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aikoaiko Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-17-06 09:21 PM
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Keri Lotion commercial evokes 4 masterpieces, but whats the 2nd one?
Edited on Fri Nov-17-06 10:10 PM by aikoaiko
Perhaps you've seen the Keri lotion commercial where women with soft skin from four paitings are shown using the lotion.

The first one is botticelli's venus on the clam shell.


The second is of a woman (edited to add: just one woman) sitting on a rock wall -- looks impressionist. But I don't think I've ever seen it before.

The third is a Paul Gauguin.


And the forth is Ingre's Odalisque.


My wife and I looked at each other at the same time and asked each other, "what was the second one?"
Does anyone know? The other three are ART 101 type paintings, so not knowing what the second one is driving me crazy.
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Gormy Cuss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-17-06 09:55 PM
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1. Is it this one?
Edited on Fri Nov-17-06 10:01 PM by Gormy Cuss
I don't know the ad.
On edit: I removed link to Bazille painting of one woman on a wall.
I see you said "women, not "woman" What are they wearing?
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aikoaiko Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-17-06 10:04 PM
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2. Actually the plural was a typo. Just one woman
Edited on Fri Nov-17-06 10:08 PM by aikoaiko
Sitting on a rock way where the wall is closest at the eight o'clock position and moves away toward the 2 o'clock position in the painting. She was just wearing a towel in the commercial.

Oh, I googled and I think the Bazille is not quite right. The woman in the painting is clothed much more than the one in the commercial. But its close. Unlike the Bazille, you only see sky with clouds over the wall. The strokes making up the wall were big and fat like Van Gogh's
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Gormy Cuss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-17-06 10:31 PM
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3. I'm drawing a blank on artist, but that sounds familiar.
I hate when that happens!
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aikoaiko Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-19-06 03:11 AM
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10. My wife tells me...
My wife tells me the "big and fat" Van Gogh-like brush strokes are called impasto. Maybe that will help?
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fudge stripe cookays Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-17-06 11:49 PM
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4. Argh.
I was an art history major, but have only seen the commercial once, and am trying to remember what the second one is....

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aikoaiko Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-19-06 01:07 PM
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11. Contacted the company...
Well, we've researched the painting extensively online and in our art books, all to no avail. So, my wife has written the company and Stuart Elliot, of the Media & Advertising section of "The New York Times." But, if anyone figures it out, please let us know. Or, if anyone sees it again and can post the commercial or copy of the painting online that would help. Otherwise, stay tuned...
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aikoaiko Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-21-06 09:53 AM
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13. see post #12. :-)
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aikoaiko Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-18-06 03:06 PM
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5. bump for the sat day crew. nt
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aikoaiko Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-19-06 12:26 AM
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6. oh heck. one more bump. I need to discuss something beautiful

after being called a liar and supporter of police brutality in gd.
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Gormy Cuss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-19-06 12:29 AM
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7. I hope that one of us sees the ad and can ID the painting.
Edited on Sun Nov-19-06 01:25 AM by Gormy Cuss
It's driving me crazy!
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aikoaiko Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-21-06 09:53 AM
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14. see post #12. :-)
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AngryAmish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-19-06 12:32 AM
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8. Motorhead -Ace of Spades?
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aikoaiko Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-19-06 12:51 AM
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9. funny.



Closer than you might imagine. :rofl:
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aikoaiko Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-21-06 09:53 AM
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15. see post #12. :-)
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aikoaiko Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-21-06 09:52 AM
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12. Its Renoir's Seated Bather.
My wife emailed the company and got this response:

In response to your recent communication with our Consumer Health
Department: Thank you for taking the time to contact us.
The paintings featured in the new Keri Lotion advertising are famous
paintings by the masters, including:
· The Birth of Venus - Botticelli
· Seated Bather (1884) - Pierre-Auguste Renoir
· Woman with Fruit, where are you going? - Paul Gauguin
· Venus at her Toliet, The Rokeby Venus - Diego Velazquez
· La Grande Odalisque - Jean August Dominique Ingres
Sincerely,
Novartis Consumer Health
Consumer Affairs Department

Renoir's Seated Bather looks like this:


In the commercial, the wall and sky look really different so I think it through me and most people off, but bather is very close (except she is much skinnier in the commercial).

ahhh, that mystery is solved, but the reply from the company opened a new one. The reply says there are five paintings in that commercial. The additional painting was in the fourth slot and called The Rokeby Venus, but I must have blinked when that one was shown because I had no memory of it all.




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