2016 Postmortem

CTyankee

(63,881 posts)

21. Yup. Good for you!

Fri Jan 4, 2013, 06:38 PM

Jan 2013

Gerome did some fantastic stuff, even tho the Orientalist era was horribly racist. But if we indict Gerome, in all fairness we must indict Matisse...and much of Western Art as well...

Edit history

Please sign in to view edit histories.

46 replies

= new reply since forum marked as read

Highlight:

Well, well, I see you have returned for your Friday Afternoon Challenge! Today: “Interiors.” [View all] CTyankee Jan 2013 OP

Love the warm light in #2, and the So. California light in #4 Hekate Jan 2013 #1

#2 is that Dutch guy who slept in a box jberryhill Jan 2013 #2

Didn't they all sleep in a box in the wall in those days? CTyankee Jan 2013 #4

Very common back in the day. nt Hekate Jan 2013 #14

Not the same box! jberryhill Jan 2013 #23

Oh, I don't know about that...there are little boxes and big boxes... CTyankee Jan 2013 #24

#5 is "The Birth of the Virgin".........I think! CaliforniaPeggy Jan 2013 #3

good eye there... CTyankee Jan 2013 #5

Pathetic attempt flying rabbit Jan 2013 #6

No Ingres and no to your guess on #3...but keep going, you'll get there! CTyankee Jan 2013 #7

#2 is Pieter de Hooch, Interior with a Mother Delousing her Child yardwork Jan 2013 #8

You're golden, yardwork! Did you study Dutch art of the 17th century? CTyankee Jan 2013 #9

No! I thought maybe Vermeer and went looking for the title of the piece. Instead I found this. yardwork Jan 2013 #10

Yep a real genre piece from that era. CTyankee Jan 2013 #11

It's very beautiful and then the title is a shocker. Very interesting. yardwork Jan 2013 #13

It's funny, but the title I had from the painting I downloaded was in French and I didn't know CTyankee Jan 2013 #17

I LOVE this painting blaze Jan 2013 #29

This genre is nice is probably why. There is a quiet feeling. An intimate moment that we can CTyankee Jan 2013 #35

Kid wouldn't need it if he didn't Pieter de Hooch! jberryhill Jan 2013 #25

yeah, that'll give ya head lice every time! CTyankee Jan 2013 #37

I didn't get 'em on my head though jberryhill Jan 2013 #38

Hmm, funny how we never see an artist's rendering of his (or someone else's) "other" body CTyankee Jan 2013 #39

It's okay, you can't share 'em online jberryhill Jan 2013 #40

There is one helluva lot. Start looking under "golden age of Dutch painting." CTyankee Jan 2013 #46

#3 is a Balthus frazzled Jan 2013 #12

I viewed her as a little older than that, altho other Balthus's aren't. CTyankee Jan 2013 #15

It just strikes me as unattractive as well as perverse Hekate Jan 2013 #16

Yes, as I said this struck me as pretty strange and demented. Balthus must've been a wierd guy... CTyankee Jan 2013 #19

Yes, perversity is ascribed to him frazzled Jan 2013 #20

The compositional use of interior light is what I found striking about this work. CTyankee Jan 2013 #22

#6 another Gérôme frazzled Jan 2013 #18

Yup. Good for you! CTyankee Jan 2013 #21

CTyankee, if you see this...could you explain who the ladies are... nenagh Jan 2013 #26

I think you mean #5. CTyankee Jan 2013 #27

Thank you..it is number 5... nenagh Jan 2013 #28

Actually, this one is related to Birth of the Virgin in a way... CTyankee Jan 2013 #32

did you happen to notice that the flooring in #1 is the same pattern as the ceiling in #5? CTyankee Jan 2013 #36

I'd have never spotted those tiles.... So unusual on the ceiling...from our POV... nenagh Jan 2013 #42

well, I went on an art intensive in Florence, where I saw both of these works and I had CTyankee Jan 2013 #44

why is this in the Politics forum? just wondering IcyPeas Jan 2013 #30

My bad, that's why...I didn't realize it till a few minutes ago and got a couple of pms about it.! CTyankee Jan 2013 #33

#4 is a Hocking. velvet Jan 2013 #31

I think you mean Hockney. You are correct. CTyankee Jan 2013 #34

oops! velvet Jan 2013 #41

#5 ... Bitticelli? velvet Jan 2013 #43

I am going to post the answers to this Challenge over in General Discussion. CTyankee Jan 2013 #45