Pipes in Art

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Monday Lagniappe - Joan Miro

 

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Today's theme is statues.

 

[claypipesarchaeologist]

 

[simnettpratt]

Alright, I'll play. This is my all-time favorite painter, though I don't like either of these. The second is his most famous painting though. Waldo is lower left.

 

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I love those mid-century advertising graphics. Pipe smokers with positive identification role modeling. I guess times do change.

And the Seurat. One of the most iconic paintings in history and I totally missed the pipe smoker.

Great job. Let's keep it going. I think this may be the #1 collection of pipe art on the net.

 

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Just to add another medium, how about scrimshaw

 

[claypipesarchaeologist]

I also missed the smoker in the Seurat!!! I've looked at that painting so many times and have never seen it. I love the portrait he did of his mother. The Getty has it, but it's not on display.
Very nice, simnettpratt

 

[simnettpratt]

Anyone else not realize quite how many churchwardens and clays were used in the semi-olden days? archy, my B&M has one of those clays you'd borrow at a drinking establishment, to smoke your pinch of baccy, mounted on his wall. There's an actual name for them, but I forgot what it was. He also said you'd break off the end of the stem for the next guy and, when it got too short, they'd just smash the whole pipe.
Here's my all-time favorite painting. Not sure you can make it out, but I'm pretty sure the guy in the lower left has a couple of pipe smudgies in front of him. If not, I know he has a thought bubble with a pipe in it. He's probably thinking, 'Damn, sitting right there on un bureau when I left, too'.

Olga's Gallery
PS archy, you realize the painting of Madame Seurat was done with ons, right? Conté ons, but still ons.

 

[claypipesarchaeologist]

Crayons?! I can't even make a decent stick figure with ons. Bravo!
And I think those pipes were just called tavern pipes. They come in English and American colonial. I'm sure there was also a Dutch version as well.

 

[simnettpratt]

Yep, ons. That's why I'm a tech, you're an archaeologist, and Seurat was one of THE painters Anytime you see one of his studies that's kinda all shades of one color, it's on. Hell, the man can paint frickin' alfalfa (my third favorite painting), so what do you want? I once tried to read a book he wrote on the science behind color, and it was so far over my head, it might as well have been in Chinese.
Tavern pipes - you're right. Colonial mid 18th-century. That explains why so many of them show up in the Masters' paintings. Several vendors sell a modern version for about $20, which I guess would be fun for the two bowls you smoke before you go back to your briars.
The thread is Pipes in Art. How about just a few pics in the sub-category Art in Pipes?

 

[claypipesarchaeologist]

Bring it on!

 

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I thought this was funny. Kind of a Mad magazine version of the self portrait

 

[monty55]

Alfred E. Neuman?

Or Dave Berg the cartoonist who worked at Mad Magazine for 5 years during the 50's?

 

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Jean Metzinger

 

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This one is called "Married Life". I reserve comment.

 

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[claypipesarchaeologist]

I think I could use a long pipe like some of those clays. Something I can hold up to my mouth while my arm is still rested on a chair. Looks peaceful.

 

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There definitely was no such thing as clutching, I quess.

 

[simnettpratt]

Yeah, it looks like strictly a parlour or tavern activity, and not something you could do while planting potatoes. I wonder how much of a day's wages a bowl cost.
PS I really like that broad stroke face after Married Life, but don't recognize the sig - who is it?