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)Quote:
Originally Posted by stlukesguild
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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)Quote:
Originally Posted by 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.;)
American... female.:goof:
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.
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 think you should give us the name, so that the game can continue :)
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 (?).Quote:
Originally Posted by stlukesguild
The only one that fits the bill is Louise Nevelson but I don't know the name of the work.
OK... let's play Wheel of Fortune:
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Give me a letter.
ALRIGHT! Lee Bontecou, untitled (crap, now I have to pick a painting).
For us dilettantes, this game is a fascinating excercise of reducing Great Art into two or three words, so that Google will cough up the goods.
The problem is that if the work shown is too esoteric, we have nothing to go on except any clues that are given. It's not like being shown a lot of squiggles of paint so that we immediately know that the work is Pollock's or words to that effect.Quote:
Originally Posted by prendrelemick
Honestly, Brian, Lee Bontecou is far from being obscure. She would be immediately recognizable to almost anyone with a decent knowledge of art of the last half-century. Of course you never can be certain which artists will be difficult. I have posted some I thought were rather challenging only to have someone immediately recognize them... and I have had the opposite occur.
By the way... where is our next mystery painting?
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Originally Posted by stlukesguild
Well, apart from one or two obvious examples, I am completely ignorant, not to say antipathetic to the work of that period.
I'm also wondering what the next painting will be, Juniper Wolf appears to be undecided as to what to show.
...which is exactly why I'm giving my turn to Brian (I don't like paintings).
Brian... if you don't get off your duff and post the next painting, I'm going to post some esoteric Minimalist conceptual piece from an obscure artist from the third world.:toetap05:
So that big red "RUSH" on juniper's post isn't a work of art then!
Now that's a challenge for Brian to meet, if ever I saw one.Quote:
Originally Posted by stlukesguild
One of the most audacious characters in modern history.
http://a.imageshack.us/img84/5236/wilterhalter13.jpg
Bah!!!!!
Franz Xaver Winterhalter's Emperor Napoleon III
I give my choosing powers to whomever wants them. :]
http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k7...emick/mona.jpg
Only kidding.
Try this one
http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k7..._day_large.jpg
Dawns a New Day Large
Ashley Jackson.
http://a.imageshack.us/img59/8457/pi...ertinxxfig.jpg
Don't know it...
I must say this thread has shown me that i know very little of non-expressionist painting ;)
That's the problem if your interest lies in one particular school of painting. Since childhood, I have had an interest in art in general but I know very little of post WWII painting except for some obvious things by Lucien Freud, Francis Bacon etc;probably because they are English artists. During the post-war period, the Americans appear to have taken the lead with people like Rothko, Pollock, Lichtenstein et al. I don't care for their work but the US publicity machine has made it well-nigh impossible to ignore them.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kyriakos
Figures in the Snow Covered Streets of a Dutch Town - Pieter Gerard Vertin
http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w.../Picture-1.jpg
Johannes Vermeer “View of Delft”
Next:
http://i963.photobucket.com/albums/a...m/painting.jpg
Lyonel Feininger
Sailing Boats
So now I know to post Post-War art if I want to stump Brian... but avoid Freud, Bacon, Rothko, Polloack, and Lichtenstein.:ciappa:
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4137/...217a1d74cf.jpghttp://farm5.static.flickr.com/4114/...53404445d4.jpg
Nice.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gilliatt Gurgle
The subject matter of the painting is somewhat obscure but it looks as though bark is being stripped from a tree; probably for making paper.Quote:
Originally Posted by stlukesguild
The fact that there are 12 panels to the screen ought to have made it easier to locate, but although I have looked at some books on oriental art and googled the subject, so far there is nothing forthcoming.
As for Freud, Rothko, Pollock, and Lichtenstein, I think pretty well anyone would recognise them these days, unless they had also produced work that didn't conform to what is generally known of them.
Four sages of mount shang by Soga Shohaku.
(dancing bananas etc...)
There will be a short delay while I discover how to post a picture without giving away too much.
That would be Otto Dix's portrait of Sylvia von Harden. I don't like choosing paintings so next person can take my turn. Eventually I'll have to post one again, eh?
[QUOTE=prendrelemick;941222Otto Dix: Portrait of Sylvia von Harden
http://a.imageshack.us/img594/8414/picture1oz.jpg
Pablo Picasso: child with a dove.
http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k7...enladies-1.jpg
Give the Artist and the title of the book it adorns.
It looks like Aubrey Beardsley although it's virtually impossible to find from the vast number of drawings he did but at a guess I'd say Mallory's Le Morte d'Arthur or Oscar Wilde's Salome.Quote:
Originally Posted by prendrelemick
The artist is Will Bradley (http://www.willbradley.com/chron/index.htm ) and the book is The Romance of Zion Chapel by Richard Le Gallienne, as evidenced here:
http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e3...ardoD/0406.jpg
Back in a moment or two when I've selected a new image.
To continue our book history theme:
http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e3...ysterypic6.jpg
This may be super obvious to some of our bibliophiles and Lokasenna has an unfair advantage, but I'm putting up anyway. I have an unrequited desire to hold this manuscript some day.
Ahhh! I know what the painting is I just don't know the name or anything. It's Marco Polo in Venice. I'm not sure what it is. :/
It is an anonymous miniature painting called Marco Polo Leaving Venice.
http://a.imageshack.us/img440/8193/picture2a.jpg
The Flute Concert of Sanssouci by Adolph von Menzel, 1852
It portrays Emperor Frederick II (Frederick the Great) performing.
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4123/...090d1db5_z.jpg
in an installation view:
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4114/...5e0bdac829.jpg
The Triumph of Death (Palermo)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tri...Death_(Palermo)
Next:
http://i963.photobucket.com/albums/a...rypainting.jpg
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