Who painted this??
 

I'm using this image for a school project - got it in poster form, and it had no written info whatsoever. Does anyone know who painted it?

It's a cool project: I cut up the poster into 180 equal sized pieces, laminate them, shuffle them like a deck of cards, and distribute them to my 5 art classes - 180 students (high school). Students must reproduce their "piece" on a paper 9 times as large (in area) , using colored pencils - and having no clue as to what the image will be - until it is finally put together. Now it's together - and it is huge, about 7 X 10 feet!

It's going in a local art show and I would love to - need to - include info about the original. Help!!

Sorry I can't help you with the name of the artist, but I have to ask if there is a place I can go to online to see the final project? It sounds really interesting.

How Sweet to do Nothing.
 

Dolce Far Niente, by John Godward.

Name: John William Godward
Born: London, England
9 August 1861
Died: London, England
13 December 1922

You can find more about him at http://www.mezzo-mondo.com/arts/mm/godward/godward.html

Hope it helps.

A few of his paintings...

I was guessing Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836-1912), whose work is very similar.

John C.

THANK YOU so much Claudemir. Is that the translation of the painting's title that you gave?..."How Sweet to do Nothing"?

And Janel, you are in luck!! I just took this photo, so here it is. It's gigantic - about 7 X 10 feet. Students are right now coming in to see it for the first time. They are so delighted with their work - as they should be. They worked hard - I pushed them hard, many were hesitant to go dark enough....I have reminded them that the quality of this piece represents the collective average of all the students - not just the best ones. Over 1800 "adolescent hours" went into it. I'm proud of them.

And these are all ART 1 students...(!)

To give you some sense of scale:

Wow! My high school Art1 teacher got fired for being drunk on the job. I would have loved to have you as a teacher.

Jean

That's right David!
It's a very common expression in Italian.

And that's a great and big project!