Loaded Questions 9/5/22 - Art
Expand your palette!
Happy Labor Day everyone! As a new LL season has descended, all LQ subscribers should know about the Female Repository of Artistic Mastery and Exhibitions, or FRAME. More than 200 entries are in this database, and more will be added this week! I can almost guarantee that someone in this spreadsheet will be the subject of a question this LL94, so brush up and not miss it! Until then, please enjoy the rest of the holiday weekend!
1. Often considered the foremost female painter of the Dutch Golden Age, what artist created the artworks “Copy of Lute Player by Frans Hals” and “A Boy and a Girl with a Cat and an Eel”?
2. Known for its use of foreshortening, what 1601 painting by Caravaggio for the Cerasi Chapel in Rome depicts a man lying underneath a horse?
3. "The Clothed Maja" and "The Nude Maja", the latter which was controversial for the subject's pubic hair, are two paintings by what painter?
4. "The Walking Man I" is a masterpiece of what 20th century Swiss sculptor, known for his wiry thin people bronze works?
5. What French word from Turkish means a female slave in a harem, one of which features in a vertebrae-heavy painting by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres?
6. What mixture, from the Italian for "chalk" and the Latin for "gypsum" is a white mixture of Plaster of Paris and glue, often used to prepare a canvas for paint?
7. A set of colorful wings appears in the most famous version of Fra Angelico's depiction of what Biblical scene, which he painted several of, some for the San Marco convent?
8. In a church, the crossing is between the nave and the apse, where the left and right side of the crossing are called the north and south what?
9. "The Tower of Blue Horses" is a 1913 painting by what artist?
10. In 1951, what sculptor’s brother Paul (a writer in his own right) organized an exhibition at the Musée Rodin, which continues to display her sculptures today?
11. The Frank Gehry building called the “Dancing House” in Prague has a nickname that invokes the name of what two people?
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1. Often considered the foremost female painter of the Dutch Golden Age, what artist created the artworks “Copy of Lute Player by Frans Hals” and “A Boy and a Girl with a Cat and an Eel”?
Judith Leyster
2. Known for its use of foreshortening, what 1601 painting by Caravaggio for the Cerasi Chapel in Rome depicts a man lying underneath a horse?
Conversion on the Way to Damascus
3. "The Clothed Maja" and "The Nude Maja", the latter which was controversial for the subject's pubic hair, are two paintings by what painter?
Francisco Goya
4. "The Walking Man I" is a masterpiece of what 20th century Swiss sculptor, known for his wiry thin people bronze works?
Albert Giacometti
5. What French word from Turkish means a female slave in a harem, one of which features in a vertebrae-heavy painting by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres?
Odalisque
6. What mixture, from the Italian for "chalk" and the Latin for "gypsum" is a white mixture of Plaster of Paris and glue, often used to prepare a canvas for paint?
Gesso
7. A set of colorful wings appears in the most famous version of Fra Angelico's depiction of what Biblical scene, which he painted several of, some for the San Marco convent?
Annunciation
8. In a church, the crossing is between the nave and the apse, where the left and right side of the crossing are called the north and south what?
Transept
9. "The Tower of Blue Horses" is a 1913 painting by what artist?
Franz Marc
10. In 1951, what sculptor’s brother Paul (a writer in his own right) organized an exhibition at the Musée Rodin, which continues to display her sculptures today?
Camille Claudel
11. The Frank Gehry building called the “Dancing House” in Prague has a nickname that invokes the name of what two people?
Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers