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In reply to the discussion: Greetings, DUers! Ready for your Friday Afternoon Challenge? Here it is: “Illuminations.” [View all]ellisonz
(27,711 posts)35. I hope so!
I unfortunately never took an art history course
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Greetings, DUers! Ready for your Friday Afternoon Challenge? Here it is: “Illuminations.” [View all]
CTyankee
Jan 2013
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Very good! It IS an early Degas...altho I just don't know how you got it from the woman in blue
CTyankee
Jan 2013
#14
I couldn't guess it, but on review, the fall of the fabric in the veil is a giveaway.
JDPriestly
Jan 2013
#26
It isn't Kinkade altho maybe Kinkade liked this artist. I don't really know since I don't know that
CTyankee
Jan 2013
#15
Interesting response and of course, you have a background in this art. not johnson, tho...but...
CTyankee
Jan 2013
#17
Great analysis! I thought it looked a lot like what we now call photorealism. Or maybe he was
CTyankee
Jan 2013
#21
it's very interesting that the artist had this fascination with night painting...
CTyankee
Jan 2013
#30
Oh, I'm sorry. I don't want anybody to feel down about the Challenge. Don't worry, next week
CTyankee
Jan 2013
#31
That's ok, I'll give you some mini-courses with my Challenges! Hopefully, you'll love it so much
CTyankee
Jan 2013
#37
thanks! Did you take art appreciation in school? I find lots of people here telling me that
CTyankee
Jan 2013
#29
It is 19th century but I am not connecting to Hardy...but I never read hardy so I don't know...
CTyankee
Jan 2013
#39
The opening scene of The Return of the Native describes a peasant bonfire celebration.
yardwork
Jan 2013
#43
Millet's painting was done in 1874. The Return of the Native was published in 1878.
yardwork
Jan 2013
#53
a lovely description of this very strange work. It almost seems desperate. What drove people to
CTyankee
Jan 2013
#51
it does look like Gentileschi but it is not hers...and I don't think of Leyster into chiaracuro
CTyankee
Jan 2013
#44
Oh, I adore both of them. Brave women all. And they did good! (my mouse pad is a Leyster
CTyankee
Jan 2013
#48
well, no, I don't know how serious anyone coming here is. So I don't want to say anything that is
CTyankee
Jan 2013
#55
glad to see you! looks like de la Tour has his followers here at DU tonight...
CTyankee
Jan 2013
#64
Hey, I would never have guessed Degas just by looking at this painting. Without some
CTyankee
Jan 2013
#68
I should have guessed St Francis, having seen one before. Morbidity and decay were certainly on the
entanglement
Jan 2013
#71