild]

OK... here's a view of our artist in the studio:

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4121/4884890633_9ef919f7a2_b.jpg

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4095/4884890807_6019a2282d_b.jpg

The painter of all these lovely female nudes is not a guy!


Hmmmmm.....:confused5:

[Emil Miller]

OK... here's a view of our artist in the studio:


The painter of all these lovely female nudes is not a guy!


Hmmmmm.....:confused5:


Wow! I would never have thought it. I was beginning to think it might be Hugh Heffner.

[stlukesguild]

Now come on, Brian... Yeats knew what he was talking about when he suggested that the only two subjects worthy of serious contemplation were sex and death. Certainly they make up the lion's share of art history. Was there a subject beside the nude that shows up more in Michelangelo, Titian, Tintoretto, Rubens, Ingres, Renoir, Degas, Bonnard, Picasso, Matisse, etc...?

Returning to our mystery artist... she is a master draftswoman whose work focuses almost exclusively upon the female nude. Her paintings are all made from life. She employs natural poses drawn from everyday life... from intimate or introspective moments when women are alone (without men). She has mastered a handling of flesh tone that suggest a certain translucency... and an inner glow that is greatly indebted to Rubens. Our artist was born in Paris and continues to live, work, and exhibit in France.

[MarkBastable]

The artist is Francine Van Hove, and the breakfast scene with the baguettes is called, er, Le petit déjeuner aux baguettes.


I'm off to France for a while, and I shan't be around to participate - so I'll hand the initiative back to stlukesguild.

[stlukesguild]

Not hunting down Francine's studio, now, are we?:ladysman:

OK... I'll try to find something equally... tantalizing.:ihih:

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4081/4887156738_cc31e088ef.jpg

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4119/4887156678_42140bbf3b.jpg

[prendrelemick]

The Huguenot by Sir John Everett Millais

Now is this turning into a nationalist game with Olga and her Russians, Brian and the English, and me with the Americans? So perhaps I should seek out some obscure Minimalist Conceptualist?

So, misdirection is now part of the game eh! I spent ages looking for an American artist. (Even though my daughter thought the scene was french)

[stlukesguild]

So, misdirection is now part of the game eh! I spent ages looking for an American artist. (Even though my daughter thought the scene was french)

Now surely those nudes were far from being Minimalist.:goof:

OK... a clue for our current artist. Our artist shares an essential element with my previous artist of choice.;)

[stlukesguild]

American... female.:goof:

[stlukesguild]

Surely, this can't be that hard? She was one of the strongest artists of the last 50 years. She virtually "disappeared" for 20-some years, teaching art at the college level and raising a family... but rarely ever showing. Over the last decade she has experienced a "Renaissance" of sorts and been given major retrospective exhibitions in LA, Chicago, New York, and at the Pittsburgh Carnegie International.

[stlukesguild]

OK... she studied at the Art Student's League of New York and exhibited during the 1960s with Leo Castelli, who was the leading art dealer in New York specializing in Pop Art.

[Kyriakos]

I think you should give us the name, so that the game can continue :)

[Emil Miller]

OK... she studied at the Art Student's League of New York and exhibited during the 1960s with Leo Castelli, who was the leading art dealer in New York specializing in Pop Art.

I've checked out a host of women modern artists, including one called Cindy Snodgrass. Among the notes mentioning Castelli, I didn't find any reference to the artist or the painting (?).

The only one that fits the bill is Louise Nevelson but I don't know the name of the work.

[stlukesguild]

OK... let's play Wheel of Fortune:

--- --------

Give me a letter.

[JuniperWoolf]

ALRIGHT! Lee Bontecou, untitled (crap, now I have to pick a painting).

[prendrelemick]

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.