Smile Now — Contest Over

Posted by Jon, onehumanbeing on November 1, 2009

Smile Now Con­test — Over…

And we have NO win­ners, but the runner-up prizes of Red­bot Loves You! but­ton sets will be sent out to the clos­est guesses.

Answers to The Smile Now Contest …

Artist Name: Willem de Kooning

Painting’s Name: Woman 1

About the paint­ing (from the MOMA web­site)

De Koon­ing took an unusu­ally long time to cre­ate Woman, I, mak­ing numer­ous pre­lim­i­nary stud­ies and repaint­ing the work repeat­edly. The hulk­ing, wild–eyed sub­ject draws upon an amal­gam of female arche­types, from Pale­olithic fer­til­ity god­desses to con­tem­po­rary pin–up girls. Her threat­en­ing stare and fero­cious grin are height­ened by de Kooning’s aggres­sive brush­work and fran­tic paint appli­ca­tion. Com­bin­ing volup­tuous­ness and men­ace, Woman, I reflects the age–old cul­tural ambiva­lence between rev­er­ence for and fear of the power of the feminine.

The Clues…

• Tues­day — Octo­ber 13, 2009 - The artist is NOT Andy Warhol…
• Wednes­day — Octo­ber 14, 2009 — The weld­ing mask and the artist’s name have a pho­netic con­nec­tion… try stretch­ing the sound and play­ing with the word “weld­ing” :) (try sound­ing that out now that you know the answer is Willem de Koon­ing — I know, it’s a really stretch)
• Thurs­day — Octo­ber 15, 2009 — This artist was mar­ried and their spouse was also an artist. (mar­ried to Elaine de Kooning)
• Fri­day — Octo­ber 16, 2009 — This artist came from Europe and did their major work in the United States.
• Sun­day — Octo­ber 18, 2009 — This artist was an Abstract Expres­sion­ist painter.
• Mon­day — Octo­ber 19, 2009 — The cut-out and attached smile is a big clue. (the big goofy smile on Woman I came from a cut-out mag­a­zine smile, I was think­ing about that when I first made the weld­ing mask smile the attach…)

Thanks for participating!

In reflec­tion, this might have been pretty obscure, it seemed obvi­ous to me at the time…

Smile Now and a Redbot Contest!

Posted by Jon, onehumanbeing on October 12, 2009

Red­bot says: Smile Now

Here’s a lit­tle graphic I worked on last night…  it’s from a photo of me taken sev­eral years ago at a yard sale, and altered a bit.

I was wear­ing a weld­ing mask and the lips were taped to the mask — I don’t think I was really help­ing with the sales.

Red­bot Contest

For just a lit­tle more fun…

A FREE medium size Red­bot with a Red­bot Own­er­ship Kit (ver­sion two) to the first per­son who can cor­rectly iden­tify the major 20th cen­tury artist AND the piv­otal paint­ing by that artist I ref­er­ence and pay homage to with this graphic.

The Two Run­ners Up each will get a FREE Red­bot but­tons set…

ALSO: Remem­ber to read through the rules before you enter… ONE entry per per­son per day.

REVISED — Octo­ber 13, 2009

1. One entry per day per per­son…
2. NEW clue every­day until con­test ends
3. Con­test end date changed to Octo­ber 31, 2009
4. New page to go to… Smile Now Con­test Page

Enter Here!

cforms con­tact form by delicious:days

Con­test Rules:

• Name BOTH the major 20th cen­tury artist AND the name of the piv­otal paint­ing this graphic appears to reference.
• First com­pletely cor­rect entry wins. COMPLETE artist name and COMPLETE paint­ing title required to win. Will be deter­mined by time entry email is received.
• One entry per per­son per day.
• Grand Prize — One Red­bot Own­er­ship Kit with MEDIUM Red­bot — ver­sion two
• Run­ner Up Prizes — Two sets of Red­bot Loves You! but­tons will be awarded to the sec­ond and third per­son who send in cor­rect entries.
• All con­test rules and the selec­tion of win­ners belongs to Jon, one­hu­man­be­ing and may be changed or altered with­out notice.
• Con­test ends 11-7-2009 10-31-2009 — prizes will be awarded to clos­est, and quick­est response.
• Win­ners will be required to email a mail­ing address so prizes can be mailed.
• Open to all human beings, ages 3 and older.

Thanks and Enjoy!