Paintings Then and Now - A Waymarking.com Category

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Paintings Then and Now

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Paintings Then and Now

Description:: Find a painting, find the spot, and take a current picture at the same spot towards the same location.

Expanded Description:

Photograph the scene in a painting on public view and record accurate coordinates.

Many paintings depict a real scene. Find where the artist set up their easel to take your photograph and record those exact coordinates with your GPSr.

The painting must be on public view. Paintings explicitly for sale in commercial galleries are not allowed. Although all paintings are technically for sale, except ones owned by public bodies, your subject needs to be publicly accessible. On loan to a exhibition gallery is public access.

A painting online is publicly accessible, but where is the original? You do not have to visit the original.

Group will also accept images printed from wood and metal engravings.

Instructions for Posting a Paintings Then and Now Waymark:

Name your waymark after the painting name and artist. Include the city/town and country.
e.g. "Die Fraueninsel by Fritz Halberg-Krauss - Gstadt, Bayern, Germany"

Accurate coordinates taken with a GPSr of where the artist stood.

Short description
Describe what and where the painting shows in reality. State which direction to look
e.g. North South East West

Long Description
Include where the painting is on public view and please say how to arrange viewing of the painting if it is not obvious. For paintings in public galleries and not for sale this will be easy. Tell us about the artist and this painting and the scene.
e.g. Dates, life history, what are we looking at.

Photos
Two images needed.
Default photograph taken by you of the scene in the painting. Further photos to illustrate points raised in your text. Also upload a photo of the painting either taken by you or from another source if the copyright allows it. Please credit all sources. Somehow viewers need to see both your photograph of the topic and an image of the painting. If there are some copyright problems you have to provide a link to the painting.

Text
Please credit all sources. "Quoted material can generally be used as long as it is clearly indicated as such (quotation marks are the accepted way to do this) and the source identified with URL for a web page if it is the source." source.

It is doubtful whether any of us are art historians nor art critics. Check with source about copying their text.
Group will also accept images printed from wood and metal engravings.

Instructions for Visiting a Waymark in this Category:

Describe your visit, including the date, with as much detail as possible, and contribute at least one photo, original, different from those already in the gallery, if possible.

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Variables:

Website of painting. Exact URL of painting is required
Artist
Date of Painting
Date of Your Photograph
Medium of Painting

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view gallery 0 km	The Restaurant de la Sirene at Asnières by Vincent Van Gogh - Asnières-sur-Seine, France in Paintings Then and Now [FR] Van Gogh peint et dessine à Asnières plusieurs vues de ponts ou, comme ici, du restaurant de la Sirène. [EN] In creating The Restaurant de la Sirène at Asnières (F313) Van Gogh is clearly influenced by the Impressionist movement. posted by: RakeInTheCache location: Île-de-France, France date approved: 4/29/2015 last visited: never
view gallery SW0 km	Le Pont d'Asnières par Paul Signac - Asnières-sur-Seine, France in Paintings Then and Now [FR] Paul Signac donna naissance au pointillisme avec le peintre Seurat. [EN] Paul Victor Jules Signac was a French Neo-Impressionist painter who, working with Georges Seurat, helped develop the Pointillist style. posted by: RakeInTheCache location: Île-de-France, France date approved: 5/18/2015 last visited: 10/4/2020
view gallery NE1 km	The Seine with the Pont de Clichy by Vincent Van Gogh - Asnières-sur-Seine, France in Paintings Then and Now [FR] La seine (les peintures) est le sujet et l'endroit de peintures que Vincent van Gogh a faites en 1886 et 1887. [EN] Seine (paintings) is the subject and location of paintings that Vincent van Gogh made in 1886 and 1887. posted by: RakeInTheCache location: Île-de-France, France date approved: 2/6/2015 last visited: never
view gallery SE7.2 km	Notre-Dame Cathedral, 1832 - Schmidt, Bernhard - Paris, France in Paintings Then and Now This 1832 painting of Notre-Dame Cathedral, in Paris, is a work of Bernhard Schmidt (German, 1820-1870). posted by: tmob location: Île-de-France, France date approved: 3/12/2013 last visited: 1/4/2023