Contest: ENTER Misc Av Contest--Artsy Fartsy

[auntiehill]

This week's contest is dedicated to all things "Fine Art": classic paintings, sketches, sculptures, jewelry, tapestry, that one might find in a museum or gallery devoted to Fine Art. To narrow it down, let's keep it to any time period from before 1950, so Picasso would be in but Warhol is out. You may enter up to three avatars but no moving images, please.

Standard av rules apply: 200 x 200 pixels max, 1 MB max. The voting thread will go up on Tuesday the 29th, or thereabouts.

Here's mine:
Girl with Pearl Earring, Johannes Vermeer, c. 1665

A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, Georges Seurat,1884-86.

Starry Night, Vincent van Gogh, 1889.

 

[rhubarbodendron]

ooh, cool topic! =) Do I understand you correctly that you mean any time before 1950? I have a lovely 3000 year old Celtic armring I'd like to enter but I'm uncertain as to whether that is the time frame you were thinking of.

 

[Kai "the spy"]

#1

Portrait of Katharina, by Albrecht Dürer. Katharina was a 20 year old African servant in the home of Portuguese trader Joâo Brandâro, who housed Dürer during his visit to Antwerps in 1521.

 

[auntiehill]

ooh, cool topic! =) Do I understand you correctly that you mean any time before 1950? I have a lovely 3000 year old Celtic armring I'd like to enter but I'm uncertain as to whether that is the time frame you were thinking of.

Read the first post.

 

[Captain pl1ngpl0ng]

M.C Escher's "Drawing Hands" - 1948

 

[rhubarbodendron]

Read the first post.

I did. I am just uncertain whether an archeologic find would fall under your personal definition of fine arts. The ones I could find are:

fine art (fīn) n.
1. a. Art produced or intended primarily for beauty rather than utility.
b. Any of the art forms, such as sculpture, painting, or music, used to create such art.
2. Something requiring highly developed techniques and skills: the fine art of teaching.
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing

My entry would partly fit definition 1a as it is pretty, yet utility was a factor when it was made. It does however not fit the other definitions as it didn't require much skill to make it. I could do it, I think.

 

[Kai "the spy"]

#2

The Great Wave off Kanagawa, blockwood print by Hokusai, published some time between 1829 and 1833, as part of Hokusai's print series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji.

 

[Kai "the spy"]

Just rewatched this on YouTube and thought it was a good supplement of this thread till more entries come in:

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[Kai "the spy"]

#3

At the Sand Creek Massacre, a piece of ledger art from 1874-75 by eye witness Howling Wolf.

 

[Orac]

This thread needs more Max Ernst!

Oedipus Rex (1922):

Woman, Old Man and Flower (1923):

Men Shall Know Nothing Of this (1923):

 

[Avro Arrow]

Sorry about the odd image sizes... I felt weird about cropping famous paintings.

The Persistence of Memory, by Salvador Dali (1931)

Salvator Mundi, by Leonardo (c. 1500)

I know this is probably an unusual entry for me, but so much of classical art is based on religious imagery. I picked this one because it has such an interesting history. Leonardo's painting was copied by many artists, and for a long time it was thought that the original was lost, and this was indeed a copy, due to some overpainting that was done at some point. After some investigation and restoration, it was determined that this was most likely Leonardo's original, although there are art historians who still disagree with this attribution. It's a fascinating story; you should give it a read if you are at all interested.

I will hold off for now on my third entry, in the hope that there may be more participants forthcoming.

 

[rhubarbodendron]

ok, for the third time, and since the OP doesn't seem to care, maybe someone else could explain:
what exactly is the definition of fine arts in this thread? In my native language we have no such term but call all sorts of architecture, painting, carving and handicraft "schöne Künste" (beautiful arts), as long as they were made in historic times. Prehistoric art and crafts from any period are simply called Kunst (art).
Does the english definition make a similar distinction? Does a fine piece of bronze work count as *fine* art??

 

[Orac]

Yes.

 

[Nerys Myk]

ok, for the third time, and since the OP doesn't seem to care, maybe someone else could explain:
what exactly is the definition of fine arts in this thread? In my native language we have no such term but call all sorts of architecture, painting, carving and handicraft "schöne Künste" (beautiful arts), as long as they were made in historic times. Prehistoric art and crafts from any period are simply called Kunst (art).
Does the english definition make a similar distinction? Does a fine piece of bronze work count as *fine* art??

This

"Fine Art": classic paintings, sketches, sculptures, jewelry, tapestry, that one might find in a museum or gallery devoted to Fine Art.

 

[rhubarbodendron]

thank you, Orac and Nerys. My armring would over here be in an archeological museum, not in one for "Schöne Künste". As I said, we make a difference between eras. I have not yet been in a British or American museum of Fine Arts and therefore didn't know what they contain.

I bought that celtic ring for my 50est birthday. It's one of a pair and I gave the other one to my sister.

this was painted by my great-grandma when she was on vacation in Holland around 1900

and this is one of my favourite pictures: the blue fox by Franz Marc

 

[Nerys Myk]

Water Lilies- Monet 1916

Luncheon on the Grass- Manet 1863

Luncheon of the Boating Party- Renoir 1881

 

[auntiehill]

LAST CALL! The poll goes up tomorrow.

 

[Avro Arrow]

OK, I was hoping someone else would enter it, but no one has, and I don't want it to go unentered, so...

The Scream of Nature (or, also, Shriek), by Edvard Munch (1893)

Coincidentally, this entry nicely encapsulates how I feel today after the day I've had.

... or I guess how many people feel about the year they've had, if you think about it.

 

[auntiehill]

OK, thread closed. The poll will be up shortly.