Listy's Themed Quiz * ART * 11/12
Quiz-Master
1) Which word meaning 'going up in smoke' used by Leonardo da Vinci refers
to a painting technique which blends colours or tones to avoid sharp
outlines?
2) From the Italian for 'baked earth' what is fired clay used for pottery
called?
3) He died after falling off his horse during a training exercise for World
War One, who wrote the 'Manifesto of the Futurist Painters'?
4) Which French journalist and literary critic coined the term
'Impressionism'?
5) The Tracy Chevalier novel 'Girl With A Pearl Earing' is about a painting
by which Dutch artist?
6) Which Scottish portraitist's most famous painting is 'Reverend Robert
Walker Skating on Duddingston Loch'?
7) Painted by Pablo Picasso, which was the first Cubism picture?
8) Which Austrian-Jewish art historian, who spent most of his working life
in the United Kingdom, wrote 'The Story of Art'?
9) Which Impressionist painter took his byname 'Le Douanier' due to his
early occupation as a tax collector in the Paris customs office?
10) From the French for 'lost wax', what is the sculptural process of metal
casting that may be used for hollow and solid casting called?
11) In the painting Adoration of the Magi by Sandro Botticelli, who are
depicted as the Magi?
12) Perhaps the most important Pre-Raphaelite painter outside of the
Brotherhood, whose works include 'The Last of England' and 'Work', a series
of twelve paintings depicting the history of Manchester?
13) Which French artist was close friends with Emile Zola until Zola's
fictionalised depiction of him in the novel L'Oeuvre?
14) What P is surface alteration on a statue caused by age?
15) Inspired by a British recruitment poster showing Lord Kitchener in a
similar pose, whose famous poster to encourage recruitment in the US Army
during World War I showed Uncle Sam pointing at the viewer with the caption
"I Want YOU for the U. S. Army"?
16) Which neo-classical Italian sculptor's most famous piece is 'The Three
Graces'?
17) Which surrealist technique developed by Max Ernst involves putting a
piece of paper over an object with a textured surface and rubbing it with a
pencil or other drawing tool?
18) Portrait of Dr. Gachet and Irises are second and fourth in the list of
the most expensive paintings ever sold, name the artist?
19) Which art movement was formed in a Zurich night club in 1916?
20) Noted for his scenes of peasant farmers, which French artist's works
includes The Gleaners and The Sower?
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Barbara Bailey
<pubqu...@gmail.com> wrote:
>11/December - Art - When you are done Click Reveal
>
>1) Which word meaning 'going up in smoke' used by Leonardo da Vinci refers
>to a painting technique which blends colours or tones to avoid sharp
>outlines?
Hmmm. Is that Chiarousco, or however it's spelled?
>
>2) From the Italian for 'baked earth' what is fired clay used for pottery
>called?
Terra Cotta
>3) He died after falling off his horse during a training exercise for World
>War One, who wrote the 'Manifesto of the Futurist Painters'?
>
>4) Which French journalist and literary critic coined the term
>'Impressionism'?
>
>5) The Tracy Chevalier novel 'Girl With A Pearl Earing' is about a painting
>by which Dutch artist?
>
>6) Which Scottish portraitist's most famous painting is 'Reverend Robert
>Walker Skating on Duddingston Loch'?
>
>7) Painted by Pablo Picasso, which was the first Cubism picture?
>
>8) Which Austrian-Jewish art historian, who spent most of his working life
>in the United Kingdom, wrote 'The Story of Art'?
>
>9) Which Impressionist painter took his byname 'Le Douanier' due to his
>early occupation as a tax collector in the Paris customs office?
>
>10) From the French for 'lost wax', what is the sculptural process of metal
>casting that may be used for hollow and solid casting called?
Lost wax casting. Don't know what it is in French, though.
>
>11) In the painting Adoration of the Magi by Sandro Botticelli, who are
>depicted as the Magi?
>
>12) Perhaps the most important Pre-Raphaelite painter outside of the
>Brotherhood, whose works include 'The Last of England' and 'Work', a series
>of twelve paintings depicting the history of Manchester?
>
>13) Which French artist was close friends with Emile Zola until Zola's
>fictionalised depiction of him in the novel L'Oeuvre?
>
>14) What P is surface alteration on a statue caused by age?
Patina
Mark Brader
> to a painting technique which blends colours or tones to avoid sharp
> outlines?
Chiaroscuro.
> 2) From the Italian for 'baked earth' what is fired clay used for pottery
> called?
Terra cotta.
> 7) Painted by Pablo Picasso, which was the first Cubism picture?
No idea, unless it's Nude Descending a Staircase.
> 10) From the French for 'lost wax', what is the sculptural process of metal
> casting that may be used for hollow and solid casting called?
It's called "lost wax", from the English for "lost wax".
> 14) What P is surface alteration on a statue caused by age?
Patina. Not limited to statues, though.
> 18) Portrait of Dr. Gachet and Irises are second and fourth in the list of
> the most expensive paintings ever sold, name the artist?
Van Gogh.
> 19) Which art movement was formed in a Zurich night club in 1916?
Dada.
--
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Keith Willoughby
> 5) The Tracy Chevalier novel 'Girl With A Pearl Earing' is about a painting
> by which Dutch artist?
Vermeer.
--
Keith Willoughby http://flat222.org/keith/
"I was an angry young man in need of an icon
and Leonid Brezhnev fell short on several counts"
-- Mark Steel
Gareth Owen
> 1) Which word meaning 'going up in smoke' used by Leonardo da Vinci refers
> to a painting technique which blends colours or tones to avoid sharp
> outlines?
Fumato
> 2) From the Italian for 'baked earth' what is fired clay used for
> pottery called?
Terracotta
> 3) He died after falling off his horse during a training exercise
> for World War One, who wrote the 'Manifesto of the Futurist
> Painters'?
> 5) The Tracy Chevalier novel 'Girl With A Pearl Earing' is about a painting
> by which Dutch artist?
Vermeer
> 11) In the painting Adoration of the Magi by Sandro Botticelli, who
> are depicted as the Magi?
Erm, the wise men of the Nativity?
> 13) Which French artist was close friends with Emile Zola until Zola's
> fictionalised depiction of him in the novel L'Oeuvre?
Lautrec?
> 16) Which neo-classical Italian sculptor's most famous piece is 'The
> Three Graces'?
Rubens
> 18) Portrait of Dr. Gachet and Irises are second and fourth in the list of
> the most expensive paintings ever sold, name the artist?
Van Gogh
> 19) Which art movement was formed in a Zurich night club in 1916?
Dada?
Keith Willoughby
> "Quiz-Master" <pubqu...@gmail.com> writes:
>> 11) In the painting Adoration of the Magi by Sandro Botticelli, who
>> are depicted as the Magi?
>
> Erm, the wise men of the Nativity?
I think they are various Medici. Or Dukes of Lombardy. Or people of that
ilk, anyway.
--
Keith Willoughby http://flat222.org/keith/
"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from
religious conviction."
-- Pascal
Richard Schultz
: Gareth Owen <use...@gwowen.freeserve.co.uk> writes:
:> "Quiz-Master" <pubqu...@gmail.com> writes:
:>> 11) In the painting Adoration of the Magi by Sandro Botticelli, who
:>> are depicted as the Magi?
:>
:> Erm, the wise men of the Nativity?
:
: I think they are various Medici. Or Dukes of Lombardy. Or people of that
: ilk, anyway.
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Department of Chemistry, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel
Opinions expressed are mine alone, and not those of Bar-Ilan University
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