Available last names on the registration page - founders of art movement.

There are about 4 or 5 last names that you can chose from when you register that are names of the founders of an art movement called De Stijl. I've bolded them below. I would guess there are more than a few art lovers at LL.

Has anyone noticed any other last name patterns like this?

De Stijl
More than an art style

Red, yellow and blue rectangles and squares contained by thick black lines, or on a distinctly white background, is De Stijl, as we know it. The De Stijl art movement of 1917 to 1931 included paintings, architecture, furniture, and graphic design. It was based on the idea, or rather the principle, of absolute abstraction, which in lay terms means the elimination of all representational images to be replaced by straight lines, right angles, and the three primary colors (Jaffe 11). De Stijl art strikes a balance between unity and harmony, and this aesthetic became a way of life for many. As the movement developed, De Stijl became more than just an art movement, but rather a lifestyle.

Involved in the founding of De Stijl in 1917 were its driving force, Theo van Doesburg, three painters (Piet Mondrian, Bart Van der Leck, and Vilmos Huszar), three architects (Jan Wils, Robert van’t Hoff and Gerrit Rietveld), a sculptor (Georges Vantongerloo), and poet Antony Kok (Jaffe 11). All of the presently named artists, architects and the poet signed their names to the Manifesto I of ,,The Style”, (191 with the exception of Oud, who declined to sign and Van der Leck, who had already cut his links with De Stijl. This document connected all those who signed it to the De Stijl art movement. It was living proof that they had one dream, one belief and one goal and they were ready to present their worldly solution to post world chaos, which would enable mankind to develop a controllable lifestyle in a post-war world, this lifestyle was De Stijl. “De Stijl sought universal laws of equilibrium and harmony for art, which could be a prototype for a new social order” (Maggs 270).

I've always thought I should have chosen the last name "Pascal"

I did a Google on "Claveau" and on the first 2 pages were 3 car salesmen and an evangelist.

I did, however, find the coat of arms for Claveau:

http://www.freecoatsofarms.com/coatsofarms/catalogdata/310.html

I just put the same into Wikipedia search -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%E9_Claveau

André Claveau - French singer.

Wasn't he the French Sinatra?

j/k

Some other names of friends of mine:

Jack Shaftoe - is a fictional character featured in the novels of Neal Stephenson's The Baroque Cycle.

Deckard - obviously, taken from Blade Runner

Martini - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martini; Jean Paul Egide Martini, (1741-1816) was a composer of classical music.

Minogue - as in Kylie, pop singer

Gascoigne - George Gascoigne, English poet; or William Gascoigne, British inventor of the micrometer.

Fun stuff.

I was tickled recently when I noticed the two last name choices Rosencrans and Guildenstern, obviously a nod to the stage play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead which expands the roles of two minor characters in Shakespeare's Hamlet. Also, the name Marlowe, as in Christopher Marlowe, one of Shakespeare's contemporaries, has been used.

In this literary vein, how about using some of the existentialists' names or character names, like Camus, Caligula, Kafka, Samsor?

Kafka would be worth having an alt for

They've put in a fair number of Russian names with historical connotations like Kerensky, head of the short-lived democratic parliament in Peterburg before the Bolsheviks took over; Neva, the river in Peterburg, etc.

Of course, they have other political names like Ludd, from the famous Luddite movement known for workers who broke their machines in protest -- and I'm so furious that my attempt to make an avatar called Ite Ludd bounced, hope they reset that so someone else can get it.

Ned Ludd I've heard of... who is Ite Ludd? Google returns no results.

-Ghoti