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I've been keeping a file of mandolin art gleaned from the internet and thought I'd share some favorites. #Do any of you have examples you'd be willing to post?
Who do you reckon this first one is a picture of?
It's entitled "Mandolin Player", by Jerry Garcia.
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Here's another entitled "Mandolin", by Nelson Shanks.
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Looks like Grisman in that Garcia drawing, eh?!
This is a portrait by well known photographer Laurence Bartone
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A very pleasant photograph, Arthur. Nice kitty. Really nice mando.
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Okay, I couldn't get my favorite Picasso mandolin portrait to post, so I'll try this one. #"Mandolin and Guitar" #I like the colors.
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Black smoke Maine Coon cat & a Gichrist Model 3A, bound f holes, with tweed blocks like on Steve's jazz guitars.
The stealth look in cats & mandos. Oh yeah.....art glass in the background completes the portrait.
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How about "Mandolin Player", by Sherman Barnes. #That's sbarnes to you cafe types.
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I like this one. #My favorite Picasso mandolin protrait. The girl looks like she just got to the serious part of the break and is gettin' down.
"Girl with a Mandolin (Fanny Tellier)", Pablo Picasso, Paris 1910
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Marc Chagall did a number of paintings with mandolins, but the colors in "The Lute Player" are really stunning (in a good way, of course). Thanks, Niles.
Talk about a tubby mandolin in that Botero. Good one, acumando.
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I am creating a series of prints called "Mandolin Dreams" here is one from that series.
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Very nice, Stillpicking.
Here's one from impressionist Henri Rousseau, "The Sleeping Gypsy" (1897), in which the mando is an unnamed prop.
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Thanks I am working on #4 and hope to post it in the next few days. Nice thread thanks for starting it up. http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/...ns/biggrin.gif
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If the original things called "mandolin" count, I'm recently fond of Longhi's "The Little Concert."
http://www.wga.hu/art/l/longhi/pietro/thelittl.jpg
plami launched a thread like this a great long time ago, but I can't seem to find it anymore.
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This glass sculpture is 24" high, 8" wide. "Mandolin", by Dino Rosin.
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That glass art is beautiful.......but a bit brittle sounding on the E string.
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This poster I got from the ASDM website after reading about it on the cafe home page almost exactly a year ago. Sounded like it would be great, something to save up for and attend, but there is no sign of it this year.
I used this for my desktop until one of my students saw it one day and told her mother I had "porno" on my laptop. No worries; I'm still employed in the same job, but the desktop was changed.
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Here's one I asked local painter/musician Wayne Jiang to do of my house. He suggested putting me in there with my old Harmony. An Alvarez Yairi classical and my old Guild D-35 are on the wall behind me.
This was a Christmas present to my wife in 2004.
If you're in the SF Bay Area, Wayne's got a show in the Los Gatos Museum of Art opening August 3rd.
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One of my favorite contemporary artists is Nikolai Blokhin. His painting Harlequin with Mandolin can be found at this website. (I hestitated copying and pasting it here as I'm pretty sure it's still under copyright. It should stay on that page until the gallery sells it.) Once there, click on the small picture for a larger image.
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Footnote on Picasso: Guy Clark has a fine song, "Picasso's Mandolin" "He was born in Spain and did in France. He was not 'fraid of baggy pants." They don't write'em like that anymore.
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I recently saw this Vermeer at an estate in Hampstead Heath. It's called The Guitar Player- but it's a four course instrument, looks more mando-like to me!
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Probably Vermeer was in the crowd that calls mandolins "little guitars", and we're fortunate it isn't called "The Ukulele Player".
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Here is another print in my "Mandolin Dreams" series.
Hope you all enjoy it.
Mike
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Yep that about says it all!
I must be sick.