Return of the Postcard Challenge
Yes, it's the moment you've been waiting for - the return of the Postcard Challenge. This challenge is open until Saturday midnight, with results announced on Sunday.
Tell me about this postcard. What are we looking at? What is the object pictured made of? Who's responsible for it? Where is that individual from, and what is he/she best known for? Describe the theme. Who's responsible for the theme?
The best answer wins (whatever that means?), as determined by our panel of judges (um, that's me!).
The fabulous prize: I will create a digital image that somehow or other incorporates this postcard, print it out with my genuine inkjet printer on 100% paper and mail it to the winner.
A Clue: This is an unusual work for the fellow who made it, but then again, he was an unusual fellow.
16 comments:
Nope, I got nothing. It is a wonderfully cheesy postcard of the drawing/test most kids learn in high school as intro to Psych though.
Fabergé! Russian! Eggs Normally!
I'm just guessing here.
Damien Hirst! English! Skulls normally!
Marcel Duchamp! French! Other stuff normally!
uuuuummmmmmm, oh yeah, the theme: luff.
(now I'm really stretching)
good strategy guessing like that, LM, even if you aren't correct.....but I'll give you a clue....the mastermind behind this curious artifact will likely have been on a first name basis with as least one of the folks you mentioned, even if he wasn't Russian, English or French.
Remember, the prize goes to the best answer received by Saturday midnight, so don't be afraid to guess.
Oh my god, I was howling with laughter L.M. Great guesses!
I totally tried googling things too, but I got nothing no idea...
...a button from one of Liberace's outfits?
That American dude, Dale Chihuly, I think he's called. Does glass and wears an eye patch. Arrrr! Theme: the one from Jaws?
Looks very much like Dali's "Le Calice D'or" painting, but that's as far as I can get because it's the same format but not that painting.
Muppie
Ok my next guess is it is Dali; he made a series of six lithographs for the James Bond Movie "To Live and Let Die" and this was called the "Ace of Cups" but really looks much the same as his "le Calice d'or". So he is a surrealist painter normally but here a commercial artist.
Muppie
hmmm, Fabergé, Damien Hirst, Marcel Duchamp, Liberace's tailor, Dale Chihuly-American dude, and Salvadore Dali.
Interesting and wide-ranging bunch of guesses.
Muppie, you are correct, it is Salvadore Dali. You are not correct about the theme, but since that cad Dali obviously recycled similar images in different contexts, and since the actual theme will be very very difficult to come up with without some telling clues, I am declaring you the winner. The piece is called Tristan and Isolde - Art-In-Jewels by Salvador Dali. It is described on the postcard this way: "heads of sculptured gold, goblet of diamonds on platinum and wine of garnet. I believe it is part of a series of medallions cranked out by Dali. Dali also made at least one painting called Tristan and Isolde that looks nothing at all like the medallion.
Muppie,
I'll start work on your prize and should have it read for the mail in a week or so.
Hey being close actually counts!
In defense of Dali, using his own words "Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.”
Muppie
plus, he walked around with a moustache on one side of his face, and had an excellent publicist. Not my favourite surrealist by any means, but the postcard was an unusual one, so I thought I'd see if anyone could figure it out. Good work, Detective Muppie.
Q. How many Surrealists does it take to change a lightbulb?
A. A fish.
SHIT!!!!!
I had a thousand monkeys in a room banging on keyboards and I just know that eventually they would have come up with Salvador Dali.
This is so UNFAIR. (I only needed another million years.
Your post caused me to peruse the web site of Dali's museum. Very fascinating stuff. I always admired Dali for being a cutting edge sort of guy, and in high school, was really taken with the holographs he was starting to produce.
As it's December 1st I'm too late. Then again as I haven't a clue....
Oh I missed this one. Great challenge and guesses. Congratulations Muppie.
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