Today’s edition of the Friday Afternoon Challenge: “That looks familiar...”

[CTyankee]

Sometimes you see a pose or other characteristic of an art work that you vaguely recall seeing
somewhere else. Below are images that you have seen “elsewhere” by another artist. Identify the both the reimagined and the “original.”

Please observe the “no Goggles guesses” rule...but Googling is encouraged!
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[Brickbat]

1. No. 2 reminds me of Christine's World, by Wyeth.

[CTyankee]

8. So it does. But this one was first and was by a famous artist...

[blogslut]

2. I'm probably wrong but

#2 reminds me of Christina's World" by Andrew Wyeth.

[CTyankee]

10. It sure does. See above...

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. #6 reminds me a bit of Munch's "The Scream."

It's Japanese - Hokusai?

[CTyankee]

6. Yes, it was "borrowed" from the Japanese but not Hokusai.

And who "borrowed" it?

[KittyWampus]

4. #4. Is from "The First Steps Painting" by Millet. But I don't know who did the sketch.

[CTyankee]

7. You are going in the wrong direction...this was first...

[KittyWampus]

11. Oops!

[horseshoecrab]

20. #4

As KittyWampus has noted, #4 is "First Steps" by Millet. Later painted as "First Steps (after Millet)" by Vincent van Gogh.


horseshoecrab

[CTyankee]

21. Yep, they share the same title, which is why I went for the MIllet and not the Van Gogh in

the Challenge...

[Mojorabbit]

5. I love the lush tints

on number five and the expression on number one.

[CTyankee]

13. You've got the essence on both of these...

[KittyWampus]

9. I do know that Van Gogh did the "Japanese Bridge In The Rain" but had to google the original

print.

[CTyankee]

12. Yep on Van Gogh...hooray!

[uppityperson]

34. I went the other way, thought it was Hiroshige but didn't know who copied

Monet loved Hiroshige and had some of his artwork at his place.

[PufPuf23]

14. Nice thread! Alas I am not an art scholar but enjoyer. nt

[CTyankee]

15. Aww, just take a guess!

And thanks for the compliment!

[CTyankee]

16. Hint: #1 was the inspiration for a great artist's self portrait....

[horseshoecrab]

17. #1 is a self portrait by Titian

is variously called "Ariosto" and Self Portrait by Titian. (One site says it was thought to be "Ariosto" and later attributed as self portrait.) The composition influenced Rembrandt's "Self-Portrait at Age 34."

Hi CTyankee. Good to see you!


horseshoecrab

[CTyankee]

18. Great to see you! You got it right...

Here is the Rembrandt:

[horseshoecrab]

22. The Rembrandt is beautiful...

You always bring something new, CTyankee. I'd never really see this similarity before. Thanks! The Rembrandt holds such mystery in it.

The Titian is perfect but the Rembrandt has something besides the technical going for it. It has that darkness.


horseshoecrab

[CTyankee]

25. Notice, too, the different palate of Rembrandt (from Titian's).

Same pose but what a difference a completely different set of color tones!

[horseshoecrab]

30. Titian's palette

in this case Titian's palette for #1 is cool. Rembrandt's palette is very warm.

I see that you are about to post the answers, CTyankee! Thankfully...


horseshoecrab

[CTyankee]

31. That blue sleeve is outstanding (literally)!

[CTyankee]

19. Hey, horseshoecrab, got any guesses on the other images?

[KittyWampus]

23. I really want to know who did #3.

[CTyankee]

24. It is a very recent "re-imagining" of an old work...

answers to come Saturday morning...

Do you have any guesses for #2?

[KittyWampus]

26. Is #2 a take on Wyeth's painting of the blind girl in a field? Similar body position etc

[CTyankee]

28. See my posting of the answers which I am about to do.

[horseshoecrab]

27. #5 is a tough one...

So I am about ready to give up on #5. It looks to be a saint, writing, with an angel nearby directing the writing.

St. Jerome is often depicted writing, but so is St. Matthew. Possibly St. Luke, or St. Augustine too. However, St. Matthew is often depicted writing his gospel with an angel nearby as inspiration.

St. Matthew with an angel was depicted by Caravaggio in a painting which was rejected for the Contarelli Chapel -- (black and white representation only available. Painting was destroyed in WWII.) Rejected for being too familiar, for portraying the saint as a common, uneducated man. You can see it here:
http://mikyag.blogspot.com/2011/04/art-appreciation.html
The commissioners for the chapel wanted something more staid and holy looking.


Very similar composition. The warm palette of #5 makes me think: Utrecht Caraviggisti. The artist was a beautiful draftsman, whoever it was.

That's all I got. Can't wait to see who painted #5!

Out of gas on this one,

horseshoecrab

[CTyankee]

29. Yes, and I knew you would get it, since you have mentioned the Utrecht Caravaggisti to me

in our art discussions!

Notice the Caravaggio-esque touch of the sunburned hands and neck, and the ragamuffin angel...

It's by ter Brueggen and I found it quite by accident!

[horseshoecrab]

32. Aha!

Just when I thought all was lost!

Yes, the Utrecht Caravaggisti with their warm palettes! Rembrandt was one. I'd vaguely heard of ter Brueggen but simply didn't think of him.

Funny that you mention the sunburned hands and that ragamuffin angel with the reddish tousled hair -- all of that pointed to Caravaggio himself, who I thought must have painted #5. Not so though. My searches all found the rejected Caravaggio but not the ter Brueggen.

Many searches later I simply decided to post what little I had and mention that the warm palette pointed to Utrecht. Now, I've just read that ter Brueggen probably met Caravaggio when he traveled to Italy. It certainly shows in ter Brueggen's marvelously detailed and nearly photographic quality of St. Matthew and the Angel!



Splendid Challenge CTyankee. Thanks so much!


horseshoecrab

[CTyankee]

33. Thanks! Do you think that the ter Bruggen is the closest we'll get to the

palette (spelled it right this time!) of Caravaggio's destroyed one? It would make sense that he would want to paint in that palette to be truer to the Master...

[horseshoecrab]

35. I wonder...

Hi CTyankee. I'd like to say "oh definitely, yes" but it's sheer speculation! My gut feeling is yes, though.

I've just ordered this book...
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0713996749/ref=cm_syf_opt_pop_4_russss0
from my local library to see if there are any clues! The author spent ten years researching Caravaggio and the few surviving records (which are mainly criminal records) about him.

Some of the google links I followed claim that there are colorized versions of the rejected "St. Matthew and the Angel" in existence, but I couldn't find any. Know anything about that?

Ter Brugghen's palette, possibly resulting from having met and talked with Caravaggio, in Italy, may be the closest we'll ever get to the master's version. Wouldn't it be nice to know for sure? :-)


horseshoecrab

[CTyankee]

36. Somehow, I feel assured that ter Bruggen's painting is close to what Caravaggio did with his own

St. Matthew and the Angel. Just a thought on my part, but if he was intent on replicating Caravaggio's style then he would have included the palette. I take comfort in that. He has given us a gift he never could have imagined: the true colors of a painting that he would never knew would be destroyed by bombs meant for Hitler's bunker in Berlin, 1945...