The Wednesday Quiz -- Season III -- Quiz 7
Name That Famous Artist!
The Wednesday Quiz is a "closed-book" test of knowledge and intuition; please do not look up answers, ask others for help, or answer as a team.
Questions about the rules and the ~Fabulous Prizes~ are answered here.
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This week's Quiz is the first visual one in a while, and a good excuse to throw in some pretty pictures. Each image is a reasonably characteristic, if not necessarily famous, piece by a painter with a distinctive style. For each image,
Who's the painter?
Who's the painter?
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1. Mondrian
ReplyDelete2. JWW Turner
3. Van Gogh
4. Picasso
5. Bruegel
6. Albers
7. Grandma Moses
8. Kahlo
9. Grant Wood
10. Miro
Reasonably sure of some of these, guessing on a few. Interesting that you could find obscure examples, as (except for the Van Gogh) I certainly never saw these in art history class.
Ugh! Can we do Star Trek trivia next?
ReplyDelete1. The biggest joke on the art world in history.
2. Moan-ay?
3. Goodnight Moon
4. Picasso?
5. That nightmare guy
6. 2nd biggest joke on the art world
7. Grandma Moses?
8. Dali
9. The Sims
10. Looks like something from the opening credits of a zany comedy from the 60s
Woot! An easy one for a change!
ReplyDelete1. Piet Mondrian
2. Claude Monet
3. Vincent Van Gogh
4. Wassily Kandinsky
5. Hieronymous Bosch
6. Mark Rothko
7. Grandma Moses
8. Frida Kahlo
9. Grant Wood
10. Joan Miro
mondrian, monet, van gogh, miro, bosch, rothko, moses, frida kahlo, some american dude, kandinsky
ReplyDelete1. Mondrian
ReplyDelete2. Turner
3. Van Gogh
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7. Grandma Moses?
8. Kahlo (sp?)
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10. Miro
1. Mondrian
ReplyDelete2. Monet
3. Van Gogh (thanks, Dr. Who!)
4. Matisse
5. Bosch
6. I've SEEN this. I've seen a whole exhibit of these. I really liked them. They were quite large. A man made them. What's his name? I'm mind-blocked.
7. I do not know. Sweet painting, though.
8. Kahlo
9. ?
10. Miro
1 Mondrian (I wonder how you'd do the quilting on that one)
ReplyDelete2 Turner (don't try THAT in corduroy!)
3 Van Gogh (running a cute little B&B)
4 Kandinsky (looks like a mural for a Space Pavillion)
5 Bosch (I collaged a couple of those birds in a book once, it would be much harder to use the humans)
6 Rothko (uh, yup)
7 Grandma Moses (this looks like where Nichim's moving to)
8 Frida Kahlo (uh, yup)
9 Grant Wood (that would make a nice model rairoad set)
10 Miro ("Microbe with Quilted Undies")
1. Mondrian? I can never remember this guy's name.
ReplyDelete2. Degas? I'm not familiar with this piece.
3. Vincent Van Gogh
4. Possibly Kandinsky
5. Familiar, but can't remember the artist.
6. So very familiar.
7. Grandma Moses?
8. Frieda Calo
9. Oh, shucks. That American guy.
10. Paul Klee
Wow, a shameful performance by a daughter of an art teacher.
Bosch! of course. I got B in my head, but ended up totally in the wrong direction. DUH. Oh well, I missed others, too. At least not completely disgraced, like Carto up there.
ReplyDelete1. Mondrian
ReplyDelete2. Carpenter
3. Van Gogh
4. Klimt
5. Gaughan
6. Handley
7. Ross
8. Kahlo
9. Jones
10. Miro
Please excuse the wild guesses. I really must spend more time at the museum!
1. Mondrian
ReplyDelete2. Monet - the work that triggered the word "impressionism", isn't it?
3. Van Gogh
4. Klee / Kandinsky -> Kandinsky
5. Bosch
6. Raushchenberg / Rothko -> Rothko
7. Grandma Moses
8. ooops.
9. um, um, Iowa, .......gotta bring a kid to swim practice.....out of time. Stupid. Duh.
10. Miro
I'm pretty sure almost my entire art education has come from your quizzes....
ReplyDelete1. Mondrian
2. Monet
3. Van Gogh
4. Picasso
5. Michelangelo
6. Donatello
7. Moses
8. Rafael
9. Grand Wood
10. Leonardo
Yeah, you're not a bad teacher, actually...not exactly top of the class though, I suspect.
1. Mondrian
ReplyDelete2. Monet
3. Van Gogh
4. Kandinsky
5. Bosch
6. Rothko?
7. Grandma Moses
8. Kahlo (saw this one in person in Philadelphia a few years ago).
9. Wood
10. Miro
So how did I miss the physics quiz and log in in a timely fashion for this? I'll be lucky if I can name ten painters.
ReplyDelete1. Piet Mondrian
2. Monet
3. van Gogh
4. Picasso
5. Picasso
6. Picasso
7. Picasso
8. Picasso
9. This one is my favourite, I wish I did it.
10. Ooh I remembered another painter! Renoir!
Maybe I understand now how some people felt about the physics one.
As a control, I asked Darth if he wanted to do a quiz on famous painters. He said, "Yes, if it wasn't too much work," and started listing painters.
ReplyDelete"Don't you want to look at the artwork?"
"That's more work, and it might stifle my creativity."
1. Picasso
2. Van Gogh
3. that guy who did the Campbell soup cans
4. Person #1 from The Group of Seven
5. Rembrandt
6. Stephen Spielberg
7. the guy who did the paintings in that cave in France
8. Donatelli
9. da Vinci
10. Dan Brown
Chances are, he did better than I did. - Aviatrix
What we got here, using la gringissima's answers, is:
ReplyDelete1. Piet Mondrian
2. Claude Monet
3. Vincent Van Gogh
4. Wassily Kandinsky
5. Hieronymous Bosch
6. Mark Rothko
7. Grandma Moses
8. Frida Kahlo
9. Grant Wood
10. Joan Miro
The gringa nailed it, as did Doc Schnell. Quiz legend Rex Parker, telecommuting in from Facebook, was right behind them, as was Quiz legend Mrs.5000.
Aviatrix did way better than Darth.
Wooooooood! And here I was so smug at my knowledge that it was Thomas Hart Benton. Now I'm not even sure if Thomas Hart Benton's the name of an actual painter. Maybe it's one of the actors in "Taps." Criminy.
ReplyDeleterp
Well, I thought it was THB when I decided to use it for the Quiz. So.
ReplyDelete