Oh, how wonderful! Bringing her up on great art from the very beginning! (Reply #45)

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Sun Feb 17, 2013, 08:14 PM

CTyankee (62,069 posts)

45. Oh, how wonderful! Bringing her up on great art from the very beginning!

What a marvelous thing to do...I am undone by this...totally thrilled...a great gift to a child, what could be better?

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Hello my DU friends! Our wonderful Friday Afternoon Challenge today: The Venerable Genre of the ‘Nud [View all]	CTyankee	Feb 2013	OP
I'm pretty sure #6 is from the Newark Airport TSA.	WinkyDink	Feb 2013	#1
Not Mouseketeers?	immoderate	Feb 2013	#3
The third one MIGHT be Annette.	WinkyDink	Feb 2013	#6
OMG that's funny! Never thought of that...	CTyankee	Feb 2013	#8
#3: William Merritt Chase - Back of a Nude. nt	pinboy3niner	Feb 2013	#2
there ya go! How'd you get it so fast, buddy?	CTyankee	Feb 2013	#5
Searched through oriental works by Impressionists and got lucky	pinboy3niner	Feb 2013	#11
He had a fine hand. This one is nice because of its draped fabric...love it!	CTyankee	Feb 2013	#12
I thought it was Sargent because of the Orientalism.	Tierra_y_Libertad	Feb 2013	#16
Sargent did nude studies, nice ones. Chase had the misfortune to paint at the same time	CTyankee	Feb 2013	#17
#3 looks Japanese, at least in subject.	longship	Feb 2013	#4
it's the influence of orientalism...	CTyankee	Feb 2013	#7
Number six reminds me of something...	auburngrad82	Feb 2013	#9
well, I advise not in the dining room...	CTyankee	Feb 2013	#10
HINT: #1. This artist painted beautiful ladies. Just not nude ones...	CTyankee	Feb 2013	#13
The way he does the rouge reminds me	DevonRex	Feb 2013	#14
These are all wonderful, and I don't recognize any of them!	CaliforniaPeggy	Feb 2013	#15
HINT: of the five remaining, one is British, one is French, one is Italian and 2 are American	CTyankee	Feb 2013	#18
Question...is #5 Charon rowing over the River Styx?	countryjake	Feb 2013	#19
Five is not. It is a studio work by a decidedly nonfigural painter...	CTyankee	Feb 2013	#20
Is it a Grant Wood? (known for his landscapes & "American Gothic")	countryjake	Feb 2013	#37
An interesting guess! However, it is not. It is John Constable!	CTyankee	Feb 2013	#39
HINT for #6!	CTyankee	Feb 2013	#21
#6: Yves Klein - Untitled Anthropometry	pinboy3niner	Feb 2013	#22
Yves Klein Blue!	CTyankee	Feb 2013	#23
No luck so far	pinboy3niner	Feb 2013	#24
You are on the right track with #2...	CTyankee	Feb 2013	#25
I found the sketch of "Annabel Lee" last night, after...	countryjake	Feb 2013	#38
Ah, so nice! Thanks for that!	CTyankee	Feb 2013	#40
The Nud?	jberryhill	Feb 2013	#26
Since there's no Dutch guy, I figured you wouldn't be interested!	CTyankee	Feb 2013	#27
I was trying to crack #6	jberryhill	Feb 2013	#29
A fruitless search when it comes to anything I'd post here...	CTyankee	Feb 2013	#32
Really?	pinboy3niner	Feb 2013	#34
Oh, yeah, I forgot about that...	CTyankee	Feb 2013	#36
#1: James Abbott McNeill Whistler - Sketch for Annabel Lee	pinboy3niner	Feb 2013	#28
Isn't it purdy?	CTyankee	Feb 2013	#30
Damn... She looked like a Whistler to me too	jberryhill	Feb 2013	#31
you shudda whistled...	CTyankee	Feb 2013	#33
You know how to whistle, don't you? ...	pinboy3niner	Feb 2013	#35
ANSWERS to Friday's Afternoon Challege!	CTyankee	Feb 2013	#41
Reading more about that Thomas Eakins painting...	countryjake	Feb 2013	#42
I love the fact that critics found this work to be indecent because the nude wasn't	CTyankee	Feb 2013	#43
Ha, I thought that chair the focal point...	countryjake	Feb 2013	#44
Oh, how wonderful! Bringing her up on great art from the very beginning!	CTyankee	Feb 2013	#45
We had Putti all over our house when my daughter was little...	countryjake	Feb 2013	#47
Rosso da Fiorentino's two angels "discussing" a book is lovely, but take a look at the rest of	CTyankee	Feb 2013	#48
Picking out the details is required for some of those guys...	countryjake	Feb 2013	#49
It's a variation (!) of the "sacra conversazione" theme of the Madonna, Child and Saints that	CTyankee	Feb 2013	#50
Oh, yes, the light on her corset! Maybe it was Eakins secret fetish...who knows?	CTyankee	Feb 2013	#46

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