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CTyankee

(63,912 posts) Fri Oct 12, 2012, 05:04 PM Oct 2012

Greetings, DUers! Ready for your Friday Afternoon Challenge? Here it is: “You Go, Girl!”

Daunting women (some not so nice) in art for you to identify, along with their artists!

And do remember the honor system, folks...
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Greetings, DUers! Ready for your Friday Afternoon Challenge? Here it is: “You Go, Girl!” (Original Post) CTyankee Oct 2012 OP

#3 a Lizzy Borden Illustration of her bludgeoning her dad? fascisthunter Oct 2012 #1

That's Salome Cirque du So-What Oct 2012 #13

Thank You fascisthunter Oct 2012 #14

Are you referring to #1? CTyankee Oct 2012 #17

Yes, #1 Cirque du So-What Oct 2012 #25

Who is the artist? CTyankee Oct 2012 #18

do not know! John Singer Sargent? fascisthunter Oct 2012 #22

#3 is NOT Salome... CTyankee Oct 2012 #19

No... but the Head on a platter(#1) is, right? fascisthunter Oct 2012 #21

Yes, # 1 is Salome. It is by Bonnard (of all people!)... CTyankee Oct 2012 #23

Wow! blaze Oct 2012 #28

My dear CTyankee! CaliforniaPeggy Oct 2012 #2

Not weird when you find out who the artist is! CTyankee Oct 2012 #9

No. 1 is... Brickbat Oct 2012 #3

Oh, boy, you know your Bonnard! CTyankee Oct 2012 #6

No. 6 is... Brickbat Oct 2012 #4

Yep... CTyankee Oct 2012 #7

No. 4 TuxedoKat Oct 2012 #5

Do you know the subject? CTyankee Oct 2012 #8

Hmmm TuxedoKat Oct 2012 #16

No, not John the Baptist...but #1 is... CTyankee Oct 2012 #20

Judith and her Maidservant pinboy3niner Oct 2012 #24

#5 is Joan of Arc Angry Dragon Oct 2012 #10

No, sorry... CTyankee Oct 2012 #11

#5 horseshoecrab Oct 2012 #12

Yes, most certainly, Mantegna. Thar she is... CTyankee Oct 2012 #15

#2 and #3 remain. CTyankee Oct 2012 #26

Answers remaining: CTyankee Oct 2012 #27

Arrghh!!!!!! No challenge???? blaze Oct 2012 #29

fascisthunter

(29,381 posts)

1. #3 a Lizzy Borden Illustration of her bludgeoning her dad?

Reply to CTyankee (Original post)

Fri Oct 12, 2012, 05:08 PM

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#1 Saint John the Baptists head...?

Cirque du So-What

(25,952 posts)

13. That's Salome

Reply to fascisthunter (Reply #1)

Fri Oct 12, 2012, 06:14 PM

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who commanded, 'give me here in a dish the head of John the Baptist.'

fascisthunter

(29,381 posts)

14. Thank You

Reply to Cirque du So-What (Reply #13)

Fri Oct 12, 2012, 06:42 PM

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I couldn't think of the title, nor the artists name, but I was familiar with the painting itself.

CTyankee

(63,912 posts)

17. Are you referring to #1?

Reply to Cirque du So-What (Reply #13)

Fri Oct 12, 2012, 07:37 PM

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Cirque du So-What

(25,952 posts)

25. Yes, #1

Reply to CTyankee (Reply #17)

Sat Oct 13, 2012, 05:47 AM

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When it comes to art, I'm virtually a functional illiterate. I did recognize the subjects in the depiction, however, I have no idea who the artist was. I couldn't pick out a Manet vs. a Monet in a line-up.

CTyankee

(63,912 posts)

18. Who is the artist?

Reply to fascisthunter (Reply #1)

Fri Oct 12, 2012, 07:39 PM

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fascisthunter

(29,381 posts)

22. do not know! John Singer Sargent?

Reply to CTyankee (Reply #18)

Fri Oct 12, 2012, 08:11 PM

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or Picasso? He treated women like shit, so I can see him fearing some form of retribution in a twisted way.

CTyankee

(63,912 posts)

19. #3 is NOT Salome...

Reply to fascisthunter (Reply #1)

Fri Oct 12, 2012, 07:41 PM

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fascisthunter

(29,381 posts)

21. No... but the Head on a platter(#1) is, right?

Reply to CTyankee (Reply #19)

Fri Oct 12, 2012, 08:09 PM

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I do not know the artist of either pieces. I fully admit my ignorance.

CTyankee

(63,912 posts)

23. Yes, # 1 is Salome. It is by Bonnard (of all people!)...

Reply to fascisthunter (Reply #21)

Fri Oct 12, 2012, 08:11 PM

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blaze

(6,367 posts)

28. Wow!

Reply to CTyankee (Reply #23)

Sun Oct 14, 2012, 03:38 PM

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We had Bonnard in last weeks challenge, yes? This looks nothing like the works I viewed while exploring the results last week!!

CaliforniaPeggy

(149,659 posts)

2. My dear CTyankee!

Reply to CTyankee (Original post)

Fri Oct 12, 2012, 05:09 PM

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#1 is Salome, but I have no idea who the others are, nor do I know the artists!

Oh well.

They're all beautiful!

#3 is just plain weird, though...

CTyankee

(63,912 posts)

9. Not weird when you find out who the artist is!

Reply to CaliforniaPeggy (Reply #2)

Fri Oct 12, 2012, 05:19 PM

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Brickbat

(19,339 posts)

3. No. 1 is...

Reply to CTyankee (Original post)

Fri Oct 12, 2012, 05:10 PM

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Salome, by Pierre Bonnaud

CTyankee

(63,912 posts)

6. Oh, boy, you know your Bonnard!

Reply to Brickbat (Reply #3)

Fri Oct 12, 2012, 05:16 PM

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You must know him well...this just doesn't look like his usual works...

Brickbat

(19,339 posts)

4. No. 6 is...

Reply to CTyankee (Original post)

Fri Oct 12, 2012, 05:12 PM

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Raphael's "Triumph of Galatea." I love Raphael!

CTyankee

(63,912 posts)

7. Yep...

Reply to Brickbat (Reply #4)

Fri Oct 12, 2012, 05:17 PM

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TuxedoKat

(3,818 posts)

5. No. 4

Reply to CTyankee (Original post)

Fri Oct 12, 2012, 05:16 PM

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is by Artemisia Gentileschi.

CTyankee

(63,912 posts)

8. Do you know the subject?

Reply to TuxedoKat (Reply #5)

Fri Oct 12, 2012, 05:18 PM

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TuxedoKat

(3,818 posts)

16. Hmmm

Reply to CTyankee (Reply #8)

Fri Oct 12, 2012, 07:35 PM

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Was it the head of John the Baptist? I don't remember the title.

Also, the first one must be Salome and the head of John the Baptist too, but I don't know the artist.

CTyankee

(63,912 posts)

20. No, not John the Baptist...but #1 is...

Reply to TuxedoKat (Reply #16)

Fri Oct 12, 2012, 07:50 PM

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pinboy3niner

(53,339 posts)

24. Judith and her Maidservant

Reply to CTyankee (Reply #20)

Fri Oct 12, 2012, 11:17 PM

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Judith and Abra have just killed Holofernes and are preparing to decamp with their trophy, his head. At a tense moment, they have not yet escaped; they react to a sound off-canvas, perhaps a guard stirring. Many male artists have depicted Judith as standing triumphant with Holofernes's head, but Artemisia chooses to capture the danger and risk.

Judith is a solid, mature woman with an almost goiterous neck, quite unidealised in her looks, but dressed in the clothes of a noblewoman. She is alert to the danger of her mission, but registers caution rather than fear. Compare this to the distressed face of Susanna only three years earlier.

The ornament in her hair (see right) features a picture of a man with a lance and shield, probably David, decapitator of Goliath, the male equivalent of Judith. The image honors one of the landmarks of the Florentine Piazza, Michelangelo's standing statue of David.

http://www.artemisia-gentileschi.com/judith3.html

Angry Dragon

(36,693 posts)

10. #5 is Joan of Arc

Reply to CTyankee (Original post)

Fri Oct 12, 2012, 05:20 PM

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CTyankee

(63,912 posts)

11. No, sorry...

Reply to Angry Dragon (Reply #10)

Fri Oct 12, 2012, 05:32 PM

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horseshoecrab

(944 posts)

12. #5

Reply to CTyankee (Original post)

Fri Oct 12, 2012, 05:59 PM

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#5 is the goddess Pallas Athene. You can identify her by her helmet, her armor, her shield and spear. She is on the move and has her spear and her shield at the ready, so she is in battle. (Some sources id her as Minerva, the Roman version of Pallas.)

The painting is a detail from Pallas Expelling the Vices, by Andrea Mantegna.

Hi CTyankee! Good to see you on a Friday.