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 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 goes to a painting of gnarled tree roots near the Auberge Ravoux (-5[1])(“ooh-BAIR-juh rah-VOO”). Like (10[1])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. (10[1])For 10 points, what animals appear above a wheatfield in one of Vincent van Gogh’s final (10[1])paintings? ■END■ (10[2]0[1])

ANSWER: crows [accept rooks; accept ravens; accept corvids; prompt on birds] (The Schenck painting is Anguish.)
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Kunaal Chandrashekaras rational as the square root of two power bottomsCommunism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole country96-5
Sky LiSimpson Agonistes: The Crisis of DonutModerator Can't Neg me While in Alpha9710
Kane NguyenI'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up She Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere12810
Caleb OttTensei Shitara Flashcard Data KenThe Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange14410
Henry AtkinsCommunism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole countryas rational as the square root of two power bottoms14610
Ishan JoshiRyan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan QuizbowlersYou cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruit1460
Mattias EhatammYou cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruitRyan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers14610

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