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?
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
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"L'art de la statistique est de tirer des conclusions erronèes a partir de chiffres exacts." Napoléon Bonaparte.
"Je crois que beaucoup de gens sont dans cet état d’esprit: au fond, ils ne sentent pas concernés par l’Histoire. Mais pourtant, de temps à autre, l’Histoire pose sa main sur eux." Michel Houellebecq.
Pablo Picasso: child with a dove.
Give the Artist and the title of the book it adorns.
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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.Originally Posted by prendrelemick
Pablo Picasso: child with a dove.
Give the Artist and the title of the book it adorns.
"L'art de la statistique est de tirer des conclusions erronèes a partir de chiffres exacts." Napoléon Bonaparte.
"Je crois que beaucoup de gens sont dans cet état d’esprit: au fond, ils ne sentent pas concernés par l’Histoire. Mais pourtant, de temps à autre, l’Histoire pose sa main sur eux." Michel Houellebecq.
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:
Back in a moment or two when I've selected a new image.
"In rime sparse il suono/ di quei sospiri ond' io nudriva 'l core/ in sul mio primo giovenile errore"~ Francesco Petrarca
"Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can."~ Jane Austen
To continue our book history theme:
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.
"In rime sparse il suono/ di quei sospiri ond' io nudriva 'l core/ in sul mio primo giovenile errore"~ Francesco Petrarca
"Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can."~ Jane Austen
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.
"L'art de la statistique est de tirer des conclusions erronèes a partir de chiffres exacts." Napoléon Bonaparte.
"Je crois que beaucoup de gens sont dans cet état d’esprit: au fond, ils ne sentent pas concernés par l’Histoire. Mais pourtant, de temps à autre, l’Histoire pose sa main sur eux." Michel Houellebecq.
The Flute Concert of Sanssouci by Adolph von Menzel, 1852
It portrays Emperor Frederick II (Frederick the Great) performing.
in an installation view:
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The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.- Mark Twain
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The Triumph of Death (Palermo)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tri...Death_(Palermo)
Next:
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Moon through Young Sunflowers
Charles Burchfield
A marvelous visionary artist... a mid-west American version of Blake or Samuel Palmer:
Of course he was a local boy who made good... so of course I'd know him.
Now for our new mystery painting:
Last edited by stlukesguild; 08-21-2010 at 09:40 PM.
Beware of the man with just one book. -Ovid
The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.- Mark Twain
My Blog: Of Delicious Recoil
http://stlukesguild.tumblr.com/
Thank you Brian for posting this picture. I was lucky to see this picture on Thursday in National Gallery.
Last edited by Olga4real; 08-22-2010 at 05:14 AM.
"Where love is there God is also".
Leo Tolstoy
I have seen it there also, it is a particular favourite of mine.
"L'art de la statistique est de tirer des conclusions erronèes a partir de chiffres exacts." Napoléon Bonaparte.
"Je crois que beaucoup de gens sont dans cet état d’esprit: au fond, ils ne sentent pas concernés par l’Histoire. Mais pourtant, de temps à autre, l’Histoire pose sa main sur eux." Michel Houellebecq.
There are very few of pictures in National Gallery which are not my favorites. Not like in Tate Modern :-) I was there on Friday and it didn`t make a deep impression on me.
On the other hand I spent almost 2 days in National Gallery and would go there again and again then when I will be shoppingggg?
"Where love is there God is also".
Leo Tolstoy
Yeah, yeah…I kicked myself soon after I posted it. As I read further about Burchfield in my copy of “American Drawings and Watercolors”; The Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, I saw that he was a local boy (to you). I knew the jig was up!
Now this current one has me stumped! I liken it to the cut away sectional views of the epidermis with follicles. The earth's crust as epidermis...? I also see geological caharacteristics. Probaly the wine talking.
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