h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

That's great to know.

I tried it with the image from an early
Leonard Cohen album because at some point
over the years I encountered the original
image of the lady in chains and discovered
it was a relatively famous painting and not
created for the album cover - but I could
never recall who it was by or find it again.

Anyway I tried copying and pasting the album
cover art into the google search bar under
images and yes it works, I got a gazillion
matches of the album artwork but not the
original painting I'm seeking.

Obviously the flames and text on the cover do
obscure the image as it was originally so I
doubt that I will find it even if I go through
the entire list of google results.

Any suggestions from someone who knows this art
would be appreciated. It's been bugging me for years.


~jwf~

Here's one of the google results showing the cover:
http://www.freecodesource.com/album-covers/B000NOKA0S--leonard-cohen-songs-of-leonard-cohen-album-cover.html

I'm trying to figure out what album that was, ~jwf~

Ahh. Never mind. the picture of Bernadette from Songs of Leonard Cohen.


I'll see if I can work it out for you.

The note on the picture here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songs_of_Leonard_Cohen leads me to believe that it is a piece of touristy religious art Cohen picked up on his travels. It might be nearly impossible to trace the artist as it may well have come from a painting factory of some sort.

Full sized picture here: http://www.changingworld.com/catalog/all-products.php-by-S.html

It's a postcard, ~jwf~. You could have your very own copy for just ninety cents.

And: http://animasolagirl.blogspot.com/2007/03/trials-of-saint-bernadette.html


and


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anima_Sola

and

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lonelysoul.jpg




This is the picture you're meaning, right?

Thank you anhaga!
That is quite satisfying to know.

And when I tried pasting that image
into Google search it gave me a shedload
of information about its origins and uses.

It even appears in Final Fantasy X.
And I found a two-fisted version:
http://www.populardelujo.com/libro_01/galeria_deluxe/ver_pieza.php?id_pieza=166

Anima Sola!
I'll remember that.
And I owe you another one.

~jwf~

I was pretty surprised to find so much so quick. Sometimes I just seem to have the touch.



(I expect you found that "anima sola" means "lonely or solitary soul".)

And it's feminine.

~jwf~

Thing is, if I'd had the picture saved on my computer, I would have called the file something along the lines of 'Richard Dadd desert pic'. So identifying it would have been fairly easy

Mol

Like Still Incognitas I am a rabid pre-Raphaelite fan and have Leighton's Flaming June (obviously not the original - but would sell my soul for it) in my living room.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Flaming_June,_by_Fredrick_Lord_Leighton_%281830-1896%29.jpg

And would love to have Millais' Ophelia too.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:John_Everett_Millais_-_Ophelia_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg

Like Hoo, I like Dadd but have an unhealthy (professional) interest in him. Most of his work was done in Broadmoor or Bethlem hospitals after he had stabbed his father to death thinking that he was the Devil. An early example of a mentally disordered offender being diverted into treatment rather than facing the normal penalty for a crime which in his case would almost certainly have been hanging.

PP

A great thread by the way. we need a Hootoo gallery.

PP

I'd never seen Flaming June before.
Wow.

~jwf~

Glad you like the thread Mr. PP.

Yes Dadd was the daddy (pun intended) of them all of 'outsider artists' - almost certainly suffering from what we'd call, 'paranoid schizophrenia'...a form anyway.

That painting has always made me feel quite ill...

I was just thinking I'm (perversely, perhaps) quite fond of Falero's works, particularly his Vision of Faust: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a7/Falero_Luis_Ricardo_Vision_of_Faust_1878.jpg








and, von Stuck's "Tilla Dureaux als Circe": https://www.reproarte.com/files/images/S/stuck_franz_von/tilla_durieux_als_circe.jpg and his "Spinx": http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_BVbcNcXrio4/TO93D3Y2zsI/AAAAAAAAA9A/Zc3UNw6sCgs/s1600/sphinx%2Bfranz%2Bvon%2Bstuck.jpg


and, of course, anything by Caspar David Friedrich. https://www.google.com/search?pq=friedrich&hl=en&tok=M_QYWgl2ppt5jofBRLcUmw&cp=11&gs_id=b9&xhr=t&q=caspar+david+friedrich&client=firefox-a&hs=z12&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&biw=1366&bih=601&gs_upl=&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=v8Y1T7rgKcjx0gGFooS8Ag

oo`ps.


for the two that didn't work, try:


http://www.reproarte.com/files/images/S/stuck_franz_von/tilla_durieux_als_circe.jpg


and


http://www.google.com/search?pq=friedrich&hl=en&tok=M_QYWgl2ppt5jofBRLcUmw&cp=11&gs_id=b9&xhr=t&q=caspar+david+friedrich&client=firefox-a&hs=z12&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&biw=1366&bih=601&gs_upl=&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=v8Y1T7rgKcjx0gGFooS8Ag

I had the pleasure today whilst looking through a pile of stuff to discover a post card I bought at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. A Rembrandt. I spent good long time staring at that ruff.

http://www.topofart.com/images/artists/Harmenszoon_van_Rijn_Rembrandt/paintings/rembrandt198.jpg

And there always so much love and humanity in his 'faces'.

"Flinging a pot of paint in the public's face" otherwise known as "Nocturne in Black and Gold The Falling Rocket"

http://jssgallery.org/other_artists/Whistler/Nocturne_in_Black_and_Gold_The_Falling_Rocket.htm