Madrid Pub Quiz

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Art

30 questions in this category

The illustrator Thomas Nast (1840–1902) changed the image we have of Father Christmas. What two characteristics did he introduce?
Plump and dressed in red (he had been dressed in green and used to be tall and thin)
In which town was Leonardo da Vinci born?
Vinci (near Florence)
On whose life is Somerset Maugham‘s ‘The Moon and Sixpence’ based on?
Paul Gauguin (7 June 1848 – 8 May 1903)
Emanuel Radnitzky was born in Philadelphia in 1890 and died in Paris in 1976. He was a surrealist painter and photographer. By which name is he better known?
Man Ray
Cashmere wool comes from what animal?
Goat
What was the name of Vincent van Gogh’s art dealer brother?
Theodorus (Theo)
Which Renaissance artist’s life was fictionalised in the book ‘The Agony and the Ecstasy’ subsequently made into a film?
Michelangelo
Which artist and illustrator painted a portrait of John F. Kennedy in 1960 that was later published on the cover of the Saturday Evening Post after his assassination?
Norman Rockwell
What colour is cerulean?
Blue
What is the name of the toning that produces brown and white photographs?
Sepia
How did Van Gogh commit suicide?
He shot himself
“Glass of Absinthe” is a sculpture by which 20th century artist?
Pablo Picasso
With which other painter would you associate painter Françoise Gilot?
Pablo Picasso (she lived and studied with him for ten years and had two children)
What was the name of the painter who was the son of Hans Holbein the Senior?
Hans Holbein the Younger (Hans Holbein der Jüngere; c. 1497 – 1543).
This is a Spanish-based question Which museum houses Velázquez’s only painting of nude buttocks?
The National Gallery. The Rokeby Venus, also known as The Toilet of Venus, Venus at her Mirror, Venus and Cupid, or La Venus del espejo.
This is a Spanish-based question Who built El Escorial?
Juan Bautista de Toledo designed it and worked on it from 1563 to his death in 1567. Juan de Herrera revised and completed it.
Which famous artist designed the Chupa Chups logo?
Salvador Dalí
What type of paint was made out of pigment and egg yolk?
Tempera
Which painter’s trip to and later residence in California inspired him to make a series of paintings of swimming pools in Los Angeles using the comparatively new acrylic medium, rendered in a highly realistic style using vibrant colours?
David Hockney
What’s the name of the Postimpressionist artist known as ‘Le Douanier’?
Henri Rousseau
The Mexican painter Diego Rivera was married twice to another famous Mexican painter. Who?
Frida Kahlo from 1929 to 1939 and from 1940 to her death in 1954
Who’s the author of the painting popularly known as “Droopy Watches” or “Melting Clocks” and what’s its correct name?
The Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dalí
The German guide to the 1937 World’s fair called it ‘a hodgepodge of body parts that any four-year-old could have painted’. Which painting were they describing?
Picasso’s Guernica
Whose paintings were characterised as being ‘Matchstick men and matchstick cats and dogs’?
L.S. Lowry
In Caravaggio’s painting ‘Doubting Thomas’, what is Thomas doing?
Putting his finger in Christ’s wound.
In which century did Rococo art and architecture develop?
18th
What nationality was Gustav Klimt?
Austrian
In Botticelli’s ‘The Birth of Venus’, what is Venus standing on?
A clam shell
What did Salvador Dali wear to the opening of the International Surrealist Exhibition at London’s New Burlington Gallery in 1936?
A diving suit
Dante Gabriele Rossetti, John Millais and William Holman Hunt are all members of which movement?
Pre-Raphaelites