PAINTER IDOL - Anybody interested? Sign Up Thread

[McTeague]

Claude Lorrain it is then!

We'll start in 8 hours or so.

[McTeague]

I have edited the opening post with the Season 8 winners, now @ladylurks is in the hall of fame as a winner, and @DameOctaviaSpencer as runner up!


And I guess with all the awards and S&S hopla this isn't a great moment to announce it, but I guess I'll remind voters once we're closer to the time of the upcoming seasons, but for the upcoming seasons, I was planning to:

1- Have them in late March, and April-May (hopefully finishing before Cannes).

2- Have twin seasons (perhaps with fewer participants), not separatred by a long time, maybe only by a week or two. Maybe shorter seasons (just 9 rounds instead of 11?) if the players want to.

3- The reason for making them twin seasons, is that both would be focused on turn-of-the-century (that is, 19th to 20th century) movements, and movements that we have already done, but split differently. The last time I made a turn-of-century season, most people ditched the post-impressionists in favor of the symbolists. So, since we already picked most of the big impressionists in Season 3, my idea was grouping now, this time, the post-impressionists with the impressionists. That way, people who are not into post-impressionists can still pick an impressionist (we played many of the big ones, but there are still magnificent painters left), and others can pick post-impressionists (there are so many big ones still un-played: Gaugin, Seurat, Rousseau...).

4- So, the subsequent turn-of-century, twin, season would be focused on symbolism, art-nouevau and decadentism. We played many biggies, but this era is ripe for re-discovery and there are hundreds that are worth playing. In fact, it probably won't be the last season with this theme.


In short, the idea is:

LATE MARCH & APRIL: IMPRESSIONISM AND PRE- AND POST-IMPRESSIONISM.

APRIL AND EARLY MAY: SYMBOLISM, DECADENTISM AND ART NOUVEAU


I hope people are as excited about these two seasons as I am. They're the ones I was most anxious to play.


You have a lot of time to pick a painter if you want to participate. As of now, I think I have more or less "reserved" @Habsburg for "Impressionism and Post-Impressionism" with Rousseau, if dear Habsy wants to, and @CINNAMON with, tentatively, James McNeill Whistler. I will of course participate, but I'm still undecided between many painters.


In the first page you can find every painter that was ever played, but here I post...


SOME IMPRESSIONIST AND POST-IMPRESSIONIST PAINTERS, WITH THOSE ALREADY PLAYED OR RESERVED SCRATCHED:

From the core group of Impressionism:

Frédéric Bazille
Gustave Caillebotte
Mary Cassatt
Edgar Degas
Armand Guillaumin
Édouard Manet
Claude Monet
Berthe Morisot
Camille Pissarro
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Alfred Sisley

From outside France, I recommend this wikipedia link, but have in mind that the following have already been played:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impres...#Beyond_France

Childe Hassam
Konstantin Korovin
Valentin Serov
Joaquin Sorolla
Ignacio Pinzao Camarlench

Worry not, there are still countless that could easily win a Painter Idol season).


From Pre-Impressionism, or those artists that influenced it the most, you could pick, for instance:

Camille Corot
Eugéne Boudin

People who are considered precursors of impressionism too, like Manet, Turner or Courbet have already been played.


And, from post-impressionism or neo-impressionism, I also recommend this Wikipedia entry, but I add this list of suggestions, with those already played scratched:

Paul Gaugin
Vincent Van Gogh
Georges Seurat
Paul Signac
Henri Toulouse-Lautrec
Paul Cézanne
Édouard Vuillard

But there are many, many more, here's the link:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-Impressionism


In a couple of days I'll do something similar for the symbolists, decadentists and art-nouveau painters.

Thanks to everyone who wants to participate, and see you soon!

[ladylurks]

I'd like to do Mary Cassatt.

[McTeague]

I'd like to do Mary Cassatt.

She's yours!

[CINNAMON]

I will go with Whistler!

[McTeague]

I will go with Whistler!

Yours!

1- ladylurks - Mary Cassat
2- CINNAMON - Whistler
3- Habsburg - Rousseau?
4- McT - TBD

[Habsburg]

I'd love to represent Mssr. Rousseau!

[DameOctaviaSpencer]

I'd like to have Camille Corot!

[McTeague]

[McTeague]

So, next season will happen in around a month!

The theme was impressionism, + pre-impressionism, + post-impressionism.

So far we have:

1- ladylurks - Mary Cassat
2- CINNAMON - James mcNeill Whistler
3- Habsburg - Henri Rousseau
4- McT - TBD
5- DameOctaviaSpencer - Camille Corot


Anyone else wanting to play? @Peppin , @Pingy , @julie12 , @Confusion , @Tavish , @The Dark Poet , @VV , @MrFilmkritik , @Vernal Wind , @24Emmy , @Nora , @Cutie , @Serhal , @Donnchadh ... And of course anyone else who I haven't mentioned. I assume @aikugur isn't interested in an impressionist season (maybe if you play a post-impressionist?) but you know you're welcome too.


This is what I wrote about the theme/eligible painters:

SOME IMPRESSIONIST AND POST-IMPRESSIONIST PAINTERS, WITH THOSE ALREADY PLAYED OR RESERVED SCRATCHED:

From the core group of Impressionism:

Frédéric Bazille
Gustave Caillebotte
Mary Cassatt
Edgar Degas
Armand Guillaumin
Édouard Manet
Claude Monet
Berthe Morisot
Camille Pissarro
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Alfred Sisley

From outside France, I recommend this wikipedia link, but have in mind that the following have already been played:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impres...#Beyond_France

Childe Hassam
Konstantin Korovin
Valentin Serov
Joaquin Sorolla
Ignacio Pinzao Camarlench

Worry not, there are still countless that could easily win a Painter Idol season).


From Pre-Impressionism, or those artists that influenced it the most, you could pick, for instance:

Camille Corot
Eugéne Boudin

People who are considered precursors of impressionism too, like Manet, Turner or Courbet have already been played.


And, from post-impressionism or neo-impressionism, I also recommend this Wikipedia entry, but I add this list of suggestions, with those already played scratched:

Paul Gaugin
Vincent Van Gogh
Georges Seurat
Paul Signac
Henri Toulouse-Lautrec
Paul Cézanne
Édouard Vuillard

But there are many, many more, here's the link:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-Impressionism

And remember that the idea (but of course only if people are interested) is having another one with symbolists, decadentists and art-nouveau-ers right afterwards, and you can play both seasons or only one (and maybe aikugur is more interested in the later season's theme!)

[Confusion]

Sign me up with Paul Signac please!

[Nora]

Sorry, @McTeague but I won't be able to participate

[McTeague]

Sign me up with Paul Signac please!

Sorry, @McTeague but I won't be able to participate

[aikugur]

Thanks to tag me, but yeah, I won't play. It is not only a matter of interest, but also time. Thanks anyway!

[McTeague]

Thanks to tag me, but yeah, I won't play. It is not only a matter of interest, but also time. Thanks anyway!

Maybe symbolist/decadentist season? Feels more you. Will be in late April.

Anyways, os of now, I'm setting on Félix Vallotton.

[Pingy]

I wanna do Modern again(!)( ).

But sign me up w/ Post-Impressionist William Orpen...

[McTeague]

I wanna do Modern again(!)( ).

But sign me up w/ Post-Impressionist William Orpen...

Didn't know this Orpen guy. A cursory google search tells me you have a strong contender! But good luck finding a usable picture of that Mona Dunn girl!

1- ladylurks - Mary Cassat
2- CINNAMON - James McNeill Whistler
3- Habsburg - Henri Rousseau
4- McT - Félix Vallotton
5- DameOctaviaSpencer - Camille Corot
6- Confusion - Paul Signac
7- Pingy - William Orpen


This starting to shape up!

[Peppin]

Is Paul Albert Besnard eligible?

[McTeague]

Is Paul Albert Besnard eligible?

Yes, he is! For what I've read on him, while he started in academic classical style, he later swicthed to impressionistic technique (even if his themes were different from the reality landscapes the impressionists favored).

[MrFilmkritik]

I'll play! Painter TBD.