2015 06 Collected Works asKQAnce Arts Quiz Finals

C o l l e c t e d W o r k s
THE ARTS QUIZ — FINALS
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What’s in Store
 Four (short) written rounds
 Clockwise and Anti-clockwise rounds of 18 questions each on
Infinite Bounce / Pounce
 Audience questions and prizes!

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Write Choice 1
 Three questions
 +5 for each
 +5 bonus for getting all three correct
 No negatives

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Called The Head in English, this is a sculpture
made in 1991-92 to commemorate an event in a
European city.
1. Where is the sculpture to be found and what
event was it installed for?
2. Who is the artist?
3. What is the technique he has used, which is
named after illustrator and printer Benjamin
Henry Day, Jr.?

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Barcelona for the 1992 Olympics (no part points)
Roy Lichtenstein
Ben-Day dots
Bonus audience question: Which other famous sculptor is Roy paying
tribute to by using the mosaic technique?
Antoni Gaudi

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 +10 on Infinite Bounce
 +10/-10 on Infinite Pounce
 No part pounces

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“My work at ______ is called Dirty Corner and has nothing to do with
X or her vagina. Perhaps it would be good for your correspondent to
use her eyes when looking at art, not her ears. There is no doubt that
the feminist argument must first be put forward by women, but from
where I stand men cannot and must not be excluded. What a shame
that narrow-mindedness has space in your journal.”
Whose recent letter to The Guardian about a controversial exhibit?
Also give us the location and X.

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Anish Kapoor’s exhibit at Chateau de Versailles
Marie Antoinette
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These photographs are developed using an old photographic process,
a successor of the ambrotype, in which you dip metal in collodion,
then liquid silver, which makes it light sensitive.
They need to be developed within ten minutes of being taken, so you
literally have to build a darkroom for every shoot. This process doesn’t
flip the image back as cameras do, so the pictures come out in
reverse.
Name this early photography technique, named after the Japanned
metal used in the process.

Tintype / Ferrotype
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These pictures are re-imagining an artist’s works in the context of a
movie franchise. Name both.

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Marc Chagall/Moishe Shagal; The Avengers
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This is the Rietveld Schröder House designed by the architect Gerrit Rietveld. This
small one-family house dates from 1924, and in 2000, UNESCO awarded the house
World Heritage status.
Rietveld was a member of a movement that searched for a new ideal of harmony
and order. Compositions were made of straight lines and primary colours, plus
black and white, and this is probably the only building ever realised in this
movement.
What is the movement and in which Dutch city, which sports fans will be
watching for a grand departure in July 2015, is this located?

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De Stijl (The Style); Utrecht
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Bonus audience question: Who is other famous proponent of
The Style?
Piet Mondrian

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Angus Wall is a film editor with two Oscars (The Social Network, The Girl With The Dragon
Tattoo) and two Emmys to his credit. He won the first Emmy in 2004 for Carnivale.
His second Emmy is for an effort that involves three-dimensional models of fortresses and
cities and buildings that are made from thousands of tiny gears and springs. This
conceptual art involves a map at its core, and using only pencil and paper, an artist begins
by transforming the city into a clockwork model, with mechanical diagrams detailing how
the city will build itself in the title sequence.
The designs are handed off to the computer graphics department. One team member
fine-tunes the shadow cast by the buildings. Another oversees the camera shots, adjusting
angles and frames. The so-called smoke artist, adds final tint and color.
What did he win his second Emmy for?

Title sequence of Game of Thrones
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In the next slides are two of the works in an exhibition titled “Riding
_________” by Tushar Joag, where, over 53 days in August-October 2010,
he took his 350-cc Enfield Bullet with sidecar from Bombay to Shanghai,
travelling across India, Nepal and China. The exhibition’s alliterative title
refers to the name of an animal in fiction.
During this journey, Joag made stopovers at two similar project locations in
India and China – both projected by the respective countries as hallmarks of
modernisation, and both have resulted in dispossession, environmental
degradation and attendant controversy.
Fill in the blank and name the two projects.

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Rocinante – Don Quixote’s horse
Sardar Sarovar project and the Three Gorges Dam
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This is an African Fang mask, similar in style
to those seen by someone in Paris, which
inspired him to model two of a group of
five on the same, in 1907.
Who and what?

Pablo Picasso;
Les Demoiselles d'Avignon / The Young Ladies of Avignon
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This painting, features in another painting (part of a similar set) of the
artist. The artist describes the subject of the latter series as “the face
of an outlaw with an inner nobility and gentleness,” a face that is a
“symbol of the contemporary impressionist painter” and “a portrait of
all wretched victims of society.“
Who is the artist? What is the latter series?

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Paul Gauguin
Self Portraits
The painting in the question is Spirit of the Dead Watching

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This is the back cover illustration for a 1973 live album compilation of
a band, drawn by Bob Thomas. The figures are a reference to
someone closely associated with the band, and the album name
references him as well. Which band and who is the reference to?

Grateful Dead
Owsley Stanley aka the Bear – their soundman and producer
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Write Choice -2
 Three questions
 +5 for each
 No negatives

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A large canvas work called “What we do and where we are going” by
Kedar Dhondu – showing the current chaos / deprivation in an Indian
state.
Which State?
Which 16th century painting is it modelled on?
Who is the original painter?

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Goa
Tower of Babel by Pieter Bruegel the Elder
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Whose name is
blanked out and which
2015 film’s acting
credits are these?

BV Doshi; OK Kanmani
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This Estonian’s most ambitious projects were realized primarily on the
Indian subcontinent. In 1962, he received commissions to design a newly
established institution in India, and a building complex in the eventual
capital of a neighbouring country.
The former is constructed out of exposed brick, while the latter is made of
concrete. Both works are marked by elemental geometric forms: circles,
squares, and triangles. Each features huge open spaces that the architect, a
true believer in civic democracy, thought would encourage freedom of
thought, especially in the latter, where the people use the complex as a
vast public park.
Name the institution, the building complex and the architect.

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Louis Kahn; IIM Ahmedabad
Sher-E-Banglanagar /Capitol complex / Assembly building in Dhaka

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These are the illustrations for which work?
Which less-famous brother is the illustrator?

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Treasure Island
Walter Paget

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From L-R, these renditions were the runner-up and the winner of a
contest held in 1946, held by the David L. Loew-Albert Lewin film
production company requiring a painting to be used in the film
The Private Affairs of Bel Ami. Name the two painters and the theme,
which revolves around the first ascetic in the world, a saint from
Egypt.

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Salvador Dali; Max Ernst
The Temptation of St. Anthony

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Max Ernst was one of the pioneers of a painting technique, whose name
comes from the French word for “rubbing”.
It is a technique of obtaining an impression of the surface texture of a
material, by placing a piece of paper over it and rubbing it with a soft
pencil or crayon; the name is also applied to the impression so obtained.
Max Ernst also used another slight variation of this technique where he
scraped paint from the canvas and this takes its name from the French for
“scraping”.
Name either technique.

Frottage / Grattage
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The depiction in this painting is wholly unlike anything seen in Western
painting – the central figure is highly aggressive, erotic and threatening.
Her frightening teeth and fierce eyes are not those of a stereotypically
submissive, cold war-era housewife, and the artist created her in part as a
response to the idealized women in art history, such as Ingres' Odalisque.
Also, the author causes the form to dissolve into the background, the
setting of which, the author described as a “no-environment.”
Which seminal 1952 work and who is the artist?

William De Kooning’s Woman I
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Regarded as the first Florentine painter, and the first “modern master”, his
nickname means “bullheaded” – he is mentioned by Vasari in the Lives of the Most
Excellent Painters…..
He was apparently so proud and demanding that if others found fault with his work,
or if he found something displeasing in it himself, he would destroy the work, no
matter how valuable.
His contemporary Dante, placed him among the proud in Purgatory and refers to
him to illustrate the transience of earthly fame: “XX thought to hold the field in
painting, and now Giotto hath the cry.”
Identify the artist.

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Cimabue
born Benvenuto di Giuseppe

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Connect. What is the possible inaccuracy in the painting on the left?

Vestal Virgins – who worshipped the Goddess Vesta
There were only six Vestal Virgins at any point in time
The painter is Hector Leroux
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The setting is the Gobi desert in western China. What is British archaeologist
Marc Aurel Stein talking about here?
“’Heaped up in layers,’ Stein wrote, ‘but without any order, there appeared in the
dim light of the priest's little lamp a solid mass of manuscript bundles rising to a
height of nearly ten feet.... Not in the driest soil could relics of a ruined site have so
completely escaped injury as they had here in a carefully selected rock chamber,
where, hidden behind a brick wall, .... these masses of manuscripts had lain
undisturbed for centuries.”
The manuscripts are now in the British Library and the over 300 paintings have
been divided between the National Museum in New Delhi and the British Museum.

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Manuscripts/paintings recovered from the
Cave of a Thousand Buddhas / Mogao Caves

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Born in 1908, of Armenian parents, he arrived in Canada from Syria in
1925. After working with his uncle, he opened his own studio in Ottawa in
1931. In 1936, when FDR visited Quebec, he photographed him and thus
met PM Mackenzie King, who later became his patron and friend.
It was King who organized for him to take his most iconic photo in Dec
1941 in Ottawa – the world’s reception of that photograph — which
captured public imagination as the epitome of the indomitable spirit of the
British people — changed his life.
Who and which photo?

Yusuf Karsh
Winston Churchill’s picture
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Write Choice 3
 Three questions
 +5 for each
 No negatives

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William Blake, Taxi Driver
This was a series by John Riordan, that ran in Time Out London from
2007 to 2009. The premise was that the visionary had somehow been
reincarnated as a London cabbie. Each week he would pick up a new
passenger from London's rich soup of myth and history and enjoy a
series of increasingly bizarre encounters.
Identify each passenger, in order…

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1. William Hogarth 2. Tracey Emin 3. Francis Bacon

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In the Fountain of the Four Rivers in Rome, the water bodies are the
four main rivers in the areas in which Papal authority had spread. A
property of each river is sculpted. The Ganges, for example carries a
long oar, representing the river’s navigability.
Why is the Nile’s head draped with a loose piece of cloth?

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Due to the source of the Nile being unknown at the time
John Hanning Speke discovered the source of the Nile on August 3rd, 1858.
The fountain was designed in 1651.

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John Singleton Copley was a brilliant artist in the colonies. He was the
go-to portrait painter, and he had a good ability to calibrate a person’s
social position well in his paintings.
He gained the trust of many wealthy families. Part of his ascendancy
was due to his skill of behaving like an absolute gentleman.
What was his other skill—something that nearly all his subjects
wanted, and something that he achieved with aplomb for nearly 15
years before even leaving American shores?

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Most of his subjects coveted English-style portraits. They were all
anglophiles. He managed to bring out those qualities in his paintings
without ever having visited England before he began painting.

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Titian made five paintings of this Greek theme of Zeus seducing
Danae. This has influenced other painters like Klimt.
What has Titian done to show up the man who commissioned the
painting—Cardinal Farnese—for what he actually is?

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Farnese was a known ladies man.
Here Zeus is shown as showering Danae with gold coins,
thereby implying that Farnese is visiting a brothel.

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Connect the two.

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In Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time, the poet Bergotte
dies when seeing Vermeer’s A View of Delft

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HE Tidmarsh was an accomplished topographical artist and his
collection of city landmarks is comprehensive. What makes him
invaluable is his mastery of ‘staffage’. What exactly is this?

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Adding vehicles and people who populate the streets,
lending the scenes a very human feel

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Each pattern was unique, and many of the designs were created by
women from the Royal Academy of Arts, London. Designs were tested
on wooden models, and viewed through a periscope in a studio.
What are we talking about—something that a Robert Watson-Watt
invention made obsolete?
What short-lived modernist movement served as the inspiration for
it?

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Dazzle painting
Created during the World War I to protect ships; the jagged patterns and clashing
colours made it hard for enemies to get a fix on their target
Vorticism

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What is the familial connection?

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All are paintings of Berthe Morisot by Edouard Manet.
Morisot was married to Manet’s brother Eugene.

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The reason for the sudden emergence of creative tattooing in the late
19th century in Japan is because the country put an end to the practice
of bokukei. Japan was the last country in the world to stop this
practice in 1870.
What was bokukei? What the reason for the emergence of elaborate
tattoos?

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Tattoos were used to mark criminals.
When the practice was stopped, those with marks wanted to
cover them up, and that’s how the decorative tattoo art started.

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This person’s (X) right leg remained shorter than the other due to a
polio attack at age 6. X also had a near fatal accident at the age of 18.
When travelling back home, the bus X was in collided with a tramway,
and one of the metal handrails in the bus pierced X’s body from the
left side. X had to undergo 22 surgical interventions and survived.
Who is X. These facts are cited as the reasons for what sartorial
statement?

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Frida Kahlo’s preference for wearing
Tehuana dresses through her lifetime.

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Write Choice 4
 Three questions
 +5 for each
 No negatives

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The genius of Graham Annable
Annable is an Oscar nominated artist who has his finger in many pies.
Here are three visuals from his Greek mythology series.
Identify each major character, in order…

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1. Sinis
Sinis would force
travellers to help
him bend pine trees
to the ground, and
then unexpectedly
let go, catapulting
the victims through
the air.
2. Penelope
Odysseus’s wife;
after the Trojan
War, many
chieftains of Ithaca
and nearby islands
become her suitors.
3. Hercules
Cleaning out the
Augean stables

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The Boyce Company was issued a patent in 1912, for a model with a
visible thermometer, which measured the heat of the water vapour,
rather than the water itself. This was useful because most early
models did not have water pumps, but a circulation system.
The area on and around the exposure became the focus of attention
for artists, and have over the years featured red-Indian chiefs, marlins,
rockets, and ram’s heads.
What design innovation are we referring to?

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Hood ornaments on cars

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In 1841, the New Hampshire-born John Goffe Rand, living in London at the
time, made something out of zinc and patented it (X).
In the early 1890s, Lucius Sheffield, a student from Connecticut studying in
Paris, noticed people of a profession using Rand’s invention. He in turn
informed his dad, Washington. Papa Sheffield was one of the most skilled
in his profession, and made use of his son’s recommendation (Y) combined
with an (earlier) invention of his own (Z).
X, Y and Z?

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X – Collapsible paint tubes
Y – Toothpaste tubes Z – Toothpaste
Washington Sheffield was America’s foremost dentist at the time.

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To determine if a sculpture is of true X, and not resin made from a
casting mould there are two simple tests. Heat up a standard straight
pin to red-hot and push it into the bottom of the piece in question. If
the pin melts its way into the material then it is definitely NOT X.
The other test that you can perform is to scrape some material off
from the bottom of the piece. If it is real X, these shavings will have no
odour and will feel like talcum powder, slippery to the touch.
What is X, named so because of its greasy feel?

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Soapstone
Also known as Steatite, the stone is used in most temple sculptures

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Five years ago, Christie’s held an auction of works by his friends
including those by Hockney and Rauschenberg, as well as works by
Picasso, Jeff Koons, Tansey and Thibaud. One of the highlights was this
piece (in pic) by a close friend.
This man made quite a pile through books, TV and films and painted a
chaotic picture in his works. A collector of 20th century art, and a bit of
a critic, he wrote the catalogue for a 1977 exhibition by this friend.
Who was the moneyed man, and who was the friend?

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Michael Crichton
Jasper Johns

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To this day, a detective remains assigned to it, inheriting the case from
his predecessors. Progress is still being made. The current detective in
charge of the case, is Jan de Kesel. The attorney general's office
maintains a 2,000-page file on the issue.
Karel Mortier, with the force for decades, and now in his 80s has done
more about the case than anyone else. He has even supervised an x-
ray of Saint Bavo’s cathedral to a depth of 10 meters.
What receives all this attention?

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The missing The Just Judges from the Ghent Altarpiece.

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The ‘L’ where an industrial worker wields a tool is a visual reference to
which controversial American commission?

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Diego Rivera’s Detroit Industry

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Connect with the implement on the right.

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Goffering Irons used to iron “ruffs”

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Made in 1440, Donatello’s is the only one showing long hair.
Verrocchio carved out his version 35 years later. Legend says that the
model was Da Vinci. Whether by design we don’t know, but he left a
certain body part unattended, and now historians debate where it ought to
be placed.
Then came the master another 25 years later. He used the finest from
Carrera. He dispensed with the body part altogether, instead choosing to
show a follow through action in some sense.
What are we referring to?

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Statues of David

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Science exhibitions as entertainment were popular in his time. That he
may have attended lectures in astronomy and pneumatics at the town
hall in Derby during the 1750s and 1760s may explain two of his
celebrated works.
In one, an oil lamp visible behind the foremost boy’s elbow, replicates
the sun’s bright rays. The second is a human drama in a night-time
setting.
Name the two.

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1. Experiment on a Bird in an Air Pump
2. A Philosopher Giving that Lecture on the Orrery
(in which a Lamp is put in the Place of the Sun)
By Joseph Wright of Derby

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