Mandolins in visual art

[B. T. Walker]

I've been keeping a file of mandolin art gleaned from the internet and thought I'd share some favorites. #Do any of you have examples you'd be willing to post?

Who do you reckon this first one is a picture of?

It's entitled "Mandolin Player", by Jerry Garcia.

[B. T. Walker]

Here's another entitled "Mandolin", by Nelson Shanks.

[SternART]

Looks like Grisman in that Garcia drawing, eh?!

This is a portrait by well known photographer Laurence Bartone

[B. T. Walker]

A very pleasant photograph, Arthur. Nice kitty. Really nice mando.

[B. T. Walker]

Okay, I couldn't get my favorite Picasso mandolin portrait to post, so I'll try this one. #"Mandolin and Guitar" #I like the colors.

[acumando]

Botero, Still Life with Mandolin
http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/AWI/aw2003-botero~Still-Life-with-Mandolin-Posters.jpg

[SternART]

Black smoke Maine Coon cat & a Gichrist Model 3A, bound f holes, with tweed blocks like on Steve's jazz guitars.
The stealth look in cats & mandos. Oh yeah.....art glass in the background completes the portrait.

[B. T. Walker]

How about "Mandolin Player", by Sherman Barnes. #That's sbarnes to you cafe types.

[B. T. Walker]

I like this one. #My favorite Picasso mandolin protrait. The girl looks like she just got to the serious part of the break and is gettin' down.

"Girl with a Mandolin (Fanny Tellier)", Pablo Picasso, Paris 1910 (http://www.moma.org/collection/printable_view.php?object_id=80430)

[B. T. Walker]

Marc Chagall did a number of paintings with mandolins, but the colors in "The Lute Player" are really stunning (in a good way, of course). Thanks, Niles.

Talk about a tubby mandolin in that Botero. Good one, acumando.

[Stillpicking]

I am creating a series of prints called "Mandolin Dreams" here is one from that series.

[B. T. Walker]

Very nice, Stillpicking.

Here's one from impressionist Henri Rousseau, "The Sleeping Gypsy" (1897), in which the mando is an unnamed prop.

[Stillpicking]

Thanks I am working on #4 and hope to post it in the next few days. Nice thread thanks for starting it up. http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

[Eugene]

If the original things called "mandolin" count, I'm recently fond of Longhi's "The Little Concert."

http://www.wga.hu/art/l/longhi/pietro/thelittl.jpg

plami launched a thread like this a great long time ago, but I can't seem to find it anymore.

[B. T. Walker]

This glass sculpture is 24" high, 8" wide. "Mandolin", by Dino Rosin.

[SternART]

That glass art is beautiful.......but a bit brittle sounding on the E string.

[B. T. Walker]

This poster I got from the ASDM website after reading about it on the cafe home page almost exactly a year ago. Sounded like it would be great, something to save up for and attend, but there is no sign of it this year.

I used this for my desktop until one of my students saw it one day and told her mother I had "porno" on my laptop. No worries; I'm still employed in the same job, but the desktop was changed.

[cbarry]

Here's one I asked local painter/musician Wayne Jiang to do of my house. He suggested putting me in there with my old Harmony. An Alvarez Yairi classical and my old Guild D-35 are on the wall behind me.
This was a Christmas present to my wife in 2004.
If you're in the SF Bay Area, Wayne's got a show in the Los Gatos Museum of Art opening August 3rd.

[John Craton]

One of my favorite contemporary artists is Nikolai Blokhin. His painting Harlequin with Mandolin can be found at this website (http://www.classicartgallery.com/blokhin/index.html). (I hestitated copying and pasting it here as I'm pretty sure it's still under copyright. It should stay on that page until the gallery sells it.) Once there, click on the small picture for a larger image.

[hellindc]

Footnote on Picasso: Guy Clark has a fine song, "Picasso's Mandolin" "He was born in Spain and did in France. He was not 'fraid of baggy pants." They don't write'em like that anymore.

[Brad Weiss]

I recently saw this Vermeer at an estate in Hampstead Heath. It's called The Guitar Player- but it's a four course instrument, looks more mando-like to me!

[B. T. Walker]

Probably Vermeer was in the crowd that calls mandolins "little guitars", and we're fortunate it isn't called "The Ukulele Player".

http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

[Stillpicking]

Here is another print in my "Mandolin Dreams" series.
Hope you all enjoy it.
Mike

[SternART]

hole-y scrolly

[Stillpicking]

Yep that about says it all!
I must be sick.

[B. T. Walker]

This is an often-posted send-up of Big Mon's bio. #It is a good pic of him, and that is probably the mando Charlie Darrington restored (though I don't know that for certain)(BTW, it is). #If you ignore the silly stuff and just look at the photo, it fits into the sorrowful mood. Just thought this would be a timely post in this thread.

[olgraypat]

Great thread....sbarnes....I really like the two watercolors of yours. I also tries to be an artist from time to time, and particularly like the watercolors. Can I use the f scroll as a screen saver?

[B. T. Walker]

School is about to begin, and I always feel that someone has used one of these things on my mandolin. At least it isn't a fireplace poker. This is from a t-shirt design I found on the web.

[B. T. Walker]

"Still Life with Mandolin", by Vladimir Kush. The artist must be unaware mandolins are shaped like almonds.

[John Flynn]

Dali's "Portrait of Juan de Pareja Repairing a String of His Mandolin"

http://i2.############/241o9ya.jpg

[jackofall]

Here is another print in my "Mandolin Dreams" series.
Hope you all enjoy it.
Mike
Now that one is NICE! Great work.

[Darryl Wolfe]

Here are a couple of my efforts that I posted in a similar thread

[Darryl Wolfe]

and another (that I sent to CD, I hope it made it to a wall in his office)

[Martin Jonas]

I've posted this one before in the "Women with mandolins" thread, but it's probably better here. I went to the Victoria & Albert Museum in London in June, and was intrigued by this picture in their Photography section. Luckily, I found that all of their exhibits can be found on their searchable image database here (http://images.vam.ac.uk).

The details of this picture from the database are:



Object: Photograph

Title: Melody

Date: 1907

Techniques: Gum bichromate print

Artist/designer: Brigman, Annie W., born 1869 - died 1950 (photographers)

Place: United States

Museum Number: E.215-1998

Around 1900 Anne Brigman became part of a group of bohemian artists in the San Francisco Bay area of California. She subscribed to the painterly or ‘Pictorialist’ style of photography that was popular in Europe and America from the 1890s to the 1920s. Melody has a clear musical theme, but it is also an artistic study in mood. Just like a musician working with rhythm and harmony, Brigman explores tone, form and soft-focus effects to create a kind of visual music.


Martin

[B. T. Walker]

If you're travelling in Lisbon, it's good to know they are looking out for you.

[TommyK]

That 'Vermeer' instrument's body looks like a Stradivarius guitar body. I'm having a hard time seeing 8 tuners. I only see 3 on a side. Although, the way it's drawed, I'd say there are, maybe 3 double courses. You got a closer, high resolution view?

[Brad Weiss]

That 'Vermeer' instrument's body looks like a Stradivarius guitar body. #I'm having a hard time seeing 8 tuners. #I only see 3 on a side. #Although, the way it's drawed, I'd say there are, maybe 3 double courses. #You got a closer, high resolution view?
Hard to say - #from this photo, it looks to be at least 4 courses, perhaps 5(?)

This (http://www.edict.com.hk/guitar/history/history4.htm) cite shows some Dutch guitars that would have been roughly contemporary with Vermeer- and Stradivarius. I have postcard of this painting-and just saw it in June! - but can't be sure...

[B. T. Walker]

Sometimes you have to really look for the mandolin. I found this before I kept careful records of who painted it, but I believe it is by Etienne.

[mandopete]

Not quite fine art...

[jim simpson]

Okay, it's time to take it up a notch:

[hendrix2]

notice it has 12 tuners
http://www.kpchr.org/public/sawardart/images/2Mandolin.jpg

[hendrix2]

I really like this one:(it's on my desktop rightnow)
Stillife with lute and mandolin
http://www.larkinstudio.com/images/Still%20Life%20with%20Mandolin%20and%20Lute%20-%20Web.jpg

[Wayfaring Stranger]

I drew this after a photo in Jack Tottle's "Bluegrass Mandolin" - hope you like it.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v212/Raskolnikov/wake3.jpg

[B. T. Walker]

Nice. What is the media? Charcoal? Pencil? It's very happy feel to it.

[Soupy1957]

I'm kinda partial to my own shots..........here's one I especially like:
-Soupy1957

[Wayfaring Stranger]

Thanks altair - it's a pencil sketch.

[danb]

I have various photos here:

http://www.photoboxgallery.com/mandolinarchive

Mostly the ones I've had printed myself http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

[danb]

Here's another favorite photo..

[AlanN]

The sketch above of Frank Wakefield is very cool.

[B. T. Walker]

Here is a real bluegrass mandolin. I have no idea who drew it, but it is very cool. Lots in it as you look closely.

[B. T. Walker]

This link (http://www.bluegrassattitude.com/attitudes.mgi) was posted in another thread, but I liked this pic on their website. Sorry no mando content.

[B. T. Walker]

There are enough pictures in my collection to have a "theme" for this month. Mermaids and mandolins have been making music together since the days of Homer in ancient Greece. This one is from the mid-18th century.

[B. T. Walker]

This week's mermaid is a woodcut from 1931 by Rufino Tamayo entitled "Sirena con Mandolina".

[John Craton]

My wife returned from Gatlinburg today where she found (among other things) an addition to her collection of Williamsburg figurines, this one playing the mandolin. She was quite lucky to find this as it was discontinued in 1990.

http://www.kiva.net/~kiwi/photos/williamsburg.jpg

[mandodebbie]

Here's one of my Photoshop mando-themed pics:

[mandodebbie]

And another featuring yours truly

[B. T. Walker]

A much more modern rendering entitled "Sweet Mermaid".

[John Craton]

A much more modern rendering entitled "Sweet Mermaid".
Hmm. Soon to be "Deep-Fried Mermaid" with that e-mando http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

[B. T. Walker]

The last of this month's mermaid and mando theme. The only way to get better than this inlay is if it were on a mandolin, but it is unfortunately on a guitar. Vince Hockey of Southampton, UK, is the luthier.

[B. T. Walker]

If you've missed this post the last couple of weeks, you may feel like this: Neglected Mandolin, by John Nearos (2002).

[Plamen Ivanov]

Here is a recent painting of the Bulgarian artist Pavel Mitkov

[bootinz]

From the National Gallery

[Jim Garber]

The artist must be unaware mandolins are shaped like almonds.
These artists are also unaware. Their CD is entitled En Forme De Poire (http://www.cdroots.com/rien-51.jpg) (Melonious Quartet (http://www.meloniousquartet.com/)).

Of course their mandolins are shaped like pears.

Jim

[Rick Albertson]

I've posted this before. First in a series of posters. Now working on 23' Loar, '38 D-28, and old Mastertone banjo. Making the posters available at http://www.cafepress.com/vsip/

[Plamen Ivanov]

This and also other paintings including mandolins at:

http://www.victorfriedman.com/figures_page4.htm

[SternART]

BTW that last one isn't a painting. Great series of cubist photographic montage pieces,
on Victor Friedman's web page, thanks for the link! Really inspiring series of images!

[Plamen Ivanov]

Right, image not a painting! Thank you for correcting me!
And yes, i also like them a lot!

Best,
Plamen

[johnbaxter]

Here's a poster I received a number of years ago.

http://www.mandozine.com/images/grisman.jpg

Grisman Poster (http://www.mandozine.com/images/grisman.jpg)

[johnbaxter]

Here's a composite I did for the second issue of Mandozine in 1996. Mike Marshall loaned me the mando photo and I added Psychograss to the background.

http://www.mandozine.com/images/marshall.jpg

Psychograss (http://www.mandozine.com/images/marshall.jpg)

[johnbaxter]

Here's a poster of the David Grisman Quartet for their Japan tour.

http://www.mandozine.com/images/DGQJapan.gif

David Grisman Quartet - Japan Poster (http://www.mandozine.com/images/DGQJapan.gif)

[johnbaxter]

Karen Cannon does great art featuring the mandolin. Check her out at:

http://www.artstringspublishing.com/

[Lefty&French]

Here's a poster of the David Grisman Quartet for their Japan tour.

http://www.mandozine.com/images/DGQJapan.gif
John, it doesn't work!
It says :
Oops - we couldn't access this page!
We are sorry but we could not find this page.
Use the navigation above to access the content on this site.
Be sure to update any bookmarks you may have.


You may not be able to find this page because of:

An out-of-date bookmark/favorite
A search engine that has an out-of-date listing for us
A mis-typed address
A page is obsolete and the content has been removed

[johnbaxter]

I edited my posts to include images. Hopefully they work. The links I had worked fine when I cut and pasted them, but somehow didn't work when I clicked on them.

[Lefty&French]

http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/sad.gif Not yet...

[B. T. Walker]

John, your links worked fine for me. #

I'm pleasantly surprised this thread has resurrected, and I love the new posts, particularly the Victor Friedman photo montage. #Thank all of you.

Here is another photograph, similar in style to plami's post, but much more disturbing. #The artist is Hugh Shurley.

[B. T. Walker]

Happy Easter!

[SternART]

Those cats......er, rabbits.......are really swingin'!

[Henry Girvan]

This is my first posting on Mandolin Cafe and I hope that I am able to attach the images of these statues that I came across. The group with the mandolin is in Sarasota, Florida and the clothed figure is on a bridge over the River Kelvin in Glasgow, Scotland.

[Henry Girvan]

It would appear that I can only post one image at a time and so I will attempt to post the image of the group statue from Sarasota, Florida. This statue I came across by chance when I went out for a walk while I was on a visit to Sarasota.

[ethanopia]

This is a cool thread, its nice to see how the mandolin shows up in art. The bummer is that it is usually a bowl back sorry Eugene...

Here are a few of my drawings/paintings that have a mando theme,
The first one was the cover of Michael Orlando's first solo album. I've since done two other covers for him in a similar style, and I just completed the design work for Tim Carter's Solo project that will be coming out in a few weeks...

http://musicart.bigredandthewagoneers.com/thumbs/MountainMando_t.jpg

http://musicart.bigredandthewagoneers.com/thumbs/BlueMando_t.jpg

http://musicart.bigredandthewagoneers.com/thumbs/HotDawg_t.jpg

[mandopete]

Yeah, those pictures above remind me of this...

[B. T. Walker]

Ahh, Spring. #"Affectionate Mandolin", by Phillippe Guillerm.

[Fliss]

I visited the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool this morning and spotted this painting, "The Family of Sir William Young", painted in 1770, which includes something that's described in the text about it as a "theorbo" but looks more like a mandolin to me!

http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/nof/portraits/tour3_moreinfo.html

Fliss

[Fliss]

Here's the picture:

Fliss

[Fliss]

And here's a close up:

Fliss

[Elliot Luber]

Theoretto? Looks more like Orville Wright's mando.

[B. T. Walker]

It really does look like Orville's mandolin, and it doesn't look anything like the description of a theorbo discussed in this entry in Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theorbo). #But I ain't no art authori-tye. #http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

[Henry Girvan]

The instrument in the painting is clearly not a Theorbo as the Theorbo is a Bass-Lute as can be seen in this painting

[Henry Girvan]

The instrument in the painting is more likely to be a Neapolitan Mandolin. If you compare it to this 1779 Vinaccia.

[B. T. Walker]

I came across this entitled "Mandolin" by Vietnamese artist Ha Van Vuong. #Very pleasant.

[halfamind]

Ahh, Spring. #"Affectionate Mandolin", by Phillippe Guillermo.
that should be titled "Sexual Harrasment Violin".

[Jim Garber]

The instrument in the painting is more likely to be a Neapolitan Mandolin. If you compare it to this 1779 Vinaccia.
This one resembles that Vinaccia.... sort of. I think the artist has astigmatism.

Jim

http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/uploads/post-6-76893-maxi11603.jpg

http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/uploads/post-6-76954-maxi11604.jpg

[SternART]

B.T. Walker.....I'm still diggin' that "Affectionate Mandolin", by Phillippe Guillermo.
Where did that image come from?

[SternART]

I found Phillippe's web site.......spelled without the "o" at the end.

http://www.philippeguillerm.com/

Check out these audio speakers he makes!

Philippe Guillerm

Philippe Guillerm began his professional life in Paris, France, the city where he was born in 1959 and lived for twenty years. Through the years, he has traveled around the world with his wife Jacqueline and theirs two daughters Monique and Swanne on his forty-eight foot sailboat. He has worked on different art projects around the world in places such as the Black Pearl Museum in Tahiti, the International airports in Papeete and New Caledonia, and several yacht clubs and restaurants in Brazil and Australia. He also creates pieces in his most recent studio in Hope, Maine.

[B. T. Walker]

They would be small speakers if they were made to look like mandos, but they would look cool.

Thank you, Arthur, for giving us the straight story.

Brian

[B. T. Walker]

I like black and white photography. The medium nicely complements the subject of this picture.

[James P]

I may not know much about art, but I think these (http://www.mandolincafe.com/cgi-bin/classifieds/classifieds.cgi?search_and_display_db_button=on&db_id=23342&query=retrieval) are pretty striking.

http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h100/JPToon/GypsyMedium.jpghttp://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h100/JPToon/SullivanMandolinbackcopyMedium.jpg

http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

[B. T. Walker]

I stole this off fatt-dad's site. #Pretty cool, literally. #It's a fan. #Seems to me it'd make you hot instead of cool. http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

[B. T. Walker]

Bluegrass Music Under the Tooth, by Susan K. Dailey, reminded me that land rush for the Kerrville Folk Festival is tomorrow.

[B. T. Walker]

The mandolin is the art.

[B. T. Walker]

Amico Calabrese painted by his son Anthony Calabrese in 1976. I like this kind of portrait.

[B. T. Walker]

Happy Summer!

[JEStanek]

Sadie Compton has a bunch of her paintings that include mandolin, I wonder why?http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/rock.gif http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

See them here. (http://www.fiddola.com/photos.html)

Jamie

[jefflester]

Last month I visited Musee L'Orangerie in Paris and there were several paintings by André Derain that featured mandolins.

http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/orangerie/images/72_389.jpg

http://faridbernat.blogspirit.com/photos/medium_André-Derain-jeu-de-paumes.jpg

[B. T. Walker]

The top picture by André Derain is of Harlequin and Scapino, stock characters in comedia del arte. I was cast as Scapino in a high school production of "A Company of Wayward Saints", and opened the first scene playing a guitar (badly -- good thing it was a comedy).

[John Craton]

Here's a little object I saw the other day while buying groceries. Not expecting to find an angel playing a mandolin (though it's not quite a mandolin) in a food store, I only had my cell phone there to take a picture. Not very clear, but it beats having her holding an electric sitar.

http://www.kiva.net/~kiwi/photos/mandangel.jpg

[Dan Cole]

I saw this on German eBay. #It's a piece called "Mandolina" by a Spanish artist named Cristine Puell. # It's inspired from the works of Salvador Dali. #Not my cup of tea, but maybe someone else will find in moving.

[B. T. Walker]

Standing Mandolin Girl, by Hippolyte Moreau

[Martin Jonas]

Last month I visited Musee L'Orangerie in Paris and there were several paintings by André Derain that featured mandolins.
Hmmm... Clearly M. Derain did never count the number of tuners on a mandolin -- two pictures, two mandolins, six tuners both times.

Martin

[JeffD]

Chagall did several paintings featuring a mandolin player.

[B. T. Walker]

You can see the person in the background playing a mandolin. This is a reproduction of a reproduction (sort of).

[B. T. Walker]

Seated Mandolin Girl, by Hippolyte Moreau. #Perhaps it's the companion to Standing Mandolin Girl posted earlier.

[B. T. Walker]

I forget which post this came from, but I like the huge mando.

[Neil Gladd]

The "decoist" art deco mandobabe. Lady in Blue with Mandolin by Tamara de Lempicka, painted in 1929. I have a hand-painted reproduction occupying a place of honor in my apartment.

[B. T. Walker]

That's a classic, ngladd. I bet it looks awesome hanging in your place.

[B. T. Walker]

This was identified only as "lead stained glass casting". Looks like something up Arthur Stern's alley, twice because of mando content.

[B. T. Walker]

Before September gets away, here is an appropriate sculpture by Brigette Mongeon.

[Plamen Ivanov]

This topic has to be revived...

This is a fountain sculpture in a small German village called Schwangau.

[Mark Walker]

How about a visual work of art with a mandolin ON a mandolin?

One of Ken Ratcliff's beautiful Silver Angels.

[Mr. Loar]

I love this thread!!!

[B. T. Walker]

I liked this.

[Martin Jonas]

I've just come back from a week's holiday in the South of France. #One of the glories of holidaying in France is fresh croissants in the morning and as some of you will know, the local bakeries tend to put them in little paper bags with whimsical printed pictures. #This is one I kept from this particular holiday, for reasons that will be obvious...

Martin

[JEStanek]

Martin, I'm double jealous. Fresh croissants and mando content in the South of France. Yum Yum!

Jamie

[SternART]

WOW...That HUGE mandolin is really something!

[mrmando]

I've posted this before and I guess I'll do it again. The Florentine Singer by Dubois, in the Musee d'Orsay in Paris.

http://seattlemandolin.org/images/Martin_with_Dubois.JPG

[Shelby Eicher]

here's some homemade art

[Shelby Eicher]

or

[Shelby Eicher]

or?

[JEStanek]

Shelby, for homemade art take a look at one of my personal favorite threads... Post the crazyest picture of your mando. (http://www.mandolincafe.net/cgi-bin/ikonboard.cgi?act=ST;f=23;t=26358)

Jamie

[B. T. Walker]

This cushion looks comfy.

[B. T. Walker]

I wish this little feller would send us some rain down here in south Texas.

[mandopete]

I'll send ya some from Seattle if you like!

[Caleb]

The mandolin is the art.
Looks like some of Peter Cree's artwork. He does some really creative things with instruments. Some of his guitars are amazing.

[Wheel Man]

Wow, Some great art work in this thread, glad I had the time to check it all out. I have been thinking for sometime about having a nice mando painting done by a local artist, and this has given me some great ideas. Thanks to all who contributed!! Keem um coming! http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/mandosmiley.gif

[sbarnes]

one of my watercolors:
http://www.grits.addr.com/files/IMG_45.jpg

[B. T. Walker]

Sherman, that is a nice watercolor. Almost "real" on my screen; had to look closely to see that it wasn't a photo.

[B. T. Walker]

A Vladimir Kush sculpture of "Still Life with Mandolin". Silver, gold, and garnets.

[JeffD]

You have doubtless seen this, from R. Crumb.

[CoMando]

This is a painting by a Birmingham artist named Warren Mullins. It was hanging in my coffeeshop. Warren knew how much I loved it and I walked in my shop this past Christmas and it had a big red bow on it and a sign that said "Merry Christmas". He gave it to me for Christmas. It is a beautiful, large painting.

[Martin Jonas]

I've just come across a number of mandolin-based artworks currently for sale on Ebay Germany. The first one being this (http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=250286637826) sort-of-cubist photo collage from 1975.

Martin (NFI, obviously)

[Martin Jonas]

Another (http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=350091895344) one by the same artist, this one titled "Dancing Mandolin Seen From Behind", made in 1974.

Martin

[Martin Jonas]

This (http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=370080916209) one is an etching from 1978, in a rather naive style.

Martin

[Martin Jonas]

And now for somehting completely different... This (http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=320291123299) is a cross-stitch pattern, fetchingly advertised by a lady with a rather beat-up mandolin.

Martin

[billkilpatrick]

martin - can't wait to have one of those!

here a painting by corot, one i've never seen before:

[Michael Gowell]

Was lap-mando a recognized style, or is this just artistic license?

[B. T. Walker]

I hope this picture flies in the new cafe format. It's called "Yellow Mandolin", by Anna Shipstone, an artist in the UK.

[billkilpatrick]

resurrected from the old cafe - grazie jamie:

[southcoastsounds]

We commissioned a painting of my mandolins from a local artist for my 60th birthday. There is a concertina in it too!

I'm very pleased with it. The instruments are

Old Wave A shape, Suzuki bowl-back and an octave made by local luthier Alex Williis

Tom

[journeybear]

There ought to be some way to coalesce these two threads, but if not, here's a link (http://www.mandolincafe.com/forum/showthread.php?t=6332)to the newer one.

I've posted these elsewhere, but clearly they belonged here all along. ;)

And yes, the Picasso is a mouse pad :disbelief: I saw at amazon - haven't found the original.

[journeybear]

And some three-dimensional representations ...

[B. T. Walker]

Found "Pear Mandolin" in a blog about art from carved vegetables and fruit. I could not determine who created it. This is a real pear.

[Jim MacDaniel]

Footnote on Picasso: Guy Clark has a fine song, "Picasso's Mandolin" "He was born in Spain and did in France. He was not 'fraid of baggy pants." They don't write'em like that anymore.

LOL -- on that same CD, Guy also makes reference to another famous work in "Madonna with Child, c.1969".

[journeybear]

This is a 19th century needlepoint beaded tapestry, from an auction a few years back..

[Randi Gormley]

Missed this on my search, so posted in a different spot. Here's an 'in memoriam' for artist Ernest Henry Grauel of Westport, Conn., who died June 30, 2010, at age 82. He was the dad of a friend of mine.

He painted this in either the 1950s or 1960s

[kjell]

From the National Art Museum in Copenhagen: Mandolin Player, Harald Giesling (http://www.smk.dk/udforsk-kunsten/samlingerne/vaerk-i-kunstdatabase/view/index/Start/kunstvaerk/mandolinspillerske/)

http://www.smk.dk/typo3temp/pics/ae4ddf58ee.jpg

[journeybear]

Watching CBS Sunday Morning today, there was a piece about recently deceased painter Lucian Freud, known for his grotesque (IMO) paintings of naked people. They showed several paintings, and I noticed one of them included a mandolin (and everyone was clothed). Turns out it is a portrait of a few important women in the artist's life, and it is his daughter Bella holding the mandolin. I don't know whether she actually plays the instrument, but it is intriguing to think that a great-granddaughter of the father of modern psychiatry is a mandolinist.

[journeybear]

These are the new logos of a band a friend of mine is in in CT. Yes, someone in the band plays mandolin, but I didn't know it was such a prominent part of the band's identity. And yes, they are a jam band. ;)

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[JeffD]

I hope this picture flies in the new cafe format. It's called "Yellow Mandolin", by Anna Shipstone, an artist in the UK.

That would be an excellent stained glass window.

[sbarnes]

i haven't put one of my original watercolor mandolin paintings on here in a long time.....here's one:85138

[Plamen Ivanov]

A "Woman with mandolin" painting drawn for me by the talented Bulgarian artist Alexandrina Karadjova (http://acrista.com/index.php?lang=en&page=&id=0).

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[journeybear]

Something from a local artist, the late Suzie DePoo ...

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[journeybear]

I know this charming Picasso has been posted before, but I just found it while searching for something else (happens so often), and it's been nearly six years, and I wanted to point out something. Doesn't the composition suggest a human head, with the bodies of the mandolin and guitar the eyes, the neck of the mandolin and the edge of the table the ears, and whatever that is at the bottom teeth?

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[billkilpatrick]

yes ... you're not going mad

[Randi Gormley]

Found this at the rummage/tag sale room at the Greenfield Hills Dogwood Festival, one of six or seven prints of characters from plays. Enjoy!

[billkilpatrick]

"pulcinella," i believe - one of the characters from the italian "commedia dell'arte."

[Martin Jonas]

"pulcinella," i believe - one of the characters from the italian "commedia dell'arte."

Pulcinella, indeed. The character mutated into "Punch" in English, as in "Punch and Judy". For some reason, Pulcinella is often depicted with a mandolin: here are another three examples. One of them is titled "Pulcinella in Hades", and is a bit disturbing.

Commedia dell'Arte artwork is very iconic -- I used quite a few depictions of the stock characters and their attributes/costumes to illustrate the wonderful Commedia dell'Arte tune "Ricciulina" (a mandolin duet):

Ricciulina (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHOplff6qsc)

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[Randi Gormley]

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This showed up on my Pinterest page. Hope it's big enough to see. It's called "The Mandolin" by Alex Gross.

[Eric C.]

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[JEStanek]

Eric, you might want to add that to this thread (http://www.mandolincafe.com/forum/showthread.php?15662-mandolin-tattoos&highlight=tattoo).

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[Texas]

I bought this from GoodWill a few months ago for $7.00:
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[Plamen Ivanov]

This is the original Georges Braque painting 'Woman with mandolin'. I made the foto in the Tyssen fine arts gallery in Madrid.

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[billkilpatrick]

b'gad ... cubism has got to be one of art's dullest culs de sac ever.

[Randi Gormley]

Found this on Pinterest this afternoon. I believe it's a gin advertisement.

[Hendrik Ahrend]

How about some Dutch realistic art by Henk Helmantel ("Road to Bhutan")? Mind you, it's not a photography. I have a large version in our living room.
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[journeybear]

Wow! Hard to believe this thread has been dormant for eight years. It's a fine, fun one.

A friend sent me this painting of a girl tuning - not playing - a mandolin.

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Henri Lebasque (French, 1865-1937) - La petite mandoliniste (Little Mandolinist), 1905, oil on canvas, 80.6 x 65.4 cm

[Chris W.]

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This was outside a restaurant in Sorrento, Italy

[Chris W.]

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Painted on a wall in Florence

[journeybear]

This was outside a restaurant in Sorrento, Italy
Wonder if he was playing "Torna A Surriento." :whistling:

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[Billy Packard]

Curious string arrangement!

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[David Lewis]

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This was in the museum at Zagreb, Croatia. I’ve lost the attribution alas.

[David Lewis]

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Found it

[journeybear]

Curious string arrangement!
Yes, a bit. ;) I tried to find a version that was pretty mandolinny, and without vocals. These tenors - overwrought and obstreperous. This was actually about the best I could find. :disbelief:

[Richard G]

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[Jess L.]

Mural painted on a building in Aberdeen, WA, USA. Artist and history info is in older thread (https://www.mandolincafe.com/forum/threads/35075-Random-mandolin-sightings?p=1729827&viewfull=1#post1729827). Car in lower left corner gives an idea of the size:

https://www.mandolincafe.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=179029

Close-up view of mandolin part:

https://www.mandolincafe.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=179030

I took the above two pics a couple years ago, but the mural also shows up on Google Maps Street View (https://www.google.com/maps/@46.975072,-123.8132617,3a,75y,27.11h,82.12t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1s2zxvPCbgOsXrKRTBzWgX_w!2e0!6sh ttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3D2zxv PCbgOsXrKRTBzWgX_w%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.g ps%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D229.67241%26pitch%3 D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i13312!8i6656) (I don't know if I did that link right, if the link works then you can pan around to see the surrounding areas and see the mural from different angles and zoom levels, if not then just look up the Jack In The Box hamburger joint in Aberdeen WA and the mural is just across the street.)

Oddly, the Google Maps version blurs out some (but not all) of the faces in the mural. Guess their automated algorithms can't always tell the difference between paintings vs real faces. Screenshot sample:
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