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, (10[1])though more likely that distinction goes to a painting of gnarled tree roots near the Auberge (-5[1])Ravoux (“ooh-BAIR-juh rah-VOO”). Like (10[1])its artist’s earlier The Church at Auvers (“ooh-VAIR”), that painting (10[1])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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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Vivian Maloufthrow away your cards, rally in the streetsUBC7910
Henry BonI wish it were possible to freeze time so I would never have to watch you retireThompson et al.95-5
Evan TingAw we're so sorry to hear that maman died today, she gets five big boomsCLEVELAND, THIS IS FOR YOU!9710
Joel MilesThompson et al.I wish it were possible to freeze time so I would never have to watch you retire10610

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2024 ARGOS @ Brandeis03/22/2025Y3100%33%0%116.67
2024 ARGOS Online03/22/2025Y3100%0%33%94.00