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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHello my DU friends! Our wonderful Friday Afternoon Challenge today: The Venerable Genre of the ‘Nud
Here is your array to identify. Some of these are unlikely subjects for their artists so...
...as always, kiddos, remember the honor system here...
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WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)immoderate
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WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)CTyankee
(63,912 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)CTyankee
(63,912 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)I see Chase was very talented.
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)CTyankee
(63,912 posts)with the insanely popular Sargent so I think he got a bit of short shrift. Too bad, really...
longship
(40,416 posts)I am stymied here.
Nevermind, saw post #2
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)auburngrad82
(5,029 posts)Oh yeah. It was when my un-neutered male cattle dog, who was very muddy at the time, backed up against the window on the oven. Fortunately it was off so he didn't get burned, but it left a nice muddy bit of artwork that resembled a dog's tail, testicles, and legs.
We left it there for a day or two until we couldn't figure out how to frame it and hang it on the wall.
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)CTyankee
(63,912 posts)DevonRex
(22,541 posts)of a specific artist. But I can't find this one among his work. Grr.
ETA: BUT I'm seeing him everywhere. There's one of his lithographs that's like the blots above. One specific one. But its dark, dark blue.
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,699 posts)CTyankee
(63,912 posts)I hope this helps!
countryjake
(8,554 posts)I've no idea what any of these are, but you should probably carry this challenge over into tomorrow. Lots of people may have gone out for Valentine's and haven't even seen this thread, yet.
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)#2 might be, tho...
I'll stay with this over the weekend because I know people often go out on Friday evening and some of the best "conversations" happen later...
countryjake
(8,554 posts)He has one called "The Spotted Man" that's similar.
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)My computer went kablooey for a while this afternoon or I would have posted the answers. Sorry about that.
Yep. Constable. Wouldja believe? I wonder how come he didn't paint more figurative stuff...
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)Color is key to knowing this artist...
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)I found this in a Hirshhorn exhibit from 2010. And I learned from his wiki page that for his Anthropométries he used living nude models as his brushes:
Despite the IKB paintings being uniformly coloured, Klein experimented with various methods of applying the paint; firstly different rollers and then later sponges, created a series of varied surfaces. This experimentalism would lead to a number of works Klein made using naked female models covered in blue paint and dragged across or laid upon canvases to make the image, using the models as "living brushes". This type of work he called Anthropometry. Other paintings in this method of production include "recordings" of rain that Klein made by driving around in the rain at 70 miles per hour with a canvas tied to the roof of his car, and canvases with patterns of soot created by scorching the canvas with gas burners.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Klein
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)Good for you, Pinboy!
Any guesses on the other 4 that are unguessed?
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)#2 looks like a representation of Aquarius, 'The Water Bearer.' but that hasn't helped in finding it.
I like #1, but I've been up to my eyeballs in balony/sunset/seashore works without finding it.
I may look for another one I haven't tried yet. Wish me luck!
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)HINT for #1: the artist named the painting after a famous poem by Poe...
countryjake
(8,554 posts)Last edited Sat Feb 16, 2013, 07:38 PM - Edit history (1)
you gave us the list of nationalities...first looking at Wyeth, then Whistler.
That sketch was done on wood and I can see the wood grain in it, now that I know.
This other one, twenty yrs later:
(I never knew about his nifty little butterfly signature, seen on this one)
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)I've been doing art dreaming all day at the library and home...I love your post, it helps with the winter doldrums here in New England...
There will be next week, tho! Tune it! It's a fun one that I think you'll like...
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)It figures you'd finally come across with the nekkid people and I'd be late to the party.
#5 is "Is that a broom you have there, or are you happy to see me?"
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)and yeah, where were ya?
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)But after googling "Mousketeer Orgy" I got distracted the results for most of the evening.
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)mouseketeers are low on my priority list...
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)Michelangelo's "Cubby" is widely regarded as his masterpiece.
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)Your clue did it! Thanks!
Funny thing is, I looked for Whistler for #3 at first, but neglected to do it for this one despite the oriental style (especially the use of gold).
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)jberryhill
(62,444 posts)CTyankee
(63,912 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)Speaking of art...
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)1. Whistler, Annabel Lee
2. Annibale Carracci, Allegory of River
3. Wm. Merrit Chase, Back of a Nude
4. Eakins, William Rush Carving his Allegorical Figure of the Schuylkill River
5. Constable, Male Nude study
6. Yves Klein, Anthropometrie.
thanks for joining in, everybody! See you next Friday!
countryjake
(8,554 posts)I found it interesting that William Rush probably never used an actual nude model in the carving of his statue, but Eakins was adamant that human anatomy be studied, as a teacher. The Realist. Made his point and gave Rush's name notice in our country.
(and there's a George Washington carving hiding in the back there, behind the woman sewing. It's a statue that Rush carved after "Water Nymph and Bittern".)
Thanks for all of these, CTyankee! I've never been so intent on looking at nekkid people before, ha! Fun searches and I am still amazed (and looking) at all of Whistler's works; all I ever knew him for was his mother!
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)in a "classical" setting, her underthings were shown on the chair. Shocking!
Speaking of anatomy studies, I find the Carracci especially wonderful in its musculature and the interesting pose. The poor guy chose the wrong time to paint; he was a contemporary of Caravaggio...
countryjake
(8,554 posts)all of the brightness and color on it, which is probably what caused the kerfluffle about her underwear, hee hee.
I've not gotten into #2 yet and all I know about Carracci are his little cherubs, the one holding handfuls of flowers and the two peeking thru bushes...gave them to my daughter for her bedroom wall when she was little.
A Cherub Carrying Flowers (2)
Details of Putti from Diana and Endymion
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)What a marvelous thing to do...I am undone by this...totally thrilled...a great gift to a child, what could be better?
countryjake
(8,554 posts)the one playing the lute, a Fiorentino; Raphael's little pair; the Bouguereau of Psyche and Cupid. My favorite is hanging right here in a hallway now and I don't even know if it's a classic or not, but we fought over whether she could take it when she left home almost two decades ago...a strikingly beautiful face, with arms clutching chest, both hands on shoulders (I think it represents my girl, to me, which is why I wouldn't let her have it).
My own big brother did similar for me, after he went away to college and actually got to study art. Over the years, he gifted me with many history of art books, print books, studies of various artists that I took a liking to, and oh so many pictures. Most of those are in storage, as I'm cramped for space here, but I've dug out my old copy of "100 of the World's Most Beautiful Paintings" a while back (he gave me that after I was in high school), just to try and figure where I'd seen one of your challenges.
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)that painting. It's a horror...http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=&imgrefurl=http://www.lib-art.com/artgallery/1425-rosso-fiorentino.html&h=1162&w=950&sz=139&tbnid=4tldmPHOiBXHmM:&tbnh=91&tbnw=74&zoom=1&usg=__dgrNc8tz89wDSCQpxyKqvvU9h-8=&docid=OrWHRwOqZB_bRM&hl=en&sa=X&ei=6n0hUZ76AYWA0AH17oCwAg&sqi=2&ved=0CE0Q9QEwBw&dur=565
It is why I don't like the artist so much (but he was, after all, a Mannerist), but of course the putti are lovely...what a difference!
You are so lucky to have that big brother!
countryjake
(8,554 posts)and I agree, those little angels are the nicest thing about that one (we had those two, too). Didn't know that Fiorentino was a Mannerist, but looking at that picture, I'm beginning to understand what you meant about that period, last week. Maybe they were trying to strike the fear of god back into the common folk, eh, what with the Reformation and all?
Paint the freakiest pictures ever, that'll straighten 'em out!
Here is the other Fiorentino that I used to have, his musician:
And Raphael's angels:
Raphael detail, Sistine Madonna
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)could be so lovely in other earlier artists' hands (Lippi's little angel "helping" the Christ child onto Mary's lap is quite tender and beautiful for instance). Mary McCarthy wrote some scathing stuff about this Fiorentino presentation, esp. the mascara on the Christ child and the clawlike hands of Mary and others). It is in the Uffizi...when I was in Florence in 2010 on an art intensive with Trinity College staff I think I somewhat miffed a lecturer by pointing out those peculiar characteristics with my obvious disdain...I was otherwise humble of course since I didn't want to get into any trouble with la professoressa...
I am struggling through a rather dry, old book on the Mannerists by Shearman, who is a fine critic. Hopefully, I will finish it and become enlightened...
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)Those Victorians...