Loaded Questions 1/9/23 - Art
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1. The 2016 documentary “Between the Lines” is about what Canadian-American painter of artworks in grid patterns? Later retiring in Taos, the Harwood Museum of Art in Taos presented the exhibition her “Before the Grid” in 2012 in honor of her centennial year.
2. What Florentine chapel is best known for the 1420s paintings by Masaccio, especially "The Tribute Money" and "The Expulsion from the Garden of Eden"?
3. "Pepper #30" and "Nautilus" are both photographs for what photographer and member of Group f/64? In 1937, he became the first photographer to win a Guggenheim Fellowship.
4. The Italian 20 cent euro features what 1913 Futurist sculpture by Umberto Boccioni, meant to show movement and fluidity? Boccioni died at age 33 when serving in WWI.
5. What French Baroque artist known for his seascapes and landscapes painted the 1648 work "Seaport with the Embarkation of the Queen of Sheba", which inspired Turner to create "Dido Building Carthage"? I often get his name mixed up with a British actor from “Casablanca”.
6. Give the surname of either Pritzker Prize winning architects Yvonne or Shelley who together cofounded the firm Grafton Architects.
7. The 1928 painting series "Dutch Interiors" by what artist is based on reinterpreting designs originally found on postcards from the Rijksmuseum?
8. What mountain in southern France was the subject of a series of paintings by Paul Cezanne? Paintings of this mountain included a railway bridge are some were "from Bellvue".
9. What American photorealist (1925-1996) used resin and fiberglass to create lifelike sculptures of people doing ordinary things, in works like "Man on bench", "Woman Eating", and "Young Shopper"?
10. Duccio is best known for what type of altarpiece, depicting a throned Madonna?
11. Because she was executed on a spiked breaking wheel, rose windows sometimes named for what Christian saint from Roman Egypt?
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1. The 2016 documentary “Between the Lines” is about what Canadian-American painter of artworks in grid patterns? Later retiring in Taos, the Harwood Museum of Art in Taos presented the exhibition her “Before the Grid” in 2012 in honor of her centennial year.
Agnes Martin
2. What Florentine chapel is best known for the 1420s paintings by Masaccio, especially "The Tribute Money" and "The Expulsion from the Garden of Eden"?
Brancacci Chapel
3. "Pepper #30" and "Nautilus" are both photographs for what photographer and member of Group f/64? In 1937, he became the first photographer to win a Guggenheim Fellowship.
Edward Weston
4. The Italian 20 cent euro features what 1913 Futurist sculpture by Umberto Boccioni, meant to show movement and fluidity? Boccioni died at age 33 when serving in WWI.
Unique Forms of Continuity in Space
5. What French Baroque artist known for his seascapes and landscapes painted the 1648 work "Seaport with the Embarkation of the Queen of Sheba", which inspired Turner to create "Dido Building Carthage"? I often get his name mixed up with a British actor from “Casablanca”.
Claude Lorrain
6. Give the surname of either Pritzker Prize winning architects Yvonne or Shelley who together cofounded the firm Grafton Architects.
Farrell, McNamara
7. The 1928 painting series "Dutch Interiors" is based on reinterpreting designs originally found on postcards from the Rijksmuseum?
Joan Miro
8. What mountain in southern France was the subject of a series of paintings by Paul Cezanne? Paintings of this mountain included a railway bridge are some were "from Bellvue".
Sainte-Victorie
9. What American photorealist (1925-1996) used resin and fiberglass to create lifelike sculptures of people doing ordinary things, in works like "Man on bench", "Woman Eating", and "Young Shopper"?
Duane Hanson
10. Duccio is best known for what type of altarpiece, depicting a throned Madonna?
Maesta
11. Because she was executed on a spiked breaking wheel, rose windows sometimes named for what Christian saint from Roman Egypt?
Catherine of Alexandria