 Pop QuizWhether you’re an Artist, an Artisan, or Crafter, or simply a lover of the Arts, let’s test “the Artist in you”! Don’t worry, these are pretty easy — tough ones coming next issue… Move your mouse pointer over the far right blue icons for the answers. |
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1. Beginning in Italy around 1400, this liberating and quite controversial art movement spread throughout Western Europe, lasting until approximately 1600: | ||
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a) The Renaissance b) The Graffitti Period c) The Byzantine Era |
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2. Salvador Dali and Rene Magritte were both part of this "dreamy" art movement: | ||
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a) Cubism b) Dada c) Surrealism |
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3. One might say that he splashed, dripped and splattered his way to the top: | ||
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a) Jackson Pollock b) Thomas Glidden c) Cezanne
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4. What well-known current photo-artist’s focus does things with dogs that no one else had done? | ||
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a) William Wegman b) Billy Crystal c) Bill Weimeraner |
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5. This painter lived at the same time as Picasso and was a rival of his. He and Picasso often copied each other’s work… Rivals or not they even played chess together in Montmartre. Who was he? | ||
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a) Jackson Pollock b) Henri Matisse c) Bobby Fischer |
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6. Who painted the unforgettable face that just makes you Scream? | ||
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a) Andy Warhol b) Edvard Munch c) Salvador Dali |
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7. Which famous pop art artist painted “100 Cans of Campbell's Soup” and repeated images of Marilyn Monroe, and surely had his 15 minutes of fame? | ||
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a) John Campbell b) John Lennon c) Andy Warhol |
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8. Which artist born on the Caribbean island of Santo Domingo in 1784, loved birds so much that he painted 435 watercolours of birds in his life time? He may be more well known for his latter years in the United States where he made it his life's work to paint a picture of every species of bird in America. | ||
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a) John James Audubon b) Amerigo Vespucci c) Gaugin |
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9. Which French impressionist artist is know for his landscapes of water flowers? | ||
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a) Henry Matisse b) Claude Monet c) Charles de Gaulle |
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10. Which Italian middle ages artist was equally a genius and a visionary inventor? His most famous painting is of a smiling woman. | ||
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a) Lorenzo de Medici b) Roberto Benigni c) Leonardo da Vinci |
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11. What two famous painters, were also roommates at one time but yet bare no similarity to one another in their art style? | ||
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a) Bob & Doug MacKenzie b) Abbott & Costello c) Gauguin and Vincent Van Gogh |
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12. What well-known current photo-artist’s unique work with babies opened our eyes to a unique new world? | ||
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a) Beatrix Potter b) Anne Geddes c) Sandra Kodak |
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