Your Lounge Friday-Saturday Art Challenge
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I didn't get my "fix" of CTyankee's Friday Afternoon Challenge today (she's on hiatus right now), so I thought I'd cobble somethig together to throw to the Lounge.
YOUR CHALLENGE: Identify the artist and title of each work below. Googling is perfectly legit; use of image recognition apps is not. ALSO see the Bonus Question at bottom of this OP.
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***BONUS QUESTION: All of these works recently were in the news. Why?
Good luck!
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#2 does evoke Michelle's dress, doesn't it? But that has no bearing here.
Hang #4 upside down? Knock yourself out! 
Well done! 
Did you get 1 and 2 off the top of your head? From knowing the works or recognizing the artist's style?
I mistook your post as coming from her. Sorry. 
#2 does indeed appear to have some red, or red-orange in it. #2 was identified correctly by femmocrat as Warhol's 'Flowers'.
"Lady" is a good guess. How did you know?
Sorry, no relation to FLOTUS dress beyond flower similarity. These were in the news before the MLK 'I Have a Dream' speech anniversary.
I didn't see any that mentioned "red blotches flowers."
Michelle Obama Stuns For The March On Washington Anniversary
http://hollywoodlife.com/2013/08/28/michelle-obama-march-on-washington-dress-pics-tracy-reese/
There was a show at the National in DC of this genre and ton's of this artists.
I think I know the answer to what they have in common but I'm not going to give it up.
Do you expect me to stay up ALL NIGHT babysitting this thread until it's solved?
Note on the Bonus Question: This was a very minor story noting a relationship among 11 works, including these.
I know where you got that!
It's a charmer, WWII era painting of a soldier holding a care package from home with about half dozen others crowding him from behind.
Here's a cell phone case depicting the piece:
You get points even without posting the answer.
In five of the six images you posted.
Props for knowing about the Detroit story, though.
I took Music Appreciation in school, and all of my knowledge about art has come from CTyankee's Challenges.
You are far, far better versed than I in the world of art.
I hope somebody gets the Bonus Question before we have to waterboard it out of NYC_SKP... 
My sister has two. That's one of the pieces I might have been able to guess without help.
Oh, I just found the article that was almost certainly the your source for the OP.
Your selection of the less recognizable pieces was clever and effective.
But it's getting late and might not happen til morning.
My first guess was that they might have all been part of a theft, but that wasn't it.
Not for you--you already know all the answers, you devil!
Sorry CTyankee is on hiatus. Even though I seldom got one I really enjoyed the challenge.
...you have to upload it to an image hosting site so the url doesn't give it away. I learned that from the master, CTyankee.
#5 Dali (hello) I went to art school in 1967 do you have any idea how many drugs it took to forget the other artist's pieces ?
Looking for the title of the Dali now...
And at least you HAD drugs, lol!
Nice job!
Nice job tracking down the article. I can't imagine how I'd do that, but I guess it's possible by searching on the works. I'm just not used to being on this side of the challenge.
#3 is a tough one, too. Are you still bored?
I noticed that all the images had an Amazon.com watermark in the corner. So I googled Amazon with a number of the other artists names.
Yup still bored 
But thanks for the threads, it's been fun! Actually trying to distract myself from worrying about the coming semester and my emotional issues.
While I'm not well versed in painting at all I've been lucky to have travelled with my parents in Europe a certain amount gone to the Louvre, the Uffizi, École nationale des Beaux-Arts, among others. Seeing these masterpieces in person is really something else.
Nice challenge!
For a change, i wasn't looking at things from a solver's perspective.
Usually finding a work is a snap once you know the artist, but it didn't turn up in my image search. Nor did it appear among nearly 200 Chagalls at a commercial poster site. It still didn't show in a google image search even after I included the year (1971). But in the web results for that search I found it at an art site devoted to Chagall.
NYC_SKP posted the correct answer below, but he got it via an alternate route--by tracking down the source for the OP images.
I'll see if I can add more hints for #3 and #4 that may help.
But then you knew that!
But of course, I knew you knew.
Back in the day.
We also cut and pasted in graphics arts class, literally.
And set type, lead type, actually set it!
I was editor of the paper, so I spent a lot of time there proofreading galleys and watching slugs being set. And, of course, each page was justified by hand.
My dad was foreman of a plant that made printing machines--letter press machines of the kind used by department stores to print display signs. Each letter was stamped individually, and could be embossed by pouring colored powder over the wet ink and then melting with a hand-held heater.
After my dad's death, we sold his collection of several fonts of large wood block letters to the print shop teacher.
...always a chore!
And that provides another clue to the two works remaining to be identified (#3 & #4).
All have been identified except #3.
The date of the painting is 1890. The artist died in Paris in 1906.
This is his self-portrait:
What a great thread...you have advanced art in a terrific way...I think now that folks at DU are happier and more enriched that you have stepped in and done such a fabulous job!
Hats off to YOU!
This was intended merely as a Lounge lark, with what I assumed would be easy answers, nothing on the order of your Challenges. Little did I know that I was creating a monster!
What I don't have is your background and knowledge in art and art history. It was only sheer luck that I wasn't asked (as you often are) specific questions about the artists and the works. I really dodged bullet there, lol. Whew!
I can't wait to have you back doing your Challenge again this Friday. Then I can return to the easy role of playing art detective. I know you put a lot of thought and work into prepping and running the Challenge--and after this experience, my appreciation and respect for all that you do has only grown. You truly are a DU treasure! 
But you have to admit the whole process was kind of fun, right?
I learn so much myself from doing this stuff...remember, I started out just going into my local public library, pulling art books off the shelf and sitting down and reading them...I started, and will continue, with the Early Italian Renaissance but it was a fantastic journey...loved every minute of it!
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Thanks to all who participated! You really rose to the challenge!
1. Marc Chagall's "The Artist and His Wife" (1971)
2. Andy Warhol's "Flowers" (1964)
3. Alfred Émile Stevens' "Looking Out to Sea" (1890)
4. Helen Frankenthaler's "Adirondacks" (1992)
5. Salvador Dali's "Baie de Port Lligat Avec L'Homme Croix" (1960)
6. Claude Monet's "L'Enfant a la tasse, portrait de Jean Monet"
Links to source stories for the images in this challenge (and the answer to the Bonus Question):
10 Of The Most Expensive Artworks On Amazon Art
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/10/amazon-art_n_3725598.html
Amazon Users Review a $1.4 Million Monet Original
http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2013/08/07/monet_amazon_reviews.html
I apologize for this turning out to be so tough--I had no idea! I'm a Lounge Lizard, not an art guru like CTyankee! 