1. Who Painted the Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel While Lying on His Back?

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Art Trivia – 3/22/14

1. Who painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel while lying on his back?

Michaelangelo

2. Who painted the Mona Lisa?

Leonardo di Vinci

3. What painter famously cut off his own ear?

Vincent Van Gogh

4. In paintings of this Parisian 19th-century style, artists used small brush strokes to create a visual impression of a larger image.

Impressionism

5. This Spanish artist was one of the most influential of the 20th century and co-founder of a style called Cubism. A 50-foot high rust-colored public sculpture, which resembles a one-eyed creature, was donated by the artist to the people of Chicago. Who is he?

Pablo Picasso

6. Rock art made by painting on rock by ancient Native Americans are called pictographs. Rock art by carving into the rock, often by pecking with smaller stones, are called what?

Petroglyphs

7. A table top with a vase of flowers, a fruit or two, and maybe another object is often the subject of a painter. The painting in this style is referred to as what?

A still life

8. Grant Wood’s American Gothic, Georges Seurat’s A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, and Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks are all housed in the Arts Institute of what great Midwestern city?

Chicago .

9. I’m opening a flat black metal box that says “Prang” on the outside. What am I opening?

Watercolors

10. This Dutch master painted himself hundreds of times during the course of his long life. He worked in a dark style with contrasting light and shadow. His most famous painting might be “The Night Watch,” which hangs in his native city of Amersterdam.

Rembrandt (Van Rijn, which means from the Rhine)

11. This great American cartoonist won the love of America for his decades of comic strips featuring the ageless children Charlie Brown, Schroeder, Linus, and Lucy, and their irrepressible dog Snoopy. Name the artist.

Charles M. Schultz

12. This famous American abstract artist developed a style called Action Painting, in which he dribbled or splashed paint directly onto the canvas. His first name was Jackson, earning him the nickname of Jack the Dripper.

Jackson Pollock

13. The French-Russian artist Alexander Calder invented a kind of scupture of shapes connected by wires got its name by the fact it can move.

Mobile (hint: also the name of a town in Alabama)

14. The small hand-held mixing board where a painter holds his paints while working.

Pallette (hint: famous character actor from the 1930s named Eugene)

15. This folding stand holds the artist’s canvas while he paints.

Easle

16. Very high-quality artists’ brushes are made from the hair of this desert quadraped.

Camel (hint: humped, dromodary)

17. This early “digital” technique is often a child’s first painting experience. Name the method.

Fingerpainting (note to Sarah: Do air quotes with your fingers/digits!)

18. What color do you get when you mix red and yellow?

Orange

19. Name the three primary colors.

Red, green, blue (hint: RGB)

20. The pneumonic Roy G. Biv is used to memorize what sequence of colors?

The color spectrume: Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet

21. The invention of perspective during the Italian Renaissance allowed painters to create the illusion of three dimensions. The technique required that all parallel lines in the painting converge, or come together, in a single spot. What is the name of this convergence spot?

Vanishing point

22. In what city would you find the museum called The Louvre?

Paris

23. This artform is practiced by Buddhist monks as well as Navajo holy men. It is a painstaking process to create an artwork which will then vanish in the wind.

Sand painting (hint: the medium is tiny specks of silica)

24. Totem poles

25. Murals (Diego Rivera)

26. This technique involves painting directly onto wet plaster. When the plaster dries, the painting becomes a permanent part of the wall.

Fresco

27. Tromp d’loile?

28. Stueben, Tiffany, and Lalique are arthouses that focus on what material?

Glass (hint: Handle with Care)

29. This subject is one of the most widely painted scenes in religious art. It depicted 13 men sharing a meal. Leonardo da Vinci painted a famous one.

The Last Supper

30. Ikebana

31. This medium of drawing involves colored chalks. The same word is also used to stand for light colors of any sort.

Pastels

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33. Many a child artist has gotten their start on the 64-pack of crayons, manufactured by this company.

Crayola

34. In the film “American in Paris,” the painter was played by this song and dance man, known for his athletic and energetic dancing. He single-handedly made ballet moves commerically acceptable in film.

Gene Kelly

35. The Hermitage, one of the world’s great art museums, is housed in this northern Russian city, named for Peter the Great.

St. Petersburg (hint: its named was changed to Leningrad, before being changed back to this one)

36. When writing characters of text reaches the level of art, it goes by this name.

Calligraphy

37. This late nineteenth century French painter was famous for his posters and for being very short. José Ferrara plays him in the movie “Moulin Rouge.”

Toulouse-LaTrec

Name the nationality of these artists:

38. Francesco Goya & Salvadore Dali – Spanish

39. Giotto & Rafael – Italian

40. John Constable & Thomas Gainesborough – English

41. Nicolas Poussin & Henri Matisse – French

42. Vincent VanGogh & Rembrandt - Dutch

43. Max Ernst & Hans Holbein & Albrecht Durer – German

44. Andrew Wyeth & Georgia O’Keefe - American

45. Diego Rivera & Frida Kahlo & Rufino Tamayo - Mexican

46. In this genre, images are built out of tiny pieces of glass, stone, or ceramic.

Mosaic

47. Engraving on bone or ivory, typically from a whale.

Scrimshaw

48. Renowned American primitive folk artist who painted until a ripe old age and died at the age of 101.

Grandma Moses

49. The subject of Jesus being crucified on the cross may be one of the most popular in the history of art. What is the name of this almost 2000-year old genre.

Crucifixion

50. A craze for the porcelain of this Asian country swept through Europe in the 17th century, resulting in the importation of millions of pieces of pottery. So popular was this kind of porcelain, that it is still today often named after the country in question.

China

51. The House of Fabergé made these delicately jeweled objects Russian royalty. What are they?

Fabergé eggs (hint: you have them for breakfast)

52. This French painter of the late 19th and early 20th centuries was obsessed with changing light and the passage of seasons. He painted series of haystacks, waterlillies, and seascapes at different times of day. His 1874 painting “Impression, Sunrise” gave a name to the Impressionist school.

Monet

53. Paul Gaugin, the painter friend of Vincent Van Gogh, reinvented his style after traveling to this island in French Polynesia, famous for its black sand beaches and sometimes thought of as a tropical paradise.

Tahiti

54. One of the founders of Impressionism, this painter was obsessed with the dance. More than half of his works depict dancers. He also often painted race course horses and female nudes. His first name is Edgar.

Degas

55. Although the real-life subject was supposedly a little man with a big foe, Michaelangelo’s famous sculpture depicts him in 17 feet of marble.

David

56. Charles M. Russell and George Remington were famous for painting what region of the United States?

American West

57. This flamboyant mustachioed Spaniard was famous for his surrealistic paintings of such oddities as drooping watches and flaming giraffes.

Salvadore Dali

58. Maurice Sendak wrote and illustrated this classic children’s book about Max and his monstrous friends.

Where the Wild Things Are

59. This pop artist from Pittsburgh moved to New York and started a studio called The Factory, which became a meeting place for bohemians, celebrities, intellectuals and misfits. His silkscreens, drawings, paintings and photographs include famous series of Campbell soup cans and Marilyn Monroe. He once predicted that in the future, everyone would be famous for 15 minutes. He has been famous for more than half a century.

Andy Warhol

60. In his day, this Bostonian was perhaps most famous for his work as a decorative artist in silver. Today he’s most famous for some shouting that he did on horseback.

Paul Revere

61. This museum, perhaps the greatest art museum in the United States, is commonly refered to as The Met. In what city is it housed?

New York (Metropolitan Museum of Art)

62. These two museums are owned by the same foundation and go by the same name. One of them, in New York, has an extraordinary spiral shape, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. The other, in Bilbao, Spain, was designed by Frank Gehry, and is one of the most famous and extraordinary-looking buildings of the last 20 years. What name do these two museums share?

The Guggenheim

63. This 20th century painter and illustrator was best-known for his depictions of American culture. His illustrations graced the cover of The Saturday Evening Post for more than four decades.

Normal Rockwell

64. Painted by Norwegian painter Edvard Munch, this swirling Expressionist painting depicts a ghostly figure in agony holding his head in his hands. In 1994, the version in the National Gallery was stolen. In 2004, the version in the Munch museum was stolen as well. (Both have been recovered.) What is the name of this iconic painting?

The Scream

65. Perhaps the most famous American architect of all time, e designed such monumental buildings as Falling Water, the Guggenheim Museum, Johnson Wax headquarters, the Robie House, and Unity Temple. He was the leader of the Prairie School movement of architecture.

Frank Lloyd Wright

66. Black and white nature photographer famous for pictures of Yosemite.

Ansel Adams

67. Photographer known for her Depression-era work for the FSA (Farm Security Administration people). Her first name is Dorothea.

Dorothea Lange

68. This prolific firm, based in New York City from 1834 to 1907, produced prints from paintings by fine artists as black and white lithographs that were hand colored. These lithographs were cheap and quick to reproduce. What was the name of the firm, named after its two founders?

Currier & Ives

The following four people are all famous Arts:

69. Paul Simon’s singing companion – Art Garfunkle

70. Oscar-winning actor for his starring role in “Harry & Tonto,” he’s best known for playing Jackie Gleason’s sidekick Ed Norton on “The Honeymooners.” – Art Carney

71. Canadian radio broadcaster, television personality, and author, he was the host of the long-running TV shows “House Party” and “Kids Say the Darndest Things.”

Art Linkletter

72. Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper columnist, he wrote humorous and satirical columns under his name for more than five decades.

Art Buchwald

73. Hundreds of America’s greatest Depression-era artists were kept alive by this three-letter Federal program.

WPA (Works Progress Administration)

74. Jacob Lawrence, one of this country’s greatest African-American painters, became internationally famous for a series depicting the mass movement of African American from the rural South to the urban North. What is this event in American History called.

The Great Migration

75. Which of the following words does not belong?

Oil, acrylic, watercolor, tempera, gouache, alabaster

All are paints except alabaster, which is a stone

76. One of the major subjects of Christian art since the 4th century depicts the birth of the baby Jesus. The word for this subject comes from the Latin word natus, or “birth.”

Nativity

77. This cartoonist created Mickey Mouse.

Walt Disney

78. This style of art, architecture, and the decorative arts arose in popularity at the very end of the 19th century. Its name is French for “New Art.”

Art Nouveau

79. This product line turned everyone into a painter by marking out white cardboardinto regions with numeric codes.

Paint by Number

80. This woven fabric stretched over a wooden frame provide the base for many oil paintings.

Canvas

81. Red and blue together make what color?

Purple

82. These drawing sticks are made from twice-burnt wood.

Charcoal

83. This painter, with an afro hairdo, hosted an instructional TV show called “The Joy of Painting,” painted things like “happy little clouds.”

Bob Ross

84. In this classic children’s story, everything a little boy draws with his very special colored drawing implement becomes real.

Harold and the Purple Crayon

85. In this novel by Dan Brown, which sold many millions of copies worldwide, clues are hidden in the Mona Lisa.

The DaVinci Code

86. This artwork is made by assembling collections of many different kinds of items.

Collage

87. This American Indian tribe is known for its woven rugs and blankets.

Navajo

88. At Lascaux and Altamira, prehistoric man painted scenes of ancient animals on the walls of what?

Caves

89. How many words is a picture worth?

1000

90. Pictures woven into fabric hung on the walls of castles. “The Hunt of the Unicorn” is a famous one.

Tapestry

91. This artistic period began in Italy in the 14th century. Its name means “rebirth,” and it is associated with an awakening in all the arts following the Middle Ages.

Renaissance

92. Artwork inked on the skin.

Tattoo

93. Monumental sculptures carved from large trees by Pacific Northwest Indians. They are vertical columns depicting animals, spirits, people, and symbolic figures.

Totem poles

94. This monumental sculpture by the French sculptor Rodin rests his chin on his fist because he has a lot on his mind.

The Thinker

95. Name the four Presidents depicted on Mt. Rushmore.

Lincoln, Jefferson, Washington, T. Roosevelt

96. This auction house in London is the place to go if you’re trying to sell an expensive work of art.

Sotheby’s

97. This high-ranking Nazi, founder of the Gestapo, and commander-in-chief of the Luftwaffe, was an extremely avid collector and stealor of art.

Hermann Göring

98. In Grant Wood’s “American Gothic,” an iconic painting of an elderly rural farm couple, what is the man holding?

Pitchfork

99. Charlton Heston plays Michaelangelo who battles Rex Harrison as Pope Julius II over the painting of the Sistine Chapel in this 1965 film.

The Agony and the Ecstasy

100. This cleft-chinned, steely-eyed actor, famous for playing Sparticus, also played artist Vincent Van Gogh in 1956’s film “Lust for Life.”

Kirk Douglas