Loaded Questions 5/16/22 - Art
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This Monday edition is available to all Loaded Question readers. Be sure to subscribe to unlock 55 more questions every week! Also, happy first day of LL93! I hope this season is full of victories and learning moments. A few years ago, in an effort to get better at one particular subset of questions on LL, I made a study guide about female artists I’ve dubbed the Female Repository of Artistic Mastery and Exhibitions or FRAME. There are more than 200 women in the spreadsheet, and I add more all the time. Feel free to use this study guide as a starting off point about learning about the immense contributions made by women in the art world, and who knows, maybe your new knowledge will get you that question right later in the season. All of the questions in today’s post are questions inspired by the contents of FRAME. Enjoy!
1. Born in Cremona in 1532, what woman who is often considered the most famous female artist of the Renaissance is known for her artworks “The Chess Game” and “Child Bitten by a Lobster”?
2. American photographer Imogen Cunningham was a co-founder of what California photography collective in the 1930s, named for a certain camera setting?
3. Although formally untitled, what word fills in the blank for this Ruth Asawa artwork: (Wall-Mounted Tied ___, Open-Center, Six-Pointed Star, with Six Branches)?
4. What body parts appear in the official website URL for American painter Margaret Keane?
5. What art movement co-founded by Sonia Delaunay and her husband Robert, an early 20th century offshoot of Fauvism which focused on bright colors and total abstraction, is named after a figure in Greek myth?
6. A student of Frank Lloyd Wright, Marion Mahony Griffin was a co-designer (along with her husband Walter Burley Griffin) of what planned city, which commenced in 1913? Today, the Burrunju Art Gallery is located in this city.
7. Dadaists in Germany like Hannah Höch labeled collage artworks like her 1919 artwork “Cut with the Kitchen Knife Dada through the Beer-Belly of the Weimar Republic” not as a collage, but what term?
8. British-born painter Leonora Carrington and Spanish-born painter Remedios Varo both died in what capital city? Another famous female artist was born in this city in 1907.
9. A nude woman is the subject of the 1992 painting “Propped”, a work by what British painter, which when the painting was sold in 2018 for 9.5 million pounds, it became the most expensive work by a living female artist sold at auction? Her surname is very similar to the Row that serves as London’s garment district.
10. What Cuban-American artist born in 1948 and known for her “earth-body” art movement, where she positioned herself in nature, died in 1985 from falling from a New York building which many now speculate might have been a murder committed by her husband Carl Andre?
11. Sculptors Augusta Savage, Selma Burke, and Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller are all artists most associated with what art movement? This greater art movement’s literary side is probably better well known.
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1. Born in Cremona in 1532, what woman who is often considered the most famous female artist of the Renaissance is known for her paintings “The Chess Game” and “Child Bitten by a Lobster”? Sofonisba Anguissola
2. American photographer Imogen Cunningham was a co-founder of what California photography collective in the 1930s, named for a certain camera setting? Group f/64
3. Although formally untitled, what word fills in the blank for this Ruth Asawa artwork: (Wall-Mounted Tied ___, Open-Center, Six-Pointed Star, with Six Branch Wire
4. What body parts appear in the official website URL for American painter Margaret Keane? Eyes (http://www.keane-eyes.com/)
5. What art movement co-founded by Sonia Delaunay and her husband Robert, an early 20th century offshoot of Fauvism which focused on bright colors and total abstraction, is named after a figure in Greek myth? Orphism
6. A student of Frank Lloyd Wright, Marion Mahony Griffin was a co-designer (along with her husband Walter Burley Griffin) of what planned city, which commenced in 1913? Today, the Burrunju Art Gallery is located in this city. Canberra, Australia
7. Dadaists in Germany like Hannah Höch labeled collage artworks like her 1919 artwork “Cut with the Kitchen Knife Dada through the Beer-Belly of the Weimar Republic” not as a collage, but what term? Photomontage
8. British-born painter Leonora Carrington and Spanish-born painter Remedios Varo both died in what capital city? Another famous female artist was born in this city in 1907. Mexico City
9. A nude woman is the subject of the 1992 painting “Propped”, a work by what British painter, which when the painting was sold in 2018 for 9.5 million pounds, it became the most expensive work by a living female artist sold at auction? Her surname is very similar to the Row that serves as London’s garment district. Jenny Saville
10. What Cuban-American artist born in 1948 and known for her “earth-body” art movement, where she positioned herself in nature, died in 1985 from falling from a New York building which many now speculate might have been a murder committed by her husband Carl Andre? Ana Mendieta
11. Sculptors Augusta Savage, Selma Burke, and Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller are all artists most associated with what art movement? This greater art movement’s literary side is probably better well known. Harlem Renaissance