A Friday Afternoon Challenge for DU cat lovers: Hello Kitty!

[CTyankee]

Name the artist and the painting in the following images:
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6.

[Brickbat]

1. No. 6 is Benozzo Gozzoli's Journey of the Magi.

[CTyankee]

4. Hey, this must be one of your faves!

Have you seen it since its restoration?

[Brickbat]

9. No, I've never been to Italy...

The faces of Renaissance animals tend to stick with me, because they're so bizarrely human. It looks so pissed!

[CTyankee]

12. I saw it last September, altho the space it's in is claustrophobic...

about the size of a large American walk in closet...damn near suffocated from the heat...but it DOES make an impact on you...

[WinkyDink]

2. Question about #4:

This blogger claims its hers!
http://meangirl.blogspot.com/2007_04_01_archive.html

[CTyankee]

6. I guess I'm not the only one who thinks it is Warhol's...

[WinkyDink]

8. Granted; but I can't find another place where his name and the painting are together, other than the

blog above!
http://www.moderncat.net/2010/01/28/the-colorful-cats-of-andy-warhol/

http://www.google.com/search?q=andy+warhol+cat&hl=en&site=webhp&prmd=ivnso&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=gnufTYK7B6yO0QHg7vX7BA&ved=0CB8QsAQ&biw=1020&bih=526

[CTyankee]

10. well, coulda been a scam?

[marions ghost]

3. Number 4 is Andy Warhol

(I'm better with 20th c) :)

[CTyankee]

5. Yup!

[WinkyDink]

7. Odd:

http://meangirl.blogspot.com/2007_04_01_archive.html

[marions ghost]

11. No 5 = Manet's "Olympia"

I'd know that foot anywhere...

[marions ghost]

13. link to view painting:

http://www.jssgallery.org/other_artists/manet/olympia.htm

[Brickbat]

15. Ha, I've never noticed the cat! I must be looking...elsewhere...

[CTyankee]

19. Classic, isn't it? And a big favorite here at DU! Olympia has been in another DU Challenge!

But I love the cat! It doesn't look happy...

[anneboleyn]

28. My kitty-cat passed away last year, and he looked just like that one in the Manet

Love that painting!

[Bluerthanblue]

14. well, I think I finally found #3

I guessed it was a fresco, the feet looked like the last supper, but I never knew how many frescos of the last supper there were!!

is it Domenico Ghirlandaio "Last Supper" ?

[CTyankee]

20. Yes, indeed! He did two that are almost identical only one was with the cat, the other not.

Both are in Florence, not far from each other, which I saw on my trip there last September...love those frescoes!!

[Bluerthanblue]

23. I can't imagine

what it would be like to see this in person. Must have been awesome.

Thank you for doing these challenges. I love the encouragement to focus on great art.

:hi:

[CTyankee]

24. That trip was Intense! So MUCH to see. But did I ever sleep well at night!

I literally walked myself to happy exhaustion in Florence during my study time there...far too short, of course...

[Brickbat]

16. Is No. 1 Russian?

[CTyankee]

21. no, but I wonder why you ask?

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25. It reminds me of a Russian romantic...but I can't come up with the name...

To the art books!

[CTyankee]

26. It's a very famous artist...eventually, you'll find the answer! nt

[Bluenorthwest]

17. Vexing Feline art challenge...

Others already named the two I could place, number one is driving me crazy, because I've seen it but I don't know where, and it is not what I thought it was.
I love that you do this. I learn each week. Vexing, and I'm right far less frequently than I would have thought, but it is a great deal of fun for which I thank you.

[CTyankee]

22. Oh, thanks for the vote of confidence! That's so nice!

And we do have fun! Great to have a little break from the crap that's going on politically now...

I love #1 because it is so endearing, a lovely grace note with that basket...

[pipoman]

18. Can't talk now,,,our cat is in labor! 4 so far..

[marions ghost]

27. cat clawing urn

Italian Renaissance?

:crazy:

[CTyankee]

29. Some would say yes, some would say later with this artist...

[marions ghost]

32. Caravaggio?

Mannerist period?

[CTyankee]

33. It is not Caravaggio and I don't really consider this Mannerist altho some might...

but I don't understand why...

[marions ghost]

36. I'm thinking mannerist because

of the funky mask-like face on the urn and the twisting of the cat...

OK getting a little warmer

[CTyankee]

37. not sure of what that means to Mannerism but...maybe it's just me...

[marions ghost]

39. thinking

Mannerist is little less formal, more decadent themes, more odd perspectives...

but I'm struggling in this era...

[CTyankee]

41. You might want to ...relax!!...

[marions ghost]

42. sorry

I guess I'm not gonna get this one...:thumbsup: for a good challenge

[marions ghost]

30. Number 1 --grey stripe kitteh

1700's -- France?

throwing out hail marys....

[CTyankee]

31. not France...

[marions ghost]

34. Dutch, flemish?

...

[CTyankee]

35. hmmm

[marions ghost]

38. Dutch genre painting

for ex Jan Steen

Except I think might be more famous one since you said "famous."

[CTyankee]

40. well, it isn't jan steen...but I don't know much about him...

[marions ghost]

43. I'll settle for getting into the ballpark with this one

maybe somebody else will come along and carry the Olympic torch into the arena?

:applause: CTyankee

[CTyankee]

44. I'll post the answers tomorrow morning...but keep guessing, folks, ...