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In reply to the discussion: Greetings, DUers! Ready for your Friday Afternoon Challenge? Here it is: “Illuminations.” [View all]yardwork
(61,588 posts)53. Millet's painting was done in 1874. The Return of the Native was published in 1878.
It is possible that Hardy's novel was influenced by that painting!
This is so interesting. I love the Friday Challenge!
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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