Hello, this is your Friday Afternoon Challenge calling! Today's challenge:

[CTyankee]

Writers and their Portraitists, Part II.

Identify the following famous writers and their portraitists:

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

[lpbk2713]

1. Is the last one Poe?

:shrug:

[CTyankee]

5. Not Poe...

[EFerrari]

12. Melville?

[CTyankee]

13. no, not melville...

[horseshoecrab]

2. #1 is William Burroughs

by Annie Leibovitz


good to see you CTyankee!

horseshoecrab

[CTyankee]

4. Hi, horseshoecrab!

Of course, you are right!

It's a very good study, don't you think?

[horseshoecrab]

11. CTyankee, the Burroughs photo is really exquisite

and shows the great power of black and white photography.

[CTyankee]

14. I think she is a genius, an American treasure...

[Yavin4]

16. Was Once In a Starbucks with her While she was drinking coffee

That counts as us having coffee together.

That tingling you feel is called jealousy.

[suffragette]

28. And before I read your last line, I was thinking to myself

I am so jealous of you!

:)

[suffragette]

3. 2. Must be from Judy Chicago "Dinner Party"

ETA: Emily Dickinson

[CTyankee]

6. Good for you! Have you seen this exhibition?

I haven't but I heard Judy speak about her "Birth Project." She's very interesting...

[suffragette]

8. No, but I've always wanted to see it

Used to look at pics of it often

[suffragette]

7. Is #4 Simone de Beauvoir?

[suffragette]

10. Simone de Beauvoir by Cartier Bresson

Very familiar with Beauvoir, but not Bresson.

[CTyankee]

18. He did portraits of anyone who was someone in his day...

And so much in Paris...

He was probably the greatest photographer of the 20th century...

[suffragette]

21. Found this article on him

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/museums/photogallery/bresson/essay.htm
He seems bashful, almost shy, about his extraordinary talent; looking back on his achievements, he refers to photography as a thing of the past. "My passion has never been for photography 'in itself,'" Cartier-Bresson wrote in 1994, "but for the possibility — through forgetting yourself — of recording in a fraction of a second the emotion of a subject, and the beauty of the form."

That does describe the photo of Beauvoir very well.
Nice to learn of the artist behind the photo.

And always glad to see reference to Beauvoir. When I was 17, I devoured her writings and consider her a positive influence in my life.

[CTyankee]

27. Wonderful remembrance, Suffragette!

that quote is beautiful. He was a true artist.

I just adore Cartier Bresson. His photos are mesmerizing. In a day of digital and color, his black and white photography is just magnificent, stately. And he is a "photographer's photographer" -- a high honor...

[suffragette]

38. There's something about black & white that captures mood

that cuts through the distraction of color to the essence.

He certainly does that.

[11 Bravo]

9. I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that #2 is female.

[CTyankee]

15. already guessed. See above.

Judy Chicago is a famous artist who is a strong feminist...

[suffragette]

17. I think I know 5 as well

Definitely in my zone today, CTYankee.

[Hissyspit]

20. #5 is Emile Zola painted by Edouard Manet

That's the Emily Dickison plate from Dinner Party.

[CTyankee]

24. Yay! How well do you know Manet?

[Hissyspit]

34. I have a book on him.

:)

[CTyankee]

41. I just finished a couple of books on him...really a great artist...

and kind of a forerunner of modern art, along with Cezanne...

[suffragette]

25. Hi Hissy

I thought that was what 5 was.

I remember seeing the painting of Zola in Paris.

And just love looking at the plates from Dinner Party.

[CTyankee]

30. Oh, where did you see that painting in Paris?

In the Louvre?

I'm going to Paris in early April with another art study group (like the one I was on in Florence last September)and I'd love to see the treasure trove of Manet's work...he was a real Paris artist, that's for sure!

[suffragette]

36. Musee d'Orsay

Here's a link:
http://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/collections/works-in-focus/search/commentaire_id/emile-zola-3060.html?no_cache=1&tx_commentaire_pi1%5Bsword%5D=manet&tx_commentaire_pi1%5BpidLi%5D=509%2C842%2C846%2C847%2C848%2C850&tx_commentaire_pi1%5Bfrom%5D=851&cHash=95cba7fb84

And much more - just type the artist's name into the search box. Can't seem to direct link that search. Treasure trove is an apt phrase here.

Most impressionist paintings are at the Musee d'Orsay, classics at the Louvre, modern at Pompidou which I have yet to visit (though I did just see the Picasso exhibit in Seattle which is why I missed your week before last thread - and wait, that's it's own museum), middle ages at Musée National du Moyen Age (very glad I finally made it there), and more. Many of the churches have wonders within as well. Finally made it to Sainte-Chapelle last visit (now, too long ago) and the stained glass was breathtaking and I also quite enjoyed the sculptures and decorated pillars on the bottom floor, which came as a surprise to me.

I originally saw many of the impressionist paintings now at the Musee d'Orsay when they were in the much smaller Jeu du Paume - amusing story about that in the thread I linked in my other post.

[CTyankee]

22. OK! You must have some "pichurs" in your mind!

[suffragette]

26. Pichurs?

Qu'est-ce que c'est?

[CTyankee]

29. Le pitture in Italian...paintings...I was just trying to be funny....sorry...

[suffragette]

31. No need to be sorry

You'd think I'd know the word. I must have seen it in my wanderings before.

You actually started some word play in my mind.
We have a great little bistro here called "Le Pichet" and now I'm craving mussels and wine from it.

Oh, or chocolat chaud - yum, yum.

I adore your Friday threads.

[CTyankee]

32. You are so nice! I thank you!

And I'm glad you enjoy all of this...

I will be in Paris April 9-17 on an art intensive with a small study group. It is like the one I went on in Florence last September. That one was intense and required some neglect of the choice of food (sometimes it was skipping lunch to see yet another art treasure), which I regret. But I am happy to see all the art that I WILL see!

[suffragette]

35. For you

Chocolat chaud at Le Pichet:


:)

That sounds like so much fun, especially since you will be with others to share the experience.
So, so much to see and do there.
That reminds me of a thread here from awhile back and some posts I made in it and the memories these brought back:
http://sync.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x8126645#8126677

[Hissyspit]

19. #3 is Robert Louis Stevenson painted by his friend, John Singer Sargent

[CTyankee]

23. Hooray, Hissyspit! Tell me how you knew...

[Hissyspit]

33. Been studying Sargent since graduate school.

And Robert Louis Stevenson looked like no one else.

[CTyankee]

40. When the weather improves, I have a tentative date with my daughter to go to the MFA

in Boston and see the Sargent's there...one of my favorites, The Daughters of Edward Boit, is there. I find it haunting...

I love that Sargent, late in life, went back to painting nature. He was tired of painting portraits of rich, bored people. He famously said, "No more mugs!"

[Hissyspit]

42. Yes, I've been there and seen "Daughters." If I recall correctly, it has its own It's very laroom. r

[CTyankee]

44. It's a terrific museum. Very user friendly and has a good feeling...

funny how there are museums that draw you in and others that are almost a chore to get through (the Uffizi and the Prado come to mind). The Borghese in Rome is wonderful...those gorgeous Berninis!

[Hissyspit]

45. Oops, sorry about the iPhone typos. nt

[Hannah Bell]

37. #2 judy chicago, the dinner party, emily dickinson

ah, i see someone already got it.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

39. Finally after several weeks, some that I can identify!

2 is The Dinner Party, Judy Chicago, Emily Dickinson plate. I saw the Dinner Party in about 1980 at the University of Houston - Clear Lake. Controversial at the time. Very impressive.

3 is Robert Louis Stevenson and obviously a John Singer Sargent.

4 is Simone de Beauvoir. Don't know who the photographer is.

The rest I got no clue.

:D Finally I got some! AND I LOOOOVE Art History!

[CTyankee]

43. You did good! Glad to see you here.

Next week, another challenge. Hope you can join in...I think it'll be fun and I'll bet you will know some of them...