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tehrara wrote:hmmmm, my tops would be:

Magritte's Son of man
Skoglunds's Revenge of the Goldfish
Motley's Nightlife
Dali's Persistence of Memory
And Miro's The Birth of the World

Would be interesting to see an interpretation of Mondrian.

Anybody else here ever help deliver a kid before? "Birth of the World" could get downright scary!

The problem with this theme is that it requires that the shirt.woot community be cultured.

hmm... guess lots of people are going to be googling "famous art" tonight.

oreocookiesp wrote:The problem with this theme is that it requires that the shirt.woot community be cultured.

hmm... guess lots of people are going to be googling "famous art" tonight.

I think you mean 'cultured'

Ambush -Sebastien Vrancx
Woman and Monkeys -Henri Matisse
Man With A Hoe* -Jean-Francois Millet
The Black Pigs -Gauguin
The Umbrellas -Renoir
Child with a Whip -Renoir
The washer women -Renoir


*not that kind

theWanker wrote:Anybody else here ever help deliver a kid before? "Birth of the World" could get downright scary!

from what I've heard, they all seem like the birth of the world.

edit: and yeah, 3 kids. the horror.

oreocookiesp wrote:The problem with this theme is that it requires that the shirt.woot community be cultured.

hmm... guess lots of people are going to be googling "famous art" tonight.

I give you one. Wheat field with reaper by Van Gogh. Or how about the Potato eaters?

DrPepperSpray wrote:I give you one. Wheat field with reaper by Van Gogh. Or how about the Potato eaters?

Oooh, I know what's gonna win, in that case!

Is there any proof that your staffer Mark was really randomly named? Maybe it's a family name, and was planned long before he was even born.

The "random rule" from "Mark" is almost identical to a joke that the female Dwarves in World of Warcraft tell: "No, they're not real, but thanks for noticing." Do I sense a WoW player at the shirt.woot headquarters?

Jenn
(player of a female Dwarven hunter)

Spiritgreen wrote:Clever, Jesse'! Someone has to do that. Maybe with some kind of a grudge involved.

Haha that's exactly what I was thinking...

artulo wrote:I actually have a really good vision for this one :D

Paging Ms. Boots....

Sweeeeeeeet =)

jennreese wrote:The "random rule" from "Mark" is almost identical to a joke that the female Dwarves in World of Warcraft tell: "No, they're not real, but thanks for noticing." Do I sense a WoW player at the shirt.woot headquarters?

Jenn
(player of a female Dwarven hunter)

LOL would that seriously surprise you in the least?!

I'm working on 'The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living' (Damien Hirst).

My take on it probaly won't be considered art... but it might make for a fun t-shirt. See you all later! :^)

artulo wrote:I actually have a really good vision for this one :D

Paging Ms. Boots....

You rang?

Had an idea for Persistence of Memory, but not the drawing chops to do it justice... a disembodied hand (think the hamburger helper guy, or thing from the addams family) with a string around its finger putting its "foot" in a door to keep it from closing a la a pushy salesman.

It's up for grabs.

bellarific wrote:Yeah, if anyone has a list of good ones or has other suggestions, I'm all ears. I'm trying to find some good ones, but I have the nagging suspicion that my research is full of holes.

Anybody know if The girl who fell from the sky by heidi w. durrow is a famous enough book to use?

Hey, I PMed you.

Josephus wrote:Of course, that makes it difficult for the voters, as they've never seen your mother. ;^)

Hee! True, very true. Though I did think about that.

pi3832 wrote:Random titles that come to mind:

bellarific wrote:Yeah, if anyone has a list of good ones or has other suggestions, I'm all ears. I'm trying to find some good ones, but I have the nagging suspicion that my research is full of holes.

Anybody know if The girl who fell from the sky by heidi w. durrow is a famous enough book to use?

It might be easier to think of artists and look up their galleries. As to the titles being famous, I wouldn't worry about that. Once you've fit the theme, you want a shirt that's "wearable" that people will vote for.

Anyone finding good art databases for recognizable, popular work? Thanks for sharing.

I'm hoping for some awesome MC Escher inspired prints!

parrotworks wrote:Anyone finding good art databases for recognizable, popular work? Thanks for sharing.

www.google.com

parrotworks wrote:Anyone finding good art databases for recognizable, popular work? Thanks for sharing.

Just teasing. There are actually a lot of good sites out there. http://dart.fine-art.com/ isn't bad.

EDIT: oops, wrong one. I meant http://www.artnet.com/

BootsBoots wrote:You rang?

ygpm

jennreese wrote:The "random rule" from "Mark" is almost identical to a joke that the female Dwarves in World of Warcraft tell: "No, they're not real, but thanks for noticing." Do I sense a WoW player at the shirt.woot headquarters?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGu0B6kL9eM

I have a couple ideas, but what's recognizable art to me is probably a little different than what it is for most people (I have a degree in Art History)...how much would I get flamed if I used the title of a work by someone like Barbara Kruger? i.e. someone who's well known in the art world, but maybe not so much to the general public?

tjbeyerl wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGu0B6kL9eM

HA! I've never seen Dumb and Dumber -- I bet that's where the World of Warcraft folks came up with that joke!

Thanks for the enlightenment. :-D

Jenn

cosmiccow wrote:I have a couple ideas, but what's recognizable art to me is probably a little different than what it is for most people (I have a degree in Art History)...how much would I get flamed if I used the title of a work by someone like Barbara Kruger? i.e. someone who's well known in the art world, but maybe not so much to the general public?

she was in a nightmare on elm street, rite?

Here's one for someone:

Virgin/Madonna of the Rocks by DiVinci

There's lots here. I was thinking a drink at first. "on the Rocks" and "Virgin".

Also you could go with at the Madonna singer reference.

http://soholmweb.dk/madonnaOfTheRocks.jpg

no1 wrote:she was in a nightmare on elm street, rite?

Hahaha, not quite.
http://www.google.com/images?q=barbara+kruger&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=univ&ei=y8BITKD4JYjmsQOp44BJ&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=1&ved=0CDcQsAQwAA&biw=1440&bih=683

I have the day off from work, and coming off a temporary stint at the graveyard shift, I'm finding

Nighthawks

oddly appropriate. <3 Hopper.

edit: though it seems none of my usual archives have any photos at all of these birdlings, even though they're not endangered by any stretch. going to ponder for a while.

xazothia wrote:I have the day off from work, and coming off a temporary stint at the graveyard shift, I'm finding

Nighthawks

oddly appropriate. <3 Hopper.

edit: though it seems none of my usual archives have any photos at all of these birdlings, even though they're not endangered by any stretch. going to ponder for a while.

try regular hawks at night?

Ok, how about a really embarrassingly bad pun:



First to guess it gets, well, nothing.

I'm entirely too lazy to actually submit, but I started doing a 'Washington crosses the Delaware' shirt where George Washington in a hockey jersey crosschecks a human sized state of Delaware...

Maybe next time.

xazothia wrote:I have the day off from work, and coming off a temporary stint at the graveyard shift, I'm finding

Nighthawks

oddly appropriate. <3 Hopper.

edit: though it seems none of my usual archives have any photos at all of these birdlings, even though they're not endangered by any stretch. going to ponder for a while.

http://www.google.com/images?q=nighthawk+bird

theWanker wrote:Ok, how about a really embarrassingly bad pun:



First to guess it gets, well, nothing.

16th or 'Sistine' Chapel? That's all I've got.

MissJamieD wrote:16th or 'Sistine' Chapel? That's all I've got.

...and that's all there is.

cosmiccow wrote:Hahaha, not quite.

Methinks you missed the point. As a lowly member of the uncultured general public who couldn't possibly know anything about art without an Art History Degree, I (personally) believe no1 was poking fun at your high horse.

Even though this derby has a theme based on the wide world of fine art, you aren't going to see much (if any) of that here. I sure hope that shirt.woot and/or the designers aren't expecting it. While artistry is appreciated - a t-shirt isn't meant to be "fine art" (especially here).

Regarding your question about using a title from Barbara Kruger's portfolio, I wouldn't expect any flaming - maybe some unlettered folk wanting to verify the artist, though. We try to be nice, mostly...

no1 wrote:http://www.google.com/images?q=nighthawk+bird

I wish I'd known of this website when I was writing all of those papers in college! Just think, if I'd put in some photos of puppies in my linguistics papers they might have been less rude about my use of comic sans.

Jean-Michel Basuiat: Arroz Con Pollo, as a Lucha Libre movie.

my very rough concept

xazothia wrote:I wish I'd known of this website when I was writing all of those papers in college! Just think, if I'd put in some photos of puppies in my linguistics papers they might have been less rude about my use of comic sans.

ouch. try to be helpful and you get a bucket of sarcasm thrown back at you!

cosmiccow wrote:I have a couple ideas, but what's recognizable art to me is probably a little different than what it is for most people (I have a degree in Art History)...how much would I get flamed if I used the title of a work by someone like Barbara Kruger? i.e. someone who's well known in the art world, but maybe not so much to the general public?

The rules state "create a design reinterpreting the title of a famous work of art" and famous is subjective.

However, if you google
+kruger +"your body is a battleground"
you get 9600 ghits...good enough for me, but I don't know about the WootLords

if you google
+kruger +"how can I become a saint"
you get 445 ghits...pretty weak and not likely to make the cut