Art and music

Art and music

artistic style and creativity

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1. Who painted 'The Last Supper'?

• Gainsborough

• Picasso

• Leonardo

• El Greco

• Leonardo

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2.Who painted 'Blue Boy'?

• Whistler

• Gainsborough

• Wood

• El Greco

• Gainsborough

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3.What famous artist is said to have founded the Cubist movement?

• Winslow Homer

• Pablo Picasso

• James Whistler

• Salvador Dali

• Pablo Picasso

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4.In music what does 'forte' mean?

• Slow

• Soft

• Loud

• Fast

• Loud

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5.What composer wrote the opera 'The Magic Flute'?

• Handel

• Mozart

• Rossini

• Bach

• Mozart

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6.Picasso wrote: ‘Music and art are the guiding lights of the world.’ But do you know how much the two are interlinked?

• Gezanne

• Matisse

• Manet

• Corot

• Matisse

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7.In 1949, Peter Brook directed a disastrous production of Richard Strauss’s Salome, designed by a well-known artist. Who was the artist?

• Andy Warhol

• Frida Kahlo

• Max Ernst

• Salvador Dali

• Salvador Dali

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8.The experimental French-American artist known as Arman was thought sacrilegious by some musicians. Why?

• In an essay in the New Yorker, he declared John Cage a fraud, accusing him of plagiarism

• He melted down brass instruments

• He dismembered violins to reassemble as sculptures

• He started booing during a performance of Bach's St John Passion in New York, seeking to disrupt it "as an artistic provocation"

• He dismembered violins to reassemble as sculptures

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9.An image of the sea was reproduced on the 1905 edition of Debussy’s La Mer. Who was the original by?

• Monet

• Renoir

• Hokusai

• Toshi Yoshida

• Hokusai

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10.Which French artist was Stravinsky commemorating in his Double Canon for String Quartet?

• Pierre Bonnard

• Nicolas Poussin

• Raoul Dufy

• Marcel Duchamp

• Raoul Dufy