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Post by papillon on Sept 17, 2007 0:24:14 GMT -5
It's been some time since we had one of these running. So here you go: Lovely isn't it? A Karma point is up for grabs for anyone who can name the artist.
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Post by SweetSilverBird on Sept 17, 2007 1:04:18 GMT -5
I got it! Rose says, "Go ahead and post it"... so I will. It's Mother and Child by Gustav Klimt. It's from a larger piece called The Three Ages of Woman. I really like most of his work. It often looks like it is jeweled and gilded. The time frame of when this work was painted is 1905.
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Post by SweetSilverBird on Sept 17, 2007 2:50:00 GMT -5
Oh I guess I should put up another one, eh? Here's one I really love. I blocked out the signature.
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Post by papillon on Sept 17, 2007 3:35:41 GMT -5
Correct Deborah - and you get your karma point. I don't think it would be fair for me to take part in the quiz you have just posted since it's one of the very first favourite paintings you shard with me. I love it too!
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Post by andrea on Sept 17, 2007 6:36:19 GMT -5
Oooooh, I've no idea who it is but it's gorgeous! I LOVE IT.
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Post by paulette on Sept 17, 2007 7:51:13 GMT -5
Wow beautiful! No idea either.
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Post by SweetSilverBird on Sept 17, 2007 12:51:43 GMT -5
Hint: The artist lives in Utah, and does some teaching of his methods.
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Post by SweetSilverBird on Sept 18, 2007 7:33:56 GMT -5
Okay, I can take a hint No one could guess? Here's the Answer: The only son of an artist father, WILLIAM WHITAKER grew up in the special world of the working artist. He had access to the finest art materials and was painting in watercolor and oil at the age of six. His fondest early memories are of the sights, sounds and smells of the art studio. The art world of his childhood and youth was the brave new world of abstract expressionism and until he was well out of college his natural inclination to draw accurately and his love for traditional realism was a source of inner conflict. Nevertheless he was fortunate, starting at age 17, to receive a thorough grounding in academic figure drawing and painting from the portrait painter Alvin Gittins at the University of Utah, and after exploring other styles he followed his heart into traditional art. Whitaker loves to paint from life in an old fashioned studio. No matter what direction his art takes him he always comes back to the model in the studio, the form bathed in the beautiful quiet cool light coming down from a high north window. He refers to this kind of seeing and painting as the Old Testament of art and feels there is enough magic to engage him there for the rest of his life. He believes the value of painting is to be found in its spiritual power. Having been told all his life that the kind of painting he enjoys is dead, he takes quiet comfort in lovingly attempting to capture something the camera cannot see. He is also delighted that there are so many wonderfully talented young artists who are not bound or inhibited by contemporary art world conventions and who are out to paint beautifully crafted pictures without apology. He has been a professional artist since 1965, during which time he has conducted workshops and been a university art professor. He continues to work with one or two advanced student artists for fun. He paints about three or four hours every day and spends the rest of the time trying not to ruin any good work he's done Web Site: www.williamwhitaker.com/Now would someone like to show us some beloved piece of art that they love?
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Post by papillon on Sept 18, 2007 16:06:38 GMT -5
Thanks for the writeup Birdie. Whitaker does absolutely breathtaking work. But as for the quiz - I think the ball is still in your court. You still have a point of karma to give!
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Post by SweetSilverBird on Sept 19, 2007 7:14:49 GMT -5
Okay kiddies, here's another one. This one should not be very hard. Good luck to all!
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Post by papillon on Sept 21, 2007 5:55:50 GMT -5
I know this one Deborah and I really like the atmosphere of it.
It's The Annunciation by Henry Ossawa Tanner - an African-American painter.
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Post by SweetSilverBird on Sept 21, 2007 14:05:32 GMT -5
Correct! I exalt thee, I exalt thee, I exalt thee!!!
'Way to go Rose!
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Post by grampybone on Sept 21, 2007 14:40:56 GMT -5
Here is one I always thought was a little spooky. I'm not sure how to make the image bigger, so if anyone can help, I'll re-post it. (Grampybone I hope you don't mind, I've just modified your post with a bigger image. - SweetSilverBird)
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Post by papillon on Sept 21, 2007 15:59:50 GMT -5
Grampy - I think these instructions posted by Paulette are the best help I can offer you. If you still have problems you can mail me the pic or the link to the original version of it. Deborah: Thank you, one exaltation was quite enough!
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Post by fito on Sept 21, 2007 17:35:43 GMT -5
Hola amigas, esta vez les escribo en español, ejemplos de obras maestras, la de arriba es increible la dulzura del niño durmiendo sobre la madre y la e abajo es sorprendente como logra la textura de la tela.
Yo esta semana tengo un reto bastante complicado ya que mi jefe (yo trabajo como ilustrador en una empresa) me ha asignado un trabajo complejo ya que tengo que realizar 12 ilustraciones para un calendario pero copiando un estilo muy particular de otro artista, y hastaahora he acertado solo a medias, es dificil ya que cada quien tiene su estilo y su técnica muy personal.
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Post by SweetSilverBird on Sept 21, 2007 19:13:23 GMT -5
Hola amigas, esta vez les escribo en español, ejemplos de obras maestras, la de arriba es increible la dulzura del niño durmiendo sobre la madre y la e abajo es sorprendente como logra la textura de la tela. Yo esta semana tengo un reto bastante complicado ya que mi jefe (yo trabajo como ilustrador en una empresa) me ha asignado un trabajo complejo ya que tengo que realizar 12 ilustraciones para un calendario pero copiando un estilo muy particular de otro artista, y hastaahora he acertado solo a medias, es dificil ya que cada quien tiene su estilo y su técnica muy personal. Translating for Fito: Hello friends, this time I write them in Spanish, examples of masterpieces, that of up is increible the sweetness of the boy sleeping on the mother and the and down is surprising like achieves the texture of the fabric. I this week have a quite complicated challenge since my leader (I work as the illustrator in a business) has assigned me a complex work since I have to carry out 12 illustrations for a calendar but copying a style very individual of another artist, and hastaahora I have verified alone to averages, is dificil since each one has its style and its very personal technique. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hard and challenging work Fito! Maybe you will share your work, and make us guess who the style is from! Now that would be a challenge! (For Fito: ¡Trabajo duro y desafiante Fito! ¡Quizá usted compartirá su trabajo, y nos hace adivinamos quién el estilo es de! ¡Ahora que sería un desafío! )
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Post by fito on Sept 21, 2007 19:52:20 GMT -5
Hoooh si se trata de un famoso artista creo que ustedes deben conocerle, se trata de Leroy Neiman, es dificil o complejo, porque yo tengo la tendencia o me inclino por detallar y este artista logra su trabajo creo que con espátula es cuestión de que ustedes vean su trabajo para que entiendan lo que les quiero decir.
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Post by Martina on Sept 22, 2007 5:40:46 GMT -5
Ah Fito, que suena realmente duramente. Yo le deseo mucho poder para este desafío pero saben que usted lo conseguirá y lo hace muy bueno. Y para mí yo deseo que usted nos muestre lo que usted ha hecho allí.
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Wow Fito, that sounds really hard. I wish you much power for this challenge but I know you will get it and make it very good. And for me I wish that you show us what you've done there.
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Post by Martina on Sept 22, 2007 5:47:26 GMT -5
Graham, I've seen this painting not long ago but - unbelievable - I can't remember. And you are right, this painting is somehow spooky.
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Post by papillon on Sept 22, 2007 7:51:06 GMT -5
In reply to Grampybone.This is The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit by John Singer Sargent. I had to search for this one because I had never seen it before. And in my search I came across some art poetry by Terence Brown. Here's the one he wrote about this painting: Dark sweet apron'd blooms tailored in cotton and wool four images of their missing mother arranged naturally between two rooms sisters reversing into adolescent shade retiring from infancy secure in their father's rooms but alone for now and cautious of the throbbing artist and although they sat for days in a still-life arrangement he could not erase from his heart that first morning the tentative tug this ode to their mothers urn Four ages of flowering retreating and learning all that women know and cannot speak about but show in their soupy eyes the tender surrender to birthing to caring and living to loving providing and hoping down to the gentle end Terrence Brown.
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Post by papillon on Sept 22, 2007 8:05:05 GMT -5
In reply to Fito.Wow Fito... that's quite a challenge. But having taken a look at LeRoy Neiman's work I am quite confident that you are up to the challenge. Like you, he seems to work in mixed media. Here's an example of his work: His style is quite unique... impressionistic in a very individual way. I love his use of bright colours that are purely of his invention (like my famous blue apple ;D ;D ) and more particularly I love his use of lost edges. Go on Fito.. I'm sure you can make it and I eagerly await to see your work if it is at all possible for you to show it to us. Wow Fito… que sea absolutamente un desafío. Pero tomando a una mirada en el trabajo de LeRoy Neiman me me siento absolutamente confiado que eres hasta el desafío. Como ti, él parece trabajar en medios mezclados. Su estilo es impresionista absolutamente único ... impresionista de una manera muy individual. Amo su uso de los colores brillantes que están puramente de su invención y más particularmente amo su uso de bordes perdidos. Ir en Fito. Estoy seguro que puedes hacerlo y aguardo con impaciencia para ver tu trabajo si está en todo posible para que nos lo demuestres.
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Post by grampybone on Sept 22, 2007 10:08:07 GMT -5
In reply to Grampybone.This is The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit by John Singer Sargent. I had to search for this one because I had never seen it before. And in my search I came across some art poetry by Terence Brown. Here's the one he wrote about this painting: Dark sweet apron'd blooms tailored in cotton and wool four images of their missing mother arranged naturally between two rooms sisters reversing into adolescent shade retiring from infancy secure in their father's rooms but alone for now and cautious of the throbbing artist and although they sat for days in a still-life arrangement he could not erase from his heart that first morning the tentative tug this ode to their mothers urn Four ages of flowering retreating and learning all that women know and cannot speak about but show in their soupy eyes the tender surrender to birthing to caring and living to loving providing and hoping down to the gentle end Terrence Brown. Thanks for the poem, I didn't know it existed.
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Post by papillon on Sept 22, 2007 14:13:14 GMT -5
Let's try a still life this time. The artist is not known mostly for still life paintings but this is one of his better known ones. Good luck!
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Post by fatcat721 on Sept 23, 2007 12:25:09 GMT -5
I'm not sure, but looks like Picasso.
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Post by papillon on Sept 23, 2007 13:06:22 GMT -5
I'm afraid it isn't Picasso Fatcat but you still get a karma point for trying.
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