Hissyspit
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Fri Aug-26-11 05:23 PM
Response to Reply #44 |
| 47. They are fun when they are not making one's brain hurt! |
| -Your Friday Afternoon Challenge: American life in art! |
CTyankee |
Aug-26-11 04:04 PM |
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K&R |
EFerrari |
Aug-26-11 04:09 PM |
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100% guaranteed correct answer |
gratuitous |
Aug-26-11 04:10 PM |
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Is 4. Thomas Hart Benton? nt |
patrice |
Aug-26-11 04:12 PM |
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Hey...good for you! |
CTyankee |
Aug-26-11 04:15 PM |
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Nope. Definitely an amateur at this sort of thing! I just know what I like. nt |
patrice |
Aug-26-11 04:19 PM |
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Benton sure has his own style, for sure! |
CTyankee |
Aug-26-11 04:27 PM |
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Ahhh, you beat me to it! |
MuseRider |
Aug-26-11 04:38 PM |
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Hi MuseRider! |
patrice |
Aug-26-11 04:48 PM |
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Wild guess, 7. is Grandma Moses? nt |
patrice |
Aug-26-11 04:14 PM |
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Not her but...you are thinking along the right lines... |
CTyankee |
Aug-26-11 04:15 PM |
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I know they're called the Primitives & they are the most authentic of the folk artists. |
patrice |
Aug-26-11 04:20 PM |
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I have been informed by Those Who Know these things that "primitives" is no longer |
CTyankee |
Aug-26-11 04:24 PM |
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Thanks for the information. I won't use that anymore, though, to some of us anyway, there's |
patrice |
Aug-26-11 04:27 PM |
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Yeah, lots of this stuff gets locked in all that Orientalist and Oceanist stuff |
CTyankee |
Aug-26-11 04:34 PM |
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#1 = Romare Bearden -- "The Calabash" 1970 |
marions ghost |
Aug-26-11 04:23 PM |
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Hello, mg! Nice to see you! |
CTyankee |
Aug-26-11 04:25 PM |
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dang it was on the tip of my tongue |
librechik |
Aug-26-11 04:42 PM |
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The poet? |
CTyankee |
Aug-26-11 04:49 PM |
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Like Bearden yes, |
marions ghost |
Aug-26-11 04:45 PM |
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I didn't either til I got a book of her poems and she was memorializing him. |
CTyankee |
Aug-26-11 04:59 PM |
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This is a powerful Bearden painting: |
marions ghost |
Aug-26-11 05:05 PM |
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I happen to love collages. I am enamoured of Picasso and Bracque's collage |
CTyankee |
Aug-26-11 05:22 PM |
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good way to put it |
marions ghost |
Aug-26-11 07:49 PM |
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The only American bronze artist I know is Frederic Remington, but I'd be surprised if he did that |
patrice |
Aug-26-11 04:24 PM |
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You are right. It is not Remington...but I'm thinking it "may" be the same era... |
CTyankee |
Aug-26-11 04:25 PM |
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#8. August Saint-Gaudens' Shaw Memorial?...nt |
SidDithers |
Aug-26-11 04:33 PM |
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What gives you that impression? |
CTyankee |
Aug-26-11 04:34 PM |
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"Glory," maybe? |
Hissyspit |
Aug-26-11 04:51 PM |
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glory is the name of the movie... |
CTyankee |
Aug-26-11 04:54 PM |
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I know! |
Hissyspit |
Aug-26-11 04:59 PM |
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Does look like a monument somewhere, probably not the South. nt |
patrice |
Aug-26-11 05:04 PM |
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#6 = Clementine Hunter |
marions ghost |
Aug-26-11 04:40 PM |
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How did you stumble on this? I never saw it. My source originally was a NYT article |
CTyankee |
Aug-26-11 04:50 PM |
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"African American folk artists" |
marions ghost |
Aug-26-11 05:10 PM |
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is 2 Whistler and 4 Bierstadt? |
librechik |
Aug-26-11 04:41 PM |
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No, #2 is not Whistler. bierstadt is right... |
CTyankee |
Aug-26-11 04:52 PM |
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No, you have the numbering right. And I think you're right about Whistler. |
patrice |
Aug-26-11 04:53 PM |
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Disregard. I'm out of my league here. nt |
patrice |
Aug-26-11 04:54 PM |
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Ooops! I got the numbering off, but you figured me out anyway! |
patrice |
Aug-26-11 04:44 PM |
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Is 5 Homer? I'm better with Americans. |
librechik |
Aug-26-11 04:48 PM |
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Much better! Whistler wouldn't have gone to the South during Reconstruction to do this. |
CTyankee |
Aug-26-11 04:57 PM |
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Whistler's aunt lived in Spring Lake, North Carolina |
Hissyspit |
Aug-26-11 05:02 PM |
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He kinda strikes me as a dandy, tho. |
CTyankee |
Aug-26-11 05:18 PM |
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Bearden, Bellows, Benton, Church, Homer, Hunter, St. Gaudens |
Hissyspit |
Aug-26-11 04:59 PM |
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Hey, hissyspit. do you teach art history? |
CTyankee |
Aug-26-11 05:01 PM |
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Frederic Church - Hudson River School, student of Thomas Cole |
Hissyspit |
Aug-26-11 05:05 PM |
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Since I don't know that much about the Hudson River School, I take your point! |
CTyankee |
Aug-26-11 05:16 PM |
#44 |
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They are fun when they are not making one's brain hurt! |
Hissyspit |
Aug-26-11 05:23 PM |
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Oh, I don't want your brain to hurt! |
CTyankee |
Aug-26-11 05:30 PM |
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LOVE Bierstadt! More More! |
elleng |
Aug-26-11 05:54 PM |
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Yes! And isn't that lovely! |
CTyankee |
Aug-26-11 06:59 PM |
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If you get into it, Hillard Shar my Dad's best friend, growing up + forever. |
elleng |
Aug-26-11 07:27 PM |
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Sounds good! I look forward to reading it.... |
CTyankee |
Aug-26-11 07:09 PM |
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I loved this challenge. |
ananda |
Aug-27-11 09:40 AM |
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I know #7 well!! |
Bluerthanblue |
Aug-27-11 09:56 AM |
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The Gilded Era was certainly an interesting one. |
CTyankee |
Aug-28-11 02:13 AM |
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