Question

An artist added a lone one of these animals to a painting he copied from Paul van Ryssel’s etching of Jacob Jordaens’s print Five Studies of Cows. These animals form a circle in a Pietà-inspired painting housed at the National Gallery of Victoria by August Friedrich (15[1])Schenck. These animals are depicted in a 1890 Hiroshige-inspired landscape in the rain created on a double-square canvas. John Berger’s Ways of Seeing incorrectly cites an artwork depicting these animals as its artist’s (*) last, though more likely that distinction (10[1])goes to a painting (10[1])of gnarled tree roots near the Auberge Ravoux (“ooh-BAIR-juh rah-VOO”). Like its artist’s earlier The Church at Auvers (“ooh-VAIR”), that painting of these animals features a similar motif of diverging paths by depicting brown and green dirt roads stretching into a stormy horizon. For 10 points, what animals appear above a wheatfield in one of Vincent van Gogh’s final paintings? ■END■

ANSWER: crows [accept rooks; accept ravens; accept corvids; prompt on birds] (The Schenck painting is Anguish.)
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Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Oscar SiddleLimp FranceskitCien Años de Quizboledad4515
Ben Russell JonesSimple VibesDefying Suavity8410
Antoni KluzowskiGrzegorz BrzęczyszczykiewiczCambridge8810

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2024 ARGOS @ Stanford02/22/2025Y367%0%67%113.50
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