Art quiz

[Loddfafner]

Where is this painting, what ethnicity is responsible for it, and what might it represent?

[Loddfafner]

If the black spot is a total eclipse of the sun, then at least that part of it can be dated with precision. There is a bird in there that is extinct in the wild but used to be common in that county.

[Osweo]

Well, dunno, to be honest, but I can at least help rule out a continent...

Australia?

[Loddfafner]

It is a very long way from Australia.

[Mrs Ulf]

I have no idea but it looks Inuit to me. Not exactly sure what bird you are referring too, but it reminds me of an exhibit I saw when I was a kid.

[Ulf]

That's not art.

[Electronic God-Man]

That's not art.

Yeah...just like those bottles in the wall in Philly ain't art.

Mr. Bigshot here thinks he knows what art is.

[Ulf]

Yeah...just like those bottles in the wall in Philly ain't art.

Mr. Bigshot here thinks he knows what art is.

:D

No, I just know what I think is/n't art.

[Loddfafner]

Inuit is too far north.
The bird is big.
In its natural setting of a shallow sandstone cave along a stream, it is much artier than much of what I see in museums.

[Osweo]

In the Americas?

[Loddfafner]

In the Americas?

Correct.
It is, btw, one of the more accessible examples of its genre.

[Lars]

The difficulty of this question is very high; maybe too high .

[Loddfafner]

The difficulty of this question is very high; maybe too high .

Not if you recognize the genre and search for its prominent examples.

[Osweo]

Lol, Lars! 'Rock art' + 'eclipse' + 'America' = EASY PEASY! :p

http://www.syvguest.com/pastIssues/2003/summer/rockArt.html

It's Painted Cave in California, the Chumash did it.

The most intriguing possibility to me is that some of the rock art depicts the position of our sun, the planet Mars and the star Antares during a documented solar eclipse which occurred on November 24, 1677. The ‘antap cult, who were accomplished astronomers, may have been trying to “balance the cosmos” in response to this unique astronomical event. This hypothesis has been lent some credibility by the work of present-day astronomers who calculated the probable positions of planets, stars and the sun at that time and found a correlation. Unfortunately, we have to be content with just admiring the paintings, relating to them as an amazing prehistoric treasure while remembering how sacred they are to the descendants of the original artists.



EDIT: Anyone else can take my go! :)

[Loddfafner]

Correct. My grandmother's ashes were spread by a tree near Painted Cave. I spent much of my childhood crawling through the brush looking for other Chumash paintings. Some are placed so that a beam of sunlight will hit the painting on the solstice.

[Loddfafner]

EDIT: Anyone else can take my go! :)

Alright, here is another one:

[Loddfafner]

Clue: it is a minor work in some remote village of a painter better known for a psychedelic masterpiece in a town across the river in another country.

[Lars]

Madonna and Child by Matthias Grünewald.

[Loddfafner]

Yes! It is in the village of Stuppach, near Rothenburg ob der Tauber. Finding it is on my to-do list. I saw Grunewald's main work, the Isenheim Altarpiece across the Rhein in Colmar when I was an impressionable boy and it warped me for life.

Your go, Lars!

[Lars]

Okay, what painting is this?
http://i50.tinypic.com/334j2he.jpg

[Loddfafner]

Adolph Tidemand (Norway 1814–1876) and Hans Gude (Norway 1825-1903)
Title: Brudeferden i Hardanger (Bridal journey in Hardanger), 1848, Nasjonalgalleriet, Oslo.

Part of the signature was visible once I magnified the painting. Since it evoked Scandinavian romanticism, I checked a list on Wikipedia of Norwegian painters and quickly got a positive result.

[Lars]

Baaaaaaah. :D But you are, of course, right. Next!

[Loddfafner]

The main object behind the curtain is now in Darmstadt. It should be repatriated.

[Loddfafner]

Clue: the painter was part of a family that churned out large numbers of portraits that captured the major players of his country at a key historical moment.

[Loddfafner]

The setting painted is an important early example of its genre.

[Loddfafner]

Clue: that is a mastodon behind the curtain.

[Loddfafner]

Clue: the painting is in Philadelphia.

[Loddfafner]

I went to go visit this painting the other day only to discover that it is currently on loan to the Smithsonian in DC.

[Zephyr]

I was just passing by, killing insomnia and found this interesting thread.

The painting is The Artist In His Museum
by Charles Willson Peale, depicting himself in his museum (1822)

Peale was one of those men you no longer find today among the intelectuals.

Scientist, artist and an entrepeneur.

[Loddfafner]

I was just passing by, killing insomnia and found this interesting thread.

The painting is The Artist In His Museum
by Charles Willson Peale, depicting himself in his museum (1822)

Peale was one of those men you no longer find today among the intelectuals.

Scientist, artist and an entrepeneur.

Yes! You've got dibs on the next post now.

[Zephyr]

Yes! You've got dibs on the next post now.

Thought of many but finally opted for one related with architecture which is linked with some sort of mysticism.

It's located in the last stronghold of its kind. The ceiling of this central part of the building reflects a specific geometry of initiation, which involved a ritual of 14 steps. The pattern was and is also represented in a flag associated with the men who built this.

[Zephyr]

Thought of many but finally opted for one related with architecture which is linked with some sort of mysticism.

It's located in the last stronghold of its kind. The ceiling of this central part of the building reflects a specific geometry of initiation, which involved a ritual of 14 steps. The pattern was and is also represented in a flag associated with the men who built this.

It seems people lost interest in this thread. :(

I'll give a hint. Templars build this in Portugal.

[Odoacer]

It seems people lost interest in this thread. :(

I'll give a hint. Templars build this in Portugal.

I just came across this thread; I was thinking it was something to do with the Knights Templar. Is it the Round Church at Tomar?

[Zephyr]

I just came across this thread; I was thinking it was something to do with the Knights Templar. Is it the Round Church at Tomar?

It is its ceiling indeed. :thumbs up

The Templars were founded around 1118 and soon formed commanderies around Europe to support their efforts in the Holy Land, settling in Portugal in 1128, the first country in Europe where they settled.

The Convento de Cristo is a testament to the Templars' architectural abilities.

http://www.fcsh.unl.pt/iem/medievalista/MEDIEVALISTA4/MEDIA/img-santos/image011.jpg

The octagonal church was inspired by the Islamic Dome of the Rock shrine in Jerusalem, used by the Templars as their base of operations. The Dome of the Rock is located on the Temple Mount, where the Temple of Jerusalem stood prior to its destruction in 70 A.D., and the Templars believed the Dome of the Rock was a remnant of the ancient Temple from which their name derives. The order incorporated features of the shrine into their imagery and architecture, including the seals of Grand-Masters. The architecture of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre may have also served as a model. The sepulchre itself stands in an elaborate structure within the rotunda (rotunda – 35 m diameter), surrounded by a group of three columns between four pairs of square piers columns supporting an ornamented, domed roof. It is possible that the 4th-century rotunda's columns were removed from their original location on the façade of the Roman temple. Renovation of the piers exposed evidence that the columns had originally been much higher and that the Crusaders cut them in half for use in the 12th-century rotunda.

Dome of the Rock:
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aSBK_rzGTlc/Sw8CcGNPZGI/AAAAAAAAA48/nSZCba2LdEQ/s400/CrossPatheeDome.jpg

It's geometry was also used to build their symbol:
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aSBK_rzGTlc/Sw8CcUIm48I/AAAAAAAAA5E/Q8vn1OGAI9g/s400/Octogono_da_Ordem_de_Cristo.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/39/OrderOfCristCross.svg/200px-OrderOfCristCross.svg.png


We still use that symbol in our navy and airforce:

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aSBK_rzGTlc/Sw8B1en5rfI/AAAAAAAAA4s/zTYjrt9C6T4/s400/aveiro_20090524-659_2.jpg

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aSBK_rzGTlc/Sw8B1B9AVoI/AAAAAAAAA4k/NdkO7UmNybM/s400/LPMR-20090722-168s.jpg

Your turn! :)

[Odoacer]

All right, here's one; probably not too difficult. ;) Your clue is that it was painted along a well-known French river.

[Odoacer]

Nothing, eh? Well, it was painted by one of the founders of the Impressionist school.

[Aemma]

Nothing, eh? Well, it was painted by one of the founders of the Impressionist school.

Monet?

[Odoacer]

Monet?

Correct! Now, what is the painting? :)

[Aemma]

Correct! Now, what is the painting? :)

The Seine at Giverny?

[Odoacer]

You've got it, Aemma! Now it's your turn. :D

[Aemma]

Thanks O! Ok here goes my selection:

http://i40.tinypic.com/15p021l.jpg

Good luck! :)

[Odoacer]

It brings Gauguin to mind for me, but I don't think it is his work (seems a little too detailed for him). Any hints? :)

[Tony]

It's the Tangled garden by James McDonald, a Canadian painter.


Now guess this:

http://img526.imageshack.us/img526/6402/magarifossevero.jpg

[Odoacer]

Tony ... any hints?

[Tony]

Tony ... any hints?

He's a young contemporary artist who, among other things, usually choose an internationally recognized landmark (say Tour Eiffel or the Sydney's Opera House or San Siro...) and paint it in a dark dystopian atmosphere.

His works look dark, gloomy, derelict, abandoned, cold and out of time.

[Tony]

ahh he is Tom Porta!

http://static.sky.it/static/images/sezioni/mag/arts/tom-porta-nube-purpurea/tom-porta-nube-purpurea-san-siro.jpg


http://www.sky.it/static/images/sezioni/tom-porta-paris-eiffel.jpg

[Odoacer]

Never heard of him. :shrug: Interesting paintings though.

[Aemma]

It's the Tangled garden by James McDonald, a Canadian painter.


Now guess this:

http://img526.imageshack.us/img526/6402/magarifossevero.jpg

How the hell did you get this? :confused:

[Aemma]

It's the Tangled garden by James McDonald, a Canadian painter.


Now guess this:

http://img526.imageshack.us/img526/6402/magarifossevero.jpg

[Tony]

How the hell did you get this? :confused:

what do you mean?

[Aemma]

what do you mean?

I meant how did you get the Canadian painter? It's not like this painter is that well-known.

[Kacca]

Mann on the moon by Tom Porta

[Tony]

I meant how did you get the Canadian painter? It's not like this painter is that well-known.

Oh it's not been that hard at all.
Simply opened up GoogleChrome, went on image search, clicked on that small photocamera on the searching bar and then pasted the copied url of the painting you posted, then Google given me matching images and voila.:D