Original Usenet thread from alt.ascii-art, started 14 Jan 1996.
Painting ID Challenge
alt.ascii-art
· 6 messages · 14 Jan 1996 - 29 Jan 1996
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I know. It looks like the hat is poking the guy at the top in the eye.
I rearranged the original painting a little too much this time.
Allen
Rembrandt's "Night Watch"? Or "The Anatomy Lesson"? (not sure if that's
the correct name)
--
Doris Ostendorf
3do...@qlink.queensu.ca
"History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it".
--Winston Churchill
On 25 Jan 1996, Allen Mullen wrote: > Here's another challenge picture. Can you identify it? I probably > should have deleted some of the things in the background to make the > ascii picture better. Simpler pictures turn out better. I am certain that this is by a post-romantic french artist. I think that the painter is Paul Seurat, a painter who developed the pointillist style. I do not remember the title of the work. J Leung
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In article <Pine.SUN.3.91.960126211628.23661A-100000-100000-100000-100000-100000@ume>, JPierre Leung <jle...@med.ucalgary.ca> wrote: > >On 25 Jan 1996, Allen Mullen wrote: > >> Here's another challenge picture. Can you identify it? I probably >> should have deleted some of the things in the background to make the >> ascii picture better. Simpler pictures turn out better. > >I am certain that this is by a post-romantic french artist. I think that >the painter is Paul Seurat, a painter who developed the pointillist >style. I do not remember the title of the work. > it's seurat, the Sunday Afternoon on the Island of ... La Grande Jatte? crap, i forget. anyway, it's at the art institute of chicago. -j. -- I spent four years prostrate to the higher mind, got my paper And I was free - indigo girls --- jos...@midway.uchicago.edu
JPierre Leung (jle...@med.ucalgary.ca) wrote:
:
: I am certain that this is by a post-romantic french artist. I think that
: the painter is Paul Seurat, a painter who developed the pointillist
: style. I do not remember the title of the work.
You are correct!
The English version of the title is "Sunday Afternoon on the Island of
the Grande Jatte".
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well no matter how I edited it. I spent longer on this than any other
challenge picture I've posted. Some pictures just don't work. I might have
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