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If you are a lover of printed words, you would know how much of your time is taken by books alone. Then one day, sooner or later, you discover a huge vacuum within that you know next to nothing about other art forms. This blog is an attempt to fulfil one such lacunae in the art of painting. We intend to look up a random painting and upload it with a link here every day whilst having our daily cuppa coffee. In this way at least we hope to be better acquainted with colours, colourers and the schools than what we are now.If you wish to be a part, you know where to shout.

Thursday, January 15, 2009

Fox

Fox, Alexandre Francois Desportes

Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Flood at Port Marly

Flood at Port Marly, Alfred Sisley

Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Seaport

Seaport, Claude Lorrain

Monday, January 12, 2009

Leaf Album Painting

Leaf Album Painting, Chen Hongshou

Sunday, January 11, 2009

Drinker

Drinker, Paul Cezanne

Saturday, January 10, 2009

Storm in the Ricky Mountains

Storm in the Ricky Mountains, Albert Bierstadt

Friday, January 09, 2009

Sleep and his Half Brother Death

Sleep and his Half Brother Death , JW Waterhouse

Thursday, January 08, 2009

Female Head

Female head , Thomas Couture

Wednesday, January 07, 2009

Lucky Strike

Lucky Strike, Davis Stuart

Tuesday, January 06, 2009

Self Portrait

Self Portrait, Alma Tadema

Monday, January 05, 2009

Hylas and the Nymphs

Hylas and the Nymphs, JW Waterhouse

Sunday, January 04, 2009

Ulysses and the Sirens

Ulysses and the Sirens, John William Waterhouse

Saturday, January 03, 2009

Quiz Answers

Thanks for all those who had written. Unfortunately no one seems to have cracked it. As I had mentioned I guess it was a bit obscure. It was not related to paintings at all.

Firstly, as a few had written, the most evident thing amongst the paintings is the Enigma of Arrival - which has been used as a title for book. This perhaps is one answer, the simplest one.

I suppose if you have bought or seen enough penguin covers the answers become, rather plain. So here we go, in the order of the paintings :

1. Gabriel Garcia Marquez - One Hundred Years of Solitude.

2. The Wasteland and other poems- TS Eliot

3. The Enigma of Arrival - VS Naipaul

4. Nausea - Jean Paul Sartre
5. Selected Poems - JL Borges

6. Kim - Rudyard Kipling

So there. Must be easier now. One another possible answer is all the books are penguins while The Enigma of Arrival is Picador. But the answer I was looking for was JL Borges, Selected Poems featuring Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights. Borges missed out on the Nobel while the rest were bestowed the honour.

Self Portrait

Self Portrait, Frederic Bazille

Friday, January 02, 2009

Bazille's Studio

Bazille's Studio, Frederic Bazille

Thursday, January 01, 2009

Return of Odysseus

Return of Odysseus, Nicholas Monsiau

Thursday, December 18, 2008

Winter Break and a Quiz..

Hello all,

We shall be on our winter break for the next two weeks. To keep the interested occupied during the break we thought of wrapping up this year's assortments with a question? In the following collage you will find six different paintings which are all linked by a theme save for one. Pick the odd one out and give the reasons behind your choice.

The titles and the painters of the six paintings are as follows:

Summer 1981, Tamas Galambos

The Triumph of the Death, Pieter Brueghel the Elder

The Enigma of Arrival, Giorgio de Chirico

Little Cinders (Cenicitas), Salvador Dali

The Garden of Earthly Delights, Hieronymus Bosch

Drink On The Way, John Griffiths.

Since the idea of the theme is a bit obscure and of second order ( and perhaps therefore a bit difficult) we'll drop a hint. The theme might not necessarily be around paintings themselves.

Good luck, We'll post the answers after the break. Have a nice holiday and see you next year.