Awright! Here's the DU Friday AFternoon Challenge question!

[CTyankee]

"Re-inventing Art: Part II (because you loved Part I so much!)

The following six images are "re-imagined" works based on previous art masterpieces. Can you identify these works/artists AND the originals?

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[pinto]

1. #3 Mark Ryden or Frida Kahlo? #4 Haring?

:shrug:

[CTyankee]

2. No. Neither.

[glinda]

3. Fourth one is Lichtenstein's Van Gogh's Bedroom at Arles

[CTyankee]

7. Hey, great! How did you know this?

Was wondering if you've seen it...

[glinda]

12. Spent most of my life as a painter....Can't remember if I have actually seen these live as I have

seen many paintings.

[EFerrari]

11. I didn't know the names but the image is unmistakable.

:thumbsup:

[eleny]

4. #3 Dali - The Madonna of Port Lligat

[CTyankee]

9. And what work did he re-imagine?

[eleny]

13. One of his own?

[CTyankee]

14. No...

[eleny]

16. Aw shoot because he did have two

[CTyankee]

18. This particular work has a distinct, definite predecesser. The clue is in the painting...

[eleny]

23. Madonna and Child with Saints --Piero dela Francesca

[CTyankee]

25. HAH! It was the egg, wasn't it?

The Brera Altarpiece.

[eleny]

26. Yup!

But I searched for Madonna child shell. :D

[CTyankee]

29. Great painting by della Francesca, but very complex...

this huge Madonna...and what's with the armor?

http://i54.tinypic.com/242fwo9.jpg

[lumberjack_jeff]

41. Looks like a very large, ornate light switch cover. n/t

[glinda]

5. Patty Smith might be referencing Modigliani with Mapplethorpes's photographic skills

[CTyankee]

10. It's Smith, yes, but no on Modigliani...

[glinda]

15. Picasso blue period or Soutine?

[CTyankee]

20. nah, but this one is tough...

[walldude]

6. 3rd is Dali's Madonna and the 5th is a Mapplethorpe photo

of Patti Smith but I don't know what the name of it is.

[glinda]

8. I think it was Horses album but don't know the title of the photo.

[CTyankee]

17. And their predecessors?

[glinda]

27. Like Bowie or something? What are you saying?

[CTyankee]

31. No, I meant the works from which these works are re-imagined.

I meant the originals...

[walldude]

47. That's all I got man...

I'm only into art that I like and there isn't much of that. I'm mostly into surrealism, hence knowing the Dali. And Mapplethorpe, well I was around for the "Piss-Christ" controversy so I followed his career a bit.

[pinboy3niner]

48. There's a reerence to it in a NYT review of 'Just Kids'

It's not much help, though:

In describing the day that Mapplethorpe created his exquisitely androgynous image of her in white shirt, black pants and black jacket for the cover of her “Horses” album, she describes deliberately giving the jacket a rakish “Frank Sinatra style” fling over her shoulder. “I was full of references,” she says, invoking them explicitly throughout the book. A Patti Smith calendar would include Joan of Arc’s birthday, the day of the Guernica bombing and the day she, as a young bookstore clerk, sat among Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and Grace Slick in a bar feeling “an inexplicable sense of kinship with these people.”

Bohemian Soul Mates in Obscurity
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/18/books/18book.html

[CTyankee]

56. Interesting. And there is that. It is just another art work that has been referenced when

Mapplethorpe is discussed about this photo...

[TheCowsCameHome]

19. 1. John McCain at Wasilla, seeking a running mate

Just a guess, as if you didn't know.

[CTyankee]

21. good one!

She does look like she's lookin' for someone...and in this painting, she is...

[sabrina 1]

22. The first one looks like an imitation of Rubens, and I have no idea who

the artist is.

The last one looks like, maybe an imitation of Renoir, but I don't know who that artist is either.

Lol, my feeble attempt and I'm probably so wrong ~

[CTyankee]

24. Actually, you are pretty close...but not Rubens or Renoir...

right track tho...

[eleny]

28. #1 has to be an odalisk

But darned if I can place it or find it.

[CTyankee]

30. Noo...

[eleny]

33. That cherub looks seriously old

[CTyankee]

37. Wow, you're right!

[eleny]

39. Is this some sort of Annunciation painting?

[hfojvt]

32. #1 seems to be "Nude descending a staircase"

[CTyankee]

35. Um, here's that painting

Marcel Duchamp. 20th century.

You're gonna have to go back a bit on this one...

[blondeatlast]

34. #5--mimics a famous Sinatra pic, IIRC. Does that have anything to do with it? nt

[CTyankee]

36. I see that! But...

[horseshoecrab]

49. #5

Alfred Eisenstadt's iconic photos of Marlene Dietrich in menswear, (a tuxedo)?

[lumberjack_jeff]

50. I'll bet you're right.

[horseshoecrab]

54. thanks!

Here's hoping lumberjack_jeff :-) Love our Friday Art Challenges!

:toast:


horseshoecrab

[lumberjack_jeff]

58. On an unrelated note

That look very much works for her.

:blush:

[eleny]

38. #6 is picknikers Luncheon on the Grass by Monet

Remake of Manet's painting of the same name?

[blondeatlast]

42. I was thinking of Luncheon on the grass as the inspiration; my mom loved that painting. nt

[eleny]

46. That one dress on the left is sumptuous

[CTyankee]

44. Yes ma'am...he did this right after Manet did his famous one...imitation is the

sincerest form of flattery, evidently!

[lumberjack_jeff]

45. #6 reminds me of the Seurat painting

A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte

[Iterate]

40. #1 Rembrandt - Danae

Probably re-imagined from the Correggio Danae. I thought at first that one would be the most difficult, but the light, the angel, the gold, and the background figure - all good tells.

[eleny]

43. Wow and what a history this painting had

[Iterate]

52. Oh it sure did.

They both have actually. I didn't realize it until your post prompted a look-see. I swear, paintings are like people, some are just destined to a hard life and many homes.

I didn't realize either that the Zeus-Danae myth had so many retellings in art. If I live long enough, someday I might have the slightest understanding of how mythology was used at the time as commentary on Christian myths and cannon.

On to #2. It's haunting me.

[CTyankee]

60. Yes, really telling. But also the style so evident in the Baroque era...

Actually, I think the Danae by Titian ismore the source of this. Corregio is a Mannerist era painter and I see Titian in this one, not Correggio...

[Iterate]

65. OK, I see that now.

I hadn't seen the Titian Danae when I posted before, but now that I'm looking there seems to be many Titian influences in Rembrandt's work.

[horseshoecrab]

51. #2

Is Edouard Manet's _The Balcony, a re-imagining of Goya's _On the Balcony.


horseshoecrab

[horseshoecrab]

55. whoops!

Gotta correct this to say #2 is Manet's _the Balcony, a re-imagining of Goyas _Majas on a Balcony!

horseshoecrab :-)

[CTyankee]

57. Hooray, Horshoecrab! You are right!

You are correct! How did you guess this? Did you know the Goya work?

[horseshoecrab]

61. I guessed Monet, then Manet...

then found by searching google images for Manet. I knew it was an impressionist.

The little dog near the model on the right, (fellow artist Berthe Morisot), made me think of Goya's María Teresa de Borbón y Vallabriga that we recently looked at. Remember the little white dog? :-) The dog in Majas on a Balcony reminded me of that little dog, stylistically.

A search on Manet and Goya turned up the info!

Thanks CTyankee!


horseshoecrab

[horseshoecrab]

62. aaargh...

obviously it's Friday. The model on the ***left*** is Berthe Morisot!

... slinks away...


horseshoecrab ;-)

[xchrom]

53. Recommend

[CTyankee]

59. You done good, DU! Now all we have left is the original of #5 and it isn't

Frank Sinatra...so...

[glinda]

63. Ok. I give. Is it Michelangelo's David?

[horseshoecrab]

64. It isn't Frank,

and it isn't Eisenstadt/Marlene Dietrich.

Gotta clue please, CTyankee?

[CTyankee]

66. OK, here it is

self portrait by Durer

[blondeatlast]

67. Interesting. I read an online piece on Mapplethorpe and Smith's relationship

that suggested a Mary Magdalene influence, but looked at hundreds of Google image results and couldn't find one that came close to fitting the photo. The expression is very similar, between that piece and the Mapplethorpe though.

That was tough!

[CTyankee]

68. I know. DUers are so well informed about art that it is indeed hard to stump them.

But that's not my aim, anyway...I just find it fun to hear about how different DUers know a particular work of art...the stories of discovery are wonderful.

And unlike most subjects we deal with here, nobody gets mad...

[blondeatlast]

69. Indeed--and I've learned a lot about something I love but wouldn't previously make time for.

You've helped me rediscover a small but rewarding pleasure; appreciate it very much!

[CTyankee]

70. Art always saves you...or so I've heard!

Anyway, thanks for sharing. There's more Friday Afternoon Challenges to come!