BH quiz #18
What is this? I mean it, this? I can't check my email. It forms the base for every day web-surfing operations, which means I keep on coming back to it every twenty minutes. Yes, when somebody remarked it was like going outside to check your mailbox 27 times a day, he was vaguely right, except, of course, you do not have to put any clothes on, expose your body to the frigid February air or indulge in the slightest physical exercise involving your legs.
I've been pondering several things in the flat toilet today. There is a framed picture of two dressed chimpanzees with the caption "A Pair of Wallies". Thing is, if I knew a pair of chimps who could dress themselves properly, human-fashion, just like Michael Douglas in Wall Street rather than chuck turds at each other all day, I would call them geniuses and then probably put them to work on the stock market. Also, why is a toilet duck called a toilet duck? Why not a swan? Or is it too small for that? I would very much prefer a toilet flamingo come to think about it. And if Quilted Velvet toilet paper is "deeply quilted", why aren't duvets made of it? Perhaps it is too good for my bum. Billowing cloaks should be constructed of this luxurious material not shoved down the bog. Oh, don't get me started on the picture "SOME LEADERS ARE BORN WOMEN - Behind every successful woman is a man who's surprised". Is that offensive to both sexes or is it just me? What could it mean? Please consider that I am very confused this afternoon and easily irritated. Where free time flows like the Nile, there is much madness in store.
Why can't I check my e-mail? Oooh, I could clock something rather hard.
Today the quiz is on art and artists. Credit is due to The Thames & Hudson Dictionary of Art and Artists.
1. What term describes a 17th century Russian woodcut similar to the British chapbooks, which were first religious but turned political in content, and were a means of circulating songs and dances among peasants?
2. Nuraghic culture was the bronze age culture of which island (1500-1100BC) and is named from the towers or nuraghi of the period?
3. Who designed the monument Lipstick on Caterpillar Tracks (1969)?
4. Meaning "universal ruler" in Greek, what is the term for the image of Christ in majesty in Byzantine art and was situated in a dome on on an apse as the focus of the pictorial scheme which portrayed the bust and head of Christ with a stern, bearded face?
5. Which 17th century Spanish artist, primarily a genre painter but known for his religious painting The Calling of St Matthew, was known as 'the slave of Velazquez'?
6. Which father and son Italian sculptors carved the pulpits in the Pisa Baptistery, in Pisa cathedral and Siena cathedral and at Pistoia?
7. Known for works like Penge Station (1871), which figure of the Impressionistic circle alone exhibited at all eight exhibitions from 1874-86 that he largely organised?
8. Joshua Reynolds's 1753-4 portrait of which admiral, under whose patronage he visited Europe from 1749-52, led to many other commissions?
9. Ilya Repin, the painter of such works as The Volga Boatmen (1870-3), is the best known member of which group of Russian artists founded in 1870 to promote travelling exhibitions outside Moscow and St Petersburg, and whose leaders included Miasoedov, Perov and Ge?
10. Which painter of Russian origin trained as an engineer in Munich before creating such abstract constructions as Bust (1915), a Cubist-influenced work built with planes of wood?
11. The earliest works attributed to which early Netherlands painter are the miniatures identified in 1902 as the Turin-Milan Book of Hours?
12. Best known for Circe and Her Lovers in a Landscape, which Italian painter of Ferrara who died in 1542 was born Giovanni di Lutero?
13. Which sculptor entered the workshop of Lorenzo Ghiberti aged 17 and carved the wall tomb of antipope John XXIII (executed with Michelozzo); the Magdalen; and the singing gallery or Cantoria of Florence Cathedral?
14. In 1966 who made the series of etchings, Illustrations for Fourteen Poems from CP Cavafy and his first stage designs for Alfred Jarry's Ubu Roi at the Royal Court Theatre?
15. Which British portrait painter is famed for portraits of his wife Dorelia, the Madame Suggia (1923) and the portrait of GB Shaw (1914)?
16. Which US minimalist "structure-maker", who in fact called himself an empiricist, believed that painting was "finished", stating in his 1965 article Specific Objects that 2-D painting was subject to "the problem of illusionism" and the true artists must work in the "real space" of the third dimension?
17. What large statue in bronze, made from his plaster cast model of 1933 and displayed beside Guernica in 1937, was placed on Picasso's grave?
18. The Madonna of Mercy, a polyptych, is which Italian painter and mathematician's first known commissioned work, who died in 1492?
19. Which French sculptor, who settled in Britain in about 1732, made his reputation with a statue of Handel for Vauxhall Gardens, and furthered it with the statue of Isaac Newton at Trinity College, Cambridge, the Argyll monument in Westminster Abbey, and the 'Davenant' bust of Shakespeare?
20. In oil painting, what is the technique of working a layer of opaque colour over an existing colour in such a way that the latter is only partially obliterated and a broken effect is obtained?
21. French for "unsticking", what is the peeling away usually of found images like posters, causing the accidental creation of new image and surface effects?
22. The turning point in the career of which US painter and graphic artist came in 1927 when he began to experiment with still-life abstractions in his Eggbeater series?
Answers to BH #17
1. Malcolm Arnold 2. Michael Tippett 3. Ralph Vaughan Williams 4. Sea Pictures, Clara Butt 5. Granville Bantock 6. Paul Bunyan 7. Thomas Ades 8. 1948, Peter Pears and Eric Crozier 9. Noye's Fludde (Noah's Flood) 10. Andrzej Panufnik 11. William Walton 12. John Blow 13. "This is the best of me" 14. Frank Bridge 15. Walt Whitman 16. Arthur Bliss 17. Harrison Birtwistle 18. Lowestoft 19. Judith Bingham 20. The Spanish Lady
I've been pondering several things in the flat toilet today. There is a framed picture of two dressed chimpanzees with the caption "A Pair of Wallies". Thing is, if I knew a pair of chimps who could dress themselves properly, human-fashion, just like Michael Douglas in Wall Street rather than chuck turds at each other all day, I would call them geniuses and then probably put them to work on the stock market. Also, why is a toilet duck called a toilet duck? Why not a swan? Or is it too small for that? I would very much prefer a toilet flamingo come to think about it. And if Quilted Velvet toilet paper is "deeply quilted", why aren't duvets made of it? Perhaps it is too good for my bum. Billowing cloaks should be constructed of this luxurious material not shoved down the bog. Oh, don't get me started on the picture "SOME LEADERS ARE BORN WOMEN - Behind every successful woman is a man who's surprised". Is that offensive to both sexes or is it just me? What could it mean? Please consider that I am very confused this afternoon and easily irritated. Where free time flows like the Nile, there is much madness in store.
Why can't I check my e-mail? Oooh, I could clock something rather hard.
Today the quiz is on art and artists. Credit is due to The Thames & Hudson Dictionary of Art and Artists.
1. What term describes a 17th century Russian woodcut similar to the British chapbooks, which were first religious but turned political in content, and were a means of circulating songs and dances among peasants?
2. Nuraghic culture was the bronze age culture of which island (1500-1100BC) and is named from the towers or nuraghi of the period?
3. Who designed the monument Lipstick on Caterpillar Tracks (1969)?
4. Meaning "universal ruler" in Greek, what is the term for the image of Christ in majesty in Byzantine art and was situated in a dome on on an apse as the focus of the pictorial scheme which portrayed the bust and head of Christ with a stern, bearded face?
5. Which 17th century Spanish artist, primarily a genre painter but known for his religious painting The Calling of St Matthew, was known as 'the slave of Velazquez'?
6. Which father and son Italian sculptors carved the pulpits in the Pisa Baptistery, in Pisa cathedral and Siena cathedral and at Pistoia?
7. Known for works like Penge Station (1871), which figure of the Impressionistic circle alone exhibited at all eight exhibitions from 1874-86 that he largely organised?
8. Joshua Reynolds's 1753-4 portrait of which admiral, under whose patronage he visited Europe from 1749-52, led to many other commissions?
9. Ilya Repin, the painter of such works as The Volga Boatmen (1870-3), is the best known member of which group of Russian artists founded in 1870 to promote travelling exhibitions outside Moscow and St Petersburg, and whose leaders included Miasoedov, Perov and Ge?
10. Which painter of Russian origin trained as an engineer in Munich before creating such abstract constructions as Bust (1915), a Cubist-influenced work built with planes of wood?
11. The earliest works attributed to which early Netherlands painter are the miniatures identified in 1902 as the Turin-Milan Book of Hours?
12. Best known for Circe and Her Lovers in a Landscape, which Italian painter of Ferrara who died in 1542 was born Giovanni di Lutero?
13. Which sculptor entered the workshop of Lorenzo Ghiberti aged 17 and carved the wall tomb of antipope John XXIII (executed with Michelozzo); the Magdalen; and the singing gallery or Cantoria of Florence Cathedral?
14. In 1966 who made the series of etchings, Illustrations for Fourteen Poems from CP Cavafy and his first stage designs for Alfred Jarry's Ubu Roi at the Royal Court Theatre?
15. Which British portrait painter is famed for portraits of his wife Dorelia, the Madame Suggia (1923) and the portrait of GB Shaw (1914)?
16. Which US minimalist "structure-maker", who in fact called himself an empiricist, believed that painting was "finished", stating in his 1965 article Specific Objects that 2-D painting was subject to "the problem of illusionism" and the true artists must work in the "real space" of the third dimension?
17. What large statue in bronze, made from his plaster cast model of 1933 and displayed beside Guernica in 1937, was placed on Picasso's grave?
18. The Madonna of Mercy, a polyptych, is which Italian painter and mathematician's first known commissioned work, who died in 1492?
19. Which French sculptor, who settled in Britain in about 1732, made his reputation with a statue of Handel for Vauxhall Gardens, and furthered it with the statue of Isaac Newton at Trinity College, Cambridge, the Argyll monument in Westminster Abbey, and the 'Davenant' bust of Shakespeare?
20. In oil painting, what is the technique of working a layer of opaque colour over an existing colour in such a way that the latter is only partially obliterated and a broken effect is obtained?
21. French for "unsticking", what is the peeling away usually of found images like posters, causing the accidental creation of new image and surface effects?
22. The turning point in the career of which US painter and graphic artist came in 1927 when he began to experiment with still-life abstractions in his Eggbeater series?
Answers to BH #17
1. Malcolm Arnold 2. Michael Tippett 3. Ralph Vaughan Williams 4. Sea Pictures, Clara Butt 5. Granville Bantock 6. Paul Bunyan 7. Thomas Ades 8. 1948, Peter Pears and Eric Crozier 9. Noye's Fludde (Noah's Flood) 10. Andrzej Panufnik 11. William Walton 12. John Blow 13. "This is the best of me" 14. Frank Bridge 15. Walt Whitman 16. Arthur Bliss 17. Harrison Birtwistle 18. Lowestoft 19. Judith Bingham 20. The Spanish Lady
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