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CTyankee

(63,771 posts)
Fri Sep 7, 2012, 05:03 PM Sep 2012

DU, darlings! A wonderful new Challenge this Friday: The Beautiful Era!

In the late 19th and early 20th century an outpouring of creative energy in Western art and architecture produced works of elegance and exquisite beauty. I have six offerings for you to identify!

...and play nice, no fair cheating...

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DU, darlings! A wonderful new Challenge this Friday: The Beautiful Era! (Original Post) CTyankee Sep 2012 OP
#5 - Grand Central Station? jberryhill Sep 2012 #1
You get the first winnah, jberryhill! CTyankee Sep 2012 #9
Booyah... jberryhill Sep 2012 #24
I spent YEARS not looking at it as I went in and out of Grand Central to work CTyankee Sep 2012 #27
There are some great train stations jberryhill Sep 2012 #35
#1 is that place in that foreign country that looks like that jberryhill Sep 2012 #2
No Italy here... CTyankee Sep 2012 #16
No, I don't mean Italy here, I mean Italy there... jberryhill Sep 2012 #36
As usual, I have NO idea! CaliforniaPeggy Sep 2012 #3
It is truly a beautiful era... CTyankee Sep 2012 #18
#1 looks damn familiar. Central train station somewhere in Europe NightWatcher Sep 2012 #4
maybe so... CTyankee Sep 2012 #10
Don't know but they're beautiful! JNelson6563 Sep 2012 #5
Thank you. This one was such a joy to research...loved it! CTyankee Sep 2012 #17
#3 - La Fenice Opera House, Venice, Italy. nt pinboy3niner Sep 2012 #6
actually, no... CTyankee Sep 2012 #11
Aha! It's a department store! pinboy3niner Sep 2012 #25
Aww...didn't mean to be twicky! CTyankee Sep 2012 #28
It's beautiful! pinboy3niner Sep 2012 #32
Well, Paris gave Art Nouveau its name, after all! When I was there in April, 2011 CTyankee Sep 2012 #33
Lovely! sibelian Sep 2012 #7
yes, ma'am or sir! It is the Palau de la Musica... CTyankee Sep 2012 #12
Incredible... marions ghost Sep 2012 #20
My trip to Spain in 2008 changed my life, I swear! CTyankee Sep 2012 #30
#1 = Nyugati Railway Station, Budapest marions ghost Sep 2012 #8
Sounds like you've been there... CTyankee Sep 2012 #14
No but I studied a lot of architecture... marions ghost Sep 2012 #21
what a wonderful era to study! Wow! CTyankee Sep 2012 #23
yes I would have liked to be an architect marions ghost Sep 2012 #29
maybe she can and there will be a whole new era of beauty as a result of such CTyankee Sep 2012 #40
Is last one the Victor Horta Museum in Brussels? frazzled Sep 2012 #13
It is Horta...the van eetvelde house...Brussels... CTyankee Sep 2012 #15
is 2 a very early klimt? cthulu2016 Sep 2012 #19
You know your Klimt! Now where is it? No googling, cthulu! CTyankee Sep 2012 #22
We can't google at all? marions ghost Sep 2012 #26
Of course, I was just giving cthulu a little of "the business"! CTyankee Sep 2012 #31
no worries marions ghost Sep 2012 #34
I'm guessing in Vienna....in the capital/city hall building? DonRedwood Sep 2012 #37
Of course, Vienna, he was part of that school, but it is not those... CTyankee Sep 2012 #38
Were these the ones that were criticized for showing too much skin? DonRedwood Sep 2012 #41
I have a giant Klimt book not five feet away but I won't give in to the temptation DonRedwood Sep 2012 #42
I found it, but only because cthulu2016 named Klimt pinboy3niner Sep 2012 #43
Oh, dear, I don't want anybody to feel upset! CTyankee Sep 2012 #44
Oh, no, it's just that we tend to defer to the person who got it... pinboy3niner Sep 2012 #45
oh....i didn't realize there were rules. :0( DonRedwood Sep 2012 #47
Hi Don, welcome to the challenge! CTyankee Sep 2012 #48
thanks...I was a bit distracted last night...my stepdaughter was in labor with my CTyankee Sep 2012 #50
The Burgtheater! I've never heard of this mural! DonRedwood Sep 2012 #46
Vienna is on my bucket list to see! Also Budapest and Prague. CTyankee Sep 2012 #49
This message was self-deleted by its author DonRedwood Sep 2012 #39

CTyankee

(63,771 posts)
9. You get the first winnah, jberryhill!
Fri Sep 7, 2012, 05:27 PM
Sep 2012

I know you don't live in NYC now, but were you a former resident?

Your second question is who designed the clock...and don't go lookin' it up on google, promise?

 

jberryhill

(62,444 posts)
24. Booyah...
Fri Sep 7, 2012, 06:06 PM
Sep 2012

No, but if you smoke, and attend an event at the Marriott, you end up spending a good part of the day looking at it.

CTyankee

(63,771 posts)
27. I spent YEARS not looking at it as I went in and out of Grand Central to work
Fri Sep 7, 2012, 06:17 PM
Sep 2012

and home every day...finally, one day I did...

The clock is by Louis Tiffany. NYC did not experience a lot of art nouveau but other places in the U.S. did, such as Chicago.

 

jberryhill

(62,444 posts)
35. There are some great train stations
Fri Sep 7, 2012, 07:05 PM
Sep 2012

Union Station in DC was nicely restored back in the 70's, although it took forever and cost too much. All of that complaining is irrelevant now. These are peoples' palaces.

CaliforniaPeggy

(149,308 posts)
3. As usual, I have NO idea!
Fri Sep 7, 2012, 05:10 PM
Sep 2012

They are all beautiful, though, and I look forward to finding out where they are, their names and so on...

NightWatcher

(39,343 posts)
4. #1 looks damn familiar. Central train station somewhere in Europe
Fri Sep 7, 2012, 05:12 PM
Sep 2012

I checked and it's not Amsterdam or Prague, but I swear Ive been there

JNelson6563

(28,151 posts)
5. Don't know but they're beautiful!
Fri Sep 7, 2012, 05:12 PM
Sep 2012

I always check out these threads, love the pics! A favorite DU highlight for me.

Thanks for doing them!

Julie

CTyankee

(63,771 posts)
28. Aww...didn't mean to be twicky!
Fri Sep 7, 2012, 06:19 PM
Sep 2012

Paris is the premier city for art nouveau, as this building obviously is!

Isn't it gorgeous?

pinboy3niner

(53,339 posts)
32. It's beautiful!
Fri Sep 7, 2012, 06:27 PM
Sep 2012

That's why it made me think of pictures I'd seen of the Venice Opera House.

I found a few more details...

Date: 1912.
Architect: Georges Chedanne and then his pupil Ferdinand Chanut.
Style: A glass and steel dome, and Art Nouveau staircases.

CTyankee

(63,771 posts)
33. Well, Paris gave Art Nouveau its name, after all! When I was there in April, 2011
Fri Sep 7, 2012, 06:29 PM
Sep 2012

I was reminded of the beauty of their Metro signs...just lovely...I understand that they did them so beautifully to convince people that going underground to a railway wouldn't harm them. Looks like they succeeded!

sibelian

(7,804 posts)
7. Lovely!
Fri Sep 7, 2012, 05:15 PM
Sep 2012

2. is Pre-raphaelite but that's all I know.

4. I've been there, I'm sure of it! Isn't it a concert hall in Barcelona?

As for the rest I have no idea except 6 looks *very* art nouveau and I wonder if it's Gaudi and Barcelona again except there are probably too many straight lines... it's very Gaudian, though...

These are beautiful, CTyankee

marions ghost

(19,841 posts)
20. Incredible...
Fri Sep 7, 2012, 05:40 PM
Sep 2012

The Palau de la Música Catalana (Catalan pronunciation: [pəˈɫaw ðə ɫə ˈmuzikə kətəˈɫanə], English: Palace of Catalan Music) is a concert hall in Barcelona. Designed in the Catalan modernista style by the architect Lluís Domènech i Montaner, it was built between 1905 and 1908 for the Orfeó Català, a choral society founded in 1891 that was a leading force in the Catalan cultural movement that came to be known as the Renaixença (Catalan Rebirth).[1] It was inaugurated February 9, 1908.

CTyankee

(63,771 posts)
30. My trip to Spain in 2008 changed my life, I swear!
Fri Sep 7, 2012, 06:23 PM
Sep 2012

I LOVE that country. To this day, they create more art with more vision than I can see in many other countries!

Now, what I would love to do is to take a trip to Vienna, Budapest and Prague to complete my visit to places where this beautiful school of art, art nouveau, flourished for such a small amount of time. I have been to Barcelona once, Paris twice and I will go to Brussels in October but I really want to complete the circle in those other countries...

marions ghost

(19,841 posts)
8. #1 = Nyugati Railway Station, Budapest
Fri Sep 7, 2012, 05:25 PM
Sep 2012

1877--by the french firm Eiffel (Architect Serres)

Dunno about this though:

"The station was build with comfort for the common traveler in mind, and a building housing an expansive coffee shop was constructed into the side of the station. The space was taken over by McDonald’s after the end of the Socialist regime. While some consider the fast food restaurant an abomination, others consider it one of the most beautiful restaurants in Europe, and its popularity is inarguable: it is the second busiest McDonalds of all the company’s restaurants worldwide."

marions ghost

(19,841 posts)
29. yes I would have liked to be an architect
Fri Sep 7, 2012, 06:22 PM
Sep 2012

(actually my niece is studying to be one now (UVA)...

But we can't build buildings like these anymore...!

Thanks for the challenge, CTyankee

CTyankee

(63,771 posts)
31. Of course, I was just giving cthulu a little of "the business"!
Fri Sep 7, 2012, 06:25 PM
Sep 2012

didn't intend to be mean spirited at all...

marions ghost

(19,841 posts)
34. no worries
Fri Sep 7, 2012, 06:33 PM
Sep 2012

I'll let cthulu have time to guess it...

The title is related to the decadence...

Back later, mg

DonRedwood

(4,359 posts)
37. I'm guessing in Vienna....in the capital/city hall building?
Fri Sep 7, 2012, 07:11 PM
Sep 2012

I can't remember now...but it seems it is a museum now or at least open to the public.

DonRedwood

(4,359 posts)
42. I have a giant Klimt book not five feet away but I won't give in to the temptation
Fri Sep 7, 2012, 07:25 PM
Sep 2012

But now I'm thinking I haven't seen this painting. The Greek statuary made me think it was the murals in the historical museum on the ring road but I last saw them in 1998 so I think all my different museum visits are running together in my memory.

CTyankee

(63,771 posts)
44. Oh, dear, I don't want anybody to feel upset!
Fri Sep 7, 2012, 07:36 PM
Sep 2012
It is in the Burgtheater in Vienna. A mural.

I did not mean there to be any controversy here.

My hope is that everyone will come away from the Challenge interested in learning more about art...I hope that folks here will do so.

You are all so great...thanks for coming out tonight and giving your all for this Challenge!

Love you!



pinboy3niner

(53,339 posts)
45. Oh, no, it's just that we tend to defer to the person who got it...
Fri Sep 7, 2012, 07:47 PM
Sep 2012

...and allow that person the chance he or she earned to complete the 'solve.' There wasn't any controversy or upset feelings.

But you did leave out the title of the mural: Altar of Dionysos.

Great Challenge, CTyankee!

CTyankee

(63,771 posts)
48. Hi Don, welcome to the challenge!
Sat Sep 8, 2012, 12:31 PM
Sep 2012

All I really ask is that folks not cheat and then pretend to "guess." But research by googling your hunches and any hints you pick up from the images is just great. My whole point is really not to "stump" anyone, but to make it interesting and fun and also to hear the background stories DUers have with a particular work of art. Ihear from so many people here about how they had taken art history as an elective and found the course thrilling...they remember the course years later!

I'd love to hear about your experience with art...or with this particular challenge!

CTyankee

(63,771 posts)
50. thanks...I was a bit distracted last night...my stepdaughter was in labor with my
Sat Sep 8, 2012, 12:43 PM
Sep 2012

husband's first grandchild and we were getting regular updates all the way from Cincinnati! The little fellow was born at 10:45 p.m.. So we proudly welcomed Isaac into the world and our family!

Sorry about being remiss in the title of the Klimt...

DonRedwood

(4,359 posts)
46. The Burgtheater! I've never heard of this mural!
Fri Sep 7, 2012, 10:44 PM
Sep 2012

Wow...I really love Klimt's work and have been to his museum and to several museums just to see his works. I used to work in Austria and took every chance to see every bit of art and culture I could see.

I LOVE that you are inspiring people to look at more art. :0) Every morning with coffee I glance through Artdaily just to get my daily art fix.

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp

(there was no conflict from me! I was thinking of a different work of art altogether.)

CTyankee

(63,771 posts)
49. Vienna is on my bucket list to see! Also Budapest and Prague.
Sat Sep 8, 2012, 12:38 PM
Sep 2012

I tutor a man from Slovakia in my ESL class and we discuss Vienna, Brataslava and Prague -- the culture, the language, the many cultural offerings of each.

Thank you for reminding me of art daily. What I have found over the last 2 1/2 years of doing the Challenge here is that there are a LOT of art blogs out there! I discover new ones all the time! These are just individuals doing their own art thing.

I'm glad you know what my real motivation is: to get more people to experience art. I hear from DUers that they have developed a further interest in a particular artist whose work I may be featuring and then they do research on their own!

Glad to hear of your experience, also. Thanks for sharing...

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