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In reply to the discussion: Here we are again, DUers! Just in time for the Friday Afternoon Challenge: “Women of Desire!” [View all]longship
(40,416 posts)81. It's gorgeous! nt
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Here we are again, DUers! Just in time for the Friday Afternoon Challenge: “Women of Desire!” [View all]
CTyankee
May 2013
OP
I thought about that. As a feminist, I can see where you are coming from. However, it
CTyankee
May 2013
#95
I am not sure what that crescent moon is there for, if it is for anything...IMO it doesn't
CTyankee
May 2013
#22
No. Here's a HINT: she is NOT trying to entice. In fact, just the opposite...Look at her eyes
CTyankee
May 2013
#36
Yeah, I have seen most of his works but the style reminds me of him (nt)
The Straight Story
May 2013
#17
There isn't but I'm fascinated by your guess. Which one do you think looks like
CTyankee
May 2013
#45
the whole idea is supposed to be about obsession, recalling a critique of Keats's poem.
CTyankee
May 2013
#47
aw, I'm sorry, no Isolde or Ophelia here. Wish I had thought of Isolde tho...hmm...
CTyankee
May 2013
#40
yeah, and good lord I'm a huge feminist but I recognize that art is art and has a
CTyankee
May 2013
#71
In my art classes in a Catholic college taught by a nun and a male lay teacher in
Cleita
May 2013
#74
I'm not sure how to communicate this message to the poster, tho. He seems to have
CTyankee
May 2013
#76
Of course, what we have to remember is that Klimt was inspired by the Byzantine art in
CTyankee
May 2013
#82
I am NO expert. I am an amateur art historian. I love art and research it all the time.
CTyankee
May 2013
#86
I know. This really looks like an unfinished work by a famous painter. I don't know why
CTyankee
May 2013
#59