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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDU, 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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jberryhill
(62,444 posts)CTyankee
(63,771 posts)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)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)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)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.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Is it that place in Italy?
CTyankee
(63,771 posts)jberryhill
(62,444 posts)...in Italy.
In that Italian city in Italy.
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,308 posts)They are all beautiful, though, and I look forward to finding out where they are, their names and so on...
CTyankee
(63,771 posts)NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)I checked and it's not Amsterdam or Prague, but I swear Ive been there
CTyankee
(63,771 posts)JNelson6563
(28,151 posts)I always check out these threads, love the pics! A favorite DU highlight for me.
Thanks for doing them!
Julie
CTyankee
(63,771 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)CTyankee
(63,771 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)Galeries Lafayette, Paris...
Vewy twicky, CTyankee, vewy twicky!
CTyankee
(63,771 posts)Paris is the premier city for art nouveau, as this building obviously is!
Isn't it gorgeous?
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)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)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)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
CTyankee
(63,771 posts)marions ghost
(19,841 posts)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)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)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 McDonalds 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 companys restaurants worldwide."
CTyankee
(63,771 posts)marions ghost
(19,841 posts)esp of this period
CTyankee
(63,771 posts)What fun that must have been!
marions ghost
(19,841 posts)(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)talent...
frazzled
(18,402 posts)Was there once, but I can't quite remember.
CTyankee
(63,771 posts)cthulu2016
(10,960 posts)CTyankee
(63,771 posts)marions ghost
(19,841 posts)I know where this is, but only because cthulu guessed Klimt...
CTyankee
(63,771 posts)didn't intend to be mean spirited at all...
marions ghost
(19,841 posts)I'll let cthulu have time to guess it...
The title is related to the decadence...
Back later, mg
DonRedwood
(4,359 posts)I can't remember now...but it seems it is a museum now or at least open to the public.
CTyankee
(63,771 posts)DonRedwood
(4,359 posts)DonRedwood
(4,359 posts)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.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)So I'm keeping my mouth shut.
CTyankee
(63,771 posts)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)...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!
DonRedwood
(4,359 posts)CTyankee
(63,771 posts)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)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)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)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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