QUIZ HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW ABOUT ART? Answer the questions of the quiz.

Each true answer gives you a letter, from which you have to combine first words and then a phrase. In the 23rd question put the letters in the right order and they will give you the last combination of words in the phrase. The 1st word: _ _ _ 1) Which period opened a new era of experimentation in which France played a central role and artists became freer to explore the boundaries of art? I) Renaissance S) Baroque R) 19th century O) Modernism 2) Artists individual talents, innovations and ideas began to acquire greater cultural importance in the period of: E) 19th century H) Baroque A) Renaissance P) Modernism 3) Swirling forms, high colour and often dramatic contrast between light and dark are the hallmarks of: U) Modernism T) Baroque Y) Renaissance K) 19th century The 2nd word: _ _ 4) The art of moral high seriousness and political purposefulness is called: C) Romanticism G) Pointillism S) Neo-Classicism A) Renaissance 5) During which period artists increasingly rejected the authority of Art Academies which advocated the grand manner, mythical, religious and patriotic subjects? B) Renaissance D) Baroque I) 19th century F) Modernism The 3rd word: _ _ _ 6) Images of poverty and labour were typical of: M) Romanticism Q) Expressionism A) Dadaism O) Realism 7) The picture Bathers at Asniers predated the development of Pointillism. Who is the painter of this picture? Z) Paul Gauguin I) Pablo Picasso V) Camille Pissarro T) George Seurat 8) Who emphasized the emotional, the irrational, the intuitive and the symbolic over and above the completely rational?

E) Neo-Classicism N) Romanticism L) Symbolism O) Impressionism The 4th word: _ 9) A snapshot device suggested by photography was much used by: A) Edgar Degas V) George Seurat O) Pablo Picasso W)Vassily Kandinsky The 5th word: _ _ _ _ _ 10) Where is the painting A Bar at the Folies-Bergere by Eduard Manet now? E) The Louvre, Paris I) The Prado, Madrid P) Court Hall, London J) Metropolitan Museum of Fine Art, New York 11) The soft quality of brushstrokes is a hallmark of a very specific style of: C) Claude Monet R) Pierre-Auguste Renoir U) Edgar Degas D) Eduard Manet 12) Who was one of the pioneers in the analysis of colour? B) Velasquez O) Delacroix K) Claude Monet N) Eduard Manet 13) Waves, boats and mountains can be seen on the left, suggesting the elemental destruction by storms and floods, while on the right, an embracing couple evoke the creation of a new society shaped by pure honesty and loving spirituality. What picture is described here? A) View of Toledo by El Greco S) Improvisation 28 by Vassily Kandinsky F) Moulin de la Galette by Pierre-Auguste Renoir M) Argenteuil by Eduard Manet 14) What was one of the first Impressionist paintings that Manet produced? H) A Bar at the Folies-Bergere T) Argenteuil Z) Luncheon on the Grass O) Music in the Tuileries The 6th word: _ _ 15) Who has justly been dubbed The Father of British Painting? V) William Hunt O) William Hogarth Q) William Blake I) William Turner 16) The Moon and the Sixpence by S. Maugham is the biography of: G) Vincent Van Gogh M) Henri Matisse A) Paul Cezanne T) Paul Gauguin

The 7th word: _ _ 17) Primary colours are: L) Green, orange, violet E) Red, blue, yellow X) Grey, mauve, black W) Red, blue, green 18) One of the most significant figures of the 1860s and 1870s was the American: T) Thomas Gainsborough Y) John Constable B) James Whistler R) John Millais The 8th word: _ _ _ _ 19) What is NOT the hallmark of Impressionism as a trend? E) The adoption of the new palette K) Taking into consideration not only local colour, but also atmospheric, illumination and complementary colours C) Juxtaposing of colours N) Regarding colours from the standpoint of black and white 20) What does NOT pass? B) Hue Y) Tint E) Pigment D) Tinge 21) Secondary colours are: F) Red, blue, yellow A) Green, red, violet J) Violet, yellow, mauve D) Green, orange, violet 22) What is considered to be the only Russian contribution to the world art? I) Expressionism L) Neo-Plasticism T) Futurism O) Constructivism The last phrase (Remember! You dont need to correct the order!): _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 23) Match the avant-garde trends with their hallmark: 1. Primitivism A) exploration of the social role of art in capitalist society 2. Futurism E) exploration of social function 3. Expressionism I) discovering a universal truth 4. Neo-Plasticism L) exploration of spiritual order 5. Constructivism N) exploration of the nature of the representation 6. Surrealism P) exploration of emotions and state of mind 7. Cubism R) emphasized strong colour over the realistic values 8. Dadaism E) rejecting the industrial in favour of the primitive 9. Suprematism I) exploration of the unconscious 10. Fauvism N) a celebration of technology and machinery _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _! Can you guess what artist said this?