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Art
Paintings, Sculptures, Architecture, Etc. CAPS indicate what you need to answer.
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| STATUE: Dali added mink pompons to a reproduction of this statue; once attributed to Praxiteles and may have originally held an apple; likely sculptor was Alexandros of Antioch; arm-less love goddess | VENUS DE MILO or APHRODITE OF MILOS |
| ART STYLE: Cezanne's Pyramid of Skulls is one example; depicts arrangements of small, commonplace items such as flowers or foods | STILL LIFE |
| ART MOVEMENT: Louis Leroy coined the name and compared it to wallpaper sketches; name came from a painting of Le Havre at sunrise; included American-born artist Mary Cassatt; co-founded by Claude Monet | IMPRESSIONISM |
| BUILDING: in cross section of this pair of towers, the Islamic symbol called the Rub el Hizb is duplicated; designed by Cesar Pelli in Kuala Lumpur | PETRONAS Towers |
| PAINTER: used same model and pose for his paintings The Clothed Maja and The Nude Maja; Peninsular War inspired his painting of a firing squad pointing rifles at prisoners in Madrid (THE THIRD OF MAY 1808); Spanish painter | Francisco GOYA |
| SCULPTOR: works "Dusk" and "Dawn" sit atop tomb of Lorenzo de Medici; based on translation of Vulgate, his tomb for Pope Julius II depicts Moses with horns; St Peter's Basilica houses his first Pieta; sculpted marble David | MICHELANGELO |
| SCULPTOR: sculpted a bronze statue of David | DONATELLO |
| PAINTING: 1793 painting by Jacques-Louis DAVID depicts a Frenchman lying murdered in his bathtub | The DEATH OF MARAT |
| PAINTING AND ARTIST: American artist's whose wife Josephine Nivison was the model in his previous work, Automat; an advertisement for Phillies cigars appears above three customers of a Greenwich Village diner | NIGHTHAWKS by Edward HOPPER |
| ARTIST'S WORK: artist Gutzon Borglum died in 1941 while working on this monumental structure | MOUNT RUSHMORE |
| PAINTING AND ARTIST: Catalonian peaks loom in the back right while ants crawl on a watch next to a melting clock in the left foreground | THE PERSISTENCE OF MEMORY by Salvador DALI |
| ARTIST: Mexican artist famous for her numerous self-portraits | FRIDA KAHLO |
| LOCATION: its Egyptian collection includes Seated Scribe and Great Sphinx of Tanis; I.M. Pei designed a steel-and-glass pyramid that serves as entrance to this place; it is the largest art museum in the world | LOUVRE Museum (I.M. Pei made a similar pyramid for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, but the references don't lead to this) |
| ARCHITECT: with Dankmar Adler, he designed a terracotta skyscraper in St Louis called the Wainwright Building; said "form follows function" | Louis SULLIVAN |
| ARTIST: secretive British graffiti artist of Balloon Girl, which self-destructed following its auction for one million pounds | BANKSY |
| SCHOOL: painter from this school showed an artist and poet standing on a cliff in the painting Kindred Spirits; that painting by Asher Durand depicts Thomas Cole who was the leading member of this artistic school of painters named for a New York waterway | HUDSON RIVER SCHOOL |
| SCULPTOR: Auguste Neyt modeled for one sculpture by this man, which caused a scandal when he was accused of using a life cast of the model; sculpted The Age of Bronze; created a series depicting scenes from the Divine Comedy called Gates of Hell; French | Auguste RODIN (first clue references The Thinker...also know The Kiss) |
| LOCATION: houses Jackson Pollock's works Full Fathom Five and The She-Wolf; in New York; emphasizes contemporary art | MUSEUM OF MODERN ART (or MoMA) |
| ART MOVEMENT: Marcel Duchamp was a member of this movement whose name in French means "Hobby Horse" and is said to have been chosen randomly | DADA movement |
| PAINTING AND ARTIST: in 1994, thieves stole this painting and demanded an anti-abortion documentary be shown on TV; part of the artist's Frieze of Life; depicts a red and orange sky above a figure with an open mouth | The SCREAM by Edvard MUNCH |
| ARTIST: sued John Ruskin for libel after Ruskin reviewed his painting of a falling rocket; his butterfly signature appears on a dark curtain in his 1871 painting Arrangement in Grey and Black, No. 1; produced an iconic portrait of his mother | James WHISTLER |
| ARTIST: depicted a foxglove and two yellow books on a table in his portrait of Paul Gachet, a doctor who treated him after a stay in Saint-Remy; was financially supported by his art dealer brother, Theo; Dutch painter of The Starry Night | Vincent VAN GOGH |
| ARTIST: used yellow to represent taxis in a work depicting a city grid; was part of the De Stijl movement and painted Broadway Boogie Woogie | Piet MONDRIAN |
| ARTIST: depicted a banana on the cover of a Velvet Underground album; his studio was called The Factory; his works include several silkscreen depictions of a blonde actress ("Marilyn Diptych"); depicted 32 Campbell's Soup Cans | Andy WARHOL |
| PAINTING AND ARTIST: a light bulb in the shape of an eye appears near the top center of this 1937 painting created in reaction to the bombing of a Basque village in the Spanish Civil War | GUERNICA by Pablo PICASSO |
| ARTIST: Showed two women with blue scarves and yellow dresses sitting on iron chairs in Music in the Tuileries; shocked 1865 Paris Salon with a painting of a naked prostitute lying on a bed in front of her black maid; French painter of Olympia | Eduard MANET (also painted Luncheon on the Grass...and he is NOT MONET) |
| ARTIST: depicted a kleptomaniac and a gambling addict in his series of portraits of the insane; a man standing on a barrel waves a red cloth in a painting depicting survivors of a shipwreck, "The Raft of the Medusa"; French | Theodore GERICAULT |
| ARTIST: created a poster for the French dancer La Goulue; grew to be just 4-foot-8 and depicted a Parisian cabaret in At the Moulin Rouge | Henri TOULOUSE-LAUTREC (need both parts) |
| PAINTING AND ARTIST: full scale copy of this painting completed by Giampietrino clarifies details such as a knocked-over salt cellar; mural's central person reaches out for a plate at the same time as Judas | The LAST SUPPER by Leonardo DA VINCI |
| ARTIST: painted his series Water Lilies in a garden in Giverny in Normandy | Claude MONET (don't confuse with Eduard MANET!) |
| ARTIST: in 1972, a sculpture by this artist was attacked by the hammer-wielding Laszlo Toth; sculpted The Genius of Victory and a statue that depicts Moses with horns for tomb of Pope Julius II; Renaissance artist of the Pieta | MICHELANGELO |
| PAINTER: depicted a boy whose belt holds a dagger and playing cards in The Cardsharps; Contarelli Chapel contains his painting of Jesus pointing at a tax collector titled The Calling of St Matthew; Italian known for use of chiaroscurro | CARAVAGGIO |
| ARTIST: surrealist who created the painting Swans Reflecting Elephants; depicted a hypercube in his painting of the crucifixion of Jesus; has a painting title "The Disintegration of..." another of his paintings | Salvador DALI (painting is The PERSISTENCE OF MEMORY) |
| ARTIST: series by him depicts freckled soldier Willie Gillis; in 1968 he painted a portrait of Richard Nixon; a woman places a turkey on a table in Freedom from Want, part of his Four Freedoms series; frequent cover artist of The Saturday Evening Post | Norman ROCKWELL |
| ARCHITECT: he designed a building called the "Plywood Palace" due to problems with falling window panes; designed Boston's John Hancock Tower and Cleveland's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame; Chinese-American who designed a glass pyramid for the Louvre | I.M. PEI |
| PAINTER: Fauvist who depicted five nude women holding hands and dancing in a circle on a hilltop in his 1909 painting The Dance; French painter of Woman with a Hat | Henri MATISSE |
| PAINTER: surrealist who placed an image of a pipe above a phrase that translates to "This is not a pipe" in one painting; French painter of The Treachery of Images | Rene MAGRITTE |
| PAINTING AND PAINTER: a girl in a yellow dress holds a goblet and wears a belt holding up a chicken; depicts a lieutenant wearing a white sash and a captain named Frans Banning Cocq; depicts a militia unit | The NIGHT WATCH by REMBRANDT |
| PAINTER: the artist's favorite model, Victorine Meurent, appears in his paintings Olympia and Luncheon on the Grass | Eduard MANET (not MONET!) |
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