A Wonderful Friday Afternoon Challenge Just for You: When They Were Young...
In their younger years, great artists often do not produce works that resemble what evolves later and becomes their “signature” style. Here are some for you to identify!
And, please play fair...do not cheat if you play...
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and they are guesses....
#1 - Picasso
#2 - ?
#3 - ?
#4 - ?
#5 - Van Gogh
#6 - Rembrandt
and one day I'll get one right 
I'm glad you like these threads...I just want them to be fun...
When I was in grad school, I took a course titled "Evolution of Ideas: Science and Art." It was one of those classes where 90% of the students didn't really give a rat's ass, and the professor had little to no control over them. There were cell phones ringing all the time, people playing video games on the classroom computers, etc. It was a nightmare. Those of us who were taking the course for graduate credit had as an extra assignment to prepare and then present a 45-minute (plus questions) program on a topic selected from a list of suggestions. Most were barely able to stretch theirs to 30 minutes (with questions) and were substantially graded down for it. People fell asleep during them, and in the middle of one, a guy got into an argument with his girlfriend on his cell phone. Yes, in the middle of class!
But the professor admitted much of it was her fault for not laying down some ground rules.
I had eagerly grabbed the topic of cave art and assembled a PowerPoint slide show of over 50 examples of prehistoric art from Lascaux, Chauvet, Pech-Merle, Niaux, Altamira, Font de Gaume, Ireland's Dingle Peninsula, Easter Island, Las Vegas, Zambia, Australia, Russia, Indiana, and Arizona (among a few other places). The presentation lasted the required 45 minutes, during which there was not a sound in the room. No cell phones rang. No computer games beeped. No one fell asleep and snored. Questions afterward lasted at least another half hour.
I opened and closed the slide show with a quote: When Pablo Picasso visited the newly-discovered Lascaux caves, in the Dordogne, in 1940, he emerged from them saying of modern art, "We have discovered nothing".
So here are horses from Chauvet
And from Marc Chagall
