Anyone know Who is the Artist who did this painting?

[Up2Late]

Bonus if you can tell me the name of the painting?"

I remember the print of this painting from when I was a Kid in the 1970's, but my parents can't remember the artist or the name of the painting.



Here's another piece of it (the colors are closer to the top one:



I think it's a French artist, and the interesting thing about it is, it has several intentional mistakes in it.

I tried posting this in the Artist Group, but didn't get any responses about it. Any help would be appreciated. :shrug:

[spacelady]

1. Just a guess--Paul Klee?

[spacelady]

37. I have become obsessed with finding the artist! Spent an hour so far.....

is there anybody out there who can identify the artist?

On edit: I have been reduced to answering myself!1!

[Up2Late]

38. Don't worry, I do it all the time, and have spent at least 4 hours

and about 2 dozen different Google searches so far. I never though their was so much non-realist, non-French Impressionist art out their.

Other than those, I knew Salvador Dali and about 3 or 4 other artist that I haven't got a clue how to spell their names.

I figured, any painting that could end up as one of those 1960's, brush stroke texture prints on hard cardboard would be common and easy to figure out.

[spacelady]

40. One would think so...at least it doesn't have those BIG EYES....! n/t

[Up2Late]

43. I just thought of something, I bet if I could find some sort of Art book

from the 1960's (which shows Paintings that were popular at the time) it might be in one of those.

Do you think mid-size town's Library might keep a book that old? I find stuff like that at Thrift stores, but that's very hit or miss.

[gumby]

2. Don't know

but bookmarking to see if anyone does.
Trying to think of specific French artist, but have brain lock.

[Kindigger]

3. Marc Chagall?

Klee was more abstract.

On edit: not bright enough :(

[crispini]

4. Kandinsky?

His stuff is usually brighter though.

[karlrschneider]

5. It looks almost Cezanne-ish but I don't think it by him.

Could it be Bosch? It looks vaguely familiar but I dunno...

[Up2Late]

11. It might be Cezanne, I remember it was somebody big...

...and like I said, it was sort of done as a goof. The artist put several very obvious mistakes in it like painting the French flag backward, making a giant drip of white paint drip from the white part or the flag, and I think making the sky Brown was another.

Anyone know a good site that has pictures of late 19th, early 20th Century french paintings, or lots of Cezanne's work?

[Contrary1]

22. Check here:

Lots of pictures. You can search by artist, country, or movement.

http://www.abcgallery.com/

[Up2Late]

24. Great site, easy to scroll though

Really makes a person realize how little I know about Artists and their Paintings. Didn't find it though.

[tocqueville]

6. the flag is sure one mistake

[tuvor]

7. The flag is the Ivory Coast

Not sure if that's any help....

http://www.flags.net/CDIV.htm#CDIV0001

EDIT: Backwards, that might be the Italian flag. Hey, if you know there are intentional mistakes, why don't you know the name of the artist?

[Up2Late]

12. That's weird, the Ivory Coast (Côte d’Ivoire) is the Irish flag backward

But,sorry, the color of this scan is a little off (scan of an old family photo). The flag's red, white and blue in the painting and is one of the mistakes.

[progressoid]

8. Who's head is in the corner?

But on to the painting. Shall we assume it's cubist and French?

If so, the obvious names to try would be Georges Braque, Roger de La Fresnaye, Fernand Leger, Jean Metzinger....

Of course, is it really cubist?? Is the artist actually French??

[Up2Late]

14. The head in the corner is my Dad...

...and as far as the artist, I'm only guessing that he was French, might be Spanish, I really don't know.

[progressoid]

26. This is the kind of thing that bugs you for 6 or 8 years, then

when you're 3/4 drunk, buying frozen peas at 3:00 in the morning, and it hits you like a ton of bricks, "sweet Jesus, I know who that artist was!" But, of course, you don't write it down because it's so obvious that you think you can't possibly forget it. Which you do. So you try to retrace your steps, but while you're staring at the frozen food section, a woman walks by with frozen egg rolls and she is wearing perfume that reminds you of your physics professor during your sophomore year in college. That was the year when you hung out with "Stinky Dave". And now you're stuck in the frozen food section trying not to think of that prof and her sexy perfume because you also have to figure out what "Stinky Dave's" last name was on top of the name of that artist.

Gaaah! Don't you hate it when that happens?

[Poll_Blind]

27. The sensory tidal wave that is self-awareness! n/t

PB

[wiley]

9. It's a piece of a Degas and a J. Renoir

It's an art school scrap

[imaginary girl]

10. Looks like an early Georges Braque to me

Or it could just be similar in style, of course ...

[Up2Late]

20. You might be right, still looking to see if I can find it.

I'll let you know.

[bluedawg12]

13. French Cubist with Melon?

[grytpype]

15. Thomas Kincaid, painter of light?

[spacelady]

16. Wow, you are good! n/t

[newyawker99]

28. LMAO!!!

:rofl:

[bluedawg12]

17. I found theblod site where this pic cam from and you won't blieve

but it's an ANTI SHRUB SITE worth seeing.

And it turns out it belongs to the guy who posted the pic. So much my for my journalistic sleuthing.


So, the links are <<<<POOF!!!>>>> GONE!

Peace

[Up2Late]

18. That's my personal web page thanks...

not sure if you're kidding around or what, but if you could please delete the first two links you posted,

thanks

[Up2Late]

19. Thanks, that one is a bit out of date, here's my newer site...

...but still a work in progress

I Had a Dream.com

[assclown_bush]

21. Could it be a Raoul Dufy?

It seems a bit more cubist than what I have seen of Dufy's work...but perhaps it is?

[alfredo]

32. Looking through Google images, I see a lot

of images with the same colors and nautical themes.

[Kindigger]

23. Still don't know but this is fun>

http://www.mrpicassohead.com/create.html

[beltanefauve]

25. Paul Klee

or Marcel Duchamp

[Contrary1]

29. Nah...Duchamp's main talent was sculptures of Smirk. Here's one:

[Up2Late]

30. Anyone know of a website something like "ask an artexpert .com" or ...

...something like that?

Or how about, does anyone have one of those art prints from the 60's and 70's that had the "brush stroke" texture to them, anyone know who manufactured those?

I wonder if that company is still around and would have an old catalog list from the 1960's.

[alfredo]

31. I have sent it off to some friends. I will see what they think

I will let you know if I get an answer.


It might be Dufy, but I am not sure.

[demo dutch]

33. It does have a french flag

[MsTryska]

34. Well i see Kandinsky in it.....

but it may not be him - I'd look at the cubists (maybe moreso cubist realists) and expressionists.

[emcguffie]

35. I vote for Braque. nt

[MsTryska]

36. looking at Braque's work - i would think that's a good bet too....

he was kandinsky's contemporary no?


it's soemone from that expressionist school.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

39. It looks very much like a Klee to me. nt

[spacelady]

41. 3 votes for Klee, yay!

[marions ghost]

42. I'm going to second Raoul DUFY...

along with assclown_bush post #21

Not all of Dufy's works are brightly colored--some were darker. There are two distinctive Dufy-esque things about this one:

--The way the water is very abstract, almost a separate painting with a drawing on top = very characteristic of Dufy

--The tricolor flag appears in many of his paintings

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Since the French cubists, expressionists & fauves overlapped a lot in the early 20th century, the votes for Braque, Picasso, Klee etc make sense, but I'm sticking with Dufy.

(If you have an art museum in your area, you can ask a curator of modern art there and they can give you the title (or a university professor of modern art can do this also). You probably can get up with someone like this online and just email them the photo.)

[Up2Late]

44. Any universities or museums come to mind?

I might try the High Museum of Art here in Atlanta, could turn into a e-mail frenzy.

[marions ghost]

45. good idea --they have a new curator

High Museum of Art
"Art in America," April, 2005

Jeffrey D. Grove has been named curator of modern and contemporary art at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta. Since 2001, he has been associate curator of contemporary art at the Cleveland Museum of Art.

Usually curators are happy to help identify artworks. If this doesnt work however, you might look for a professor of modern art in the Dept of Art at the University of Georgia at Athens. They get these kinds of questions a lot and usually don't mind at all. This would not be a difficult identification IMO.

[gauguin57]

46. The Artcyclopedia and Mark Harden's Artchive are good sites.

www.artcyclopedia.com and www.artchive.com/ftp_site.htm

These are fun sites to look through. On the Artchive, you could click on some of the painters listed in this thread, and see what's what. The Artcyclopedia gives you a list (and thumbnails) of a particular artist's various works in museums around the world.

[marions ghost]

47. yes, good websites

very comprehensive...but even so, some of these artists were very prolific and all their paintings are not easy to find. If looking for an exact artist and title, it may be quicker to contact a modern art expert by email. Or at least do that while plowing through the vast online archives which can be an education in itself... Most people don't realize that art curators and educators are happy to answer questions, esp in their particular field.

These days, with the proliferation of images on the net, it's a lot easier to appreciate the scope of visual art, esp the explosion that occurred in the 20th c. Though it's debatable as to whether more visual input will dull the senses or stimulate them, I tend to think that computers will actually increase the average person's understanding of the visual language. It will happen naturally--esp re. 2-D input, but also 3-D if the photos or simulations are good enough. It's all the same visual language whether you use paint brushes or software. It's all projection. But there's an interesting contrast between a physical creation and the world of the screen. If you spend a lot of time looking at screens it can be an adventure to experience 3-D reality. Once I took my 4-year old nephew to see a play on a stage and when he came out he actually believed he'd been to a movie (?!?) I forgot to tell him it was 'real.'

[kwassa]

48. I also think it might be Raoul Dufy

[spacelady]

49. It was YOU, wasn't it? It was titled UpAllNite!