Hello, DU, today’s Friday Afternoon Challenge: Gallery stars!

Art museums and galleries are rightly proud of the signature works by famous artists in their permanent collections. Here are examples for you to study and identify, both artist and museum/gallery.
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Sometimes it's just fun to play...

Rembrandt
Van Gogh
Picasso
Talouse-Lautrec
Dali
Rubens

Tikki

I'm completely lost this week but loving it anyway. Always so much fun to hang around with the art brains!

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each of these paintings is in the permanent collection of their respective museums...

night watch - rembrandt

got that one right away.

Who painted all that stuff in that Dutch museum in Holland.

I think the people in the painting are Dutch too.

I got stoned and went there.

They have a lot of other Dutch stuff there too.

Over in that square a few blocks away where there are a bunch of bars and coffee shops, they have all them Dutch people in the same poses, but as statues.

The museum is next to that other Dutch museum with the paintings by the Dutch guy who cut his ear off.

you have to tell me what I need to see (I know about the Rijksmuseum and the Anne Frank house).

I was there a LONG time ago (when I was 16) and things have, er, changed...(or maybe not)...

Personally, I would skip Ann Frank's house for Rembrandt's house if you have to choose.

The statuary version of Night Watch is in Rembrandt square.

Rent a bike. After your tour of Museumplein, take a ride in the park.

Try an Indonesian restaurant.

I don't know if the renovations at the Rijksmuseum are done, but if not, some of the collection is on display at Schiphol.

You cannot fail to have a good time, even if you end up just chilling at the cafe restaurant in Vondelpark.

I now return to uninformed nitwit...

That was MANY years ago...

Thanks for the update. I'll be on a barge (which I have resisted before but they are offering HALF price! on their Oct. trip). We'll be docked right there in Amsterdam (how cool is that?). We're going to trace the cities where the Dutch Master painters worked, from the North provinces to the South. I'm so captivated!

I wasn't going to say it, but you'll like Delft better.

That other Dutch guy painted a lot of stuff there.

Delft is more like Bruges than Amsterdam is!

Delft is a lot older than Amsterdam. Amsterdam was something of a boom town that was built by a lot of new money and the tastes of an emerging merchant class.

You'll come to a deeper appreciation of classic Dutch country scenes, though. If you keep your eyes open, you can see how they literally build the country. The lines of trees mark off where the canals used to be, and a lot of the roads are built on old dykes. Also, look closely at things that look like little round, flat-topped hills. Those are the vliedbergs (flee hills). They are artificial hills where the livestock could go when the storms came and the dykes failed, so they wouldn't drown.

A lot of the older towns will mark the water level of historic floods on prominent old buildings.

But you will easily find yourself smack dab in the middle of a Vermeer pastoral scene and appreciate just how he distiller the charm out of the Dutch countryside.

I envy you that trip. There is a canal now between the Rhine and the Danube in Germany, so there is a grand river cruise from Amsterdam to Belgrade possible these days.

Other than fresh herring, Dutch food leaves me cold. But I admire their approach to breakfast. Flemish stews, of all kinds, are to die for, though.

The days will be shorter than you'd expect for October, though.

I confess to being so ignorant about Dutch history and Dutch art, but I am catching up. Just finished one book on Dutch art, but it was mostly a largish book with lots of reproductions and not a lot of text, which is fine since I love to experience the art itself.

The barge I'll be on isn't "grand" anything but will hold my little study group as we wend our way from town to town. We have lectures from art historians on our way, which is my idea of a perfect type of trip.

As for food, I've started researching the typical Dutch dishes and will be hoping for some interesting surprises. I like to try each locales "specialty" when I travel!

(Alkmaar, Gouda, Marken) more than A'dam the last time (had been there about 4 or 5 times prior; Schiphol Airport was the port of call for Nat'l education Assoc. discount fares.); I don't know why, but the charm was lost for me. Used to bring home Delft-handled copper pots from the Waterlooplein (sp?) Flea Mkt.

Nevertheless, The Beanery (Rijks) was always a must-see every time!

There are some nice beach towns in Zeeland, where it seems the Dutch go to relax and where it seems that American tourists are unusual.

http://www.panoguide.com/gallery/642/

Of course, you'll need a picture in which you insert yourself into the company.

I'll bet you were able to read that subject line, even though it's in Dutch...or something...

Okay it was "boy" not "guy", but I was close.

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Cezanne's "Man with a pipe"? at the Courtauld Gallery in London?

Sounds like you've been there to see it, right?

deSade Gallery

That's funny...thanks, I needed the laugh...:rofl:

or Spanish?

Go at it!

Don't know which painting.

Painting is "Slave Ship" 1840--Boston Museum of Art

Uh oh I think that's a body swimming with the fishies...

I knew who it was from the sea/sky brushwork, but I didn't remember this painting---interesting...

This one's a bit mystical:



Yikes--I didn't realize that painting was going to post so big....!

Whitney Museum of Art, NYC

(I was convinced this was by Picasso. Apparently not).

http://www.thecityreview.com/whitac.html

Mrs. Whitney was a hard task master!

lost the connection

Rats! :)

Actually, I don't have time to search today--but I enjoy peeping in to see how it's going.

Good luck to all! And thanks for the challenge, CTyankee.

Thanks for joining in!

I'm rushing off to tutor but will be back around 11.

My guess is that you pretty much "knew" the theme and took it from there. I'd not seen the Poussin but had read about how this painting and another one by him was "put back together" in an exhibition in NYC, I believe the Metropolitan.

I've never been to the Kimbell but I follow listings of exhibitions each season all over the world (via the NYT) and the Kimbell just kept coming up with some great stuff. If I still had family in Dallas I would make the trip but alas, no...

kept tracing it from there!

That dang woman in the black hat, though..... I can't find any artist except Cassatt who might be possible, and yet, nothin'!

It's in La Reina Sofia in Madrid. It was a very early work by him.

La Reina Sofia is a modern art museum. It is most famous for housing "Guernica" after it moved back to Spain from MoMA in NYC (after Franco died, which Picasso himself specified as needing to happen before guernica was returned to its homeland). It is obviously the signature piece of the museum but I couldn't use even a small detail from that painting since it is so famous.

I saw this early piece, entitled "Mujer en Azul" when I was in Spain in 08. It was hard to believe that it was a Picasso!

The art is magnificent, overpowering, transforming. I tell people that Spain changed my life. And I've been to lots of art capitals...it's that good...GO