What is it - Glasgow edition - Winner

in #blog5 years ago (edited)

The @suesa-random travel diaries have come to an end so it is time to select the winner to my small SBI contest. The question was which location in the world the above painting depicts. Most of you guessed Katowice in Poland because the cat looks like Felix. Some other guesses included Sweden and Austria but they are all not correct. The most creative guess (in my opinion) came from @sugarfix:

There is grass so that rules out places like Timbuktu or Santa Fe. Although they are not in Europe. The cat also has fleas and the tree has no lower branches so it is either a pine or palm tree of some sort. the wall is not whitewashed so not deepest Southern Europe. The cat has either done a lot of poops or they are dead rats. The tree is in the middle of the road. It's Nicosia in Cyprus. Yes i know that is southern Europe but the wall there is a pretty new one. - sugarfix

So I will be sending the share to sugarfix. Congrats. :D

But that still leaves the mystery of the painting unsolved D: So where is it? Well, I mentioned that I took the photo in a gallery in Glasgow. If you look for big modern art galleries in Glasgow you will come accross Gallery Of Modern Art - GOMA. If you look at the exhibition program you will see a very familiar looking wall by an artist called Jack Knox (Not sure about copy right so just putting the link here. With a bit more digging you can find that Jack Knox made a series of paintings in Amsterdam which is a city that Suesa visited on her Europe tour! With a bit more effort you can actually find the precise location:

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Here is picture of the Begijnhof in Amsterdam:


Wiki Source by Massimo Catarinella CC BY-SA 3.0

As you can see the resemblance is striking ... Well that's some modern art for you.


Merchandise :D


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There is a MathOwl shop which sells my artsy fartsy stuff. If you got some spare money head over there. I have really cheap stuff available like these stickers They are an absolute hoot.


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Thanks for the SBI. It is much appreciated by a minnow-spratling such as myself. I would certainly have never have guessed it was a painting of somewhere in Amsterdam. It makes me wonder if Mr Knox had not been over-enjoying his time in the local coffee shops. That's a cliched ad hom I couldn't resist :/

Thanks for voting on my latest post too ........although that was one of my least interesting ones :P

You deserve it :)

Well I am a sucker for Japan-stuff :D

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oooooh... that was actually a really really nice riddle there!

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