The Friday Afternoon Challenge returns: the art of the "treescape"*

[CTyankee]

Careful on this, folks. Some of these works are NOT in the artist’s usual style...
but try to ID them anyway.

And, as usual, we do not cheat here.

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*in honor of Earth Day and Arbor Day (today)

[gateley]

1. K&R for you artsy folks! (And no, CYyankee, I haven't got a clue. :-)

[CTyankee]

5. thanks for dropping by! Maybe a guess?

[gateley]

9. If it's not the Mona Lisa, I have no idea. :-)

[CTyankee]

10. I'm glad you looked anyway! Always welcome!

[gateley]

12. And I always look! You choose such beautiful pieces!

[CTyankee]

16. It's deliberate. I always lead off with the most beautiful of the six to draw

people in and get them to be interested in discussing the works displayed further. Obviously, I don't want to shock or dismay anyone from participating.

[ChazII]

15. Gately, you are not alone. :)

I have no clue this week or in the past months. Still, I do enjoy looking at the pieces CTYankee posts each Friday.
Thanks, CTYankee.

[CTyankee]

17. Oh, you are welcome! I'm so glad you could come by and look...

it's so much fun for me to devise these Challenges...

[ChazII]

34. I enjoy each Friday

and your art challenge threads are one of the best parts of DU. (In my opinion.) May you have a wonderful weekend.

[surrealAmerican]

2. Is #4 a Cezanne?

Otherwise, I haven't a clue here.

[CTyankee]

4. Hey, good for you! That is one that really does look like its artist...

nicely Cezanne-y!

[Tansy_Gold]

3. I have not a single clue, guess, or idea

But I just did my usual Google Image search on "trees stormy painting" and got to look at a whole lot of really cool pictures!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

6. I can't identify any of them, but

I sure like the second one (the wind storm).

[CTyankee]

7. It's very dramatic...

[treestar]

8. Can't identify any

But they are beautiful.

[CTyankee]

11. lovely...like your username!

[librechik]

13. 1. is Gauguin, I think

I thought 4 was Gauguin too, tho...

[CTyankee]

14. what makes you think #1 is Gauguin?

[librechik]

18. I dunno--the brushwork I guess

but I was just guessing, after missing .4 lol

[CTyankee]

22. I just don't get it but you are right. It is Gauguin...

I,however, am mystified...

[femmocrat]

19. No. 2 is Friedrich (I think).

Am I right?

And just guessing.... Is No. 3 a Constable?

[CTyankee]

24. nope, rule out Constable here...I know, it's too bad, he did great stuff but...

And no Friedrich, who is such a great landscape artist (very haunting stuff).

But those two artists' works don't appear here...

[pinboy3niner]

20. #2: Jean-Francois Millet - The Gust of Wind. nt

[CTyankee]

26. sure is...do you like Millet?

[DevonRex]

30. May I say

I do not care for that painting? As in really do not care for that painting? Perhaps not the style of the artist if it's all like that. Very similar to a nightmare I've had, actually, since I was a kid. I wouldn't be surprised if the nightmare was inspired by that artist since my mother was an artist and we always had books of art around the house.

[CTyankee]

36. This is the style of the Romantic period of art. It was full of bad stuff...

nightmares, terror, fear. When you examine art in the context of its time and its style, you can better understand where the artists are coming from. The Romantic era in painting was in the 19th century, mostly a bit later in that century. There was a high interest in folk art, in revolutions to change governments, and in the violence of nature (which they called "sublime&quot .

Interesting times, indeed...but I do get your objection to that painting. It kinda gets to me, too...

[DevonRex]

38. I am almost positive it's this specific painting

that caused my nightmare. And to have seen it after all these years is actually kind of freeing. I have quite the imagination so I'm not surprised it stayed with me. There's a lot of blurriness and wind. The clear strokes are squiggly like worms. No vibrant colors to save it like the gorgeous blues in the one below.

[CTyankee]

40. The Romantics really intended this kind of reaction. If you can understand that,

you can understand their motivation for doing it. I am not sure why they deemed this so important. Perhaps they were "driven" to doing it because of the times they lived in. Change all around was happening in their world. The Industrial Revolution might have caused some great anxiety on the part of lots of people who didn't understand what was going on.

It as an interesting time, indeed...

[DevonRex]

41. I don't know

if I'll ever react like an adult should react, even knowing that. Funny, isn't it? Maybe I'll bookmark the thread and come back to it after a week or so and see how it feels. It seems like it should make me feel sort of like the various covers of Wuthering Heights have made me feel over the years. But I'm not that impartial.

[CTyankee]

42. well, I can understand that once something freaks you out, you are not easily

"unfreaked." So I get that. It haunts you.

[pinboy3niner]

33. Hunting Birds at Night from another Challenge was interesting

This one was titled with a bit of understatement. That's some gust!

[rusty fender]

21. #5--Gustav Klimt

[CTyankee]

25. Yep. Nice work...do you know the title?

How do you know this particular painting?

[joeybee12]

23. I MUST have #1....

I don't know what it is, but it reminds me of Petrin Park in Prague...

[CTyankee]

27. "Abandoned Garden at Rouen" by Gauguin...go for it...

[joeybee12]

28. I'll put in a bid! nt

[DevonRex]

31. I am sorry but I must have 1, 3 and 4.

So...

[joeybee12]

37. YOu can have 3 and 4 and 2...

How's that for a deal???

[DevonRex]

39. How's about I break #2 right ovah yore noggin?

Just kidding. I'll settle for 1, 3 and 4.

[DanTex]

29. These are great! I guess Monet for #4.

Oops. Someone already got #4, and it's not Monet.

[DevonRex]

35. No. It's Cezanne's In The Woods. nt

[jberryhill]

32. My Dog Did A #6 On My Carpet

I always thought it was a #2, but here it looks more like #6

[CTyankee]

43. It looks like #3 and #6 are unguessed. Anybody have a guess?

Hint on #3: it relates to #2

[pinboy3niner]

44. #3: Gustave Courbet - The Approaching Storm (also known as The Gust of Wind)

I had given up until your hint that this is related to #2. After first searching works of artists influenced by Millet, I looked for works with the same title or theme...and the rest is (art) history!

[CTyankee]

45. I can depend on you, Pinboy! Now, how about #6?

My own hint for that one is that I don't think of the artist as a painter of landscape! Quite the opposite...

[pinboy3niner]

46. After lots of searching, I still can knot find #6

It may be time for me to leave this one go. I seem to be barking up the wrong trees.

[CTyankee]

47. It is Manet! Quelle surprise, non?

[pinboy3niner]

48. Sacre bleu! And I was searching for MOnet!

I shoulda used spellcheck!

[CTyankee]

49. That's why I thought it would be a perfect candidate for the Challenge!

[pinboy3niner]

50. ANSWERS RECAP:

Based on solvers' answers, CTyankee confirmations, and checks on some titles.

1. Gaugin - Abandoned garden in Rouen
2. Jean-Francois Millet - The Gust of Wind
3. Gustave Courbet - The Approaching Storm (also known as The Gust of Wind)
4. Cezanne - Interior of a Forest
5. Gustav Klimt - Tall Poplars
6. Manet - Study of Trees

[CTyankee]

54. Thanks, Pinboy! Hope you enjoyed the art romp this week! See ya next Friday!

[Hekate]

51. They are absolutely gorgeous, but I have no clue.

#1 and #3 are especially appealing to me. Thanks, CTyankee, for bringing this to us.

Hekate

[CTyankee]

53. I am drawn to the Cezanne...I'd love to have a copy...

[pansypoo53219]

52. i know5 is klimpt. i LOVE his landscapes.

[a la izquierda]

55. I love these threads even though I suck...

at art. If it's not one of the Mexican muralists, or Frida, I have no clue.