Identify the Artist XII:

Week 1 Bridges (1001 – 1005)09/29 – 10/3/2019

Week 2 Dogs (2) (1006 – 1010)10/06 – 10/10/2019

Week 3 Farming (1011 – 1015)10/13 – 10/17/2019

Week 4 Musical Interlude (3) (1016 – 1020)10/20 – 10/24/2019

Week 5 Portraits of Painters (2) (1021 – 1025)10/27 – 10/31/2019

Week 6 The Conversation (1026 -1030)11/03 – 11/17/2019

Week 7 FUR (1031 – 1035) 11/10 – 11/14/2019

Week 8 Ham & Eggs (1036 – 1040)11/17 – 11/21/2019

Two Week Hiatus Thanksgiving Holidays

Week 9 Open – Odds & Ends (1041-1045)12/08 – 12/12/2019

Week 10 Reflections (1046 – 1050) 12/15 – 12/19/2019

Top 10 contestants will receive an Art Postcard.

Prize for the 1st and 2nd place contestants is a DVD. From the Criterion Collection:

Abbas Kiarostami

24 Frames

For what would prove to be his final film, Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami gave himself a challenge: to create a dialogue between his work as a filmmaker and his work as a photographer, bridging the two art forms to which he had dedicated his life. Setting out to reconstruct the moments immediately before and after a photograph is taken, Kiarostami selected twenty-four still images—most of them stark landscapes inhabited only by foraging birds and other wildlife—and digitally animated each one into its own subtly evolving four-and-a-half-minute vignette, creating a series of poignant studies in movement, perception, and time. A sustained meditation on the process of image making, 24 Frames is a graceful and elegiac farewell from one of the giants of world cinema.

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The Rules of the Game:

Posting of a detail fragment of a work of art will take place sometime after 8:00 PM EST, five days a week (Sunday; Monday; Tuesday; Wednesday; Thursday. There are no IDs on Friday or Saturday)

Correct answers are allotted points in the following manner:

First correct respondent receives 6 points

Second: 5 points

third: 4 points

fourth: 3 points

fifth: 2 points

Each respondent after that receives 1 point, whether the artist named is correct or not.. 2 points will be awarded if there were not 5 awards.

Incorrect responses will be awarded at least one point (there is no penalty for guessing...actually encouraged). The opportunity to accrue points can only happen within a maximum of 24 hours. Once the full photograph of the work of Art is elevated and the artist identified, no additional scoring (for that work can occur). (In other words, regardless of pleas, points will not be awarded for a comment/ID made days after the posting). In addition, 15 guesses does not generate 15 points...only 1 point.

A favorite of the photograph will also garnish 1 point (only if nothing else is ventured by the participant,…1 point is not added to any other points awarded).

A summary of scores for the top five positions will be published each Sunday, at the beginning of each set of five photographs.

Caveats / Understanding:

Postings may be held up due to circumstances beyond my control.

Delays in posting may occur each evening. (sorry, no guarantee on 8:00 EST; however, through the years a certain consistency has been attained)

When posted, included with the fragment is the date of the artwork; the gender of the artist; the nationality of the artist; the location where the photograph was taken; and a link to the museum or location.

In addition, as most of you are aware, part of the clues for each identity is a “presence/absence” notation about whether the artist has been in a prior Identity Set. Because flickr’s new format doesn’t facilitate the reading of a long list of names in a “Set’s” overview/description, those lists are also available on request. If you send me an email address that can receive attachments, I will transmit an Windows based Excel sheet with the names of the artists and the number of their paintings/objects. Be sure to specify which format you would like: xlsx; xls; csv; txt – tab delimited – if you don’t specify the default is xlsx MS Office-10). ( non-windows participants should request txt).

Also, sorry for the bias the timing provides those in the Americas but no matter how I thought about it… I couldn’t come up with a plan to assist Europe; Africa; Asia and Australia