Loaded Questions 11/4/22 - Art
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Happy Friday everyone! I hope everyone in Berlin currently attending the Ultimate Quizzing Championships are having a fun time, and I hope everyone is getting ready for LL95 on Monday! Like I did last season, next Monday will feature a pop music quiz about some of the current people, so that we can get you ready to deal with the music listened to the young people. Have a great weekend, and if you want to do some brushing up, check out my female artist spreadsheet FRAME.
1. A shortened Jesus appears in "The Lamentation over the Dead Christ" by what Mantuan artist who also created a notable "St. Sebastian"?
2. What British sculptor (1956-) and land artist is best known for his art that involves balancing rocks?
3. What only surviving female nude by Diego Velazquez is named for the English country house where the painting was once held?
4. Jackson Pollock, Robert Motherwell, Mark Rothko, Willem de Kooning, Ad Reinhardt, and Barnett Newman were 6 of the 18 members of an Abstract Expressionist collective known by what adjective?
5. What word completes the title of a 1919 photomontage by Hannah Höch? “Cut with the Kitchen Knife Dada through the Last ___ Beer-Belly Cultural Epoch in Germany”
6. Found at the capital of an Ionic column, what scroll-shaped ornament is derived from the Latin for "scroll"?
7. Sounding like a famous cowboy movie, what nickname is given to a series of surviving photographs made by Robert Capa, taken on D-Day?
8. Hazy city lights at night create what artistic effect, which come from the Japanese for "blur"?
9. The 1867 sculpture “Forever Free” and the 1868 sculpture “Hiawatha” are appropriate subjects for what sculptor, often considered the first African-American and Native American sculptor of prominence?
10. In the early 1900s, Clara Driscoll was a leader of Tiffany Girls, a group who worked in what medium?
11. "Two Peasant Women in a Meadow", "The Artist's Palette with a Landscape", and a series of views of Boulevard Montmarte are all works by what impressionist, the only one to show works at all eight Impressionist exhibitions?
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1. A shortened Jesus appears in "The Lamentation over the Dead Christ" by what Mantuan artist who also created a notable "St. Sebastian"?
Andrea Mantegna
2. What British sculptor (1956-) and land artist is best known for his art that involves balancing rocks?
Andy Goldsworthy
3. What only surviving female nude by Diego Velazquez is named for the English country house where the painting was once held?
Rokeby Venus
4. Jackson Pollock, Robert Motherwell, Mark Rothko, Willem de Kooning, Ad Reinhardt, and Barnett Newman were 6 of the 18 members of an Abstract Expressionist collective known by what adjective?
Irascible
5. What word completes the title of a 1919 photomontage by Hannah Höch? “Cut with the Kitchen Knife Dada through the Last ___ Beer-Belly Cultural Epoch in Germany”
Weimar
6. Found at the capital of an Ionic column, what scroll-shaped ornament is derived from the Latin for "scroll"?
Volute
7. Sounding like a famous cowboy movie, what nickname is given to a series of surviving photographs made by Robert Capa, taken on D-Day?
The Magnificent Eleven
8. Hazy city lights at night create what artistic effect, which come from the Japanese for "blur"?
Bokeh
9. The 1867 sculpture “Forever Free” and the 1868 sculpture “Hiawatha” are appropriate subjects for what sculptor, often considered the first African-American and Native American sculptor of prominence?
Edmonia Lewis
10. In the early 1900s, Clara Driscoll was a leader of Tiffany Girls, a group who worked in what medium?
Glass
11. "Two Peasant Women in a Meadow", "The Artist's Palette with a Landscape", and a series of views of Boulevard Montmarte are all works by what impressionist, the only one to show works at all eight Impressionist exhibitions?
Camille Pissarro