Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Monday, May 21, 2012
Semester exam - clarifying the guidelines for the spring semester, non-senior exam
- A one-page essay.
- Documented via "according to."
- Based on 3 images from your notebook from any 3 artists of this semester.
Either
a) Link the works of these artists by theme.
or
b) Compare two of the artists by referring to multiple works.
- The more examples (title, date, medium, location), coherently presented, the better.
- Minimize your opinion. Avoid generalities.
- Jazzy title.
- No summation or ending paragraph, please.
20 pts.
- Documented via "according to."
- Based on 3 images from your notebook from any 3 artists of this semester.
Either
a) Link the works of these artists by theme.
or
b) Compare two of the artists by referring to multiple works.
- The more examples (title, date, medium, location), coherently presented, the better.
- Minimize your opinion. Avoid generalities.
- Jazzy title.
- No summation or ending paragraph, please.
20 pts.
Friday, May 18, 2012
Basquiat's historic and social commentary in his 1981 painting, "Irony Of Negro Policeman"
"Irony of Negro Policeman" (1981), is intended to illustrate how African-Americans, says Wikipedia, have been controlled by a predominantly Caucasian society.
Basquiat sought to portray how complicit African-Americans have become with the “institutionalized forms of whiteness and corrupt white regimes of power” years after the Jim Crow era had ended.[27]
Basquiat found the concept of a “Negro policeman” utterly ironic. It would seem that this policeman should sympathize with his black friends, family and ancestors, yet instead he was there to enforce the rules designed by "white society." The Negro policeman had “black skin but wore a white mask”.
In the painting, Basquiat depicted the policeman as large in order to suggest an “excessive and totalizing power”, but made the policeman's body fragmented and broken.[28] The hat that frames the head of the Negro policeman resembles a cage, and represents how constrained the independent perceptions of African-Americans were at the time, and how constrained the policeman’s own perceptions were within white society. Basquiat drew upon his Haitian heritage by painting a hat that resembles the top hat associated with the Haitian trickster lwa, leader of the Gede family of lwas and guardian of death and the dead in vodou.[28]
Basquiat sought to portray how complicit African-Americans have become with the “institutionalized forms of whiteness and corrupt white regimes of power” years after the Jim Crow era had ended.[27]
Basquiat found the concept of a “Negro policeman” utterly ironic. It would seem that this policeman should sympathize with his black friends, family and ancestors, yet instead he was there to enforce the rules designed by "white society." The Negro policeman had “black skin but wore a white mask”.
In the painting, Basquiat depicted the policeman as large in order to suggest an “excessive and totalizing power”, but made the policeman's body fragmented and broken.[28] The hat that frames the head of the Negro policeman resembles a cage, and represents how constrained the independent perceptions of African-Americans were at the time, and how constrained the policeman’s own perceptions were within white society. Basquiat drew upon his Haitian heritage by painting a hat that resembles the top hat associated with the Haitian trickster lwa, leader of the Gede family of lwas and guardian of death and the dead in vodou.[28]
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Magnet fine arts / Islamic calligraphy and architecture
There are repeating elements in Islamic art, such as the use of geometrical floral or vegetal designs in a repetition known as the arabesque, notes Wikipedia.
The arabesque in Islamic art is often used to symbolize the transcendent, indivisible and infinite nature of God.
Islamic art developed from many sources: Roman, Early Christian art, and Byzantine styles were taken over in early Islamic art and architecture; the influence of the Sassanian art of pre-Islamic Persia was of paramount significance; Central Asian styles were brought in with various nomadic incursions; and Chinese influences had a formative effect on Islamic painting, pottery, and textiles.
The arabesque in Islamic art is often used to symbolize the transcendent, indivisible and infinite nature of God.
Islamic art developed from many sources: Roman, Early Christian art, and Byzantine styles were taken over in early Islamic art and architecture; the influence of the Sassanian art of pre-Islamic Persia was of paramount significance; Central Asian styles were brought in with various nomadic incursions; and Chinese influences had a formative effect on Islamic painting, pottery, and textiles.
Thursday, May 10, 2012
Diego Rivera: European-educated Mexican muralist of the Picasso era
Diego Rivera (1886 – 1957) was born with a lengthy name a la Pablo Picasso. He was baptised Diego María de la Concepción Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodríguez in Guanajuato, Gto, says Wikipedia.
He was a world-famous Mexican painter, an active Communist, and husband of Frida Kahlo, 1929–1939 and 1940–1954 (her death).
Rivera's large wall works in fresco helped establish the Mexican Mural Renaissance. Between 1922 and 1953, Rivera painted murals in Mexico City, Chapingo, Cuernavaca, San Francisco, Detroit, and New York City.[1]
In 1931, a retrospective exhibition of his works was displayed at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
He went to Paris, France, to live and work with the great gathering of artists in Montparnasse, especially at La Ruche, where his friend Amedeo Modigliani painted his portrait in 1914.
In those years, Paris was witnessing the beginning of cubism in paintings by such eminent painters as Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. From 1913 to 1917, Rivera enthusiastically embraced this new school of art.
After a great deal of success in painting murals in prestigious locations across the US, Rivera went to NYC to paint for the Rockefellers. His mural Man at the Crossroads, begun in 1933 for the Rockefeller Center in New York City, was removed after a furor erupted in the press over a portrait of Vladimir Lenin it contained.
In December 1933, Rivera returned to Mexico, and he repainted Man at the Crossroads in 1934 in the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City. This surviving version was called Man, Controller of the Universe.
He was a world-famous Mexican painter, an active Communist, and husband of Frida Kahlo, 1929–1939 and 1940–1954 (her death).
Rivera's large wall works in fresco helped establish the Mexican Mural Renaissance. Between 1922 and 1953, Rivera painted murals in Mexico City, Chapingo, Cuernavaca, San Francisco, Detroit, and New York City.[1]
In 1931, a retrospective exhibition of his works was displayed at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
He went to Paris, France, to live and work with the great gathering of artists in Montparnasse, especially at La Ruche, where his friend Amedeo Modigliani painted his portrait in 1914.
In those years, Paris was witnessing the beginning of cubism in paintings by such eminent painters as Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. From 1913 to 1917, Rivera enthusiastically embraced this new school of art.
After a great deal of success in painting murals in prestigious locations across the US, Rivera went to NYC to paint for the Rockefellers. His mural Man at the Crossroads, begun in 1933 for the Rockefeller Center in New York City, was removed after a furor erupted in the press over a portrait of Vladimir Lenin it contained.
In December 1933, Rivera returned to Mexico, and he repainted Man at the Crossroads in 1934 in the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City. This surviving version was called Man, Controller of the Universe.
Summer reading list, Caddo Magnet HS, 2012
Sneak peek: The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore at Artspace Shreveport
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Acceleration - Graham McNamee Ender’s Game – Orson Scott Card
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway
English IIEnglish II/GT
A Raisin in the Sun - Lorraine Hansberry The Chosen – Chaim Potok
A Separate Peace - John Knowles Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
Samurai Shortstop – Alan Gratz The Good Earth - Pearl S. Buck
English III English III/GT
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman – Earnest Gaines A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court – Mark Twain
Farewell to Manzanar – Jeanne W. Houston & James D. Houston A Raisin in the Sun - Lorraine Hansberry
Short Story Masterpieces – Eds. Robert Penn Warren & Albert Erskine A Streetcar Named Desire – Tennessee Williams
English IVEnglish IV/GT/AP
Brave New World – Aldous Huxley All the King’s Men – Robert Penn Warren
Lord of the Flies – William Golding
The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde The Stranger - Albert Camus
Also, choose one book from the following:
AP ONLY: A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
The Swallows of Kabul – Yasmina Khadra
A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
Summary essay on the Renaissance masters based on titles of works and dates
Open with a one-sentence description of an artistic work from a Renaissance master. Follow it with a sentence identifying the work and artist.
From there, let your essay flow across the artists and their works using comparison connecting phrases such as "On the other hand," "but," "yet," "Still," "However," etc.
Make a chart that that will guide your summary essay.
For each artist below, add a title of a famous work, one that you can describe in brief, and add a date and nation.
1. Leonardo
2. Michelangelo
3. Donatello
4. Raphael
5. Durer
6. Van Eyck
15 pts.
Due tomorrow for senior/exam needs. Due Wed, May 16, for non-seniors.
7. Bosch
From there, let your essay flow across the artists and their works using comparison connecting phrases such as "On the other hand," "but," "yet," "Still," "However," etc.
Make a chart that that will guide your summary essay.
For each artist below, add a title of a famous work, one that you can describe in brief, and add a date and nation.
1. Leonardo
2. Michelangelo
3. Donatello
4. Raphael
5. Durer
6. Van Eyck
15 pts.
Due tomorrow for senior/exam needs. Due Wed, May 16, for non-seniors.
7. Bosch
Michelangelo's David and an overview of the Renaissance
The influences upon the development of Renaissance art in the early 15th century are those that also affected Philosophy, Literature, Architecture, Theology, Science, Government and other aspects of society, says Wikipedia.
Classical texts, lost to European scholars for centuries, became available. These included Philosophy, Prose, Poetry, Drama, Science, a thesis on the Arts and Early Christian Theology.
Simultaneously, Europe gained access to advanced mathematics which had its provenance in the works of Islamic scholars.
The advent of movable type printing in the 15th century meant that ideas could be disseminated easily, and an increasing number of books were written for a broad public.
The establishment of the Medici Bank and the subsequent trade it generated brought unprecedented wealth to a single Italian city, Florence.
Cosimo de' Medici set a new standard for patronage of the arts, not associated with the church or monarchy.
Humanist philosophy meant that man's relationship with humanity, the universe and with God was no longer the exclusive province of the Church.
A revived interest in the Classics brought about the first archaeological study of Roman remains by the architect Brunelleschi and sculptor Donatello. The revival of a style of architecture based on classical precedents inspired a corresponding classicism in painting and sculpture, which manifested itself as early as the 1420s in the paintings of Masaccio and Uccello.
The improvement of oil paint and developments in oil-painting technique by Netherlandish artists such as Jan van Eyck, Rogier van der Weyden and Hugo van der Goes led to its adoption in Italy from about 1475 and had ultimately lasting effects on painting practices, worldwide.
The serendipitous presence within the region of Florence in the early 15th century of certain individuals of artistic genius, most notably Masaccio, Brunelleschi, Ghiberti, Piero della Francesca, Donatello and Michelozzo formed an ethos out of which sprang the great masters of the High Renaissance, as well as supporting and encouraging many lesser artists to achieve work of extraordinary quality.[1]
Classical texts, lost to European scholars for centuries, became available. These included Philosophy, Prose, Poetry, Drama, Science, a thesis on the Arts and Early Christian Theology.
Simultaneously, Europe gained access to advanced mathematics which had its provenance in the works of Islamic scholars.
The advent of movable type printing in the 15th century meant that ideas could be disseminated easily, and an increasing number of books were written for a broad public.
The establishment of the Medici Bank and the subsequent trade it generated brought unprecedented wealth to a single Italian city, Florence.
Cosimo de' Medici set a new standard for patronage of the arts, not associated with the church or monarchy.
Humanist philosophy meant that man's relationship with humanity, the universe and with God was no longer the exclusive province of the Church.
A revived interest in the Classics brought about the first archaeological study of Roman remains by the architect Brunelleschi and sculptor Donatello. The revival of a style of architecture based on classical precedents inspired a corresponding classicism in painting and sculpture, which manifested itself as early as the 1420s in the paintings of Masaccio and Uccello.
The improvement of oil paint and developments in oil-painting technique by Netherlandish artists such as Jan van Eyck, Rogier van der Weyden and Hugo van der Goes led to its adoption in Italy from about 1475 and had ultimately lasting effects on painting practices, worldwide.
The serendipitous presence within the region of Florence in the early 15th century of certain individuals of artistic genius, most notably Masaccio, Brunelleschi, Ghiberti, Piero della Francesca, Donatello and Michelozzo formed an ethos out of which sprang the great masters of the High Renaissance, as well as supporting and encouraging many lesser artists to achieve work of extraordinary quality.[1]
Friday, May 4, 2012
Albrecht Durer - self-portraits and prints whose influence continues today
Albrecht Dürer ( 1471 – 1528)[1] was a German painter, printmaker, engraver, mathematician, and theorist from Nuremberg, says Wikipedia.
His prints established his reputation across Europe when he was still in his twenties, and he has been conventionally regarded as the greatest artist of the Northern Renaissance ever since.
In Italy, he went to Venice to study its more advanced artistic world. In the Alps he made the first pure landscape studies known in Western art.[3]
Between 1507 and 1511 Dürer worked on some of his most celebrated paintings: Adam and Eve (1507), The Martyrdom of the Ten Thousand (1508, for Frederick of Saxony), Virgin with the Iris (1508), the altarpiece Assumption of the Virgin (1509, for Jacob Heller of Frankfurt), and Adoration of the Trinity (1511, for Matthaeus Landauer). During this period he also completed two woodcut series together with a second edition of the Apocalypse series.
Dürer exerted a huge influence on the artists of succeeding generations, especially in printmaking, the medium through which his contemporaries mostly experienced his art, as his paintings were predominately in private collections located in only a few cities.
His success in spreading his reputation across Europe through prints were undoubtedly an inspiration for major artists such as Raphael, Titian, and Parmigianino, all of whom collaborated with printmakers in order to promote and distribute their work.
His intense and self-dramatizing self-portraits have continued to have a strong influence up to the present, and have been blamed[by whom?] for some of the wilder excesses of artists' self-portraiture, especially in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
His prints established his reputation across Europe when he was still in his twenties, and he has been conventionally regarded as the greatest artist of the Northern Renaissance ever since.
In Italy, he went to Venice to study its more advanced artistic world. In the Alps he made the first pure landscape studies known in Western art.[3]
Between 1507 and 1511 Dürer worked on some of his most celebrated paintings: Adam and Eve (1507), The Martyrdom of the Ten Thousand (1508, for Frederick of Saxony), Virgin with the Iris (1508), the altarpiece Assumption of the Virgin (1509, for Jacob Heller of Frankfurt), and Adoration of the Trinity (1511, for Matthaeus Landauer). During this period he also completed two woodcut series together with a second edition of the Apocalypse series.
Dürer exerted a huge influence on the artists of succeeding generations, especially in printmaking, the medium through which his contemporaries mostly experienced his art, as his paintings were predominately in private collections located in only a few cities.
His success in spreading his reputation across Europe through prints were undoubtedly an inspiration for major artists such as Raphael, Titian, and Parmigianino, all of whom collaborated with printmakers in order to promote and distribute their work.
His intense and self-dramatizing self-portraits have continued to have a strong influence up to the present, and have been blamed[by whom?] for some of the wilder excesses of artists' self-portraiture, especially in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
"Canario:" Renaissance dance pattern for Bosch/Bruegel video
stamp -stamp -one-two-three -one-two-three
stamp -stamp -one-two-three -one-two-three
stamp -stamp -one-two-three -one-two-three
pause - pause
one-two-three -one-two-three - hop-hop-hop - one-two-three
one-two-three -one-two-three - hop-hop-hop - one-two-three
hand up - turn - turn
hand up - turn - turn
bow
Semester exam study guide, Fine Arts Survey 2012
FAS / Constructed response choices -
- Write a detailed, if brief, comparison between Mamet's "Glengarry Glen Ross" and "The Garden of Earthly Delights" by Hieronymus Bosch.
- Write a detailed, if brief, comparison between the Soup Cans and Brillo Boxes of Andy Warhol and Edward Albee's "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf."
- Write a detailed, if brief, comparison between the organic art of Goldsworthy, Dougherty and Connell and the paintings of Jackson Pollock
Albee and Woolf quiz / Name the speaker for quotes 1 - 12. a) George b) Martha c) Nick d) Honey
1. "Will you show her where we keep the, uh, euphemism?"
2. "You tried to *communicate.* That's touching."
3."I hope that was an empty bottle! You can't afford to waste good liquor."
4. "Never mix, never worry!"
5. "Don't worry about it! Anybody who comes here ends up getting
testy; it's expected! Don't be upset!"
6. "They're dancing like they (have) danced before."
7. "You can stand it. You married me for it."
8. "To you, everybody's a flop!"
9. "I disgust me."
10. "Someone who can keep learning the games we play as quickly as I can change them."
11. "George and Martha: sad, sad, sad."
12. "You can't decide these things by yourself."
13. Albee's works are considered well-crafted, often __ examinations of the modern condition. a) sympathetic b) unsympathetic c) clinical d) ritual.
14. Actor in the role of George: a) George Segal b) Richard Burton c) Wayne Newton d) Dean Martin.
15. The American Dream is a concept that includes education, marriage, 2.5 children and __ success. a) material b) spiritual c) sexual d) ambitious.
16. WAVW was given the Pulitzer Prize for literature. T / F
17. US president who was in office when the play of WAVW debuted - in 1962. a) Richard Nixon b) Dwight Eisenhower c) John Kennedy d) Lyndon Johnson.
18. Virginia Woolf was an American female author, essayist and publisher regarded as a foremost modernist though she wrote mostly during the 1920's. T / F
19. Early 1960's poetry: a) Bob Dylan b) Allen Ginsberg c) Joan Baez d) Beatles.
20. Of the numerous taboo items in George and Martha's life, the one most closely held: a) alcoholism b) strife continually followed by truce c) a 16-year old son d) George's failed novel.
Shoes and silk screens / Warhol 1
1. Pittsburgh, Warhol's home, is on the a) west b) east c) north side of Pennsylvania.
2. Warhol attended ___ Institute, named for founder, philanthropist
and steel magnate Andrew __ . a) Carnegie b) Ford c) Getty d) Rockefeller.
3. Warhol was raised in a strongly __ ethnic community. a) Slovak
b) German c) Greek d) Turkish.
4. Before he became a success as a pop artist Warhol had a day job.
He was an a) ad writer b) shoe designer c) illustrator d) print
maker.
5. Arguably the most important woman in Warhol's life was __ . a) Edie Sedgwick b) Marilyn Monroe c) Julia Warhola.
6. In 1962 he sold the group of pop art silk-screen paintings for
$1000 to a Los Angeles gallery owner because they did not sell to art
collectors. They were images of __ . a) Marilyn Monroe b) Elvis c) Campbell's Soup cans.
7. Warhol's large art studio, a place for work and for the
shenanigans of tawdry hangers-on, was painted and papered in silver
and called The __ . a) Salon b) Studio c) Factory d) Fire Station.
The Greenwich Village quiz
1. Mark Rothko was a native a) NYC b) Poland c) Russia d) Israel.
2. Which came first in the world of fine arts painting? a) impressionism b) expressionism
3. NYC replaced Paris as the center for cutting edge art in what decade?
a) 1940's b) 1950's c) 1960's d) 1970's.
4. The A bomb and the Cold War: which nation was second in demonstrating their possession of the nuclear bomb? a) US b) Russia c) England d) Germany
5. Two of NYC's boroughs are on Long Island: a) Bronx, Brooklyn b) Brooklyn, Manhattan c) Queens, Brooklyn d) Bronx, Manhattan.
6. "Color field paintings:" a) Pollock b) Rothko c) Benton
7. Houston is the site of the outstanding Menil Collection and the nearby __ Chapel. a) Rothko b) Pollock c) Matisse d) Magritte.
8. "To whom shall I hire myself out? What beast must I adore? What holy image is attacked? What hearts must I break? What lie must I maintain? What blood tread?"
It is a quote from the 19th century French poet Artur Rimbaud used by a) Jackson Pollock b) Lee Krasner c) Peggy Guggenheim d) Mark Rothko.
9. "La danse," Dance, is an epic painting composed in 1909 by the French painter a) Pablo Picasso b) Vincent Van Gogh c) Henri Matisse d) Paul Cezanne.
10. Greenwich Village in the 1950's: a) walkups and lofts b) gentrification.
11. In Dallas you will find work by Picasso in 2 of the 3 museums in the Dallas Arts District. You will not find Picasso in the a) Nasher b) DMA c) Crow d) Meyerson.
12. A perquisite, or "perk," for government work in the early 1940's was
a) draft deferment b) 4-F draft status c) salary adequate to feed a family d) free housing.
13. In one or 2 sentences explain the quote in number 8.
1. Guernica is a painting of the destruction in the war known as the __ __ __.
2. Guernica is a village in the Atlantic region of Spain - near the Pyrenees and the French border - that has its own language and customs. Today the region is known for its separatist radicals. The people are known as __ .
3. The bomb-dropping airplanes that his Guernica were supplied to the Spanish forces by the nations of __ and __ .
4. Guernica is known for its scale. a) 11'X26' b) 26' X 75' c) 150' X 290'
Matisse and Picasso
1. Mariscos: a) arroz b) antibes c) prawns d) pollo.
2. 50-foot-tall, 162-ton steel sculpture by Picasso, 1967: a) Chicago b) NYC c) Los Angeles d) Paris.
3. The art collection of Gertrude and Leo Stein became famous partly because they were friends with New Yorkers Carl Van Vechten and Henry McBride, both a) publishers b) critics c) painters d) bankers.
4. "There is no there there." a) Picasso b) Matisse c) Stein d) Hemingway.
5. Hemingway, Pound, Picasso and Matisse met and chatted in the __ established by Gertrude Stein in her art-filled apartment. a) aficionado b) townhouse c) midnight meetings d) salon.
Please answer either a) Picasso or b) Matisse for 6. - 12.:
6. Initially labelled a "wild beast painter," or fauve (fauvist).
7. El Greco.
8. Barcelona.
9. La danse.
10. Les demoiselles d'Avignon.
11. Guernica.
12. Gertrude Stein.
Mamet, Chicago and modern drama
1. Chicago is America's __ city in population. a) second b) third c) fourth.
2. The Central Business District in Chicago is referred to as the a) Lakefront b) CBGB c) El d) Loop.
3. The newest public sculpture in Chicago: a) Chicago Matisse b) Cloud Gate c) Millennium Park d) Silver Arch.
4. Author of Glengarry Glen Ross: a) Albee b) Mamet c) Beckett d) Miller.
5. In Glengarry Glen Ross - GGR - the sales team has been given a challenge. First prize is a Cadillac, second is a set of steak knives and third is
a) better leads b) dismissal c) a transfer d) a certificate of appreciation.
6. Choose a city that lies upon Lake Michigan: a) Milwaukee b) Detroit c) Cleveland d) Buffalo.
7. "Chicago" is a name derived from the parlance of a) African-Americans b) Indigenous peoples c) a Dutch explorer d) the first Trade center on Lake Ontario.
8. The Mamet play and movie which addresses the relationship between male professor and female college student: a) Oleanna b) American Buffalo c) Zoo Story d) Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
9. The salesmen in GGR are supllied with names and phone numbers of potential clients. These are called a) leads b) sits c) pigeons d) closers.
10. The salesmen in GGR do their best not to use underhanded or dishonest techniques in their sales efforts. T / F
11. Spanish artist who ceded a public sculpture to the city of Chicago: a) Matisse b) Degas c) Picasso d) El Greco.
Leonardo / Michelangelo quiz
All answers will be L) Leonardo or M) Michelangelo or N) neither.
1. Statue of Moses - which crowns the sarcophagus of the tomb of Pope Julius II.
2. "One of you will betray me."
3. The Vatican / Sistine mural called The Last Judgement.
4. La Gioconda, the "laughing one."
5. Life of this artist slightly preceded the life of his contemporary Renaissance fellow.
6. Worked as military architect and engineer for Cesare Borgia, for whom he created the map of the town of Imola.
7. Mother and son sculpture known as the Pieta.
8. The Gran Cavallo, or giant horse.
9. Collection of sketch-filled, annotated notebooks; some 13,000 pages.
10. Architect of St Peter's Basilica, Rome.
11. Monumental statue of the biblical hero David - 17 feet in height.
12. Vitruvian Man, or the Canon of Proportions.
13. Ponte Vecchio, the Medieval bridge notable for being lined with shops, is in the city of __ . a) Milano b) Florence / Firenze c) Roma d) Venetia.
1. M
2. L
3. M
4. L
5. L
6. L
7. M
8. L
9. L
10. M
11. M
12. L
Leonardo Supper Quiz
1. Leonardo's equestrian statue, "Gran cavallo," was never cast in bronze though it inspired awe as a giant clay sculpture. The subject was a __ . a) prince b) eagle c) horse d) castle.
2. L was raised in the vicinity of the city that was a center of Renaissance arts from the 14th to 16th centuries, Firenze. Today Firenze, located on the famous Arno River, is known as __, which means "flower." a) Florence b) Bologna c) Venetia d) Roma.
3. In Firenze visitors find a Medieval enclosed bridge called the "__ Vecchio." This bridge integrated shops into the structure. Once the stores featured butchers; today the storefronts are occupied by jewelers and art dealers.
a) Regulare b) Ponte c) Duomo d) Arco.
4. As a young man L was apprenticed to a studio where he learned drafting, chemistry, metallurgy, metal working, plaster casting, leather working, mechanics and carpentry as well as the artistic skills of drawing, painting, sculpting and modelling. It was the workshop operated by the famous artist __ . a) Michelangelo b) Botticelli c) Ludovico il Moro d) Andrea del Verrocchio.
5. The Last Supper was painted for a __ . a) monastery b) library c) museum d) art gallery
6. The Last Supper is a mural. Such works were ordinarily painted via the style called __, in which paint is applied to wet plaster. a) watercolor b) pastel c) fresco d) relief.
7. The Last Supper is on display in the city of a) Milan b) Florence c) Roma d) Bologna.
8. The figures in Supper are __ life size. a) larger than b) one half c) three quarters.
9. Much of his work was not performed as an artist but as an architect and designer to aid his royal employers in their __ . a) religious duties b) wars c) public buildings d) personal residences.
10. Cesare Borgia's stronghold city, Imola, was celebrated and aided by a __ developed by Leonardo. a) canal b) map c) fortified wall d) system of wells.
11. Leonardo was a bastard, or illegitimate child. T / F
12. His life of 57 years surrounded the year of __ . a) 1300 b) 1400 c) 1500 d) 1600.
13. In traditional paintings of The Last Supper one person is often placed on the other side of the table from the remaining apostles: __ . This was not true in Leonardo's version. a) Peter b) Judas c) Matthew d) Paul.
14. Leonardo did not die in Italy. In has last years he was employed and housed by Francis I, King of __ . a) France b) Germany c) Espana d) England.
15. Leonardo was sporadic and dilatory; his rate of work could be called __ . a) fast b) slow c) erratic.
Leonardo / Michelangelo quiz
All answers will be a) Leonardo or b) Michelangelo or c) neither.
1. Life of this artist slightly preceded the life of his contemporary Renaissance fellow.
2. Geologist, cartographer, architect, engineer, mathematician.
3. From the region of Tuscany / Florence, the town of Vinci.
4. "The empirical methods he employed were unusual for his time," said Wikipedia.
a) intuitive, deeply understood b) by means of observation, experimentation or by the evidence c) as revealed by a conscious awareness of an ultimate reality.
5. Much of his work in Milano under the patronage of Ludovico el Moro.
6. Spent his last years in France in a chateau given him by Francis I.
7. Vitruvian Man, or the Canon of Proportions.
8. Ponte Vecchio, a Medieval bridge notable for being lined with shops, is in the city of __ . a) Milano b) Florence / Firenze c) Roma d) Venetia.
9. Primarily known as a painter.
10. The Last Supper.
11. The Mona Lisa.
12. Collection of sketch-filled, annotated notebooks; some 13,000 pages.
13. Experimentation and procrastination.
14. Concepts of the helicopter, armored tank, solar power.
15. An artistic apprenticeship would have included lessons in metallurgy, chemistry and carpentry. T / F
16. Contains egg yolk as a binder: a) oil paint b) tempera paint c) fresco.
17. The Gran Cavallo, or giant horse.
18. Worked as military architect and engineer for Cesare Borgia, for whom he created the map of the town of Imola.
19. La Gioconda, the "laughing one."
20. Notable painting in monks' refectory in the Convent of Santa Maria della Grazie in Milan.
21. Study of anatomy and production of anatomic sketches.
22. Mother and son sculpture known as the Pieta.
23. Monumental statue of the biblical hero David - 17 feet in height.
24. Paintings of scenes from Genesis on the ceiling and The Last Judgment on the altar wall of the Sistine Chapel in Rome.
25. Architect of St Peter's Basilica, Rome.
26. Attended the Humanist academy in which the Medici had been inspired by Plato.
27."One of you will betray me."
28. Widely regarded as handsome; posed as a artist's model.
29. Donatello's bronze statue of David.
30. Statue in front of the Palazzo Vecchio that was symbolic of the independence of the city-state of Florence.
31. Statue of Moses - which crowns the sarcophagus of the tomb of Pope Julius II.
32. Four years of painting upon a scaffolding.
33. The Vatican / Sistine mural called The Last Judgement.
34. "However rich I may have been, I have always lived like a poor man."
35. "Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication."
An investment opportunity: Glengarry Glen Ross
1. Author of Glengarry Glen Ross: a) Edward Albee b) David Mamet c) Samuel Beckett d) Arthur Miller.
2. In Glengarry Glen Ross - GGR - the sales team has been given a challenge. First prize is a Cadillac, second is a set of steak knives and third is
a) better leads b) dismissal c) a transfer d) a certificate of appreciation.
3. The Mamet play and movie which addresses the relationship between male professor and female college student: a) Oleanna b) American Buffalo c) Zoo Story d) Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
4. The salesmen in GGR are supplied with names and phone numbers of potential clients. These are called a) leads b) sits c) pigeons d) closers.
5. The salesmen in GGR are told to get an appointment to have a face-to-face meeting with their clients. These are called a) leads b) sits c) pigeons d) closers.
6. The salesmen in GGR are told that they're losers. It is an attempt to fire them up so they will become successes, or __ . a) leaders b) sitters c) pigeons d) closers.
7. The Blake character lectures the sales office on basic techniques, such as "A-B-C: Always be ___ . " a) coping b) closing c) classy d) careful.
8. The salesmen in GGR do their best not to use underhanded or dishonest techniques in their sales efforts. T / F
9. A real estate company across the street seems like enticing work to 2 of the salesmen in GGR. The company is run by Jerry Graff and is notable because their leads are based on a list of well-paid professionals, a group of __ . a) doctors b) nurses c) lawyers d) financial advisers.
Rocks and sticks quiz
1. Sculpture from woven saplings. a) Andy Goldsworthy b) Patrick Dougherty c) Clyde Connell.
2. Sculpture from flower blossoms: ___ art. a) ephemeral b) mortal c) Abstract d) expressionistic
3. Sculpture from balanced rocks. a) Andy Goldsworthy b) Patrick Dougherty c) Clyde Connell.
4. Three-dimensional, site-specific work of art that attempts to transform perception of a space: __ art. a) conceptual b) installation c) abstract d) philosophical.
5. Sculptor notable for creating a type of kinetic sculpture that takes advantage of the principle of equilibrium. a) Alexander Calder b) Salvador Dali c) Robert Rauschenburg d) Jackson Pollock.
6. Sculptor who made art from brown paper, newspaper, rattan, cypress, discarded farm implements and rocks. a) Andy Goldsworthy b) Patrick Dougherty c) Clyde Connell.
7. "The White Paintings:" a) Alexander Calder b) Salvador Dali c) Robert Rauschenburg d) Jackson Pollock.
Boat necked shirt: the Picasso quiz
1. Misogyny: negative attitude - even hatred of: a) exercise b) witches c) men
d) women.
2. Exaggerated male attitude: a) machismo b) pacifism c) misogyny d) fascism.
3. Mapping the life of Picasso: 1. Malaga 2. Barcelona 3. ___ 4. Vallauris, Provence region and Cote d'Azur of France.
a) Paris b) Valencia c) Marseille d) Seville.
4. In Paris, one of Picasso's most frequent destinations was the
a) Louvre b) Tour Eiffel c) Notre Dame de Paris d) River Seine.
5. Like Lennon & McCartney, Pablo Picasso was competitive with his
peers. He both worked with and in an effort to top fellows like:
a) Jackson Pollock b) Henri Matisse c) Chuck Close d) Richard Serra.
6. Picasso would have served you a supper of a) tortellini b)
sauerkraut c) mughal curry d) paella.
7. The Spanish peninsula was occupied by the Romans and, later, by the
North African Moors. The peninsula is called a) Apulia b) Iberia
c) Anatolia d) Barcelona.
8. Seville, Cordova, Granada: these are the Moorish cities of Spain's
southern region. It is known as a) Andalusia b) Navarre c) Valencia d)
Aragon.
9. The region of Paris historically notable for pimps, eccentrics,
anarchists, students and artists: a) Bastille b) le Louvre c) Montmartre d) Champs Elysees.
Pollock
1. Cheap housing can be had by struggling painters in the 1940's in Manhattan's __.
a) West Side b) Chelsea c) SoHo d) Lower East Side.
2. A perquisite, or "perk," for government work in the 1940's was a) draft deferment b) 4-F draft status c) salary adequate to feed a family d) free housing.
3. The state that is immediately northeast of New York: a) New Jersey b) Connecticut c) Delaware d) Massachusetts.
4. Pollock's almost-as-famous wife, also a modernist painter, was a) Peggy Guggenheim b) Marilyn Monroe c) Frida Kahlo d) Lee Krasner.
5. Pollock's principal patron was a) Peggy Guggenheim b) Marilyn Monroe c) Frida Kahlo d) Lee Krasner.
6. The school of art to which Pollock and his peers were attached by the media:
___ expressionism. a) Surrealist b) Abstract c) Modernist d) Dadaist.
7. American magazine with emphasis on photojournalism; it dominated the market from the 40's through the 70's: a) Fortune b) Look c) Life d) Saturday Evening Post.
8. American illustrator whose realistic work represented the values of the middle-class:
a) Norman Rockwell b) Thomas Hart Benton c) Marcel Duchamp d) Henry Luce.
9. T / F According to the movie Pollock the NY Times art critic wrote overwhelmingly positive reviews of his shows.
10. Pollock and Krasner have a productive period when they moved out of Manhattan. They relocated to a) Connecticut b) New Jersey c) Martha's Vineyard Island d) Long Island.
11. Successful artist of Pollock's circle a) Pablo Picasso b) Willem de Kooning c) Andy Warhol d) Keith Haring.
12. The person who offered this literary quote: "To whom shall I hire myself out? / What beast must I adore? / What holy image is attacked? / What hearts must I break? / What lie must I maintain? / And, what blood shed?" a) Jackson Pollock
b) Lee Krasner c) Peggy Guggenheim d) Sande Pollock (the brother).
1. d lower east side
2. d free housing
3. b connecticut
4. d lee krassner
5. a peggy guggenheim
6. b abstract
7. c Life
8. a Rockwell
9. F
10. d Long island
11. b de Kooning
12. b lee krassner
1. d
2. a
3. b
4.d
5. a
6. b
7. c
8. a
9. t
10. d
11. b
12. b
- Write a detailed, if brief, comparison between Mamet's "Glengarry Glen Ross" and "The Garden of Earthly Delights" by Hieronymus Bosch.
- Write a detailed, if brief, comparison between the Soup Cans and Brillo Boxes of Andy Warhol and Edward Albee's "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf."
- Write a detailed, if brief, comparison between the organic art of Goldsworthy, Dougherty and Connell and the paintings of Jackson Pollock
Albee and Woolf quiz / Name the speaker for quotes 1 - 12. a) George b) Martha c) Nick d) Honey
1. "Will you show her where we keep the, uh, euphemism?"
2. "You tried to *communicate.* That's touching."
3."I hope that was an empty bottle! You can't afford to waste good liquor."
4. "Never mix, never worry!"
5. "Don't worry about it! Anybody who comes here ends up getting
testy; it's expected! Don't be upset!"
6. "They're dancing like they (have) danced before."
7. "You can stand it. You married me for it."
8. "To you, everybody's a flop!"
9. "I disgust me."
10. "Someone who can keep learning the games we play as quickly as I can change them."
11. "George and Martha: sad, sad, sad."
12. "You can't decide these things by yourself."
13. Albee's works are considered well-crafted, often __ examinations of the modern condition. a) sympathetic b) unsympathetic c) clinical d) ritual.
14. Actor in the role of George: a) George Segal b) Richard Burton c) Wayne Newton d) Dean Martin.
15. The American Dream is a concept that includes education, marriage, 2.5 children and __ success. a) material b) spiritual c) sexual d) ambitious.
16. WAVW was given the Pulitzer Prize for literature. T / F
17. US president who was in office when the play of WAVW debuted - in 1962. a) Richard Nixon b) Dwight Eisenhower c) John Kennedy d) Lyndon Johnson.
18. Virginia Woolf was an American female author, essayist and publisher regarded as a foremost modernist though she wrote mostly during the 1920's. T / F
19. Early 1960's poetry: a) Bob Dylan b) Allen Ginsberg c) Joan Baez d) Beatles.
20. Of the numerous taboo items in George and Martha's life, the one most closely held: a) alcoholism b) strife continually followed by truce c) a 16-year old son d) George's failed novel.
Shoes and silk screens / Warhol 1
1. Pittsburgh, Warhol's home, is on the a) west b) east c) north side of Pennsylvania.
2. Warhol attended ___ Institute, named for founder, philanthropist
and steel magnate Andrew __ . a) Carnegie b) Ford c) Getty d) Rockefeller.
3. Warhol was raised in a strongly __ ethnic community. a) Slovak
b) German c) Greek d) Turkish.
4. Before he became a success as a pop artist Warhol had a day job.
He was an a) ad writer b) shoe designer c) illustrator d) print
maker.
5. Arguably the most important woman in Warhol's life was __ . a) Edie Sedgwick b) Marilyn Monroe c) Julia Warhola.
6. In 1962 he sold the group of pop art silk-screen paintings for
$1000 to a Los Angeles gallery owner because they did not sell to art
collectors. They were images of __ . a) Marilyn Monroe b) Elvis c) Campbell's Soup cans.
7. Warhol's large art studio, a place for work and for the
shenanigans of tawdry hangers-on, was painted and papered in silver
and called The __ . a) Salon b) Studio c) Factory d) Fire Station.
The Greenwich Village quiz
1. Mark Rothko was a native a) NYC b) Poland c) Russia d) Israel.
2. Which came first in the world of fine arts painting? a) impressionism b) expressionism
3. NYC replaced Paris as the center for cutting edge art in what decade?
a) 1940's b) 1950's c) 1960's d) 1970's.
4. The A bomb and the Cold War: which nation was second in demonstrating their possession of the nuclear bomb? a) US b) Russia c) England d) Germany
5. Two of NYC's boroughs are on Long Island: a) Bronx, Brooklyn b) Brooklyn, Manhattan c) Queens, Brooklyn d) Bronx, Manhattan.
6. "Color field paintings:" a) Pollock b) Rothko c) Benton
7. Houston is the site of the outstanding Menil Collection and the nearby __ Chapel. a) Rothko b) Pollock c) Matisse d) Magritte.
8. "To whom shall I hire myself out? What beast must I adore? What holy image is attacked? What hearts must I break? What lie must I maintain? What blood tread?"
It is a quote from the 19th century French poet Artur Rimbaud used by a) Jackson Pollock b) Lee Krasner c) Peggy Guggenheim d) Mark Rothko.
9. "La danse," Dance, is an epic painting composed in 1909 by the French painter a) Pablo Picasso b) Vincent Van Gogh c) Henri Matisse d) Paul Cezanne.
10. Greenwich Village in the 1950's: a) walkups and lofts b) gentrification.
11. In Dallas you will find work by Picasso in 2 of the 3 museums in the Dallas Arts District. You will not find Picasso in the a) Nasher b) DMA c) Crow d) Meyerson.
12. A perquisite, or "perk," for government work in the early 1940's was
a) draft deferment b) 4-F draft status c) salary adequate to feed a family d) free housing.
13. In one or 2 sentences explain the quote in number 8.
1. Guernica is a painting of the destruction in the war known as the __ __ __.
2. Guernica is a village in the Atlantic region of Spain - near the Pyrenees and the French border - that has its own language and customs. Today the region is known for its separatist radicals. The people are known as __ .
3. The bomb-dropping airplanes that his Guernica were supplied to the Spanish forces by the nations of __ and __ .
4. Guernica is known for its scale. a) 11'X26' b) 26' X 75' c) 150' X 290'
Matisse and Picasso
1. Mariscos: a) arroz b) antibes c) prawns d) pollo.
2. 50-foot-tall, 162-ton steel sculpture by Picasso, 1967: a) Chicago b) NYC c) Los Angeles d) Paris.
3. The art collection of Gertrude and Leo Stein became famous partly because they were friends with New Yorkers Carl Van Vechten and Henry McBride, both a) publishers b) critics c) painters d) bankers.
4. "There is no there there." a) Picasso b) Matisse c) Stein d) Hemingway.
5. Hemingway, Pound, Picasso and Matisse met and chatted in the __ established by Gertrude Stein in her art-filled apartment. a) aficionado b) townhouse c) midnight meetings d) salon.
Please answer either a) Picasso or b) Matisse for 6. - 12.:
6. Initially labelled a "wild beast painter," or fauve (fauvist).
7. El Greco.
8. Barcelona.
9. La danse.
10. Les demoiselles d'Avignon.
11. Guernica.
12. Gertrude Stein.
Mamet, Chicago and modern drama
1. Chicago is America's __ city in population. a) second b) third c) fourth.
2. The Central Business District in Chicago is referred to as the a) Lakefront b) CBGB c) El d) Loop.
3. The newest public sculpture in Chicago: a) Chicago Matisse b) Cloud Gate c) Millennium Park d) Silver Arch.
4. Author of Glengarry Glen Ross: a) Albee b) Mamet c) Beckett d) Miller.
5. In Glengarry Glen Ross - GGR - the sales team has been given a challenge. First prize is a Cadillac, second is a set of steak knives and third is
a) better leads b) dismissal c) a transfer d) a certificate of appreciation.
6. Choose a city that lies upon Lake Michigan: a) Milwaukee b) Detroit c) Cleveland d) Buffalo.
7. "Chicago" is a name derived from the parlance of a) African-Americans b) Indigenous peoples c) a Dutch explorer d) the first Trade center on Lake Ontario.
8. The Mamet play and movie which addresses the relationship between male professor and female college student: a) Oleanna b) American Buffalo c) Zoo Story d) Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
9. The salesmen in GGR are supllied with names and phone numbers of potential clients. These are called a) leads b) sits c) pigeons d) closers.
10. The salesmen in GGR do their best not to use underhanded or dishonest techniques in their sales efforts. T / F
11. Spanish artist who ceded a public sculpture to the city of Chicago: a) Matisse b) Degas c) Picasso d) El Greco.
Leonardo / Michelangelo quiz
All answers will be L) Leonardo or M) Michelangelo or N) neither.
1. Statue of Moses - which crowns the sarcophagus of the tomb of Pope Julius II.
2. "One of you will betray me."
3. The Vatican / Sistine mural called The Last Judgement.
4. La Gioconda, the "laughing one."
5. Life of this artist slightly preceded the life of his contemporary Renaissance fellow.
6. Worked as military architect and engineer for Cesare Borgia, for whom he created the map of the town of Imola.
7. Mother and son sculpture known as the Pieta.
8. The Gran Cavallo, or giant horse.
9. Collection of sketch-filled, annotated notebooks; some 13,000 pages.
10. Architect of St Peter's Basilica, Rome.
11. Monumental statue of the biblical hero David - 17 feet in height.
12. Vitruvian Man, or the Canon of Proportions.
13. Ponte Vecchio, the Medieval bridge notable for being lined with shops, is in the city of __ . a) Milano b) Florence / Firenze c) Roma d) Venetia.
1. M
2. L
3. M
4. L
5. L
6. L
7. M
8. L
9. L
10. M
11. M
12. L
Leonardo Supper Quiz
1. Leonardo's equestrian statue, "Gran cavallo," was never cast in bronze though it inspired awe as a giant clay sculpture. The subject was a __ . a) prince b) eagle c) horse d) castle.
2. L was raised in the vicinity of the city that was a center of Renaissance arts from the 14th to 16th centuries, Firenze. Today Firenze, located on the famous Arno River, is known as __, which means "flower." a) Florence b) Bologna c) Venetia d) Roma.
3. In Firenze visitors find a Medieval enclosed bridge called the "__ Vecchio." This bridge integrated shops into the structure. Once the stores featured butchers; today the storefronts are occupied by jewelers and art dealers.
a) Regulare b) Ponte c) Duomo d) Arco.
4. As a young man L was apprenticed to a studio where he learned drafting, chemistry, metallurgy, metal working, plaster casting, leather working, mechanics and carpentry as well as the artistic skills of drawing, painting, sculpting and modelling. It was the workshop operated by the famous artist __ . a) Michelangelo b) Botticelli c) Ludovico il Moro d) Andrea del Verrocchio.
5. The Last Supper was painted for a __ . a) monastery b) library c) museum d) art gallery
6. The Last Supper is a mural. Such works were ordinarily painted via the style called __, in which paint is applied to wet plaster. a) watercolor b) pastel c) fresco d) relief.
7. The Last Supper is on display in the city of a) Milan b) Florence c) Roma d) Bologna.
8. The figures in Supper are __ life size. a) larger than b) one half c) three quarters.
9. Much of his work was not performed as an artist but as an architect and designer to aid his royal employers in their __ . a) religious duties b) wars c) public buildings d) personal residences.
10. Cesare Borgia's stronghold city, Imola, was celebrated and aided by a __ developed by Leonardo. a) canal b) map c) fortified wall d) system of wells.
11. Leonardo was a bastard, or illegitimate child. T / F
12. His life of 57 years surrounded the year of __ . a) 1300 b) 1400 c) 1500 d) 1600.
13. In traditional paintings of The Last Supper one person is often placed on the other side of the table from the remaining apostles: __ . This was not true in Leonardo's version. a) Peter b) Judas c) Matthew d) Paul.
14. Leonardo did not die in Italy. In has last years he was employed and housed by Francis I, King of __ . a) France b) Germany c) Espana d) England.
15. Leonardo was sporadic and dilatory; his rate of work could be called __ . a) fast b) slow c) erratic.
Leonardo / Michelangelo quiz
All answers will be a) Leonardo or b) Michelangelo or c) neither.
1. Life of this artist slightly preceded the life of his contemporary Renaissance fellow.
2. Geologist, cartographer, architect, engineer, mathematician.
3. From the region of Tuscany / Florence, the town of Vinci.
4. "The empirical methods he employed were unusual for his time," said Wikipedia.
a) intuitive, deeply understood b) by means of observation, experimentation or by the evidence c) as revealed by a conscious awareness of an ultimate reality.
5. Much of his work in Milano under the patronage of Ludovico el Moro.
6. Spent his last years in France in a chateau given him by Francis I.
7. Vitruvian Man, or the Canon of Proportions.
8. Ponte Vecchio, a Medieval bridge notable for being lined with shops, is in the city of __ . a) Milano b) Florence / Firenze c) Roma d) Venetia.
9. Primarily known as a painter.
10. The Last Supper.
11. The Mona Lisa.
12. Collection of sketch-filled, annotated notebooks; some 13,000 pages.
13. Experimentation and procrastination.
14. Concepts of the helicopter, armored tank, solar power.
15. An artistic apprenticeship would have included lessons in metallurgy, chemistry and carpentry. T / F
16. Contains egg yolk as a binder: a) oil paint b) tempera paint c) fresco.
17. The Gran Cavallo, or giant horse.
18. Worked as military architect and engineer for Cesare Borgia, for whom he created the map of the town of Imola.
19. La Gioconda, the "laughing one."
20. Notable painting in monks' refectory in the Convent of Santa Maria della Grazie in Milan.
21. Study of anatomy and production of anatomic sketches.
22. Mother and son sculpture known as the Pieta.
23. Monumental statue of the biblical hero David - 17 feet in height.
24. Paintings of scenes from Genesis on the ceiling and The Last Judgment on the altar wall of the Sistine Chapel in Rome.
25. Architect of St Peter's Basilica, Rome.
26. Attended the Humanist academy in which the Medici had been inspired by Plato.
27."One of you will betray me."
28. Widely regarded as handsome; posed as a artist's model.
29. Donatello's bronze statue of David.
30. Statue in front of the Palazzo Vecchio that was symbolic of the independence of the city-state of Florence.
31. Statue of Moses - which crowns the sarcophagus of the tomb of Pope Julius II.
32. Four years of painting upon a scaffolding.
33. The Vatican / Sistine mural called The Last Judgement.
34. "However rich I may have been, I have always lived like a poor man."
35. "Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication."
An investment opportunity: Glengarry Glen Ross
1. Author of Glengarry Glen Ross: a) Edward Albee b) David Mamet c) Samuel Beckett d) Arthur Miller.
2. In Glengarry Glen Ross - GGR - the sales team has been given a challenge. First prize is a Cadillac, second is a set of steak knives and third is
a) better leads b) dismissal c) a transfer d) a certificate of appreciation.
3. The Mamet play and movie which addresses the relationship between male professor and female college student: a) Oleanna b) American Buffalo c) Zoo Story d) Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
4. The salesmen in GGR are supplied with names and phone numbers of potential clients. These are called a) leads b) sits c) pigeons d) closers.
5. The salesmen in GGR are told to get an appointment to have a face-to-face meeting with their clients. These are called a) leads b) sits c) pigeons d) closers.
6. The salesmen in GGR are told that they're losers. It is an attempt to fire them up so they will become successes, or __ . a) leaders b) sitters c) pigeons d) closers.
7. The Blake character lectures the sales office on basic techniques, such as "A-B-C: Always be ___ . " a) coping b) closing c) classy d) careful.
8. The salesmen in GGR do their best not to use underhanded or dishonest techniques in their sales efforts. T / F
9. A real estate company across the street seems like enticing work to 2 of the salesmen in GGR. The company is run by Jerry Graff and is notable because their leads are based on a list of well-paid professionals, a group of __ . a) doctors b) nurses c) lawyers d) financial advisers.
Rocks and sticks quiz
1. Sculpture from woven saplings. a) Andy Goldsworthy b) Patrick Dougherty c) Clyde Connell.
2. Sculpture from flower blossoms: ___ art. a) ephemeral b) mortal c) Abstract d) expressionistic
3. Sculpture from balanced rocks. a) Andy Goldsworthy b) Patrick Dougherty c) Clyde Connell.
4. Three-dimensional, site-specific work of art that attempts to transform perception of a space: __ art. a) conceptual b) installation c) abstract d) philosophical.
5. Sculptor notable for creating a type of kinetic sculpture that takes advantage of the principle of equilibrium. a) Alexander Calder b) Salvador Dali c) Robert Rauschenburg d) Jackson Pollock.
6. Sculptor who made art from brown paper, newspaper, rattan, cypress, discarded farm implements and rocks. a) Andy Goldsworthy b) Patrick Dougherty c) Clyde Connell.
7. "The White Paintings:" a) Alexander Calder b) Salvador Dali c) Robert Rauschenburg d) Jackson Pollock.
Boat necked shirt: the Picasso quiz
1. Misogyny: negative attitude - even hatred of: a) exercise b) witches c) men
d) women.
2. Exaggerated male attitude: a) machismo b) pacifism c) misogyny d) fascism.
3. Mapping the life of Picasso: 1. Malaga 2. Barcelona 3. ___ 4. Vallauris, Provence region and Cote d'Azur of France.
a) Paris b) Valencia c) Marseille d) Seville.
4. In Paris, one of Picasso's most frequent destinations was the
a) Louvre b) Tour Eiffel c) Notre Dame de Paris d) River Seine.
5. Like Lennon & McCartney, Pablo Picasso was competitive with his
peers. He both worked with and in an effort to top fellows like:
a) Jackson Pollock b) Henri Matisse c) Chuck Close d) Richard Serra.
6. Picasso would have served you a supper of a) tortellini b)
sauerkraut c) mughal curry d) paella.
7. The Spanish peninsula was occupied by the Romans and, later, by the
North African Moors. The peninsula is called a) Apulia b) Iberia
c) Anatolia d) Barcelona.
8. Seville, Cordova, Granada: these are the Moorish cities of Spain's
southern region. It is known as a) Andalusia b) Navarre c) Valencia d)
Aragon.
9. The region of Paris historically notable for pimps, eccentrics,
anarchists, students and artists: a) Bastille b) le Louvre c) Montmartre d) Champs Elysees.
Pollock
1. Cheap housing can be had by struggling painters in the 1940's in Manhattan's __.
a) West Side b) Chelsea c) SoHo d) Lower East Side.
2. A perquisite, or "perk," for government work in the 1940's was a) draft deferment b) 4-F draft status c) salary adequate to feed a family d) free housing.
3. The state that is immediately northeast of New York: a) New Jersey b) Connecticut c) Delaware d) Massachusetts.
4. Pollock's almost-as-famous wife, also a modernist painter, was a) Peggy Guggenheim b) Marilyn Monroe c) Frida Kahlo d) Lee Krasner.
5. Pollock's principal patron was a) Peggy Guggenheim b) Marilyn Monroe c) Frida Kahlo d) Lee Krasner.
6. The school of art to which Pollock and his peers were attached by the media:
___ expressionism. a) Surrealist b) Abstract c) Modernist d) Dadaist.
7. American magazine with emphasis on photojournalism; it dominated the market from the 40's through the 70's: a) Fortune b) Look c) Life d) Saturday Evening Post.
8. American illustrator whose realistic work represented the values of the middle-class:
a) Norman Rockwell b) Thomas Hart Benton c) Marcel Duchamp d) Henry Luce.
9. T / F According to the movie Pollock the NY Times art critic wrote overwhelmingly positive reviews of his shows.
10. Pollock and Krasner have a productive period when they moved out of Manhattan. They relocated to a) Connecticut b) New Jersey c) Martha's Vineyard Island d) Long Island.
11. Successful artist of Pollock's circle a) Pablo Picasso b) Willem de Kooning c) Andy Warhol d) Keith Haring.
12. The person who offered this literary quote: "To whom shall I hire myself out? / What beast must I adore? / What holy image is attacked? / What hearts must I break? / What lie must I maintain? / And, what blood shed?" a) Jackson Pollock
b) Lee Krasner c) Peggy Guggenheim d) Sande Pollock (the brother).
1. d lower east side
2. d free housing
3. b connecticut
4. d lee krassner
5. a peggy guggenheim
6. b abstract
7. c Life
8. a Rockwell
9. F
10. d Long island
11. b de Kooning
12. b lee krassner
1. d
2. a
3. b
4.d
5. a
6. b
7. c
8. a
9. t
10. d
11. b
12. b
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