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.
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.
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This is a 19th century needlepoint beaded tapestry, from an auction a few years back..
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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
Last edited by Randi Gormley; Jul-07-2010 at 1:06pm. Reason: additional info
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1920 Lyon & Healy bowlback
1923 Gibson A-1 snakehead
1952 Strad-o-lin
1983 Giannini ABSM1 bandolim
2009 Giannini GBSM3 bandolim
2011 Eastman MD305
From the National Art Museum in Copenhagen: Mandolin Player, Harald Giesling
—kjell
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.
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But that's just my opinion. I could be wrong. - Dennis Miller
Furthering Mandolin Consciousness
Finders Keepers, my duo with the astoundingly talented and versatile Patti Rothberg. Our EP is finally done, and available! PM me, while they last!
A "Woman with mandolin" painting drawn for me by the talented Bulgarian artist Alexandrina Karadjova.
But that's just my opinion. I could be wrong. - Dennis Miller
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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?
But that's just my opinion. I could be wrong. - Dennis Miller
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yes ... you're not going mad
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!
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1920 Lyon & Healy bowlback
1923 Gibson A-1 snakehead
1952 Strad-o-lin
1983 Giannini ABSM1 bandolim
2009 Giannini GBSM3 bandolim
2011 Eastman MD305
"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
Martin
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1920 Lyon & Healy bowlback
1923 Gibson A-1 snakehead
1952 Strad-o-lin
1983 Giannini ABSM1 bandolim
2009 Giannini GBSM3 bandolim
2011 Eastman MD305
Eric, you might want to add that to this thread.
Jamie
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b'gad ... cubism has got to be one of art's dullest culs de sac ever.
Found this on Pinterest this afternoon. I believe it's a gin advertisement.
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1920 Lyon & Healy bowlback
1923 Gibson A-1 snakehead
1952 Strad-o-lin
1983 Giannini ABSM1 bandolim
2009 Giannini GBSM3 bandolim
2011 Eastman MD305
But that's just my opinion. I could be wrong. - Dennis Miller
Furthering Mandolin Consciousness
Finders Keepers, my duo with the astoundingly talented and versatile Patti Rothberg. Our EP is finally done, and available! PM me, while they last!
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