Short Quiz made on Art & Culture.

1. I AM THE MASTER OF THIS QUIZ.
ANYONE WHO OPPOSES ME WILL BE
HARMED BY THE CHARM SECTUMSEMPRA !!!!

2. QUESTION 1.
ISAAC ISRAELS IS THE NEPHEW OF X, A FAMOUS PAINTER.
X’S WORK IS NOTABLE FOR ITS ROUGH BEAUTY,
EMOTIONAL HONESTY AND BOLD COLOUR. DIED AT AN
AGE OF 37 FROM A GUNSHOT WOUND, HE PRODUCED MORE
THAN 2100 ARTWORKS IN HIS LIFETIME. THOUGH HE WAS
KNOWN BY A VERY FEW PEOPLE IN HIS LIFETIME, LATER HE
CAME TO BE RECOGNISED AS ONE OF THE GREATEST
PAINTERS OF ALL TIME.
ONE OF ISSAC’S PAINTING (IMAGE SHOWN IN NEXT SLIDE)
WAS INFLUENCED BY HIS SERIES OF WORK, Y.
IDENTIFY X AND Y.

4. AND THE ANSWER IS :

5. X=VINCENT WILLIAM VAN GOGH
Y= SUNFLOWERS (THERE ARE AT PRESENT
11 SUCH PAINTINGS PRESENT ON THIS
TOPIC)

6. QUESTION 2.
CONNECT.

7. AND THE ANSWER IS :

8. THE THINKER.
(AUGUSTE RODIN WHOSE PICTURE IS SHOWN IS
THE CREATOR OF THIS SCLUPTURE.
IT WAS DISPLAYED IN NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM:
BATTLE OF THE SMITHSONIAN.
HANK AZARIA GAVE THE VOICE TO THIS
CHARACTER.)

9. QUESTION 3.
CONNECT.

10. AND THE ANSWER IS :

11. PAUL JACKSON POLLOCK
THE PICTURE SHOWN IS OF SHAUN POLLOCK
THE PAINTING IS LAVENDER MIST(NUMBER 1) BY PAUL
JACKSON POLLOCK

12. QUESTION 4.
X, A PAINTING BY Y IS DEPICTED ON THE ARTIST’S MISTRESS Z.
IT WAS SOLD AT AN AUCTION IN 2006 BY THE GIDWITZ FAMILY
OF CHICAGO AT A PRICE OF APPROXIMATELY 95 MILLION US$ .
Y ONCE LIKENED Z’S ALLURE AND TEMPERAMENT TO THAT OF AN
“AFHGAN CAT”. Z’S RELATIONSHIP WITH Y RESULTED IN SOME OF
Y’S MOST POWERFUL AND DARING PORTRAITS OF HIS 75 YEAR
CAREER.
IDENTIFY X, Y & Z. (NO PART MARKING WILL BE GIVEN.)

13. AND THE ANSWER IS :

14. X= DORA MAAR AU CHAT (DORA MAAR WITH CAT)
Y= PABLO PICASSO.
Z= DORA MAAR.

15. QUESTION 5.
1. HIS FIRST PUBLISHED WORK WAS A LETTER TO HIS TWIN
BROTHER WHO DIED AT BIRTH.
2. HE HAD HIS OWN PRINT SHOP ON THE ISLAND GIFTED TO
HIM BY THE KING OF DENMARK.
3. HIS NOSE WAS SLICED OFF IN A DRUNKEN DUEL AFTER
WHICH HE WORE A PROSTHETIC NOSE MADE OF SILVER.
4. HE HAD A DWARF NAMED JEP.
5. HE ALSO HAD A PET ELK THAT HE USED TO FEED BEAR. IT
DIED IN A DRUNKEN FALL DOWN THE STAIRS.
THESE DESCRIPTIONS WERE TWEETED BY JEFF EASTIN, THE
CREATOR OF TV SERIES “WHITE COLLAR” ABOUT A 16TH
CENTURY ASTRONOMER.
WHO IS THIS ASTRONOMER?

16. AND THE ANSWER IS :

17. TYCO BRAHE

18. QUESTION 6.
X was a Flemish Baroque artist who became the
leading court painter in England. He is most
famous for his portraits of King Charles I of
England and Scotland and his family and court,
painted with a relaxed elegance that was to be
the dominant influence on English portrait-painting
for the next 150 years. He also painted
biblical and mythological subjects, displayed
outstanding facility as a draftsman, and was an
important innovator in watercolor and etching.
His masterpiece is the altarpiece in the
cathedral at Ghent, the Adoration of the Lamb.
WHO IS X ?

19. AND THE ANSWER IS :

20. X= SIR ANTHONY VAN DYCK.

21. QUESTION 7.
X IS A STYLE INVENTED AROUND 1900 AND 1910 ,
WHICH LASTED FOR A FEW YEARS AND HAD ONLY
THREE EXBITIONS IN TOTAL. IT WAS DEVELOPED BY A
LOOSE GROUP OF MODERN ARTISTS WHOSE WORKS
EMPHASISED PAINTERLY QUALITIES AND STRONG
COLOUR OVER THE REPRESENTAL OR REALISTIC VALUES
RETAINED BY IMPRESSIONISM. THE LEADERS OF THIS
MOVEMENT WERE ANDRE DERAIN AND Y. THESE GROUP
OF PAINTERS EXBITED TOGETHER IN SALON
D’AUTOMNE IN 1905. AROUND APRIL 1906 Y MET PABLO
PICASSO WHO WAS 11 YEARS YOUNGER THAN HIM. THE
TWO BECAME LIFELONG FRIENDS AS WELL AS RIVALS
AND WERE OFTEN COMPARED.
IDENTY X AND Y.

22. AND THE ANSWER IS :

23. X= FAUVISM
Y= HENRY MATISSE

24. QUESTION 8.
X was born in Limoges, France, on February 25, 1841, the sixth
child of a tailor. When X was four years old, his family moved to
Paris into a humble apartment near the Louvre. X showed his
talent for drawing at an early age, using his father’s tailor’s chalk
to sketch portraits of his family on the floors and walls of the
family home. At the age of 13, he was apprenticed in a Paris
porcelain factory where he painted designs on china. Soon
improvements in porcelain technology made hand-painting
uneconomical and X spent another year or two painting
designs on fans, lampshades, and window blinds. At the age of
21, he decided he would study art more seriously and enrolled
in the Ecole des Beaux-Arts (the Paris College of Fine Arts). He
also entered the Paris studio of the Swiss painter, Charles
Gleyre, where he met other students such as Claude Monet,
Alfred Sisley, and Frederic Bazille.
WHO IS X?

25. AND THE ANSWER IS :

26. PIERRE AUGUSTE RENOIR.

27. QUESTION 9.
X was born to a family that had for several generations belonged
to minor nobility in Florence but had, by the time the artist was
born, lost its patrimony and status. Nevertheless, it was
something of a downward social step to become an artist, and X
became an apprentice relatively late, at 13, perhaps after
overcoming his father’s objections. He was apprenticed to the
city’s most prominent painter, Domenico Ghirlandaio, for a three-year
term, but he left after one year, having nothing more to
learn.
Obviously talented, he was taken under the wing of the
ruler of the city, Lorenzo de’ Medici, known as the Magnificent.
This good fortune gave him access not only to leading poets and
intellectuals but to the Medici art Collection. Florence at that
time was home for many prominent painters like LEONARDO DA
VINCI and his teacher ANDREA DEL VERROCCHIO.
WHO IS X ?

28. AND THE ANSWER IS :

29. MICHELANGELO DI LODOVICO BUONARROTI

30. QUESTION 10.
X’s last masterpiece is the Y (commissioned by Cardinal Giulio de’
Medici in 1517), an enormous altarpiece that was unfinished at his
death and completed by his assistant Giulio Romano. It now hangs
in the Vatican Museum. The Y is a complex work that combines
extreme formal polish and elegance of execution with an atmosphere
of tension and violence communicated by the agitated gestures of
closely crowded groups of figures. It shows a new sensibility that is
like the prevision of a new world, turbulent and dynamic; in its feeling
and composition it inaugurated the Mannerist movement and tends
toward an expression that may even be called Baroque.
Y is also a subject taught at the Hogwarts school of witchcraft and
Wizardry.
Identify X and Y.

31. AND THE ANSWER IS :

32. X= RAFAEL
Y= TRANSFIGURATION

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