DU Darlings, your Friday Afternoon Challenge Returns! Today: “Street ‘Cred’!”

[CTyankee]

Last edited Sat Jul 28, 2012, 11:28 AM - Edit history (1)

Here are 6 artists’ renderings of the city street. Can you name the works and the artists?

And do remember the honor system, folks...

1.Thibaud View from Apartment (san Francisco)
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2. Canaletto Perspective (Venice)
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3. Shinn Breadline (NYC)
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4. Caillebotte Rue des Italiens (Paris)
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5. Hassam Chinese Merchants (Portland, OR)
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6. Estes Waverly Place (NYC)
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[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. My dear CTyankee!

Alas, I don't recognize any of these......and they're all beautiful!

#4 looks familiar as to the style. But I have zero recollection of the artist...

Thanks for posting!

[CTyankee]

2. Hey, Peggy! Thanks for dropping by.

And thanks for the kind words.

Yes, #4 is familiar territory for street scenes...

[dmoyer]

3. #1 is Wayne Thiebaud (San Francisco?)

[CTyankee]

5. good for you! Don't know if it's SF...

I had the feeling that there would be Thibaud followers here. He is singular.

Are you a big fan of his?

[cthulu2016]

7. Yes, SF

[CTyankee]

9. Hey, cthulu! Nice to see you! How have you been?

I was in NYC last week at the Neue Galerie for the Klimt. Saw Adele Bloch Bauer (it's in the permanent collection now but there were other works of his on loan for this show). What a sweet day in my favorite big city...

[cthulu2016]

12. That sounds fun

Lotta gold on that one.

[CTyankee]

15. that bracelet has some impasto on it...makes it jump out on the painting.

They had it behind glass, so I am assuming it is fragile. Of course, it had a pretty dicey history at one point...do you know why it landed in the Neue Galerie? Interesting court case...

[IcyPeas]

4. Is number 6?

Richard Estes? He does all that amazing realistic painting.

[CTyankee]

6. Yup! Estes is great! It is called "Waverly Place."

How well do you know his stuff and photorealism?

I just can't believe it's a painting...

[virgogal]

11. Jaw dropping here---I thought that was a photograph. Amazing.

[CTyankee]

13. AS I understand it, he works from a photograph. But you have to wonder what they get for

painting a photograph so realistically...I don't doubt that there is an aesthetic reasoning behind it, tho...

[virgogal]

20. Being a Virgo,the more realistic the better. The one thing I miss

in the painting though,is people.

[CTyankee]

21. I' a Virgo too, and I see that there is a reason for excluding people. I think it is a modernistic

thing and one that speaks to urban detachment. There's another work in this Challenge that is the complete opposite of this aesthetic and it is interesting...

[burrowowl]

23. More realistic than a photograph

A photo like that would need lots of photoshopping

[CTyankee]

41. But I think it WAS a photograph before he painted it. That was the whole point, wasn't it?

[IcyPeas]

14. I saw this Estes first:

at the Whitney in New York. You just stare at every detail not belieiving it's a painting.

http://whitney.org/Collection/RichardEstes/7733

[CTyankee]

16. Lucky, lucky you...

[HopeHoops]

8. No, but I think the last one is either in New York or Boston.

[CTyankee]

10. In Greenwich Village, NYC. I once lived near there...

[dmoyer]

17. love thiebaud..

it started with the "desert" images.


they used a similar image in a poster for SFMOMA years ago

[link:http://ep.yimg.com/ca/I/sfmoma_2218_46028067|

love this one, too

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[CTyankee]

18. I'm a fan.

[dmoyer]

19. now you've got me goin...thanks for the distraction

it's good friday is over

here is the sfmoma poster

http://ep.yimg.com/ca/I/sfmoma_2218_10844733

and another of the desserts....

http://www.sfmoma.org/explore/collection/artwork/65#

have a great weekend!

thanks

[CTyankee]

22. I did a bit of research on Thibaud for this Challenge. I was so impressed.

I consider him a very important artist in our time...

[ananda]

24. Irving Norman fits right in here.

Norman is a huge fave of mine since I saw the exhibit at Crocker in Sacramento. This is Crossroad.

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[CTyankee]

25. Wow. That is incredible...what an image...it is terrific...

[elleng]

26. Hey yank,

you're so popular, you're a MILESTONE!!!

Have we been to ## 3 and 4???

[CTyankee]

27. I'm a milestone? What do you mean? I don't get it...

We might have been at #4, but for sure not at #3...

[elleng]

28. New DU feature:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10131630

Will look into #3.

Glad trout worked!

[CTyankee]

29. It was fine, no worries. Butter does its thing always...

Thanks for the milestone thingie. I had no idea but then I never know what is going on with DU, like everyone else does but me!

[elleng]

30. Could be 'cause you have a 'life?'

[CTyankee]

31. well, such as it is...trying to go to Belgium in October...hope it all works out.

My next European expedition. After that, hopefully, the south of France in spring 2013! We'll see tho...

[CTyankee]

33. Just checked it out! That's great! I'm flattered...

[CTyankee]

32. C'mon folks! We have #s2, 3, 4 and 5 not guessed...

all these and nobody knows? Where are our art history majors?

[CTyankee]

34. #3 is early and # 4 is later 19th century and you guys know this!

#5 is American.

[hay rick]

35. 4. Monet?

[CTyankee]

38. right era, wrong artist...

[horseshoecrab]

36. #4

#4 is Boulevard des Italiens by French impressionist Gustave Caillebotte.

The small piece of wrought iron balcony on the right was the clue for me that this was "that French guy who painted from Paris balconies," Caillebotte.

Caillebotte was a patron and promoter of French impressionist painters as well as being a wonderful artist himself.

[CTyankee]

37. yes it is caillebotte. So obvious I expected it would be the first one guessed...

[virgogal]

39. Easy for you to say----the "so obvious" comment. I'm so art challenged

I'd probably have trouble with "The Mona Lisa" and "The Last Supper". LOL

I love these Friday posts,though.Never too old to learn.

[CTyankee]

40. well, there were 3 who did these "boulevard" paintings and caillebotte was one of them...

Oh, I am sure you would have not trouble with your renaissance works!

Any other guesses?

[elleng]

46. Have a VERY OLD parapluie avec cela!

[CTyankee]

51. Nice one...

[CTyankee]

42. #s 2, 3 and 5 not guessed...a hint for #5...

This is a street of a West Coast city by an artist most famous for his East Coast locales of Manhattan and New England...

[horseshoecrab]

44. #5

Childe Hassam -- The Chinese Merchants, painted in Portland, Oregon.

Nice hint. Had to be Childe Hassam.

[CTyankee]

45. the answers are now posted above each work...thanks for playing!

[burrowowl]

47. Love your posts!

Keep up the good work!

[CTyankee]

49. Hi, borrowowl, glad you like them!

See you next Friday

[dipsydoodle]

48. Rec'd for cool pictures

[CTyankee]

50. They worked out better than I thought they would...so I'm pleased about that!

Hope to see you next Friday!