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Which artist featured violin cases, often empty, in his work?
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Cézanne
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Matisse
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Manet
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Corot
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Whether in painting, sculpture or collage, how many guitars did Picasso create?
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10-20
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20-35
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40-55
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More than 60
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In terms of portraiture, which of these composers is the odd one out?
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Alban Berg
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George Gershwin
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Cole Porter
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Arnold Schoenberg
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Thomas Gainsborough painted one of the Bach family. Which?
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JS Bach
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WF Bach
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CPE Bach
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JC Bach
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Who said, after hearing Wagner’s Lohengrin: 'I saw all my colours in spirit. Wild, almost crazy lines were sketched in front of me.'
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Kandinsky
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Gaugin
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Van Gogh
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Renoir
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Igor Stravinsky was drawn, painted or photographed by all but one of the following. Which?
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Pablo Picasso
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Irving Penn
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Edward Hopper
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Robert Delaunay
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Which 18th-century artist, an early member of the Royal Academy of Arts, had to make a choice between art and music as a career?
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Angelica Kauffman
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Joshua Reynolds
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Mary Moser
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Johann Zoffany
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In 1949, Peter Brook directed a disastrous production of Richard Strauss’s Salome, designed by a well-known artist. Who was the artist?
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Andy Warhol
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Frida Kahlo
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Max Ernst
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Salvador Dalí
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Who painted this much-loved lute-playing angel, now in Florence's Uffizi gallery?
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Piero della Francesca
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Rosso Fiorentino
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Sandro Botticelli
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Filippo Lippi
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An image of the sea was reproduced on the 1905 edition of Debussy’s La Mer. Who was the original by?
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Monet
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Renoir
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Hokusai
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Toshi Yoshida
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Mark-Anthony Turnage’s orchestral work Three Screaming Popes was named after a painting by who?
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Francis Bacon
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Joseph Beuys
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Jeff Koons
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Grayson Perry
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Which French artist was Stravinsky commemorating in his Double Canon for String Quartet?
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Pierre Bonnard
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Nicolas Poussin
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Raoul Dufy
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Marcel Duchamp
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In Paulo Veronese’s epic The Wedding Feast at Cana, an ensemble of artist-musicians is at the centre. Who is the man in red playing the violone (an early form of double bass)?
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Tintoretto
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Palladio
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Titian
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Veronese
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The experimental French-American artist known as Arman was thought sacrilegious by some musicians. Why?
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In an essay in the New Yorker, he declared John Cage a fraud, accusing him of plagiarism
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He melted down brass instruments
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He dismembered violins to reassemble as sculptures
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He started booing during a performance of Bach's St John Passion in New York, seeking to disrupt it "as an artistic provocation"
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1:B - A famous example is his Interior with a Violin Case Nice, winter 1918-19, in the Museum of Modern Art (MoMa), New York , 2:D - The exact number is unknown. His love affair with the instrument continued throughout his life. One of the earliest depictions was The Old Guitarist (1903-4), from his blue period. Image: (Detail from) Guitar, 1926, by Pablo Picasso, 3:C - Because Gershwin painted Schoenberg, and Schoenberg painted Berg , 4:D - The 'London' Bach, Johann Christian, moved to England in 1762 and remained here until his death in 1782. Image: Portrait of Johann Christian Bach (1735-1782) by Thomas Gainsborough, (1727-88) , 5:A - Kandinsky's theory of colour was closely connected with music: he reportedly had synaesthesia, seeing colours when he heard music, and hearing music when he painted. Image: Petra Lang as Ortrud in Lohengrin, Royal Opera House, 2009, 6:C - Image: Photograph of Stravinsky by Arnold Newman, 1946, 7:A - A talented musician, the Swiss neo-classical painter depicted this dilemma in her 1794 work, in the National Trust collection at Nostell Priory, West Yorkshire. Image: Self Portrait of the Artist Hesitating Between the Arts of Music and Painting, 1794, by Angelica Kauffman, 8:D - The production, at what is now the Royal Opera House, was derided as a triumph of style over substance, with large head-pieces that reduced audibility. Image: Franz Lechleichner as Herod and Constance Shacklock as Herodias in the Covent Garden Opera production of 1949 , 9:B - Giovanni Battista di Jacopo, known as Rosso Fiorentino on account of his red hair, painted the musical angel, a fragment of an altarpiece, in c 1522. Image: Angel Playing the Lute, 1522, 10:C - It was Katshushika Hokusai's The Great Wave Off Kanagawa, completed between 1829-1833 , 11:A - Turnage saw Bacon’s painting, based on Pope Innocent X by Velázquez, at a Tate Gallery exhibition in 1985 and wanted to create that 'colouristic intensity and emotional immediacy' in his music , 12:C - The work's full title is Double Canon ('Raoul Dufy in Memoriam') String Quartet , 13:C - Veronese also portrayed himself, in white, playing the viola da gamba. Image: (Detail from) The Wedding Feast at Cana by Paulo Veronese, 1563, 14:C - Arman, a friend of Warhol, took instruments apart, once smashing a piano with an axe in the presence of violinist Yehudi Menuhin, in a work called For Chopin’s Waterloo
Scores
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14 and above.
Congratulations. We declare you a Suprematist
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13 and above.
Congratulations. We declare you a Suprematist
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7 and above.
Impressionist
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6 and above.
Impressionist
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10 and above.
Abstract Expressionist
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4 and above.
Dadaist
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3 and above.
Dadaist
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2 and above.
Dadaist
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1 and above.
Dadaist
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11 and above.
Abstract Expressionist
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8 and above.
Impressionist
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12 and above.
Abstract Expressionist
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9 and above.
Impressionist
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5 and above.
Impressionist
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0 and above.
Dadaist