Wednesday, October 24, 2012

The Mediterranean to Montmartre: the life of Picasso


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Picasso quiz

1. Picasso was born in the Spanish city of a) Malaga b) Coruna c) Madrid d) Barcelona.
2. He became an accomplished painter as a teen. T / F
3. He was from a notable region of Spain called a) Basque b) Alsace
c) Catalonia d) Andalusia.
4. Picasso's most-loved sport: a) futbol b) handball c) mountain hiking d) bull fights.
5. He was born in poverty but was enormously successful as a painter. T / F
6. Picasso's Big Apple was a) Paris b) Madrid c) NYC d) London.
7. Picasso was a member of the group of European artists who called themselves the surrealists. T / F
8. Picasso was a member of the group of European artists who called themselves the fauvists (French: "savages"). T / F
9. Picasso was a member of the group of European artists who called themselves the cubists. T / F
10. He felt most at home in the Spanish city where he spent his teens: a) Malaga b) Coruna c) Madrid d) Barcelona.
11. This Spanish painter touched Picasso more than the others:
a) El Greco b) Goya c) Velazquez d) Dali.
12. His lifelong friend and rival was the almost-equally famous painter a) Henri Matisse b) Salvador Dali c) Vincent Van Gogh d) Jean Renoir.
13. The Blue Period and the Rose Period paintings were part of his __ career. a) early b) late.
14. Picasso and other artists favored life in the __ section of Paris in the early 1900's. a) Montmartre b) Bastille c) Champs d'Elysees d) St Germain.
15. The famous river that flows through the heart of Paris: the __ .
a) Loire b) Thames c) Rhine d) Seine.
16. Two of the faces in Demoiselles d'Avignon reflected Picasso's interest in the masks and sculptural art of the continent of __ .
a) Asia b) Africa c) Eastern Europe d) South America.
17. One of Picasso's earliest Parisian lovers, Eva Gouel / Marcelle Humbert, died of __ . a) illness / cancer b) suicide c) murder d) motorcycle crash.
18. For half of his adult life Picasso was married to the former Russian ballerina, __ __. a) Olga Kohkalova b) Marie-Therese Walter
c) Dora Maar d) Francoise Gilot.
19. Claude and Paloma Picasso were the children born to the artist and mistress __ __ . a) Olga Kohkalova b) Marie-Therese Walter c) Dora Maar d) Francoise Gilot.
20. During WWII the city of Paris was occupied by the __ .
a) Russians b) English c) Germans d) Dutch.
21. The painting "Guernica" depicts the bombing of a Spanish village by German bombers in 1937, during the ____ . a) WWI b) WWII c) Spanish Civil War d) Spanish-American War.
22. The painting "Demoiselles d'Avignon" portrays a) French dancers
b) Spanish prostitutes c) African laundry workers d) the five muses.

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