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Posted by Patrick Burgoyne, 17 December 2008, 17:56 Permalink Comments (18)
Pentagram partner Angus Hyland has designed this canvas tote bag for art supply shop Cass Art. So, here's a little Christmas quiz: how many of the well-known silhouetted art works can you name?
Here's two to get you started: Cadeau by Man Ray (top right) and, next to it, Man Striding by Alberto Giacometti.
The bag is free with purchases over £30 and looks like this on the back

18 Comments
David - Michealangelo
Rabbit - Jeff Koons
Quink
Venus di Milo
Van Gogh - Sunflowers
Felix The Cat
Che - Jim Fitzpatrick
Rene Magritte (?)
Piet Mondrian
The Banana is bugging me I'm sure its a sculpture and not the Warhol - Velvet Underground cover (or is it a parody?)
Jeez did I really just fall for that and spend the past 15mins racking my brain and spell checking/googling my answers....(But please someone put me out my misery)
2008-12-17 22:08:32
Is Felix the Cat supposed to be Mark Leckey who won the Turner Prize this year?
2008-12-18 02:35:30
Well done Framedink.
Ed - yes, we thought Felix was a reference to Leckey's work.
Any ideas on the sculpture, bottom right? That's the one we're really struggling with.
2008-12-18 11:58:26
le corbusier
2008-12-18 12:36:38
The 'sculpture' at bottom right is Le Corbusier's Modular Man, which is as much a guiding principle, or way of thinking, as it is an artistic form.
2008-12-18 12:57:30
Bottom right is Le Corbusiers 'Le Modular'
2008-12-18 13:15:08
Mark - It's not a sculpture... it seems the modulor man by Le Corbusier
2008-12-18 13:16:25
the bag itself though is shiz. who'd be seen dead with that? over branded and terrible copy, 'art in transit'? please..
2008-12-18 13:34:10
There's a Jeff Koons piece in there, is there not? The rabbit?
2008-12-18 13:49:02
@ma, Modular, Jan, merlo
Thanks!
@GSD
Yep, that's Jeff Koons' Rabbit (1986)
2008-12-18 14:16:44
The stag looks like 'Monarch of the Glen' by Edwin Landseer, but he doesn't really fit with the rest of the artists already mentioned.
2008-12-18 14:35:12
@ Josh
Maybe it's Peter Saville's reworking of the 'Monarch of the Glen'
Is that a Giacometti sculpture at the top right next to the Man Ray iron and a Dan Flavin at the bottom left?
2008-12-19 10:17:21
doh! just spotted that Giacometti and Ray were mentioned in the article!
2008-12-19 10:19:52
There is a Giacometti sculpture as well...
2008-12-19 10:20:33
light bulbs - dan flavin
2008-12-19 10:56:15
I love Dan Flavin gutted I didnt make the connection!
Any one got the banana yet? Why have I got the image of a Woman on that banana like a rodeo rider, is that an album cover as well (or my freudian subconcious!)
The Heart?
The Palette?
Target?
Flag?
Put me out my misery!
2008-12-19 14:51:11
Is the Target supposed to represent Jasper Johns?
2008-12-19 18:31:14
@Meg
Yep - we think that's definitely Johns. We had Monarch of the Glen down for the stag and also a Dan Flavin piece at bottom left (going to guess at the title as, um, Untitled).
Aside from the silhouettes of "art materials", I think that leaves the banana, the heart and the flag?? Could the heart be a Tim Noble and Sue Webster?
Just Goggled "banana art". It's a whole genre of its own apparently.
2008-12-19 18:44:11
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