AQC Visual Arts Quiz

of a Negative in the MindThe Physical Impossibility of Someone Pouncing
Anshul Roy Shrey Shylesh Abhinav Dhar
Ahmedabad Quiz Club || Visual Arts Quiz || 22nd
December, 2019

The Physical Impossibility of a Negative in the Mind of Someone Pouncing
Anshul Roy || Shrey Shylesh || Abhinav Dhar

Rules of the Game:
•4 Rounds in this Quiz.
•Rounds 1 and 3 are written rounds with 10 and 5
questions respectively.
•Rounds 2 and 4 are jeopardy style rounds with 24
questions each, divided in 6 topics of 4 questions
each.
•Rules of individual rounds as we go along.

Written Round – 1:
•10 questions on the topic - ‘Imitations and Inspirations in
the Art world’.
•+5 points for each correct answer.
•+10 points if you get all answers correct.

•This is a painting
titled “The
Judgement of
Paris” made by the
artist Marcantonio
Raimondi in the
early 1500s.
•Which famous
painting’s
composition was
inspired from this
work?
1

•In 2009, the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei created an installation
artwork titled ‘Remembering’ on the façade of the Haus der
Kunst in Munich. It was constructed using 9000 children’s
backpacks which spelled out the sentence “she lived happily
for seven years in this world” in Chinese characters.
•This artwork was a reaction to the 2008 Sichuan earthquake
in which many government schools collapsed killing
numerous young kids. The sentence was inspired from a
quote by a mother who lost her child in this tragedy.
•Considering the theme of this artwork, which now bankrupt
company’s logo inspired its color scheme?
2

The Physical Impossibility of a Negative in the Mind of Someone Pouncing 2

•This is a 1979
photo by the
contemporary
Canadian
photographer Jeﬀ
Wall titled
“Picture for
Women”.
•Which famous
painting inspired
this?
3

•This is the album cover of "One
of the Boys", the third solo
album released by Roger
Daltery, the lead vocalist of
The Who.
•This album cover is inspired by
a painting made by which
famous artist?
4

•In his 2015 photo series titled ‘Torture’, the controversial
photographer Andres Serrano visually chronicled the inﬂiction
of pain, from medieval dungeons to modern warfare. Over
several months, he photographed medieval torture devices,
victims of torture and staged simulated torture sessions with
volunteers.
•One of the major photos in this series is shown on the next
slide. For this image, Serrano was inspired by a very infamous
photo and he recreated that with a volunteer because he saw
it as the ultimate symbol of modern-day torture.
•Where was the original infamous photo clicked?
5

•In the Disney movie
‘Frozen’, the lead
character Anna dances
through an art gallery
singing "For the First
Time in Forever." She
hops around on couches
and imagines herself in a
number of paintings
present in the royal
collection.
•Which famous painting
inspired this particular
scene?
6

•This is a Barbie doll from the
‘Museum Collection’ series
which was launched in 2011
by Mattel.
•The design was inspired
from a famous portrait
painting, and it reﬂects the
painting’s Byzantine
mosaics and Egyptian
motifs.
•Which painting?
7

•This is a 1933 self-portrait by
the Russian artist Kazimir
Malevich.
•Many art historians believe
that the hand gesture in this
painting was inspired from
another famous self-portrait.
•Which famous artist’s
self-portrait served as an
inspiration for this gesture?
8

•This is a 1924 photograph (next slide) taken by the famous artist
Man Ray. It is titled Le Violon d'______, a French idiom meaning
“a second skill beyond the one for which a person is mainly
known.” This idiom has been derived from the name of a famous
French academic painter - X, who was also an amateur violin
player from his youth, and played as a violinist for the orchestra
of Toulouse.
•Man Ray was an admirer of the X’s paintings and this photo was
inspired from a painting titled ‘The Valpincon Bather’. He also
painted the f-holes present on a violin onto the photographic
print to make a direct reference to X and his hobby.
•Identify X.
9

•This is the front cover
of the February 2019
issue of The
Economist. Its design
was inspired from an
iconic graphic poster
made in 1923 by a
famous artist.
•Which famous artist?
10

Exchange your sheets.
Answers Follow.

Luncheon on the Grass by Edouard Manet
1

Toys R Us
2

A Bar at the Folies-Bergere by Edouard
Manet
3

Not to be Reproduced by Rene Magritte
4

Abu Ghraib prison
5

The Swing by Jean-Honoré Fragonard
6

Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer by Gustav
Klimt
7

Albrecht Durer
8

Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
9

Round 2: Jeopardy Part A
•The following slide contains a grid with 6 topics, each
having 4 questions having scores of 5, 10, 15 and 20.
•Normal pounce and bounce rules apply, and any team
may choose any question on their direct, and the score
on the bounce is +n/0 and pounce is +n/-n.
•This round goes clockwise.
•For e.g. if Team 1 on their direct take a question with a
score of 10, the other teams pouncing play for a +10/-10.

The Grid: Part A
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Topic 3Topic 2 Topic 4 Topic 5 Topic 6
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French Painters and Paintings: 5
•This is a present-day image of Maison Fournaise, which is a
restaurant and museum located on the Seine in the town of
Chatou, west of Paris. It was started in 1857, when Alphonse
Fournaise bought land in Chatou to open a ____ rental,
restaurant, and small hotel for the new tourist trade. This
restaurant was closed in 1906, and it remained abandoned
before being restored in 1990 on the initiative of the town of
Chatou.
•In which famous painting would you have seen this
restaurant?

Luncheon of the Boating Party by Pierre
Auguste Renoir

Depictions : 5
•In his essay ‘Image of Imperialism’, the famous art critic John Berger
analysed the photograph of Che Guevara’s dead body (next slide)
and compared it with a painting. He wrote that the corpse present
in the photo as well as the painting were concerned with making an
example of the dead - one for the advancement of medicine, the
other as a political warning.
•With which famous painting did John Berger compare this
photograph with?

The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp
by Rembrandt

Business : 5
•In the National Museum in New
Delhi, you will find a 3500-year old
anthropomorphic copper figure
from Shahabad, Uttar Pradesh
(belonging to the enigmatic
Copper Hoards of the Ganga
Valley).
•Which non-profit charitable
organisation started using this as
its logo starting 1986?

Intach

Photography: 5
• Although there has never been any formal identiﬁcation of the main subject of
this iconic photo, many unproven theories have popped up over his identity.
• The Canadian publication The Globe and Mail claimed that the man was
Norberto Hernandez, a chef at the cafe Windows on the World. Initially,
Hernandez’s family was inclined to agree, though they were less convinced
after further inspection of his clothing in the photo. Another reporter for
Esquire claimed that the man was a diﬀerent employee of Windows on the
World, a sound engineer named Jonathan Briley. Briley’s manager at Windows
on the World, as well as his family, agreed that the man’s clothing in the photo
resembled Briley’s usual attire.
• Which iconic photo are we talking about?

Falling Man

Techniques : 5
•In pottery and art in general, it is a decorative border
constructed from a continuous line, shaped into a
repeated motif, a common decorative elements in Greek
and Roman art.
•It takes its name from a geographical concept, itself
originating from a geographical body in Asia Minor.
•What one word are such borders known by?

Meander

•X is a method of carving an object such as an engraved
gem or jewelry.
•Nearly always featuring a raised (positive) relief image, in
historical works X refers to works where the relief image is
of a contrasting colour to the background.
•Stan Lee here is wearing one, rather appropriately.
•Give X.

Cameo

Photography: 10
•In 2012, the Belgian-born photographer Mishka Henner
self-published a photobook titled X.
•In this book, he used two controversial approaches - appropriation
and erasure. He appropriated the 83 images present in Robert
Frank's classic photobook, ‘The Americans’ (ﬁrst published in
France as ‘Les Americains’). He also erased much of the original
content, leaving blank outlines where once there were faces,
buildings, landscapes and people.
•Considering this fact, what apt title did he give to his book,
punning on the French title of Robert Frank’s photobook?

Less Americains

•Pedro Romero Martínez (1754 – 1839) was one of the most
well-known exponents of his skill, and was responsible for the
elevation of his profession in a way that in his lifetime it got started
to be seen as an artform, and not just a display of courage.
•His fame coincided with the peak of an artist’s creative best, and it
was this artist who created Pedro’s most famous portrait. This
artist is famous for depicting the activity associated with Pedro,
and starting 1954, one of the most famous of these activity in the
country is named for the artist himself.
•Name the artist. What activity is Pedro Romero seen to be the
greatest of?
: 10

Francisco de Goya and
Bullfighting
• The ‘Feria de Pedro Romero’ is traditionally the
first week in September. The highlight of the
week is the ‘Corrida Goyesca’ bullfight which
traditionally takes place on the Saturday.

+10
• This film brought the director many accolades which included the best
director award at Cannes in 1979. However, it is more famously known for
Néstor Almendros’s magnificent cinematography drawing on the paintings
of Winslow Homer, Andrew Wyeth, Edward Hopper and Jean-François
Millet.
• Much of the film would be shot during magic hour, which Almendros called:
“a euphemism, because it’s not an hour but around 25 minutes at the most. It
is the moment when the sun sets, and after the sun sets and before it is night.
The sky has light, but there is no actual sun. The light is very soft, and there is
something magic about it. It limited us to around twenty minutes a day, but it
did pay on the screen. It gave some kind of magic look, a beauty and
romanticism.”
• Which film?

Days of Heaven

: 10
• The elusive artist Banksy may have appeared at one of the world's
largest festivals as he unveiled his latest artwork in Venice during the
Venice Biennale. The British street artist posted a video on Instagram of
his new work Venice In Oil, which is made from nine individually framed
painted sections and features a large cruise liner surrounded by famous
Venetian scenery. The complete image appears to satirise the
controversial practice of bringing large cruise vessels to Venice, showing
a ship dwarﬁng surrounding gondolas and landmarks including the
Rialto Bridge and St Mark's Campanile.
• The colours used and the individual paintings surrounding each section
are reminiscent of which artist’s work on the landscapes of the Italian
cities?

Canaletto

Music and Photography: 10
• Pennie Smith is an English photographer famous for her photos of the rock
music industry. She was the staﬀ photographer of NME magazine until the
early 1980s.
• In 1979, while covering a band’s concert in NYC, she photographed the
bassist expressing his frustration over the fact that the bouncers were not
allowing the audience members to stand up on their seats. Initially, she
disliked this photo as it was out of focus and didn’t want it to be published.
However, the band’s vocalist convinced her to let them use it as the cover
for an iconic album.
• In 2002, this photo was named the best Rock N’ Roll photograph of all time
by Q magazine, commenting that - "it captures the ultimate rock'n'roll
moment – total loss of control".
• Where would you have seen this famous photo?

London Calling by The Clash

•‘Ohio’ is a song composed by Neil
Young in response to an infamous
event of 1970.
•He was inspired to write this song
after seeing a particular photo of this
event in LIFE magazine, taken by the
young photographer John Filo.
•Identify this Pulitzer prize winning
photograph.
:10

Kent State Shooting

• ‘The Photographer’ is a chamber opera composed by Philip Glass. It was ﬁrst
performed in 1982 at the Royal Palace in Amsterdam.
• This opera is based on the life and homicide trial of the legendary photographer X,
who in 1874 murdered Major Harry Larkyns, whom he suspected of being his
wife's lover. X was later acquitted by a jury on the ground of justiﬁable homicide.
His trial is well-known because his defense argued that a head injury incurred in an
accident altered his personality, which modern neuroscientists believe could have
been caused by certain types of brain damage.
• The text included in the opera is based on words drawn from the transcripts of
the trial and X's actual letters to his wife. The second act features a slideshow of
X's photographs. While based on historical events in X's life, the work also
comments on aspects of X's work, melding both themes.
• Identify X.
: 15

Eadweard Muybridge

•This is Picasso’s painting Two Characters from 1934.
•It is often stated that a company used this as inspiration to create a
logo, and even their original icon was nicknamed after Picasso.
•Which product did the 1934 painting act as a source of inspiration?
Business : 15

Apple’s Finder

: 15
•Michael Patterson, a video animator, created ‘Commuter’
in 1981 as a means of experimenting with pencil sketch
drawing. While the video by itself was popular in restricted
professional circles, his more popular claim to fame is the
work he landed because of the Commuter video.
•Take a second to look at the video, and tell us what he
went on to make 4 years later.

A-ha’s Take On Me

•This 1820 Edwin Landseer painting titled Alpine Mastiﬀs
Reanimating a Distressed Traveler is the source of a legend which is
etched into the very image of people of these ‘mastiﬀs’.
•The imagery was just an invention of Landseer, and has no medical
backing as if actually performed, would cause the blood vessels to
dilate, resulting in blood rushing to one’s skin and the body
temperature to decrease rapidly.
•Though in reality it never takes place, some monks of a famous
Swiss Hospice have kept a few props for tourists to take pictures
with.
•What legend did Landseer cook up?
: 15

That St. Bernards wear small barrels
of brandy around their necks

•Pycnodysostosis (derived from Greek words and literally meaning
“defective condition of the bone”) is a lysosomal storage disease of
the bone caused by a mutation in the gene that codes the enzyme
cathepsin K. This disease results in dwarfism, brittle bones and
osteopetrosis. It is a rare genetic disease that is estimated to affect
about 1 in 1.7 million people worldwide.
•This disease has been popularly named as ‘X Syndrome’ after the
famous 19th century French painter X who suffered from this, and
hence was quite short.
•Identify X.

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

+15
•The most expensive painter in the world dreams of leaving
California to come to live in this commune in Normandy in the
spring of 2019 and move closer to the location that holds his ﬁnal
project which he believes could be his “swan song”.
•His next exhibition, which is due to open in Manhattan in autumn,
will feature a 24-panel panorama and four additional works
depicting the arrival of Spring in Normandy, seen from his new
permanent home - which he bought on a whim in 2018. It took him
21 days to complete the artwork and will feature his French
property in detail.
•What is the inspiration for this work for which the artist shifted to
France so as to observe it on a frequent basis? Which artist’s ﬁnal
splash in the art world will be this 24 panel work?

Bayeux Tapestry and David Hockney

Set Design :20
•Antonio Sant'Elia was an Italian architect associated with the
Futurist movement, who is primarily remembered for his bold
architectural sketches (images on next slide) and influence on
modern architecture.
•His designs featured vast monolithic skyscrapers with terraces,
bridges and aerial walkways that embodied the sheer excitement
of modern architecture and technology. His vision was for a highly
industrialized and mechanized city of the future, which he saw not
as a mass of individual buildings but a vast, multi-level,
interconnected and integrated urban conurbation.
•The set designs of which two iconic Sci-fi films (released 55 years
apart) were inspired from his sketches?

Metropolis and Blade Runner

: 20
•Isaac Israëls (1865 - 1934) was a Dutch painter associated with the
Amsterdam Impressionism movement. From 1918 to 1920, he
borrowed a painting from a famous painter’s sister-in-law, and
incorporated it in 5 of his canvases. One of them is depicted here,
which is named Woman in Proﬁle, before __<1>__’s ____<2>___. Fill
in the 2 blanks for 5 points each.
•Israëls had great interest in drawing women, and the 2nd
picture
depicts a 1916 painting by him, the model being someone who had
fame all across Europe, but was dead within the next year. Who?
(5)
•At age 63, Israëls with his painting “Cavalier Rouge” won a famous
accolade. What did this painting famously win? (5)

Woman in Proﬁle, before van Gogh’s Sunﬂowers
Mata Hari
1928 Amsterdam Games Painting Gold Medal

: 20
• This 1975 biographical documentary is an incomplete personality study of
a sculptor created by a legendary filmmaker. The film was almost
complete but it still remained unfinished for the death of the director.
• In July 1975, the director commenced shooting on the sculptor at
Shantiniketan for a stretch of four days. The movie is a biographical
(personality study) film where the sculptor/ painter has been featured as
a political icon too. In the film, he speaks speaks about the problems
that he faces in his life. He speaks about how he has shielded his
dripping roof with his oil paintings and how he doesn’t mind living
without any great financial support.
• Which painter/sculptor? Which legendary director’s final documentary
is this?

Ramkinkar Baij and Ritwik Ghatak

+20
• The _______ dress, a long, sacklike dress with loose plea hanging from the
shoulder at the back, similar to those worn by many of the women in his
paintings, is named after him. In the early decades of the new century, formal
dress consisted of the stiff-bodiced mantua. A closed petticoat, sometimes
worn with an apron, replaced the open draped mantua skirt of the previous
period. This formal style then gave way to more relaxed fashions.
• At its most informal, this gown was unfitted both front and back and called a
sacque. With a more relaxed style came a shift away from heavy fabrics, such
as satin and velvet, to Indian cotton, silks and damasks. Later, for formal wear,
the front was fitted to the body by means of a tightly-laced underbodice, while
the back fell in loose box pleats called “_______ pleats” from their appearance
in the paintings of this artist.
• Who?

Watteau Dress

: 20
•This is a poem written by Sylvia Plath titled ‘Yadwigha, on a Red
Couch, Among Lillies’.
•Which famous painting is being referenced in this poem?

The Dream by Henri Rosseau

•Austrian artist Edwin Wurm began his series One Minute
Sculptures in 1988, and has since been continuously increasing
the collection, in which he poses himself or his models in
unexpected relationships with everyday objects close at hand.
He seeks to use the “shortest path” in creating a sculpture—a
clear and fast, sometimes humorous, form of expression.
•Inspiration for a certain 2002 work came from this series, and
they have a sign stating Wurm as the inspiration for the series.
•What are we talking about?
: 20

Can’t Stop by Red Hot Chili Peppers

Round 3:
•Written round with 5 questions on the topic of ‘ Literature
and Art’.
•+10 points for each correct answer.

•A portrait of the writer by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, painted on
the night before the writer's life collapsed into ashes, has
resurfaced after half a century, anonymously loaned to a British
Library exhibition to mark the centenary of his death.
Toulouse-Lautrec had befriended him in Paris and had drawn him
several times. He was in London on the night before the writer’s
trial for gross indecency in May 1895, and asked to make another
portrait.
•They writer, who knew he was facing ruin but had refused the
pleas of friends and family to ﬂee to the continent, was too
nervous to sit. Toulouse-Lautrec went back to his hotel room and
drew from memory the haggard anxiety and premature ageing of a
man still only 41.
•Whose portrait?
1

•John Singer Sargent had known this author since his early years in
Paris. He produced three portraits of the noted author. When
Sargent painted the subject, he wrote to Henry James and said that
he “seemed to me the most intense creature I had ever met.”
•Sargent was twenty-nine years old at the time and the author was
thirty-four. It was less than one year prior to the publication of the
author’s most famous work. It is said that possibly he might have
been working on his magnum opus, if not thinking about it, at the
same time that Sargent painted him. This painting certainly
portrays several memorable and salient features of the story: there
is this neglected back door “with no knocker” that only the lead
character ever uses to demarcate it as a border between good and
evil. Who?
2

•He was a self-trained artist, and started his career as a painter
relatively late in his life. His works were ﬁgurative in nature,
concerned with the human body and its identity. An openly gay
artist,the problem of gender deﬁnitions and gender identity were
major themes of his work. His paintings often contained references
to Indian mythology and mythological themes. This Indian artist
found himself portrayed as “the accountant” in an author’s novel,
as a reference to the artist’s earlier career as a chartered
accountant . The artist returned the favour by later making a
portrait of the author that he called The _____ .
•Which painter? ID the author and work which is represented in the
painting.
3

•Bridget Riley is an artist whose earliest work was of a figurative,
semi-impressionist style, influenced heavily by the pointillist
technique of George Seurat. During the year of 1960, influenced by
the 60’s culture of mind-expansion she began to develop her
idiosyncratic Op Art style that originally focused on black and white
geometric shapes and patters producing a disorientating, and
often hypnotizing effect on the eye. At the time her pieces
reportedly made their viewers feel everything from sea sick, to as if
they were sky diving. The exploration of the influence of many and
various things on the mind and consciousness were the zeitgeist.
•Which author inspired her to foray into op-art, someone who was
also experimenting with hallucinogens, rebelling against the
system of homogenization and control he’d foreseen, citing a fear
about the loss of genuine individual experience?
4

• ___ _________ is a novel by the American author Donna Tartt. It won the
2014 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. The novel is a coming-of-age tale told in the
ﬁrst person. The protagonist, 13-year-old Theodore Decker, survives a
terrorist bombing at an art museum where his mother dies. While
staggering through the debris, he takes with him a small Dutch Golden Age
painting with the same name. It becomes a singular source of hope for him
as he descends into a world of crime.
• In the 17th century, the subject of the painting were popular pets because
they could be trained to draw water from a bowl with a miniature bucket.
The Dutch title of the painting pertains to the bird's nickname puttertje,
which refers to this custom and translates literally as ‘little weller’.
• The painting is one of the few surviving works by Rembrandt’s most
promising pupil, whose almost all works were destroyed in the Delft
explosion of 1654, in which the artist himself was killed.
• Who?
5

Oscar Wilde
1

Robert Louis Stevenson
2

•Bhupen Khakkar
•Salman Rushdie
•The Moor’s Last Sigh
3

The Goldﬁnch
Carel Fabritius
5

Round 4: Jeopardy Part B
•The following slide contains a grid with 6 topics, each
having 4 questions having scores of 5, 10, 15 and 20.
•Normal pounce and bounce rules apply, and any team
may choose any question on their direct, and the score
on the bounce is +n/0 and pounce is +n/-n.
•This round goes anti-clockwise.
•For e.g. if Team 1 on their direct take a question with a
score of 10, the other teams pouncing play for a +10/-10.

The Grid: Part B
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•The now popular
Facebook page (run by a
friend of Shrey’s) Cinema x
Art creates a mashup an
artwork, and a still from
the world of
entertainment.
•This one here combines a
Klimt painting with a 2011
Terrence Malick ﬁlm.
•Identify both. (2.5 points
each)
: 5

The Tree of Life x The
Tree of Life

•Arthur de Borman is
an English production
designer working and
created this
illustration.
•Take a careful look
and tell us who does
it depict?
: 5

Oskar Schindler

: 5
• Ghosts is a play by the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. It was written in
1881 and ﬁrst staged in 1882 in Chicago, in a production by a Danish
company on tour. Like many of Ibsen's plays, Ghosts is a scathing
commentary on 19th-century morality. Because of its subject matter, which
includes religion, venereal disease, incest, and euthanasia, it immediately
generated strong controversy and negative criticism.
• Since then the play has fared better, and is considered a “great play” that
historically holds a position of “immense importance”. The play received
many European performances. In its 1906 production in Berlin, an artist was
commissioned to create the original stage designs and those designs have
now been forever associated with this play ever since.
• Who?

Edvard Munch

: 5
•Their place of origin is a misnomer as it is thought to have
originated in Persia. Traders discovered the architectural
embellishment through their trade interactions in the East and
brought them back to Europe and that is how this product got
associated with an European city.
•To this day, the French call them “Les Persienes,” and remain loyal
to their true place of origin. After their introduction to Europe in
1760, they became popular across the continent after they
appeared in Edmund Charles Tarbell’s painting “The ________
_____.”
•Fill in the blanks.

Venetian Blinds

:5
• First developed by Mongol artisans who combined Chinese glazing
technology with Persian decorative arts, this technique traveled east to
India with early Turkic conquests in the 14th
century. During its infancy, it
was used to make tiles to decorate mosques, tombs and palaces in Central
Asia.
• From there, the technique traveled to the plains of Delhi and in the 17th
century went to the city we now associate it with, and by the 1950s had all
but vanished from the city, when it was re-introduced through the eﬀorts
of the muralist and painter Kripal Singh Shekhawat
• The eye-catching colour from which the style gets its name comes from
cobalt dye used to color it.
• What art style?

Jaipur Blue Pottery

: 5
•The Ghost of _____ is a graphic novel with a man speaking
about how everyone is blind to the powerful message of the
subject’s works. It begins when Toñi, a mere employee, saves
an old man from being run over on the same spot where the
subject was hit by a tram. It begins when Jaime Calvo, a
detective, is ordered to investigate on how a realtor can be
murdered in Casa Vicens. He ﬁnds out later that a serial killer
named Trencadis leaves corpses at the most important places
that are associated with the person in question.
•ID the subject of the graphic novel.

•Losing My Religion is a 1991 song by the American alt-rock band
R.E.M., from their album Out of Time. The song became R.E.M.'s
highest-charting hit in the United States, reaching No. 4 on the
Billboard Hot 100, and winning 2 Grammies.
•Directed by Tarsem Singh, the video is supposedly modeled after
the Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s short story “A Very Old Man with
Enormous Wings” in which an angel crashes into a town and the
villagers have varied reactions to him.
•Take a look at the video and tell us which Italian painter’s art do
some of the scenes take inspiration from.
Depictions : 10

Caravaggio

Depictions : 10
•François Morellon de La Cave was a painter and engraver of
French origin and he created 2 of the only 3 surviving portraits
of a Venice-born Baroque composer, most well-known for a
violin concerto series showcasing the varying periods of a year.
•While he made an oil painting, and an engraving in 1723 and
1725 respectively, an ink sketch was created by Pier Leone
Ghezzi in 1723.
•Who is this virtuoso?

The engraving The oil painting The ink sketch

• Todd Oldham was a kid, he left a box of crayons in a hot car one summer.
When he returned, all the colors had melted together, becoming one giant
multi-colored crayon blob.
• In March, he partnered with MoMA to create what he now calls Smush
Crayons–composed of a variety of diﬀerent colors all melted together. But
rather than a random assortment of colors, these are derived from three
masterpieces in MoMA’s collection.
• While the one on the left is based on Alma Thomas’s abstract work Untitled,
the one of the right is derived from a series of close to 250 oil paintings by an
artist created at their home in Giverny, and the one in the centre painted in
June 1889, depicting a view just before sunrise from an east-facing window.
• Name the two inspirations. (5 points each)
Business : 10

1889 inspired
Inspired from a
series of 250 paintings
Alma Thomas’
Untitled

Alma Thomas’ Untitled

Waterlilies by Monet and Starry Night by
van Gogh

: 10
• Art director Hiromasa Ogura looks back on the process of crafting this 1995
film that would fundamentally alter our visions of the future. In what has
become a standard in the genre’s production, Oshii deployed concept
photographers to find real-world locations to serve as inspirations for the
backgrounds of his movies. “The story of this film goes from this
deteriorating urban landscape towards these high-rise buildings. So we had
that in mind based on what we saw in Hong Kong. We really wanted to
capture that feel.”
• Which cult classic’s background was based on real locations in Hong Kong?
• Which now demolished place, known as an open-air black market for drugs
and electronics served as the inspiration for the film’s brutalist,
concrete-neon backdrops?

Part 1

Part 2

Ghost in the Shell and Kowloon Walled City

: 10
• Eliot Porter was an American photographer best known for his intimate
color photographs of nature. Porter became interested in color
photography after a publisher rejected a proposal for a book on birds
because black and white images wouldn’t clearly differentiate the species.
His bird photographs were exhibited in 1943, the first ever exhibition of
color photographs at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
• His 1962 book, In Wildness Is the Preservation of the World featured Porter's
color nature studies of the New England woods. The book enjoyed
considerable success despite its high price and pioneered the genre of the
nature photography coffee-table book.
• For twenty years, Porter pursued a project to publish nature photographs
combined with quotes from works by which author?

Henry David Thoreau

: 10
•This term was originally used by the French military to refer to a
small group that scouted ahead of the main army. It also became
associated with left-wing French radicals in the 19th century who
were agitating for political reform. In mid-19th century, the term
was linked to art through the idea that art is an instrument for
social change.
•Towards the end of 19th century this term began to break away
from its identiﬁcation with left-wing social causes to become more
aligned with cultural and artistic issues. Nowadays, this term refers
to groups of intellectuals, writers, and artists, who voice ideas and
experiment with artistic approaches that challenge current cultural
and aesthetic values.
•Which term?

Avant-Garde

•‘Le Bateau,’ a 1953 paper-cut
by Henri Matisse caused a small
controversy in 1961, when on her
third visit to the Museum of
Modern Art, Mrs. Genevieve
Habert bought a catalog and
swiftly demanded the attention
of the guard.
•What was this a 47-day delayed
reaction to?
: 15

It was hung upside down!
• She felt the artist “would
never put the main, more
complex motif on the bottom
and the lesser motif at the
top.”
• Monroe Wheeler, the
museum’s director of
exhibitions said, “You don’t
know what’s up and you
don’t know what’s down and
neither do we. We can’t be
responsible for the printers.”

: 15
•The Death of _______ _____ ____ , is a painting by Johann
Zoffany. The painting was completed in 1794 some years after
the death of this personality in 1779. The Mahiole (Feathered
Helmet) that was included in this painting by Zoffany is said to
be the helmet given to him when he first landed in Hawaii.
•Whose endeavour came to an end in a scuffle with the native
Hawaiians?
•The figure of the native is based on which classical “artwork”
that inspired Zoffany?

Captain James Cook
Discobolus

: 15
•Faces Places is a kind of road movie in which two artists
who are electric on screen, one 34 years old and the other
88, stop at villages to talk to and take photos of people in
the French provinces.
•Id the “artists”.

Agnès Varda and JR

•This is a painting by Paul Gauguin titled - ‘Self-Portrait with
Portrait of Émile Bernard (X)’.
•In this artwork, Gauguin painted himself in the guise of Jean
Valjean, the main character of the famous novel X, equating
the vibrant and loving ﬁctional outcast with the
misunderstood artists of his time. In a letter to Van Gogh, he
wrote - “By doing him with my features, you have my individual
image, as well as a portrait of us all, poor victims of society,
taking our revenge on it by doing good.”
•Identify X.

Les Miserables

:15
•For what 1841 invention by the American portrait painter John G.
Rand did Pierre Auguste Renoir say - “Without ________ there
would be no Cezanne, no Monet, no Pissaro, and no Impressionism.”?

Paint Tube

•The artist Jean-Leon Gerome made his most famous painting X
(whose title is inspired from a quote by the Greek philosopher
Democritus) as a commentary on the positive impact of
photography on painting. He said: “Photography is an art. It forces
artists to discard their old routine and forget their old formulas. It
has opened our eyes and forced us to see that which previously we
have not seen; a great and inexpressible service for Art. It is thanks to
photography that _______ has ﬁnally come out of her ______. She
will never go back.”
•Identify X.

Truth Coming Out of Her Well to Shame
Mankind

Illustrations : 20
• John Lockwood was an English art teacher, illustrator, and museum curator
who spent most of his career in British India. In the next two slides you will
see illustrations from a work of literature, which one assumes would be
close to his heart.
• He also created the coat of arms of an 1875 established institution, founded
by Richard Bourke, who was the Viceroy of India from 1869 to 1872. In the
upper centre of the shield are a Lion Rampant and an open hand. Below are
the Panch Rang, the ﬁve sacred colours of the Rajputs, Red, Gold, Blue,
White and Green. In the centre is a fort, and supported by a Bhil and a
Rajput.
• What is John Lockwood’s last name? (5) Which book are these depictions
from? (5) Which institute’s Coat of Arms was also designed by John? (5)
What do the two encircled items in the coat of arms signify? (5)

Kipling
Jungle Book
Mayo College, Ajmer
Suryavanshi and
Chandravanshi

• After an inspiring trip to Italy in 1875, Auguste Rodin created a life-size
male nude, then named ‘The Vanquished’ (later renamed to ‘The Age of
Bronze’), and displayed it in Brussels, where critics were suspicious of
the statue’s incredible realism and Rodin was accused of something.
• He was accused of it again in 1877, when he displayed the same
sculpture in Paris, though it was consistently praised for its beauty.
• Having had enough of it, Rodin created one of his most powerful ﬁgures,
Saint John the Baptist, which was be exhibited with The Age of Bronze
in 1880. When creating this sculpture, Rodin changed the dimensions of
this sculpture to exonerate himself of the previous allegations.
• What was he accused of?
Techniques : 20

Casting from a live model

• Style and decoration of the Grand Staircase of the UK Foreign Office in
Westminster, such an important space was not left to individual preferences of
an artist. To enhance the prestige of the state at the end of the World War, the
government approved a lavish decoration of the hall. Sigismud Goetze painted
those murals during Great War as approved by the British Cabinet, and
completed them in 1921 right after the Versailles Peace Treaty.
• He organized the murals around the central female figure, Britannia, the
symbol of the British soil, and created 5 large narrative paintings, the
centrepiece Britannia Pacificatrix is shown here.
• It depicts the founding of an organisation on 10 January 1920 following the
Paris Peace Conference. Which one? (6)
• For 2 points each, identify what the 7 members standing behind Britannia
mean.
: 20

1
2 3 4
5
6 7

League of Nations
1- Royal Navy
2- Canada
3- South Africa
4- Australia
5- New Zealand
6- British Raj/India
7- Iraq (Faisal I)

+20
• Solomon _____ is a British street artist. He is best known for spray
painting portraits of contemporary and historical figures on the metal
shutters of the Mahane Yehuda Market in Jerusalem, turning them into
an after-hours attraction. One of his paintings is a tribute to Operation
_____ ______ , an operation between June 1949 and September 1950
that brought 49,000 Yemenite Jews to the new state of Israel. The
operation shares it’s naming and essence with an instantaneous mode
of transportation often depicted in fantasy fiction.
• Who is his more famous grandfather, someone who was named after
the patron saint of Navarre? (The patron saint is also highly revered in a
“leisurely” southwestern region of another country in a different
continent).

Operation Magic Carpet/
Wings of Eagles/ Messiah’s
Coming
Francis Newton Souza
(named after St. Francis
Xavier)
The artist is his grandson
Solomon Souza

+20
• One of the reasons the artist attributes to the origin of the the
recurring motif _____ in his artworks , have been his elementary
school teacher, who on ﬁnding him lacking adequate concentration,
drew this on the blackboard and asked him to concentrate on it.
• The _____ is related to Indian philosophy of being the point of all
creation. The reason this interested the artist so much is because he
was looking for new inspiration for his art and this created a new
point of creation for himself. The result was _____,which signiﬁed his
rebirth as a painter.
• Who is this artist who abandoned the expressionistic landscape for
geometric abstraction? What is the recurring motif being talked
about?

S.H. Raza and Bindu

+20
• Endeavour is a TV series that features a young Morse, played by Shaun Evans,
learning his trade as a detective. This is a description of one of his earlier cases.
Victim No 1, a former boxer, has been shot, then a metal spike hammered into
his ear. The next, a history don, has been stabbed in the eye with a steak knife.
Murder No 3 tops the lot, or rather does not – he has been decapitated, body
left in the bed, head under a silver cloche.
• Morse solved the mystery thanks to his great interest in art. The eureka
moment came as he was ﬂicking through a book of the paintings of an artist.
The murderer, Ruth Astor, was exacting her revenge on the men, who had
been at a Bullingdon-style private members’ club where she and a friend were
waitresses. The men had become drunk and violent; Ruth had been thrown
across the table, gang-raped and had wine poured over her face and head.
• Which artist and how exactly were the murders executed?

Artemsia Gentileschi
•The rape, and the desire to
avenge herself, were a
parallel to what we know was
the inspiration for so many
paintings by the extraordinary
Baroque artist Artemisia
Gentileschi and the victims
were killed in a similar manner
as shown in the paintings.

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