The document contains questions and answers from an arts quiz prelims event held in 2015. It includes 19 multiple choice questions about various artists, artworks and art related topics. The questions cover subjects like specific paintings, artists, art galleries, art techniques and more. The document provides the questions along with short 1-2 sentence answers to each question.

1. C o l l e c t e d W o r k s
THE ARTS QUIZ — PRELIMS
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2. R E S E A R C H B Y
Venkatesh S
Vivek Karthikeyan

3. The Prelims
 36 Questions for 46 points
 No negatives
 Multiples of 5 are starred; total points in –ed questions will
be used to break ties; If ties persist, sudden death from Q1
 On the re-run, we will not move back & forth between slides
[In case of a tie in the finals, there won’t be a separate tie-
breaker. We will use the total score from the starred questions to
break the tie.]

4. Questions and
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A group called the Patrons of New Art was formed in 1982 to help buy
new art for this British gallery’s collection, and to encourage wider
interest in contemporary art.
The group wanted a name associated with great British art. They
chose X partly because he had wanted to establish a prize for young
artists, and because his work was controversial in his own day.
Identify the gallery, and X.

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Tate; Turner
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This 2002 book, his third non-fiction
effort saw a (local) author collaborate
with a very famous painter. Incidentally,
the author’s aunt is also a very famous
painter.
Name both painters. No need to name
the author of this book.

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MF Hussain
Anjoli Ela Menon
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This is a 2013 art-installation by Milwaukee artist Niki
Johnson, who was appalled on hearing a particular
speech made by the subject of this painting while on a
tour to Africa in 2009.
Consequently, Johnson used 17,000 _______ to come up
with this work, which is meant to be viewed from the
front as well as the back, where the open ends of the
material used gives the portrait a more abstract feel.
What is the material used?

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Multi-coloured Latex Condoms
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These are two paintings depicting the same event in British history.
What is the most famous embroidered depiction of the same, which
you will find today exhibited in a museum in Normandy?

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Bayeaux Tapestry
Battle of Hastings, 1066
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An indigenous art practice, this is a cultural phenomenon of the Deevaru
community who inhabit the Sagar town of the Shimoga district in
Karnataka. It is practiced primarily by the women folk of the community;
the paintings are usually 2–3 feet in size, and the central theme is man’s
relationship with nature.
They use eco-friendly natural resources like ground rice paste for white
colour and roasted rice for black. The brushes are made of strands of jute.
What is the name of this art form? Some pictures follow.

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Chittara
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This 15th century painter was born Guido di Pietro. He was given the
name we know him by, once he entered a religious order, seemingly
because of the calm and peaceful nature and the associated motifs in
his works. Most of his works can be seen at the San Marco complex in
Florence.
Identify him.

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Fra Angelico
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The following visuals form the storyboard for
which book, inspired by a recent blockbuster?

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Mad Max Fury Road: Inspired Artists
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This is a 1948 painting by the Australian artist Russell Drysdale. The
National Gallery of Australia describes the painting as “one of the
most original and haunting images in all Australian art.” Name it.

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The Cricketers
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The painter of this 1975 work was
named after the patron saint of his
home city by his grateful mother, after
he survived a deadly attack of
smallpox. He is purportedly paying
tribute to his mother through this
work. Who (full name) and what’s the
tribute?

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Francis Newton Souza; his mother was a seamstress
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Identify the painter and explain how he made this a work of
“performing art”.

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Jeremy Evans; dunked over a painting of him dunking
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The superimposition of this photograph by Kal Ferris on an
iconographical painting, by artist Roger Law, resulted in which famous
1967 visual? Please give a specific answer.

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The cover of The Jimi Hendrix Experience’s
Axis: Bold as Love
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Supposedly one of the largest stone monuments in Asia, it is built
using the technique of inter-locking stones and contains the biggest
pillar-less stone dome on earth, as well as being home to several
Buddhist relics.
At its centre is a huge meditation hall, 280 feet in diameter which has
a seating capacity of 8000 people. It took 11 years to finish. The gate
to the structure is named Myanmar Gate after the country that
nurtured the practice the structure is named after. Name the
structure.

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Global Vipassana Pagoda in Mumbai
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While we are more familiar with this word in the context of an
anatomical part or a contraception method, in architecture, it is a
transverse arch across a church or other such building, partitioning
the roof into sections. What’s the good word?

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Diaphragm
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This is an engraving that was found in
Gorham’s cave – a site believed to be the last
inhabitation of neanderthals in this continent.
It has been hailed by many as the earliest
example of “abstract art”, with multiple
experiments proving that the engravings are
intentional and not accidental.
Where will you find this cave, or what is it
part of?

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Gibraltar / Rock of Gibraltar
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This is the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art. It is the project of
socialite art collector, Dasha Zhukova, and is designed by Rem
Koolhaas. The Garage has replaced a Soviet-era styled restaurant
called Seasons of the Year, which was derelict for two decades.
In which specific location will you find this, a place that has seen the
winds of change blow over the years?

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Gorky Park
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These are previously unseen illustrated letters by an artist during his
teens, to his poet friend Stephen Spender, which are going to be
auctioned at Sotheby’s in July 2015 for a combined estimated price of
£28,000–42,000. Who is the artist?

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Lucien Freud
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What imagery is common to the following paintings?
- Han Gan’s Night-Shining White
- Albrecht Dürer’s Knight, Death and the Devil
- George Stubbs’s Whistlejacket
- Jacques-Louis David’s Napoleon Crossing the Alps

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Horse
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What is main topic of this biographical documentary?

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Forgery
Wolfgang Beltracchi tricked the international art world for nearly 40 years by
forging and selling paintings of early 20th-century masters
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Eric Ravilious was a painter of water colours, at a time when Europe
was being swept by surrealism. We also know him as the man behind
a special wood engraving. He undertook the assignment at the behest
of a typographer Robert Harling, who was tasked with the facelift of a
75 year-old ‘institution’.
What is this work that he is noted for, on which a biographer Robert
Winder commented “… the Victorian image showed that the lineage
of the game still filled ______’s arteries.”?

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The top-hatted Gentlemen playing cricket, as seen on covers of
The Wisden Cricketer’s Almanack since 1939

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Pietro Longhi was an 18th c. Venetian painter, who mastered the
portrayal of scenes of everyday life. In this work of his, the title
character is shown in the background, surrounded by some admirers.
The name of the painting is a word in the English language, from the
name of a village in Umbria, Italy, once known for its quacks.
What’s the good word?

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Charlatan
From the village of Cerreto, which gives us ‘ciarlatano’—a resident of Cerreto

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This place boasted of a library known as Dharmaganja, organised in
the aptly named buildings—Ratnasagar (sea of gems), Ratnodadhi
(ocean of gems) and Ratnaranjaka (collection of gems).
Its name could mean “city of cut stone” from Sanskrit, or as other
sources claim, could derive from the name of Bharata’s (Rama’s bro)
great grandson.
Which place?

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Takshashila / Taxila

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The story goes that once upon a time, not so long ago, a calligrapher Maria
Thomas told a monk Rick Roberts what she experienced as she drew
background patterns on a manuscript she was creating.
She described her feelings of timelessness, freedom and well-being, and
complete focus on what she was doing with no thought or worry about
anything else. “You're describing meditation,” Rick said.
Rick and Maria wondered if they could create a simple system so others
might enjoy a similar experience. What modern phenomenon resulted?

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Zentangle
A new-age phenomenon, a specific way to draw images, most often in black pen
on white paper, it is used in stress reduction, education and therapy.

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The title of all these paintings would invoke images of young men in
corduroy jackets or pea coats, doing their best Bogart imitations,
combined with which brand?

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Gitanes
Meaning ‘gypsy’

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He was one among many who suffered when a wave of xenophobia lost
him the commission of Nelson’s monument, which was eventually given to
John Flaxman. He overcame that, and the last phase of his career was in
Britain, where he executed thirteen statues, including Endymion and
Madame Mere.
His most public political act was an 1815 intervention, together with the
sculptor John Charles Rossi, the antiquarian Ennio Quirinio Visconti, and
William Hamilton.
Who, and what did he champion?

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Convincing the British government to buy the Elgin marbles

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Made in 1819 by Carlo Franzoni,
this piece is found in the US
Capitol’s National Statuary Hall.
Which ‘historian’ does one see
depicted as recording the events
in the House Chamber, while
riding a winged chariot?

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Clio
The Muse of History

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“Scherenschnitte” was the mind-bending word that Vanya
Shivashankar spelt correctly to win the 2015 Scrips Spelling Bee.
Possibly the best known reason why this word figures in this quiz, is an
artist who rediscovered it after a battle with cancer and subsequent
surgery. Among his first adventures with this style was a cheerful book
called Jazz, published in 1947.
Which artist?

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Henri Matisse
Scherenschnitte is an art of paper cutting design

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Most reports usually don’t talk
about Annie Hunt—a young
woman of refined appearance and
dressed very respectably—and her
run in with him, on July 17, 1914.
They mostly talk about what
happened on 10-March earlier
that year. What happened on 10th
March?

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Suffragette Mary Richardson’s slashing of the Rokeby Venus
Annie Hunt slashed Thomas Carlyle’s portrait later in the year

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Whose biography?
• Born: 1809 in Hamburg; Died: 1847 in Leipzig
• Grandson of philosopher Moses
• Piano Lover
• Born a Jew, baptized in 1816 as a Lutheran
• A hit at marriages since 1858, after a selection
by the Princess Royal

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Felix Mendelsohn
Was an accomplished painter; Known for his Wedding March

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This artist was known to be critical of reductive scientific thought. The
straight lines and sharp angles of the profile in this picture suggest
that the person cannot see beyond the rules of his compass. The
colourful, textured rock may be seen to represent the creative world,
to which he is blind.
This work, served as the basis for Paolozzi’s bronze which sits in the
piazza of the British Library.
Artist, and subject?

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William Blake
Sir Isaac Newton
“God us keep from Single Vision and Newton's Sleep.”

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Who speaketh? Who was Sugandha?
I loved every stage of becoming Sugandha — from researching 19th
century devdasis… to rediscovering the mythology of our epic heroines, to
gaining seven kilos, to wearing Navwari saris continuously (even to go
watch Spider-Man)! As an actor, the most beautiful challenge of playing
Sugandha was finding that rare combination of sensuousness and ethereal
purity that defined her.
The quintessential child-woman, Sugandha was trained to be irresistible to
men; yet she had an innocence that ran very deep, ... Ironically, Sugandha’s
journey mirrors the trials of all the archetypal Indian women she posed as.

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Nandana Sen
Ravi Varma’s muse

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With the import of luxury goods from the East during the Renaissance,
the wealthy craved and purchased expensive Ottoman carpets from
Central Anatolia, chief among them the red ones with geometric
patterns and medallions.
What were these carpets known as, after this depiction?

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Holbein carpets
After Hans Holbein The Younger’s The Ambassadors;
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This monument in Recife, designed by Demetrio Albuquerque, reflects
a form of torture employed widely during Brazil’s military dictatorship
in the 1960s. Bodies were exposed to increasing pain and
disorientation, even while other forms of torture (including burning,
simulated drowning, beatings, and electrical shocks) were employed.
What is it called, evoking memories of how certain creatures are
often similarly sent to market?

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Parrot’s Perch

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Referred to by
Christian Dior as “the
master of us all,” this
designer opened his
first boutique in San
Sebastian, Spain, in
1918.
Designer, and
inspiration?

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Balenciaga
Velazquez’s Las Meninas
The dress is called La Infanta, after Princess Margherita

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Inspired by what? (pls be specific)

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Vasari Corridor
Part points for “Uffizi”

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Panels from a book inspired by
who or what?
The artist ‘worked on’ a 1971
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Leonardo da Vinci (and his inventions)
Ralph Steadman

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It is defined as a moderate purple that is redder and paler than
heliotrope, bluer and paler than average amethyst, and paler and
slightly bluer than manganese violet.
This colour comes from a kind of orchid named for a British patron of
botany whose enthusiasm for orchids helped fuel a British craze for
the flowers in the 1700s.
What colour that is highlighted by one of his original orchids?

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Cattleya
After William Cattley;
Cattleya have the reputation as being the “Queen of Orchids”.

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