quiz: survey on how many philistines are left in the world, and on other imp. things.
ellie
hi all,
if you are bored and have nothing better to do, please take my
quiz and email results to me, I'm doing a survey. please include your
occupation, if any, along with your answers. thanks a lot. ellie.
1- Vincent Van Gogh
a) was a french impressionist painter
b) was supported financially and emotionally throughout his life by his
brother
Theo
c) painted the Mona Lisa
d) is the director of the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam
2- Eugene Delacroix & Ingres
a) worked together on a painting titled "liberty leading the people",
which was completed in 1830, in which a female nude serves as an
allegory
for liberty
b) were great rivals & were leaders respectively of the romantic/
colorist and neoclassical/linearist movements in 19c French painting
c) didn't approve of any sort of nudity in painting
d) both believed that brush strokes should be visible in a painting
3- Claude Monet and Berthe Morisot were
a) lovers
b) proponents of the neoclassicist movement
c) rivals and arch enemies in the 19th century impressionist movement
d) 19th century impressionist painters
4- During the analytic cubist phase
a) it is easy to distinguish Pablo Picasso's paintings from those of his
partner in cubism, Georges Braque
b) bright colors and the use of pattern predominate
c) Georges Braque commit suicide because of the lack of recognition
given to him for his part in the development of cubism
d) it is very difficult to distinguish a Picasso from a Braque
5- Les Demoiselles D'Avignon
a) was painted during the Medieval Period in France and is a part of the
Bayeux Tapestry
b) was painted by Pablo Picasso in the early 20c & was a pivotal
painting
for Picasso in the development of cubism
c) is an acrylic on canvas painting and was one of the first paintings
in which acrylic paint was used and wives, 2 of whom are wearing
African masks to disguise themselves
6- In Henri Matisse's painting " the red studio", which one art
element dominates?
a) color
b) light
c) fauvism
d) perspective
7- Marcel Duchamp
a) drew a mustache & beard onto a reproduction of the Mona Lisa in
his L.H.O.O.Q. completed in 1919
b) was not the leader of a movement in the early 20c called Dada, which
attacked traditional ideas about art & society
c) did not paint "nude descending a staircase"
d) was mistakenly thought to have completed a technically sophisticated
sculpture in which sugar cubes are fashioned out of marble
8- Joan Miro and Salvador Dali
a) were post surrealist painters who both strongly disliked cubism
b) were surrealist painters who both worked in representational styles
c) were both surrealist painters, but Miro's paintings are abstract,
while
Dali's are academic & highly representational in style
d) were both from France
9- Jackson Pollock
a) was one of the 3 most renowned abstract expressionist painters
b) painted "100 Campbell Soup Cans" using a tooth pick
c) projected paint onto his canvases with a spray gun
d) is known to have been influenced by the work of 19c Japanese woodcut
artists
10- Helen Frankenthaler & Mark Rothko
a) were lovers and collaborated on many mural paintings
b) hated each other's work
c) were 2 major abstract expressionist painters who influenced
the 1960's movement of color field painting
d) worked together as fashion designers during the early 20c
11- The post abstract expressionist painter who painted a series
of paintings of American flags and targets is
a) Anselm Kiefer
b) Cindy Sherman
c) Lucian Freud
d) Jasper Johns
12- In the film Painters Painting Willem De Kooning states that
a) he dislikes early christian painting
b) he hates Robert Rauschenberg's work
c) he is a painterly painter, because brush strokes are visible in his
work
d) he has 4 dogs, 6 cats a horse and a falcon
13- In the film Painters Painting Helen Frankenthaler states that she
a) dislikes painting after nature watercolors because she believes that
a painting should be seen as a whole
with no record of its construction
d) doesn't like the analytical aspect of cubist painting and prefers
synthetic cubist work, which avoids this "problem" with the use of
acrylic
paint
14- In the video Painters Painting, art critic Clement Greenberg
states that
a) "Pop art is ugly & isn't worth looking at"
b) "the pop artist almost knowingly comes too far to meet the viewer's
tastes"
c) "art which doesn't make it on the scene too fast is minor art"
d) "art should never challenge or make the viewer feel uncomfortable"
15- In the period just before, during and after WWII, the art
capital was in the process of
a) being pillaged and looted by Atilla the Hun
b) shifting from Paris to New York
c) shifting from New York to Milan
d) shifting from Paris to Munich
16- In the film Painters Painting color field painter Larry Poons
states that
a) he was influenced by the work of the dutch painter Piet Mondrian
b) he hates Leo Castelli
c) he doesn't believe in selling his work
d) he doesn't like the technique of pouring paint onto unprimed canvas
17- Andy Warhol, often considered to be the leader of the Pop art
movement,
sometimes used overtly political imagery in his work such as
a) coke cans
b) the electric chair
c) campbell soup cans
d) hearts
18- George Segal is
a) a surrealist painter who painted dogs
b) a stage writer and novelist
c) a sculptor who worked in marble & clay and wax
d) an American 20c sculptor who made life casts of everyday people for
his
genre pieces
19- In the film Painters Painting, Barnett Newman states that
a) he finds the work of french artist Paul Cezanne boring
b) the vertical line in the center of his painting onement divides
rather than unites the canvas/painting
c) the vertical line in the center of his painting onement unites
rather than divides the canvas/painting
d) he prefers to work in the fresco technique on easel sized paintings
20- In the Abstract Expressionist painting of the New York School
a) the size of the traditional 19c easel painting is greatly enlarged
b) the size of the paintings was limited because the unfortunate artists
only had access to tiny studios
c) the paintings are for the most part miniatures, in spite of the
oversized factory studios that most of the artists used
d) fresco painting was the predominant technique of choice
ellie
b) doesn't like to see drips or brush strokes in a painting
because she believes that a painting should be seen as a whole
with no record of its construction
c) works from photographs
d) doesn't like the analytical aspect of cubist painting and prefers
synthetic cubist work, which avoids this "problem" with the use of
acrylic
paint
> 14- In the film Painters Painting, art critic Clement Greenberg