answers Oct 9th

 Hi, all
I have been asked to post answers to quizzes on website for those who are not signed into the weekly group Art Appreciation Group receiving quiz questions or answers. Take care ,Stay safe Maureen
1  David Hockney
2  John Everett Millais – William Holman Hunt – Dante Gabriel Rossetti
3  Pigments mixed with water soluble binder of egg yolk
4   van Dyck ( Anthony)– Baroque
5 Lucien Freud, (I loved this painting in the Walker since childhood, Who knew?)
6 Full figured women  confirming the beauty and sensuality of the plus sized woman –      Peter Paul Rubens.   (This is the flattering term.)
7 Titian
8 Tintoretto
9 Gothic (This lovely, local  Church has been in use for worship for 850 years)
10 National Museums of Liverpool ( Sudley House.)  by  William Holman Hunt

Art quiz Oct 9th 2020

1  Who’s early painting is  this?

 

2  Who were the three founder members of      The Pre Raphaelite Movement in 1848?

 

3  What is meant by the term Tempera in art?

4  Who is this, what’s his nationality also

name his art movement?

 

 

5  Name this famous piece.

 

 

 

6  What is meant by the term Rubenesque and      who termed it?

7    Who painted this Venus of Urbino?                       

 

 

8   Who was known as the Last Great Italian         Renaissance Artist?

9  The church of St. Helen’s, Sefton is in which  architectural style?

10  Where locally, would you see The Finding of the Saviour in the     Temple?

art quiz September 25th

1  Which Scandinavian  artist did this lovely painting?

    2 Which famous surrealist didthis ?    3  This Man was photographer before an artist.      4  What  do you get if you stick lots of random images on a surface?    

5 Which artist did this colourful chap?

    6  Where was David Hockney born?  7 This female artist was the muse of another famous artist who is she?[]      8       Which  designer is famous for this pattern     9   L.S Lowry used only five colours ,what   were they?  10       This female artist is from Finland, what is her name?

Art Quiz September 18th

1   Which  Liverpool Church has stained glass windows by William               Morris?

2  The painting ‘The Anatomy Lesson of Dr Nicolaes Tulp’ is the work           of which Dutch artist?

 

 

3  Who painted Girl by window?

 

4  Which four letter word beginning with W describes, in weaving, the  crosswise threads on a loom, over and under which the warp are  passed to make cloth?

5  Which Glasgow-based sculptor, whose works include artificial trees and a leaning litter bin, won the 2011 Turner Prize?

6    What is the nickname of Thierry Guetta, the French-born street-              artist?

7 Name this art  genre?

 

 

 

 

 

8     Where was  this amazing Pink edifice constructed?

 

 

7   We know Marc Chagall as a  painter,

he was  also  a wonderful  glass artist.

Where in Britain would you find this wonderful window??

 

 

 

 

 

9  Who created this sculpture and  what it’s title?

 

 

10 Who are these two lovely lady artists?

art quiz Sept 11th

edouard_leon_cortes_e1398_la_route_apres_la_pluie_wm_small.jpg La route après la pluie
 Translate the  title by Edouard  Leon Cortes

2  Who is sporting this moustache?

3    What do you get if you mix Red and Black paint?
4  Who did the art work for this famous bear?
5  What is the most famous piece of  Byzantine  architecture ?
6   Which  French artist did the Turban?
7
Which modern artist did this best friends? if you viewed Whitewall email , I sent you have it.
                                             8  Which graffiti artist did this Girl with balloon?   
9Merlin-Thomas-Malory-pen-and-ink-drawing-edition-Aubrey.jpg What type of medium is used  to produce this very Spooky Merlin?
10giant father xmas blacklers.jpgAre you able to remember this Giant Father Christmas ?  if so Where was it located in Liverpool city centre?

Art Quiz September 4th 2020

Laurence Holfencenr.jpgLaurence Holofcener’s sculptures of whom?
2   What are Easter Island Sculptured Heads called by the Rapa Nui people?
gustav-klimt-background.jpg3    Which artist painted this background<
  •  Egon Schiele
  •  Alfred Kubin
  •  Gustav Klimt
  •  Friedensreich Hundertwasser
        4        What Dynasty is this vase from?chriedu-2 vase.jpg
5           What is the name of the cross dressing British artist?
lotus-ganesha-sue-halstenberg.jpg6     This God Ganesha is from which culture?
7      Who always left his mark in form of a wooden mouse? and what was his nickname?
8      Who created The Thinker in stone?
9     Which artist won the 2007 Turner Prize with State Britain?
 10    Who was the architect for Liverpool Catholic Cathedral?

Art Quiz 23, set by Ted Short

1. Graffiti comes from the Italian word graffiato. What does graffiato mean?
2. Which American painter is best known for his paintings depicting the rural
American Midwest, particularly American Gothic?
(a) Edward Hopper, (b) Daniel Clowes, (c) Grant Wood, (d) Bill Watterson

3. To which Renaissance artist is Salvator Mundi, which sold for $450,300,000
at Christies in New York in 2017, usually attributed?

4. One of the most famous images of the French Revolution was painted by
Jacques-Louis David in 1793. It depicts the assassination of the revolutionary
journalist Jean-Paul _______, by Charlotte Corday. It has been described as the
first moderistic painting for “the way it took the stuff of politics as its material,
and did not transmute it

5 Which Impressionist spent 7 years on The Bathers, yet still considered it
unfinished when he died in 1906?

6. Which pointillist painted the large canvas (79 inches x 118 inches)
Bathers at Asnieres in 1884, depicting a placid suburban scene by
the River Seine?

For a bonus mark, in which famous capital city gallery would you be able to
view it?
7. Which famous photographer / singer snapped The Beatles at Brian Epstein’s house
in Belgravia at the launch of Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band in 1967?

8. Vincent Van Gogh painted Starry Night in 1889 in St-Remy-de-Provence, but
from what type of building was he staying at the time?

9. The Yellow Christ and The Green Christ are two key works of Symbolism in
painting. Which French painter produced them in 1899?

10. In which city would you find the Ashmolean Museum?

Art quiz 22 Take care

 1    Where did this Goddess Medusa come from?
Who created this beautiful broach?    
3 What does the art term Scumbling mean?
 4  Where did Salvador Dali
die?
                      5 Who’s  Sculptures  do we have on Crosby Beach?
             6  What is the large sculpture in Gateshead called?
           7   Where did Vincent van Gogh spend his later years?

8   What does the term scumbling in art mean?

9  What is the famous  tapestry in Normandy called?
          10  Which Italian city was this fresco unearthed?