Kinglizard's Painting Avatar Set (Image Heavy) (CONTEST has ENDED)

reply to post by schrodingers dog


It is not Ridolfo Guariento "An Angel Weighing a Soul".

Are we getting a new clue anytime soon? I have to start getting ready to go out tonight in about 15 minutes. lol

EDIT: Nuts. Ok I have to go. Everyone have fun and good luck!

[edit on 2/6/2009 by AshleyD]

Probably not today Ash.

Hint added to the opening post.

Everyone who has already posted an answer can offer a second guess.

QUESTION/PUZZLE:

HINTS:

1) .5+.5=1

2) Look past the obvious.

Guess:



David Jean --- Spirit of a Savior

Reasoning:

1). Jesus is the 'obvious' and you can 'see past' Him.

2). Depending on the resizing, the Cross in the clouds aligns with the grid lines once given a 50% opacity overlay.

3). The sun rays in the painting go the same diagonal direction as the numbers in the grid.

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I still have no idea what .5+.5=1 means or the significance of the numbers or gradient direction.

reply to post by AshleyD


It is not David Jean --- Spirit of a Savior.



What awesome connections though!

Why do I keep thinking of Sudoku? I used to play that all the time.

Few paintings touch me deeply that I cannot describe. I went to a museum in Washington, DC and these paintings By Thomas Cole touched me. Just wanted to share.





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[edit on 7-2-2009 by Deaf Alien]

 

NEW QUESTION BELOW!

QUESTION/PUZZLE:

HINTS:

1) .5+.5=1

2) Look past the obvious.

Is it Claude Monet
The Parc Monceau


Edit: Removed Blinking text attribute so as not to distract other Members.

[edit on 2/7/2009 by Badge01]

reply to post by Badge01


It is not Claude Monet The Parc Monceau.

reply to post by Deaf Alien


Those are great, thanks for posting them. I need to absorb them a little.

These are the incorrect guesses to this puzzle so far:

1). Paul Klee --- New Harmony

2). Paul Klee --- Unstable Equilibrium

3). Diego Rivera --- The Flower Vendor

4). Bob the Builder

5). Reflective Beauty --- William Bouguereau

6). Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci. (this guess was deemed 'a good guess')

7). Ridolfo Guariento "An Angel Weighing a Soul".

8). David Jean --- Spirit of a Savior

9). Claude Monet --- The Parc Monceau


[edit on 2/7/2009 by Badge01]

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LOL! Badge, I was just doing that.

And here are the correct guesses to previous puzzles which could possibly be eliminated:

1). Eric Enstrom --- Daily Bread

2). Agapanthus --- Water Lilies

3). Rembrandt --- Christ in the Storm on the Sea of Galilee

4). Frank Benson --- Calm Morning

5). Henry Raeburn --- Reverend Robert Walker Skating on Duddingston Loch

6). Rembrandt --- A vase of roses

7). Renoir --- Grande Vaso De Fiori

8). Johann Liss --- The Sacrifice of Isaac

9). Rembrandt --- St. Mathew and the Angel



Also, not sure if this is significant but 'looking past the obvious' might mean looking at the background of the painting instead of the focal object.

Example. Look at the blue gradient in the graph going from left to right, darker into lighter. Then look at the example painting, Alfred Godchaux's Les Fleurs at Fruits d'Ete to see how the background has a similar dark-to-light left to right gradient. Several other paintings have the same background. Not sure if this is a correct line of thinking but it could help somebody:

NEW QUESTION BELOW!

QUESTION/PUZZLE:

HINTS:

1) .5+.5=1

2) Look past the obvious.

Ok, if we do get rid of the grid / numbers we are left with a blue background going from dark to light (as Ashley said) so with .5+.5=1 which could be half dark + half light = 1 ... er... one painting

Im gonna say Young woman reading by a window by Delphin Enjolras because the woman is sitting in the dark but leaning into the light which connects the dark to light creating one painting.

Any good?

JQ.

reply to post by John Q


It is not Young woman reading by a window by Delphin Enjolras.

reply to post by kinglizard


Is it Cassius Marcellus Coolidge "A Bold Bluff"

reply to post by schrodingers dog


It is not, nor is it velvet Elvis.

Wukky:

S-Dog:

You two guess-wasters, you!

reply to post by AshleyD


I know, right?

And I was so close ...

reply to post by schrodingers dog


I'm just more ashamed of myself because I actually thumbed through the art in the OP thinking it was an actual choice at first. After being surprised it was not there, I Googled it to see what it was then had a bit of an eye roll at both you for guessing that and myself for taking it seriously.