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Fri Aug 10, 2012, 05:26 PM

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Your Friday Afternoon Challenge returns with “Capital Art”! [View all] CTyankee Aug 2012 OP

OK, I accepted your challenge ..... oldhippie Aug 2012 #1

Share with everyone? CTyankee Aug 2012 #2

I wasn't sure of the rules ...... oldhippie Aug 2012 #3

Sure. CTyankee Aug 2012 #5

Number 3 is from "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus" ... oldhippie Aug 2012 #6

Bonus Question: do you know the connection between this and W.H.Auden? CTyankee Aug 2012 #8

From the poem? oldhippie Aug 2012 #12

It sure was. In the poem he talks about the painting... CTyankee Aug 2012 #15

I learned while researching this Challenge that Bruegel is no longer considered the artist! CTyankee Aug 2012 #9

I saw that, too. oldhippie Aug 2012 #13

I thought it was that they didn't think HE did it...or maybe I got it wrong... CTyankee Aug 2012 #17

Not sure of the name of the work RZM Aug 2012 #4

It is in Vienna... CTyankee Aug 2012 #7

Apparently they are different places RZM Aug 2012 #10

It is on my bucket list along with various other places. I just read a book on Gustav Klimt and CTyankee Aug 2012 #11

Number 5 is Prague, St. Vitus Cathedral... joeybee12 Aug 2012 #14

I'm thinking you were there and saw it... CTyankee Aug 2012 #16

I've been to Prague 12 times! joeybee12 Aug 2012 #18

Prague is another one on my bucket list! CTyankee Aug 2012 #19

No, but I first went there in 1992 and fell in love with the city... joeybee12 Aug 2012 #20

what did you like the most? CTyankee Aug 2012 #21

Loved it all...but I really loved hanging out in Mala Strana joeybee12 Aug 2012 #22

Prague's The Bunker in the 1990s was the place to be. aikoaiko Aug 2012 #47

Toledo HopeHoops Aug 2012 #23

Holy pinboy3niner Aug 2012 #24

Sorry, but Toledo? Which one? CTyankee Aug 2012 #25

(hint: random response. Answer: OH) HopeHoops Aug 2012 #26

How about if I say Tupelo Mississippi grantcart Aug 2012 #27

Please dont be mad, I just didn't get the reference and I am sorry about that. I meant it.. CTyankee Aug 2012 #28

I am not mad. I am making fun of those of us, and I am in the front row grantcart Aug 2012 #29

Oh, I am so relieved! I thought you must just hate me! CTyankee Aug 2012 #30

I love to share in this and every week I click on and think I'll get some small part of it. grantcart Aug 2012 #32

Oh CTyankee!!! blaze Aug 2012 #44

Aw, thanks Blaze! Your and others' encouragement keep me doing this...besides, I love the CTyankee Aug 2012 #46

A big hint here! CTyankee Aug 2012 #31

I'll hold the Challenge open for a while longer if anyone has answers... CTyankee Aug 2012 #33

I'll provide some diversion...#4 is Berlin. Iterate Aug 2012 #34

YES, indeed! CTyankee Aug 2012 #35

#6 has got to be Matisse, so I'm going to guess that it's in Paris. I don't know the specific work. yardwork Aug 2012 #36

It sure LOOKS like a Matisse, doesn't it? CTyankee Aug 2012 #37

LOL! I just read the subthread below. How interesting! yardwork Aug 2012 #45

I only knew about it from a NYT article a few weeks ago. That's when I got the idea for CTyankee Aug 2012 #48

I love your Friday Art Challenge thread. It is one of my favorite parts of DU. yardwork Aug 2012 #49

I'm so glad you like them! And I love finding the pictures and putting them up. CTyankee Aug 2012 #50

# 6 copy of stolen Matisse librechik Aug 2012 #38

Did my hint give it away or had you seen the story in the newspaper (like I did)? CTyankee Aug 2012 #39

your hint made me remember the story librechik Aug 2012 #40

do you want to hazard a guess on #1? CTyankee Aug 2012 #41

I'm really bad with the Italians--can't tell a Raphael from a Giotto librechik Aug 2012 #42

No, it is late enough Renaissance to be on canvas... CTyankee Aug 2012 #43

who won the challenge? was I close? grantcart Aug 2012 #51

darlin' you are close to mah heart! CTyankee Aug 2012 #52

Well the way I see it I was the only one that submitted a complete slate of 6 answers grantcart Aug 2012 #53

Honey, you get a "participation" trophy! You tried! CTyankee Aug 2012 #54

Yess! grantcart Aug 2012 #55