A Sudden Art Quiz

#23

I’m actually tempted to think you were close enough with one of your guesses (though not that one). Should’ve maybe indicated it then. Would you like to guess which one it was? :stuck_out_tongue:

Paperclip: I think it was just the missing umlauts that confused me. Y’know, in “hän”. Mostly one might just think it’s a regular “a” with dots, but in my mind, the difference between hän and han is as great as han and hon. (Hope the umlauts will show.)

[rabid schoolteacher mode] As far as communication goes, your question was perfectly understandable. I don’t know if the arrangement of the words was ungrammatical per se, but maybe just somewhat, hm, unfamiliar. A more natural one might be a near-direct translation of “Is he/she Finnish?” = “Onko hän suomalainen?”

A tiny grammar thing is that though the singular form of Finland is “Suomi”, the last “i” changes into an “a” in the word Finnish, “suomalainen”. There’s no particular reason for it. It just sounds better. [/rabid schoolteacher mode]

I hope you guys didn’t just die of boredom.

#24

Yesh :smiley:
the 1730 one?
I’m going to think it was a little before that… maybe closer to 1715?

#25

United Kingdom? 1630?

#26

<drumroll> And the correct answer is…
(and now a few minutes for everyone to guess again)

#27

Son of the artist, Isak Edvard Wacklin by Isak Wacklin, 1757.

Maybe a tad more familiar piece by the same artist:

Miss Heckford, 1757

Saying the artist is Finnish wasn’t very exact. He was born in Oulu in 1720, but Finland was a part of Sweden back then.

Edit: I guess - unless my math is completely off - it’s Lady Medusa who gets to feel the warmest and fuzziest as she got the closest.

Probably the location threw you guys off a bit; apparently Isak Wacklin lived in St.Petersburg, Stockholm and Copenhagen among other places, but still, he was hardly at the epicenter of artistic innovation. Styles might have trickled down to him with a lag of a few, or possibly even tens of years.

#28

that was funny, let’s have some more !

I believe that many countries have very good painters, but who are not very wellknown worldwide. I can imagine the east european countries, but also Scandinavia of course.
I’m thinking about Kroyer, Ancher, Karl Larsson etc. I think that most people outside Scandinavia don’t know who they are.

The most wellknown would surely be the French, English, Spanish and Dutch - I guess …

A shame, because there are certainly a huge bunch of painters in other countries who were at least as talented, but just didn’t happen to be at the right place at the right moment.

Gitte

#29

yes, me wants more!

#30

Ok then, you asked for it!

Throw yourself at this painting:

Remember: looking linky up= cheating!

#31

Was too lazy to suggest someone’d continue this thread. Yay for, um, continuation!

My guess:
Dutch, late 19th century? (For some reason the colours make me think it’s Dutch.)

#32

… I would say French, late 19th or beggining of 20th.

#33

You’re both generally right as to the approx era but not the country!

Please continue. :slight_smile:

#34

I would guess American. Is it Andrew Wyeth? The colors and mood feel like him to me.

#35

The girl in the shadows reminds me somehow of Goya, so I would say Spain, but the other girl doesn’t…

#36

No and no. :smiley:

Keep guessing!

#37

Zorn was the first name that popped into my head for some reason, don’t recognise it though…

#38

Nup!

Want me to give you a clue?

#39

Ireland ? I mean you are from Ireland, so why not ? :smiley:

No actually, it reminded me a little of the laundries where women who had children without being married were kept for their entire lifes and had their children taken away from them … probably after I noticed you were from Ireland - should fit with the era also perhaps ?

#40

Yes, please!

Let’s see, it’s not Dutch, French, American… could it be German or Scandinavian?

#41

It is indeed Ireland! Congratulations!

You’re on the right track!

One thing-- the women weren’t kept there for their whole lives- they were only kept there WHILE they were pregnant and while their babies were young- and only if they didn’t live with their parents. The babies weren’t always taken away as well, it was encouraged though unless the mother showed that she was able to support the child with no father around in the (tough!) economic climate of Ireland in these days.

#42

Ha ha, you see - I’ve got the “nose” for it ! No, really - it was really only because I saw your were from Ireland.

Did you see that movie about the laundries ? I haven’t seen it myself yet, but saw an interesting documentary once on TV.