WAG'd van Gogh based on 'sinuous' and the year. If I've encountered the term impasto before, it didn't stick (and it's been a loooong time since art history).
John's path to victory was not an easy one. I'm sure it meant a lot to him and family to have the game work out in his favor. Sometimes the sole solve is rewarded.
I wrote Munch and stuck it with it while I had the devil on my shoulder telling me it's always Thoreau. It's always Van Gogh. Impasto had me hopeful it was somehow describing the sky in The Scream. Losing an 8-spot on European Artists is better than missing on a good category.
Perhaps I'll write Van Gogh next time and it will turn out to be Monet or Gauguin.
I'm usually terrible at recognizing painters' different styles (especially just descriptions), but the description sounded like Starry Night, so I went with Van Gogh.
I always have trouble with the alphabetical ones, because I think of something that's close and just go with it, since the clues are so short. Comet and Angola got me.
econgator wrote:Sounded like van Gogh's work (and I knew he died in 1890). I'll take it.
Yup, my process too. It helped that I had a general idea of what impasto is. I'd agree it was a difficult question if you didn't.
I clammed. And muttered "If my dates were clearer in my head... alas!"
Oh, no, brick's turning into TPH!
No clamming allowed on FJ!
Ok. When pressed by my peer group I said Picasso, which I would have scribbled, fully knowing it was dead wrong, as the only gasp my tired brain could summon.
About halfway through the think music, as I was thinking of various artists, Starry Night popped into my head. It seemed to fit the clue, and "Was Van Gogh around then?" is technically in the form of a question. I'm counting it.
Van Gogh was in mind but I assumed the clue was referring to someone who was still alive in 1890.. I thought Van Gogh died a couple years earlier. I got this one wrong.
immaf wrote:It sounded like a description of "The Scream", so I said Edvard Munch. Upon sober sonsideration, I guess that doesn't fit the time period, though.
"The Scream" was painted in 1893, so you can't really say Munch doesn't fit the time period. I thought about Van Gogh, but went with Munch instead; I figured ol' Vinny was a trap.
Understandable inference, although the clue stated 'critic wrote in 1890,' it would have been written in anticipation of an 1893 artwork in advance!
O heck, it could've been just about anyone!!
The corridors of my mind are plastered with 3M Post-It notes!
econgator wrote:Sounded like van Gogh's work (and I knew he died in 1890). I'll take it.
Yup, my process too. It helped that I had a general idea of what impasto is. I'd agree it was a difficult question if you didn't.
I was initially thrown as I think of Van Gogh's use of a palate knife in his paintings, but the rest of the clue pointed his direction so I went with it.