Thursday, January 28, 2010

A Teasing Riddle

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Augustus Leopold Egg
(English, 1816-1863)
A Teasing Riddle, ????
Oil on canvas

Aw. :)

8 comments:

  1. Just looking at this makes me go "hmmm." This is a funny painting...I get the feeling that whatever they're trying to figure out is terribly obvious, and someone is about to show up and tell them that. Giggle.

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  2. But look! The girls seem to already know the answer. They're sharing a conspiratorial look and the girl on the right is holding a figure to her lips. She's signaling the other girl not to tell. Poor guy, I wonder if he'll figure it out! ;)

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  3. oooh I hadn't realized that they were looking at each other. Wonder if it's something from that book that one of the girls is holding?

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  4. oh, I love this!
    teehee.
    (I also love how you tagged the eggs...that just made me laugh)

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  5. Actually, Egg is the last name of the artist! I thought it looked silly though. XD
    And later I found a painter named Bacon and immediately thought: "I should post a painting by him so I have the tags Bacon and Egg."

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  6. Oh, I totally missed that!
    And I think the objects I was thinking were eggs are actually turnips or some root vegetable of the sort. So it's a good thing you tagged it, because now I'm actually aware of the painter's name, and I have studied the painting closer.
    You most definitely should post a painting by Bacon!

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  7. And then maybe another tag for "Painters with Last Names that Sound Like Breakfast Foods" ;)

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