Question 769: All for one and NO one for anyone

Id the painting, the artist and the location of this beautiful work of art, signifying the change from bad to good(Or good to bad. Depends on how you look at it all, of course).

Question 722: Couldn't keep this doc away

Description of the painting by the artist __X__

At least it hides the face partly. Well, so you have the apparent face, the apple, hiding the visible but hidden, the face of the person. It's something that happens constantly. Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see. There is an interest in that which is hidden and which the visible does not show us. This interest can take the form of a quite intense feeling, a sort of conflict, one might say, between the visible that is hidden and the visible that is present

Made famous by the movie "The Thomas Crown Affair", this painting has been extensively parodied by apple maniacs.

ID the painting and the painter.

Question 647 g: /with pleasure

Identify this, ahem, piece of art and the, ahem, artist.

Where would you have come across this?

Also, go for the bloody theme!





Ps: Please.

Question 596: Not a Looking For Kyle Meme

This painting occupies an extremely important place in the body of David’s work and in the history of French painting. The story was taken from Livy. We are in the period of the wars between Rome and Alba, in 669 B.C. It has been decided that the dispute between the two cities must be settled by an unusual form of combat to be fought by two groups of three champions each. The two groups are the three ___X___ brothers and the three ___Y____ brothers. The drama lay in the fact that one of the sisters of the ___Y____ , Sabina, is married to one of the ___X___, while one of the sisters of the ___X___, Camilla, is betrothed to one of the___Y____ . Despite the ties between the two families, the ___X___'s father exhorts his sons to fight the ___Y____  and they obey, despite the lamentations of the women.


Sounds a lot like a Hindi movie i know, but im getting to this before Bollywood does.
Question:
1) ID X and/or Y OR name the painting
2) ID what the painting inspired.

Question 585: If Only The Artists Got Any...

ID the paintings below for a point each, with one unbelievable obvious binding connect for 6 points:

Question 576: Proof kahan hai?

X

Y

Z

X was an idea put forth by a very generally awesome man (although I don't personally appreciate the usage of the idea, I still think he's pretty cool).
Y and Z sort of picked up on it later on.

The theory of Z actually has a name coined for it.



So give me:
1. X, Y and Z

2. The name of the generally awesome man

3. What Z is a parody of

4. The name coined for Z

2 points per part plus a bonus of 2 for getting all four.
So 10 points in total.
Also, my Hindi (and possibly everyone else's) is better than Pai's.
Just saying.

Question 571: Egypt's Karma?

__X__ comprises a vast mix of ruined temples, chapels, pylons, and other buildings, notably the Great Temple of Amun and a massive structure begun by Pharaoh Ramses II(ca. 1391–1351 BC). Sacred Lake is part of the site as well. It is located near Luxor, some 500 km south of Cairo, in Egypt. The area around __X__ was the ancient Egyptian Ipet-isut ("The Most Selected of Places") and the main place of worship of the eighteenth dynasty Theban Triad with the god Amun as its head. It is part of the monumental city of Thebes. The __X__ complex takes its name from the nearby, and partly surrounded, modern village of el-__X___, some 2.5 km north of Luxor.

The history of the __X___ complex is largely the history of Thebes and its changing role in the culture.The earliest known artifact found in the area of the temple is a small, eight-sided temple from the Eleventh Dynasty, which mentions Amun-Re. Amun (sometimes called Amen) was long the local tutelary deity of Thebes. He was identified with the Ram and the Goose. The Egyptian meaning of Amen is, "hidden" or, the "hidden god".

It hasn't been as significant a tourist site as The pyramids of Giza, etc, but it rose to prominence it 2001 and once again in 2009.
So:
1) ID X
2) ID why it rose to prominence in those years.

Basic layout

Pharaoh's Wall

Hypostle Hall

The Hall

Question 516: Its all Greek to me (Sebin's Question)

The third author of The Quizzard couldn't post his question tonight (saving up his bandwidth for something else, as quizzers, use your imagination

or actually don't

lol)

So he just gave me all the elements, & asked me to post it

We'll be resuming our normal activity by tomorrow

Regards

Pai

Also

Don't forget these questions

514

515

Onto His question:

Connect the following pictures to a person

Question 512.h: Last man standing

There are totally 5 statues of the Jain saint __X__ in Karnataka

• 42 feet at Karkala in Udupi District in 1432 AD
• 39 feet at Dharmasthala in Dakshina Kannada District in 1973 AD
• 35 feet at Venur in Dakshina Kannada District in 1604 AD
• 20 feet at Gommatagiri in Mysore District in 12th Century AD

Simply ID X, the most famous one

& give me the place __Y__ in Karnataka.

Picture of X

Question 512.f: A Date with Desire (ok, this maybe a little sexual)

The ___X____ do not contain sexual or erotic art inside the temple or near the deities; however, some external carvings bear erotic art. Also, some of the temples that have two layers of walls have small erotic carvings on the outside of the inner wall. There are many interpretations of the erotic carvings. They portray that, for seeing the deity, one must leave his or her sexual desires outside the temple. Some 10% of the carvings contain sexual themes; those reportedly do not show deities, they show sexual activities between people.

Another perspective of these carvings is presented by James McConnachie. In his history of the __Y___, McConnachie describes the zesty 10% of the ___X____ sculpture as "the apogee of erotic art": "Twisting, broad-hipped and high breasted nymphs display their generously contoured and bejewelled bodies on exquisitely worked exterior wall panels. These fleshy apsaras run riot across the surface of the stone, putting on make-up, washing their hair, playing games, dancing, and endlessly knotting and unknotting their girdles....Beside the heavenly nymphs are serried ranks of griffins, guardian deities and, most notoriously, extravagantly interlocked maithunas, or lovemaking couples."

Thus causing __X___ to also be known as the __Y__ temple.

Question:
1) ID X
2) ID Y

Note; Pictures to aid in recognistion, not as a distraction.

                                 

Question 512.b: Strictly non sexual

Yes, hard to believe when one hears the name __X__, but let me assure you that its strictly platonic, or atleast most of it is.

lol

__X__ comes from the anglicized name of the river upon whose banks it was built upon, the river being the Tungabhadra in Southern India. Although __X__ exists in the ruins of the Vijayanagara Empire, it actually predates it, being associated with the Vanara(monkey) kingdom mentioned in the Ramayan.

The site is significant historically and architecturally. The topography abounds with large stones which have been utilized to make larger than life statues of Hindu deities. A structure of historic importance appears every quarter of a mile. The Archaeological Survey of India continues to conduct excavations in the area, to discover additional artifacts and temple.

The principal industries of the village are agriculture, the support of the Virupaksha temple and some other local holy places in the vicinity, and tourism. The annual Vijayanagar Festival is organized by the Government of Karnataka in November.

Entire View of X

I'll keep this straightforward

Just ID X

Question 512.a: 1st of the month, so White Rabbits to all

__X__'s vision about __Y__ (refer to the pics) was as such:


Should guilty seek asylum here,
Like one pardoned, he becomes free from sin.
Should a sinner make his way to this mansion,
All his past sins are to be washed away.
The sight of this mansion creates sorrowing sighs;
And the sun and the moon shed tears from their eyes.
In this world this edifice has been made;
To display thereby the creator's glory.


A more poetic story relates that once a year, during the rainy season, a single drop of water falls on the inner part of the structure, as inspired by Rabindranath Tagore's description of the structure as 
"one tear-drop...upon the cheek of time".

Now for the Tin eyers Delight.

Connect these pictures to a single entity (__Y__).

Floor Plan

Layout

During a period __Z__

Question:

1) ID X & Y (+5)
2) Why was the scaffolding put up in the last pic, or name the period. (+5)

Question 490: "No if, no but, only ____"

The title is from a film (obscure one at that), brownie points for anyone who can give me the title of the film, and an utter loss of respect if you've seen that film
lol
Now onto the question
Ive divided it up into two parts, one with text, and the other, a picture parody (its always a parody).
One for the googlers, and one for the tin-eyers.
Both combined, gives you one for the purist quizzer (a combination of google and tineye)
smirk.
Both have the same answer.


Textual Question:


Georges Seurat, motivated by study in optical and colour theory, he contrasted miniature dots of colors that, through optical unification, form a single hue in the viewer's eye. For example, he painted many green and red dots in a certain way that when you see the painting, the colour would be seen as the combination of both colours, in this case yellow. He believed that this form of painting, now known as __Y___, would make the colors more brilliant and powerful than standard brush strokes. To make the experience of the painting even more vivid, he surrounded it with a frame of painted dots, which in turn he enclosed with a pure white, wooden frame, which is how the painting is exhibited today at the Art Institute of Chicago.

In creating the picture, Seurat employed the then-new pigment zinc yellow (zinc chromate), most visibly for yellow highlights on the lawn in the painting, but also in mixtures with orange and blue pigments. In the century and more since the painting's completion, the zinc yellow has darkened to brown—a colour degeneration that was already showing in the painting in Seurat's lifetime.

The island of____X__ is in the Seine in Paris between La Defense and the suburb of Neuilly, bisected by the Pont-de-Levallois. Although for many years it was an industrial site, it is today the site of a public garden and a housing development. In 1884, the island was a bucolic retreat far from the urban center.

Pictorial representation:

Question:

1) ID X (the picture being described, and the progenitor of the parody)

2) The art form described, and utilized even in the parody (by someone as jobless as me to get all this info, and you for reading it. lol)

3) Brownie points for completing the title of the question

Open Questions (Click on the link)

1) Till 9 pm, IST (so thats about 10 pm Indian time i guess,lol)

Question 485

Question 486

2) Questions still open for a couple of more days

Question 487

Question 488

Question 489

Regards

Pai

Question 481: Hand Made to perfection

The painting shows a large room in the Madrid palace of King Philip IV of Spain, and presents several figures, most identifiable from the Spanish court, captured, according to some commentators, in a particular moment as if in a snapshot. Some look out of the canvas towards the viewer, while others interact among themselves. The young _____ is surrounded by her entourage of __X___, chaperone, bodyguard, two dwarfs and a dog. Just behind them, Velázquez portrays himself working at a large canvas. Velázquez looks outwards, beyond the pictorial space to where a viewer of the painting would stand.In the background there is a mirror that reflects the upper bodies of the king and queen. They appear to be placed outside the picture space in a position similar to that of the viewer, although some scholars have speculated that their image is a reflection from the painting Velázquez is shown working on.


A parody of the painting (yes, it was inevitable), is given here.
So id the painting (aka X)

Question 461: Oh Heavenly Delight

The lady in this picture is the patron saint of all engineers ( lucky B*st*rds), and the reason behind it was that most engineering colleges in England had sprung up during the Industrial Revolution. When it migrated to the US, it remained as the mascot (no surprises) and was passed onto their various drinking songs (again, lucky B*st*rds). Her story was often regaled by rogues in MIT and other engineering colleges, and often enacted over there by females ( lucky guys), and sometimes by  guys (what the deuce?), until strong feminist views stopped these practices  (was it against the girls doing it or the guys?)

Her influence isn't only encompassed by those engineers, as she finds her find figure upon chocolates, a pop music festival, poems (obviously), pictures ( they have more?), and movies (someone send me a link).

As for the question

1) ID the fine piece of art (im not talking about the painting, smirk)

2) Ignore the comments

3) And why is she portrayed as such?

(And why she should be portrayed so again,lol)

Question 460: Its all GEEK to me

During the construction of La Sagrada Familia, which according to Gaudi was supposed to chronicle the lifetime of Christ, he placed a symbol (refer to the picture) near the entrance to remind the visitors of one of the appellations of Christ, of his enduring nature.
To all of those who have suffered through high school/college/workplace?(what sort of life choice is that?lol), will recognize these symbols as totems of our torture as well.

So, simple enough

Question:
1) ID the symbol
2) ID where the phrase (or the apellation) was originally found

Question 431: Mum's the Word!

Id the painting.

QUESTION 390 : The Great Train Fochery

BTW, THE QUIZZARD COMPLETED ITS FIRST YEAR ON NOV 4TH.
In this flurry of questions, yet another one!

Simple.

Explain the painting.

QUESTION 384 a : Sounds like a fish!

THEME ROUND BEGINS.
GET CRACKING!
If you're going for the theme, + 50 if you get it right! :)
-30 if you guess it wrong.

This question is simple.
Two parts to it.
Monotonous.
Id Both pics.

X painted Y.

X)

Y)

QUESTION 210

A                                                                                             B
                                                                                              









 Now, what are the terms given to the two different designs?
A and B, that is..
The object protrudes from the surface in A
The object is engraved into the surface in B.