art is such a savior for all of us...

and I do love your weekly thread

I'm totally clueless too, but I try it every week, and I always learn something new

other than there is a person sitting. Am I missing something?

particular poses. In this case, the later artist benefited from an artist who lived and worked 500 years before he did...(that's a hint, too!). This is maybe not a well-known example, but I am depending on the historical evidence...

Georges Seurat -- Bathers at Asnieres!


I recognized the pointillism and that it was Seurat. I actually remembered something from my 1967 Humanities class at Michigan State University.

Yay!!

memory? And how much it is treasured?

Now, where did the inspiration of 1b come from?

It seems renaissance era. I wouldn't hazard a guess. As I've said, I am out of my element.

And yes, you are right. I loved the MSU humanities classes. I just have not retained much of it. But I like impressionist and post-impressionist art so I remember Seurat. His style is distinctive.

that were displayed in Paris and they influenced him greatly...

Resurrection, c. 1460. He looks like he needs resurrecting, not like he's been resurrected.

and Wikipedia had a synopsis of the influences, including the Resurrection. I too had a course in Madison in the College of Integrated Liberal Studies. We surveyed literature, painting, sculpture, architecture from pre-Renaissance to Modernism in the context of the historical period in which it was created. It was wonderful, I would cheat on my math studies to check out the music that was composed at the time we were studying as it wasn't included in the class. So I have an overview, lacking in detail and breadth, and enjoy your posts as an opportunity to fill out what I don't know.

I feel a real affinity for Madison. Husband has family there. I think of it as having a real kinship with New Haven where we live!

Evidently, Seurat saw copies of this fresco by Piero in Paris and was influenced by it, more than just by that pose. The upturned hats of two of the figures copy Piero's subject also...

If I hadn't read about this I would never have guessed that Seurat was influenced by Piero...

When we went to the protests in 2011 at least a few of my colleagues and I were reluctant to leave. The Wikipedia synopsis mentioned the reflections of the upturned hat, the wrinkles in the pants echoing the wrinkles in the robe, the bent over the knees posture. The composition is credited to Nicolas Poussin's The Finding of Moses-"This is how a scene from everyday life suddenly becomes raised to the dignity of a history painting"- Charles Blanc, one of Seurat's teachers at the Ecole de Beaux Arts
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathers_at_Asnières

The complete Ressurection


Thanks for all the fun CTyankee

when I despair I think about places like Madison and my heart is glad...we are fellow travelers in our mission to save this country!

but I couldn't remember his name. Drat.

2 a. Dido Building Carthage by J.M.W. Turner in 1815

inspired by

2 b. Seaport with the Embarkation of the Queen of Sheba by Claude (Claude Gellee) painted in 1648.

Hi CTYankee -- Nice challenge! Found this by searching for romanticism on google. Led to Turner, which very quickly led to Claude. Turner requested in his will that Dido Building Carthage be hung beside Claude's Embarkation of Queen of Sheba.

Hope that everyone in the snow's path is ok!

I must credit Erika Langmuir in her fabulous book, "Companion Guide to the National Gallery", which I am reading for my upcoming trip to London in May...

It seems to be a completely different event placed in a similar setting. I'll get back to searching after the break I've given myself...

by the figure, heh.

Does your question in how it relates to 4a have to do with colors? I can't find that one either.

I've finally found it.

4b: Veronese - The Wedding at Cana (or The Marriage at Cana)
4a: Giovanni Battista Tiepolo - The Banquet of Cleopatra

Poor Tiepolo, he got no respect for such a long time!

I love the similarities of the two paintings: the dog(s), the birds in the sky, the balcony with onlookers, the Greek fluted columns, the banquet theme...what an era that must have been in the Veneto...

Known for his textures and choosing to paint the common simple things, unlike many of his contemporaries.

Still Life with Copper Kettle, Bowl with Eggs (1724–25), by Chardin. Destroyed by fire in the Friedrichshain Flakturm, following the capture of Berlin, May 1945.

Oh, and what is 3a?

I started reading the Wikipedia on Still-life to begin, then searched on various likely artists from that page, but adding "bucket with eggs" to the googling.

I haven't gotten past reading about Jean-Baptiste Chardin and looking at his works since I found him, so still have no idea who did the first one, but I can see why someone would use his work as inspiration. Amazing portrayals of ordinary people!

similarity. The artist of 3a studied Chardin's household kitchen works but didn't exactly "copy" them.

Maybe it is because 3a is not on display in a museum in the United States...I had no familiarity with it until I saw the piece to which this refers...

but I know it's not...

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I know what you mean. The Dutch painting of its Golden Age is awash in Still Lifes. It is incredible!

This is a few centuries later...try the 19th century...

with the post-Impressionists...

OK so 19th century then, which is one century later than 18th not few?

All right I'll take one more guess if it's pinpointed to 19th century.

So I didn't try to play. But I liked seeing the pretty pictures that looked like other pretty pictures. Thank you.

I love it when people like the art I try to present. It makes me feel so good. Like I have made someone's day somehow, in some way, better...

Also, I would have guessed Seurat for 1a.

No clue about the rest.

Nice puzzle!

Can't say exactly. Just a guess based on recollections of art history class.

I'm pretty sure it's not "still life with bowl/pot/kettle/vase" because I googled those and it didn't come up...

post #24 above

Cezanne painting of his studio--I figured it was early & that's right--1865



Whew! not easy, not so typical of Cezanne

I really like the little touch of flame in the stove and the minimal brushstrokes

my bad

When the aging Cezanne was asked by a young aspiring artist when they should be painting, he said "paint your stovepipe."

I just love that quote...

also give away the signature...sigh...I hate the trade-off but I am so glad you caught that heartbeat of the flame...so true...

---with the stovepipe is really effective & I wonder what's in the pot, water or soup?

Thanks CTyankee

when you put all three together. It's really easy to see the style when you do that.

I'm not very good at these challenges, but I love the art, and I find it fascinating to see how you can associate artists with their work by looking at a bunch of them together. I doubt I'll forget Cezanne's still life style now.

book "Companion Guide to the National Gallery" for several of these. She was their Director of Education for many years and what a knowledge she had!

still-life paintings. I guess I always assumed they were boring, but that makes me take a different look at them. Those three posted up thread are quite beautiful in their own way .

wonderful nuance of black in the painting...it is absolutely wonderful...

to see how all the colors come together to form a depth and texture. Maybe it is easier for me to see on something more simple than in the highly complex paintings with a lot of people and action in them.



I found that to be particularly intriguing.

but seriously, especially in the one I just pointed out, you can really see the texture and depth - or at least I can. I get kind of lost in the forest and can't see the trees, so to speak, on some of the more busy paintings.

is going on. The smaller ones concentrate your mind and your senses so you can see and feel what the artist is trying to convey.

that he could sit there with a dead animal in front of him day after day painting it...My guess is that is what he did, because a dead animal is not going to smell so good (or be safe to eat) after a little while...

I cannot tell you how overwhelming the sheer number of "still life" art was in the Hals museum in Haarlem when I was there! It was overwhelming...a huge room full of it...dead game, cheeses, meats, vegetables and on and on...these people must have eaten pretty well! The Dutch really did a number on this one!

Yet Love I It !!!





& Rec !!!

I love having you stop by and see this thing I do on Fridays...

Ain't we got fun?

I got nothin...

Yet I always wait for the answers, and the... enlightentment...

ya see, I am retired and have LOTS of time on my hands to do research, which I do a LOT of. This is the result.

I enjoy doing this immensely...I'm glad other feel this way...