Plz help ID this painting (colorful and abstract!)

The only thing I know is that it was at Art Basel. Any ideas?

http://i934.photobucket.com/albums/ad184/sdolnack/7b4ea867.jpg

art basel has all their stuff online.

Yeah but there's like five thousand artists I'm going to have to trawl through

you can look by location within the museum too.

if you know what fair it is in, that might help too

I have no idea where really, I just know "Art Basel" :/

I mean I wasn't there; I just found the photo

where did you find the photo

looks like later period Bridget Riley?

I just scrolled through the entire Art Basel 2010 catalog, and I don't think this work was in there.

I was trying to be all private eye and stuff and I started with the image's URL since I thought that maybe I could find the originating blog or something and then I wound up on someone's Twitter - and then I saw it was Stevie D's http://www.psfocus.nl/_images/avatar/20100120191851_smiley_ninja.gif - Duh.

xpost: I don't think Stevie said it was Art Basel *2010* explicitly?

Did anyone check MOBA?

xp u kreep.

I don't know if it was 2010; I will do some more investigating and see what I can uncover.

shit i know this

i can prolly tell u in like 48 hours when i get home and go thru my old magazines.

Hah I posted this thinking "I probably should just msg plax directly but I guess I'll open it up to everyone else too"

have u tried ZS' method?

stuff you know nothing about

I would but I got the pic from someone's profile and cropped them out of it.

I asked him what it was but he just said "Art Basel show" and apparently this is all the information he can provide.

i don't think it's riley but i couldn't tell you who it is - fwd'ed pic to art nerd friends of mine who might be more helpful?

yeah be surprised if that was riley

looks like later period Bridget Riley?

― I write the lols that make the whole world zing (Noodle Vague), Thursday, December 23, 2010 12:51 AM (9 hours ago)

I was thinking Stanczak...

ok so my one friend thinks it's a latin american artist from the 60s possibly

Carlos Cruz-Diez ?

This just in: it was Art Basel Miami Beach

like i actually know this i just cant

Ps you never told me if you were a fan of Hoyland or not

Stevie is there much more of the painting in the cropped-out portion?

I don't even know why I'm asking ;_; but goddammit this is driving me nuts.

A bit. Someone tell me a free iPhone app I can blur stuff out with and I'll upload it

it's an early diego rivera.

lost caravaggio iirc

I did that in Photoshop

yeah i'm pretty sure it's a shop

http://i934.photobucket.com/albums/ad184/sdolnack/a53b3d04.jpg

aaaannd we're nowhere.

maybe by ruling out what it's NOT we could narrow it down? I'll go first. It's not a sculpture. :D

ugh curse you Stevie I'm totally obsessed by this thread now.

it's an early diego rivera.

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doesn't look like his abstract stuff afaict

curse you Stevie I'm totally obsessed by this thread now.

Well we need SOMETHING to keep the suspense w/o Heidi, Michael and Nina.

the whole catalogue is online

http://artbaselmiamibeach-online.com/index.php5?path=Home%2FArtworks&Action=showProducts

yeah and the dumb painting isn't in there --- I spent all last night looking through it. >:(

And that online catalog is only 2010 - we don't know what year that painting was shown, do we?

all i know is that i found some pretty dope shoes because of my googling:
http://kix-files.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/adidas-consortium-zx-7020-w-1.jpg

seriously though trying to find an anonymous abstract painting at "basel miami" is a tall order

good luck

Ha xp those remind me of my shoes

this is a totes famous painter but i cant decide whether its like late '60s or early '00s

like, i sortof hate u right now bc this is killing me

60 surely

haha yeah i was thinking "this is either from fifty years ago or five years ago"

The color mix and style keep telling me sixties but RARRRGH ...

Yeah Stevie you might win a place in the "Innocuous Things that Make Me Irrationally Angry" thread yet :)

also learned a lot about latin american geometric abstraction today, thanks to this thread

And THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT HEIDI KLUM

also learned a lot about latin american geometric abstraction today, thanks to this thread

Carmen Herrera holla. (It's not her, though.)

Wd def go to Miami Basel now, online catalog is awesome!

Still mad at u tho, Stevie :D

Tried doing a reverse image search; results seem inconclusive.

i cant check but r u sure i didnt post this on the thread: monochromes and hard edged abstraction?

ok this is beginning to drive me apeshit

i cant check but r u sure i didnt post this on the thread: monochromes and hard edged abstraction?

If you did it was separate from this; the painting was in someones profile pic

I am hoping that one day the full crop is revealed and the guy is holding up a GET A BRAIN, MORANS! sign

(or a beer can)

fwiw i think latin is a red herring reads as mclaughlin/feitelson contemp or a washington color field dude. thing is i have seen this more than once.

leaning cali

I tried Google Goggles and it came up with this suggestion:

http://images.cosplay.com/photos/15/1592573.jpg

yeah, i thought mclaughlin

larry zox comes close too but yeah this doesn't seem very new york-y to me

i am going to go the getty and demand they tell me the answer to this btw

do it. for all of us.

yah ur on the same page as i am joe def, i feel we are close

this is not the right board to ask about this.

try here: http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/

colors feel slightly more pastichey than period but the scale is the other way around...

I don't know if I've had too much eggnog but it kinda looks like the wrapping paper that I'm using right now. What if it was found-art of Target Wrapping Paper that someone framed?

plz plz show us a picture of this wrapping paper.

Steve Shasta you may be our savior!

http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l80rgo5lSN1qb0tnwo1_500.gif

worst revive ever. I was actually hopeful for a moment

;_;

Help us, Plaxi-Wan Conaxi, you're our only hope

lol

actually kind of amazing thread revive but i am still annoyed that i/we haven't gotten this yet

http://i.imgur.com/ybRb3.jpg

this reminds me of some flemish renaissance painting but i can't quite remember it, van der weyden or s/thing (prob not him)

OMG! this is totally proof that Botero was an anachronistic painter

oh god, yes there's something of him there yean

i guess botero was influenced by the plasticity and fleshy distention of early flemish portraiture?

thesis topic4u: Botero's Influence on Contemporary Emo Photography

fat goths' influence on coronary heart disease and shitty music taste

:-)

mad <3 for both of u

the thesis would also need to include a discussion of The Cure's Japanese Whispers album cover

i discuss it thus: DIE MOTHAFUCKA DIE MOTHAFUCKA DIE

chill ass juggalo bro

botero is still painting guys, he had some shitty show abt quantanamo bay a few years ago. botero is p terrible

botero is p terrible

― plax (ico), Saturday, 22 January 2011 11:35 (14 minutes ago)

agreed

if he was still alive today, he would have a tumblr with very respectable reblog stats and that would be more apt to his level

uh no he would have a deviantart page ur refs r all wrong

feel he would have migrated by now, with some consternation from the deviantart crowd that he must be whoring for a tumblr-to-book deal

sort of irrelevant since he never lived to see any of those sites

http://www.englishlit.pitt.edu/images/botero_monalisa.jpg

srsly tho when i first saw this shit i thought it was just an 'internet thing' and not the work of a much valourized irl artist

http://www.theskichannel.com/image/news/20090721_winehouse.jpg

like

its bad in a way its hard to get worked up abt tho

is this by Guntur Fruhtrunk?

http://images.artnet.com/WebServices/picture.aspx?date=20081113&catalog=149564&gallery=110657&lot=01502&filetype=2

best guess yet imo!

at the very least fruhtrunk was who i think i meant when i said id seen these before. this is making a lot of the same problems for itself even if the resolutions are a little clearer.

miami basel says there was *a* fruhtrunk in the catalogue...

(crosses fingers) please please

but hes not in the online catalogue which could be why that didnt work

lol i thought of him when i was thinking of paintings to do Avant Hard (itt the pornification of western culture i think) with

artnet sez three different galleries represent him - someone send some e-mails!!

if we do get this i think that stevie owes us all an apology.

hey plax i'm almost convinced this was on an irish textbook cover in the pre-junior cert era. either that or someone i know owns a print

lol that would be really fucking weird

until someone consults a fruhtrunk catalog, there is keyword: miami basel 2010 on flickr...

Stevie probably removed his bookmark from this thread weeks ago, he's moved on now ;_;

No no i am Reading v v eagerly!

ugh the more i think about it the more i realise this fruhtrunk theory might be clutching at straws, like i was hoping it might be late fruhtrunk that ive never seen and maybe he decided to stretch his legs but the overall design of the painting is definitely off, It feels more like somebody borrowing p heavily from fruhtrunks vocab....

I bet that guy Just made it in Photoshop and inserted it into the photo

judging by the basel flickr sets there was a lot of really terrible hello kitty art this year

(lol as opposed to the good kind)

WE STILL DON'T FUCKING KNOW

http://i934.photobucket.com/albums/ad184/sdolnack/iwanttoknow.jpg

someone get on this!!

http://www.thelmagazine.com/TheMeasure/archives/2011/08/10/new-artmatch-app-will-identify-that-artwork-for-you

n/m, just tried it and didn't get any matches :/

ffffffffuuuuuuuuu.jpg

I hate this mystery painting. It haunts my dreams.

1. The design is made out of a rhythmic pattern of vertical lines rendered in geometric, hard-edged style. This is some New York painter that you only see in old catalogues for some small gallery show where clement greenberg was involved somehow in curating that has like William Perehudoff in it or someone.

2. The design has irregular horizontals but regular verticals. The relationship between warp and weft suggests a design that could be spun on a loom or knitted. On the other hand, the surface could be read to be composed of patches of patter (the stripes are arranged into repeating patterns at sharp intervals) These elements of the formal design suggest traditional craft patterns, particularly crafts performed by women. This is by a feminist painter from the early 70s whose earlier work was quilts based on mourning coats made by civil war era widows.

3. Its hard edged but the colours are buzzy tertiaries. sortof reminiscent of commercial art, something that might be on the cover of a collection of contemporary poetry or a be-bop album circa 1968. The artist is a californian painter who was in a group show with lorser feitelson once.

4. The interaction between the consistent verticals and the inconsistent verticals creates a jarring optical effect. Some 60s op-art guy trying to paint himself out of a hole in 1984

5. The fading retro colours. The cool elegant verticals disrupted by the ungainly lopsided horizontals. The cheeky trickyness of the composition in relation to certain modernist cliches. Theres and overly hip reffing of different eras and a detatchedly archival attitude towards abstraction, this is a german painter who used to be part of the dusseldorf post-punk scene in the early eighties.

no im still not sure who this is.

i had a sneaking suspicion it might be ben jones but the colors are a little muted for him

also the miami basel online catalog appears to be down now :/

Theres something about the colouring that reminds me of childrens books and prints from the 70s of the kind we had in our house.

We need to email these people.

if nothing else, this mystery has seriously filled in a ton of my 20th-c. art historical knowledge gaps

we need to send it to Unsolved Mysteries.

I found this thing by Charles Biederman; what do you guys think?

http://i934.photobucket.com/albums/ad184/sdolnack/12102d3b.jpg

i like it

it's upside down! (j/k)

(that was a maybe too obscure reference to this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Bateau btw)

Do you guys think it's Karl Benjamin?

my only other close guess is tim bavington

ragh this painting!

After Forks found his rap song and Tuomas found his black & white movie, I'm kinda happy we still have this baffling painting.

not one of us has thought to actually check the basel 2010 printed catalog, huh

*hangs head*

not even the modern miracle of google's 'visually similar' search helps. pretty sure it's not, for example, this guy:

https://img-s.foursquare.com/userpix/UDJHBVBZX0TJRFPQ.jpg

but do we know for sure

also: loooooool

Stumbled across this guy today, mentioned before but def similar and Stevie would loves it: Carlos Cruz Diez

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-uBBJQ3_z9uM/Ta3B87WdLKI/AAAAAAAADf0/XgsFXXc6gm0/s1600/Carlos-cruz-diez_2.jpg

Aaand how cool is this image?

http://hirshhorn.si.edu/dynamic/programs/image_1_608.jpg

Stumbled across this guy today, mentioned before but def similar and Stevie would loves it: Carlos Cruz Diez

Saw an exhibit of this dude's work when I was in Buenos Aires last year. It's pretty awesome in person.

http://a4.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/390896_557621819867_62600376_31391309_1229389329_n.jpg

(^in person)

Brought this one into photoshop to check: the rgb in the stripe was the same as outside of it! You down with OP?

http://artbasel.insideguidance.com/miamibeach/2011/images_large/Product1328711.jpg

^^^ your image has since disappeared for me but that looked rad!

Oh, probably b/c I copied it directly from FB... But yeah, there's some cool optical tricks in his work that are enhanced when you're actually in the presence of the art. Like paintings that change color as you walk from one side to the other.

ross bleckner?

http://www.arcanabooks.com/bookimages/014521.jpg

maybe not bright enough

Some 60s op-art guy trying to paint himself out of a hole in 1984

there is a lot of writing in the hal foster school about this very approach, comparing bleckner to, say, dan flavin ... i don't actually think it's bleckner, it doesn't have that gauzy, painterly look that bleckner has

my best guess is that it's someone from that milieu though there is also something chillwave-y and "zoomed in too far on a fuzzy VHS image" that screams recent work, too

there are so many people doing this type of art though, it's crazy

xp omg LOVES IT!!

there's an awesome exhibit at the Hirshhorn right now, Suprasensorial, that showcases Carlos Cruz-Diez, along with Lucio Fontana, Julio Le Parc, Jesus Rafael Soto and Helio Oiticica. I was at the opening day of it and got to watch a panel with Le Parc and Cruz-Diez which was AMAZING.

Fuuuuck!

lol this painting, i did my part and i emailed a friend abt it once, she did not know

It's still at the Hirshhorn til May 13th! Come and see it! I really liked Soto's stuff (I posted the video below in waht is awesome - it's not from the Hirshhorn but will give you a feel), but Cruz-DIez's Chromosaturation was jut phenomenal. Three rooms interconnected by hallways, each bathed in intense red, green, or blue light, and in addition to the wonderful blending of the colors at their soft edges, and the contrast with the lights on the ceiling, there was also this mindfuck that would happen when you stayed in one room for a few minutes and then quickly walked into another room. Just totally unreal, and very inspiring. Come see it!!

Soto:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZLMYbr8btQ

wish i was better at describing art (and music and writing and film and poetry and theater and everything else that is good on earth) because i feel like i often do a disservice to the artists, but for the love of god check it out

Suprasensorial DC meetup!

I would love to go back and spend more time with it. We arrived late, just 30 minutes before the panel, so we kinda rushed through everything. There was also a cool room with this in it by Dan Flavin:

http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m01alfRUZm1qbnyzno1_500.jpg

my new favorite person in the entire world took that picture but it's hard to see the overwhelming nature of what's going on with that piece from that image. first of all, it's huge - a room probably 40 feet long, 20 feet wide. the light, again, is overwhelming, so that whoever or whatever enters the room becomes immersed in blue. but what's totally fucked up is that after spending some time in there, everything else becomes desaturated. you look at your friend, and your friend is in black and white. it's disturbing and addicting.

aw man that is a rad-looking show

on that same tip, i sadly missed this show when it was up

http://www.mcasd.org/exhibitions/phenomenal-california-light-space-surface-0

Me and my boof are for real def gonna come down to see it.

I loooved that flavin last time I was there but they were p militant abt NO PICTURES

awesome! let me know when you do, if you don't mind! i'd love to see you again and meet yr boof, and you can probably meet my...er...goof, too!

Awesome Stevie D! Let us know when. We can see the show then go to a bar.

Wait, we can go to a bar THEN see the show.

and THEN go to a bar!

dan flavin would have wanted it that way

FLAVIN

http://www.filmreference.com/images/sjff_03_img1191.jpg

next closest (but still prob wrong) guess: markus ebner

http://jackystrenz.com/content/view/49/34/

4 yrs later and still no clue

Feel like this is the last great unsolved identification mystery of ilx, since we found forks' rap song and Tuomas' typewriter movie.

There is a new app describing itself as the shazam for art, called magnus. Very much doubt it would nail this, unfortunately I'm stuck on ios 7 and can't put it to the test.

I think of this thread/pic from time to time and disappear down a several-hour Google Images rabbithole every time. Hopefully one day the mystery will be solved.

(no Magnus for Android yet so I can't try it out either, but their FAQ says there will be one eventually)

http://eobserver.co.uk/images/7driverlesstrain0910d.jpg

I gave Magnus a try. App initially thought it was Rothko and then gave up.

Before I got to that point though, I had to re-read this entire thread and then spend a hour searching the net. This is one of ILX's best black holes.

http://i934.photobucket.com/albums/ad184/sdolnack/a53b3d04.jpg

― cowboy bibimbap (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, December 23, 2010 4:46 PM (5 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

You know how with photobucket you can get your pictures printed on a canvas? You should do that with this one.

i want a shazam for fragrances!

stumbled across some Bridget Riley and it really does look like her (even though it's not)

looks more neo geo than op art to me

ok I just contacted Art Basel via their "contact us" web form, wish us luck y'all!

:(

http://i.imgur.com/tnWBWQD.png

:( but also THAT NAME

I've heard he's pretty flakey.

lol

Australian artist Melinda Harper is pretty similar -

http://www.olsengallery.com/images/4273.jpg
http://www.olsengallery.com/images/17014.jpg

but the unknown painting looks more 60s to me.

emailed a friend who is very obsessed with obscure op art/hard edged abstraction. she curated this show: http://www.dwigmore.com/opoutofohio.html

i think she could know...

like

giuseppe rigatoni

gareth crumpets

It looks like Karl Benjamin to me

"his name is... francois croissant"

http://pixel.nymag.com/imgs/daily/vulture/2015/01/16/surejan.w1200.h630.jpg

the French Neil Hamburger.

I haven't found it but I recently stumbled across Yaacov Agam, and I wouldn't be amazed if the photo above was by the same person as these:

http://www.herndonfineart.com/images/Agam/Blue%20Violet%20VII.jpg

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/64/5f/e3/645fe3936043e3a7e3b05b8ef25ef552.jpg

http://www.rogallery.com/_RG-Images/Agam/Agam-Agamograph-IV-11.jpg

I love this thread. Feel like you guys are getting warmer and warmer on this latest revive.

https://uploads3.wikiart.org/images/yaacov-agam.jpg!Portrait.jpg

I think Tim might have just solved it (though a first quick gis doesn't reveal the original artwork)

He's def using the same shapes, too:

https://d7hftxdivxxvm.cloudfront.net/?resize_to=fit&width=272&height=300&quality=95&src=https%3A%2F%2Fd32dm0rphc51dk.cloudfront.net%2FbCS1VNIbHK73WijefyEVSQ%2Flarge.jpg

!!!

gotta be him

this seems to be his dealer, if someone wants to contact them to confirm: https://www.parkwestgallery.com

already sent an email earlier today ;)

this is great, but also, what's going to hold ilx together if it's going to keep solving its long-standing mysteries??

We'll have to post another mystery painting.

I'm going to sleep well now finally. Well done.

He seems to be famous for 'agamographs', which change depending on the viewer's angle. It's hard to tell if the piece in the original post is one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgzDKwDJxhY

I think the original is not an agamograph (I spent more time than I should have staring at the shadows on the original pic, can't see any suggestions of the ridges). I do like the thought that we might have seen the work in online image searches for ages, but *from the wrong angle*.

Are there any other threads similar to this that try to identify poor resolution art work/posters from the past?

Kind of like a song ID but with a terrible quality graphic?

Might as well use this one?

can you help me identify this image (crappy blow-up from bad snapshot of wall of my HS bedroom, circa '72)? pic.twitter.com/u1ta5I7FIp

— Rick Brown (@BrownBattery) February 28, 2019

Kind of looks like a movie poster or band poster?

this seems to be his dealer, if someone wants to contact them to confirm: https://www.parkwestgallery.com

― donna rouge, Monday, February 6, 2017 6:41 PM (two years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

already sent an email earlier today ;)

― Fluffy Saint-Bernard (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, February 6, 2017 10:48 PM (two years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Stevie, did you ever get a follow-up from this?

holy shit did I not follow up on this??????

is this thread de-indexed?

Probably not. Make a mod request.

Dear Steve,

Thank you for your email. I am really sorry but I can't help you and unfortunately 6 years ago we also did not have our online catalog.

All the best
Fr4nç0is Cr01ssant
Gallery & Project Manager

oh THAT email, no, I did not get a response

oh man, when you wanted the thread de-indexed, I thought it was going to be some elaborate adventure like they invited you up to the gallery to see the actual work of art and then you shagged on top of it or something.

Fr4nç0is Cr01ssant

Wait, surely this is not a real name that needs googleproofing?

Apparently so, seems to be the guy in the middle. ttp://cdn.worldredeye.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/31-Benjamin-Grappin-Francois-Croissant-David-Meier.jpg

I don't want Fr4nç0is to find this but hand to god this is literally his name, you can google him even

Dropped an h! http://cdn.worldredeye.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/31-Benjamin-Grappin-Francois-Croissant-David-Meier.jpg

that is an all-time name

I've heard he can be flakey.

I've heard he's pretty flakey.

― nickn, Thursday, February 2, 2017 7:53 PM (two years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Well, I knew it wasn't very original.

Oh shit, that was me!

lol

WAIT SO THIS IS *STILL* A MYSTERY?

wtf Stevie why are you trying to kill us

Holy shit @ monsieur Cr01ssant! I hope he's been entered into either the best or worst real names thread (I cannot decide which it should be).

Well, I knew it wasn't very original.

― nickn, Friday, March 1, 2019 10:28 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Oh shit, that was me!

― nickn, Friday, March 1, 2019 10:29 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this made me die approximately 6,000 times

https://cdn.someecards.com/posts/img0889-fb6yDb.jpg

Are there any other threads similar to this that try to identify poor resolution art work/posters from the past?

Kind of like a song ID but with a terrible quality graphic?

― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 1 March 2019 17:01 (three days ago)

You could maybe try this thread?
Help me identify the cover artwork on this wall I found in a photo of a bedroom on a property website.

I've spent a while trying to google this and Stevie's original q (like, many pages deep in Google image search every time the thread is revived) but no luck, alas

(also lol at jed's image)

Thanks APS.