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Off-Topic Discussion => Arts & Talents => Topic started by: ZylonBane on August 13, 2003, 05:31:02 pm

Title: Name that art!
Post by: ZylonBane on August 13, 2003, 05:31:02 pm: Let's see how well HLP'ers know their classical art. This image contains a series of bitmaps from an old PC game. They're all classical artworks. How many can you identify?

(http://home.att.net/~clay.h/ttlg/ss2art.png)

Note that #1 and #3 remain unidentified.
Title: Name that art!
Post by: Unknown Target on August 13, 2003, 05:44:29 pm: They're all from Thief: The Dark Project! :D
Title: Name that art!
Post by: ZylonBane on August 13, 2003, 05:59:05 pm: Actually, no.
Title: Name that art!
Post by: Solatar on August 13, 2003, 06:21:27 pm: I'd say #10 is Starry Night, but that's either real obvious, or I'm real stupid.

As for the others...I dunno...
Title: Name that art!
Post by: Thorn on August 13, 2003, 06:35:35 pm: Yeah.. thats starry night..
Had it rammed down my throat in grade 12 english class...
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Post by: Taristin on August 13, 2003, 06:45:06 pm: 7 is a generic Madonna and Child, dunno the artist...
Title: Name that art!
Post by: mikhael on August 13, 2003, 10:28:52 pm: I may be utterly useless at classic art, but I'm pretty sure you grabbed those out of Shock2's electronic paintings.
Title: Name that art!
Post by: Unknown Target on August 13, 2003, 10:44:11 pm: number 9 is SO from Thief...
Of course, SS2 uses the same engine as Thief 2, so they might've carried over the paitnings from thief into thief 2, and so on into SS2...
Title: Name that art!
Post by: ZylonBane on August 13, 2003, 11:22:30 pm: Quote
Originally posted by mikhael
I may be utterly useless at classic art, but I'm pretty sure you grabbed those out of Shock2's electronic paintings.
Oh c'mon, you're just saying that because you looked at the filename.
Title: Name that art!
Post by: mikhael on August 14, 2003, 02:34:11 pm: Quote
Originally posted by ZylonBane
Oh c'mon, you're just saying that because you looked at the filename.

Actually, no. It wasn't until you mentioned it that I looked at the filename.

However, the first time I played Shock2, clicked through every single painting until they looped, thinking there might be a clue or something. This of course, eventually paid off.
Title: Name that art!
Post by: Zeronet on August 14, 2003, 03:56:30 pm: I recognise #2, as i spent several weeks doing his paintings in school, but instead of the artists real name, all i think of is Carl Gustov, which is a Anti-tank missile.
Title: Name that art!
Post by: Solatar on August 14, 2003, 05:05:48 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Zeronet
I recognise #2, as i spent several weeks doing his paintings in school, but instead of the artists real name, all i think of is Carl Gustov, which is a Anti-tank missile.

Same here, except I'm thinking Escher instead of missile.:D
Title: Name that art!
Post by: DragonClaw on August 14, 2003, 10:24:23 pm: Blah, #8, I recongnize it, I had it crammed in my brain in Renaissance class.. .fk... can't remember the name.
Title: Name that art!
Post by: ZylonBane on August 15, 2003, 03:53:25 am: These are the known pics:

2 - Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte (Georges Seurat)
4 - The Boating Party (Mary Cassatt)
5 - The Abduction (Paul Cezanne)
6 - Shepherdess with her Flock (Jean-Francois Millet)
7 - Flight to Egypt (David Gerard)
8 - La Primavera, "Allegory of Spring" (Sandro Botticelli)
9 - La Belle Odalisque (Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres)
10 - The Starry Night (Vincent Van Gogh)