Monday, July 30, 2012

Looks Like Henri Rousseau


This is the flamingo enclosure at the San Diego zoo.

Henri Rousseau's images of plants came similarly from urban gardens.

Henri Julien Félix Rousseau (May 21, 1844 – September 2, 1910), French.

Looks Like Diebenkorn





This street is mysteriously devoid of cars.  The image is of a street flying into the air.

  
Richard Diebenkorn (April 22, 1922 – March 30, 1993), American.

Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Looks like Rothko



This is a painted barn in Sweden.


Lots of red.  Other blocks of color.  No wheelbarrow.  Or if there's a wheelbarrow, it's early Rothko.

 Mark Rothko, born Marcus Rothkowitz (1903 – 1970), Russian-American.

Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Looks Like Giorgione




It wasn't just any Giorgione I thought she looked like. This is a woman on the London underground. Giorgione; born Giorgio Barbarelli da Castelfranco (c. 1477/8 – 1510[1]), Venetian.

Saturday, May 26, 2012

Looks Like Picasso


This is a photograph of a store window in Florence.



This photograph is like a Picasso collage with words and objects mixed together in a haphazard way.  The sign in the window says that you may commission someone to do trompe l'oeil painting in your house.

Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso, known as Pablo Picasso (1881 – 1973), Spanish.

Looks Like Masaccio




Clearly in my photo I am trying to achieve the same effect of perspective as Masaccio in his painting, and it is specifically the painting of perspective that sets this painting apart.  The guard in my photo may be regarded as a patron.  Now if I could only get Rodin's The Thinker to point in the other direction.

Masaccio (1401 –  1428), born Tommaso di Ser Giovanni di Simone, Italian.

Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Looks Like Piet Mondrian



This photo was taken from the train while crossing to Venice.



The photo is much less austere, but it is still all shapes, lines and blocks of color.

Pieter Cornelis "Piet" Mondriaan, after 1906 Mondrian (1872 – 1944), Dutch.