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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAnswers to the Friday Afternoon Challenge!
If you would like to do the Challenge, stop here and go to: http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002432535
1. Surrender at Breda by Velazquez.
2. Battle of Romano by Uccello.
3. Field of Waterloo by Turner.
4. Drawing on the Blitz by Moore.
5. Scene of War in the Middle Ages by Degas.
6. Battle of Lepanto by Veronese.
Tough challenge this week. Thanks to all the folks who visited the Challenge!
No Challenge next week. I'll see you in 2 weeks!
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)...will be in detox next Friday.
Have a good trip!
CTyankee
(63,771 posts)and celebrating my son's birthday with him and his wife.
Don't eat your heart out too much...
elleng
(130,156 posts)its our travel time, eh?
Freer this evening, may see some Cherry Blossoms.
http://www.asia.si.edu/events/performances.asp#/?i=1
CTyankee
(63,771 posts)IcyPeas
(21,747 posts)I had an art teacher in college who got kicked out of the Frick for ..... licking a painting.
CTyankee
(63,771 posts)IcyPeas
(21,747 posts)it was 25 years ago I think he was just very moved by whatever the painting was. I think he freaked us all out at the time. It takes being passionate about art to a whole 'nother level. He taught at Hunter College in New York, where I used to live.
so behave yourself at the Frick, CTyankee - they apparently have very strict rules
CTyankee
(63,771 posts)I've been in museums in Europe where you can get thrown out for all kinds of things and nearly have to have a TSA search before going in. No flash and sometimes no photos at all, no bottled water, no talking (in certain areas), no magnifying glasses, no backpacks, no large overcoats. Throw all your stuff into a bin at the entrance. Bells that warn you that you are too close to a painting (Picasso's Guernica in La Reina Sofia in Madrid).
I REALLY get where your teacher was saying. Art can unhinge you (for better or for worse). People routinely break down in front of Rothkos. Look at the great works of art that have been attacked by people throwing stuff, attacking with knives and mallets, or just plain want to destroy them (think Franco who would doubtless have destroyed Guernica had not Picasso secretly smuggled it out of the country and sent it to New York, where it hung in MoMA until Franco died, when it was sent back to Spain, on Picasso's expressed wish).
elleng
(130,156 posts)Note to Self: ALWAYS go with first impression!!
CTyankee
(63,771 posts)It is actually a powerful painting. It isn't at all flattering of the effects of Napoleon's aggression.
Here is one I considered using but rejected:
http://www.google.com/imgres?q=gassed+by+sargent&um=1&hl=en&sa=N&biw=1024&bih=632&tbm=isch&tbnid=dpPVFi_cvUcwHM:&imgrefurl=http://britontour9.wordpress.com/2010/09/07/gass
elleng
(130,156 posts)CTyankee
(63,771 posts)I always think of him painting beautiful laides in drawing rooms, or in Venice or, spectacularly, in El Jaleo...
elleng
(130,156 posts)but plenty of emotion.
IcyPeas
(21,747 posts)Never would have guessed it. But I went and looked up more Degas and see the way the women are posed in your challenge is very similar to Degas "Women Combing their Hair"
I really like looking and learning from your challenges
CTyankee
(63,771 posts)in his earlier works, such as this one, turning up again in his later works.
It was a great exhibit. Very art wonky. Just my cup of tea!