Entertainment For Lively Minds
Rock stars by the old masters
Posted by Patrick Crowther on 16 January 2010 - 6:29pm.
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So...
Pete Townshend by El Greco
Van Morrison by Goya
Richard Thompson by Raphael
Mix up
This is already quite possibly my favourite Word blog of all time - well done, sir!
however, I fear that you have got your Richard Thompson and Pete Townshend attributions mixed up. The clue is in the snozz.
You have to give some artistic licence to the artists...
This was a rejected version of El Greco's painting of Townshend...
Sorry Patrick, but THIS is Richard Thompson...
Fresh from the Calvary Cross, and with his '1000 Years Of Music' chums in tow as well.
And this..
http://www.jim3dlong.com/1498_Albrecht_Durer_Self-Portrait-WL400.jpg
circa 1975
If I can help
I'm getting more of a shane MacGowen vibe
from the El Greco
Good game
John Cale
Kate Bush
Another one...
Jerry Garcia by Goya
I found Elvis
'Paul Lemoyne'
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, 1780-1867
And...
A youthful Brian Jones by Piero della Francesca
Lady GaGa
Surely?
Toyah
Surely?!
It's a mystery
to me.
not really rock
Portrait of Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber by John Singleton Copley
Joe Strummer by Ferdinand Hodler
Laura Nyro by William Bouguereau
Janis Joplin by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Prog portrait...
Robert John Godfrey by Leonardo da Vinci
One for the ladeez...
Mick Hucknall by Rembrandt
Surely...
that's Charlie Drake?
Have they ever been seen in the same room?
Charlie Drake is his Dad
for real
The look on his face
tells me he's sad, maybe his boomerang won't come back?
An obscure one...
Moondog by William Blake
Hmmm...
Paul McCartney by Egon Schiele
Isn't this
the very picture which inspired the Dame's pose on the cover of "Heroes"?
I think it was this one
Also referenced on the cover of "The Idiot"
ERICH HECKEL “ ROQUAIROL” 1917
Yes, you're correct
although in my defence I know that he was/is a huge admirer of Schiele. Looking at the Schiele picture again, it's obvious that it was, of course, the inspiration for the character of Mork from Ork. Nanu Nanu, and indeed, Shazbat.
That's Nick Cave.
Possibly on his way to a birthday party.
If there was a thumbs-up gesture
Then it would be beyond debate.
Ummm...
Wayne Coyne by Sebastiano Del Piombo
Pete Docherty
By Gainsborough
Seasick Steve
By Michelangelo
Ahem..Katy Perry?
http://upload.ecvv.com/upload/Product/200801/2007612155158197537_old_mas...
(I have no wish to offend)
by Modigliani
Ooh err...
Phil Collins (circa 1987) by Donato Bramante
Lady GaGa
by Picasso
Mr. Sumner I Presume?
Van Gogh does Sting
(Probably better appreciated with only one ear these days...)
Mmmm...
Polly Harvey by Edvard Munch
The drummer from W.A.S.P.
Knopfler
Surely...
That's a young Bobby Dylan.
The Holbein collection
Ian Brown by Hans Holbein
Mick Fleetwood by Hans Holbein
Antony Hegarty by Hans Holbein
Hair - Original US cast
By Dürer
Next up...
Ronnie Wood with a hangover, by Bronzino
Or..
Gerry Sadowitz all the time
Hmmm...
Keith Richards by Dürer
Michael Stipe by Grant Wood?
http://www.arthistoryarchive.com/arthistory/americanscene/images/GrantWo...
Axl Rose by Claude Monet?
http://www.artofyourlife.com/images/dex%20pic.for%20site.jpg
Miles Davis by Anne Louis Girodet ?
Is that his
trumpet in his pocket.......
I think it must be...
as he doesn't seem very pleased to see whoever he's looking at.
A new one...
John Mayall by Hans Baldung