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SQ 2020 Expert Art

Total questions: 112

Worksheet time: 56mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What was JMW Turner's life span?

a)

1771-1857

b)

1775-1851

c)

1751-1825

d)

1745-1831

2.

JMW Turner painted a wide variety of subjects. Which of these is not one of the subjects that he painted about?

a)

seascapes and topographical views

b)

historical events and modern life

c)

mythology and imaginary scenes

d)

nature and still life

3.

Where was JMW Turner born?

a)

Covent Garden, London, England

b)

Canterbury, England

c)

Inverness, Scotland

d)

Tranent, Edinburgh, Scotland

4.

What did Turner's father work as?

a)

Lawyer

b)

Doctor

c)

Barber

d)

Dentist

5.

At what age did JMW Turner decide to become an artist?

a)

13

b)

14

c)

15

d)

16

6.

What art school did JMW Turner enroll in?

a)

The Royal Academy of Art

b)

The Institution of the Arts

c)

Nova Scotia Scotia for Art and Design

d)

The Royal Institution of the Arts

7.

At what age did JMW Turner become the youngest member of the Royal Academy?

a)

20

b)

21

c)

22

d)

23

8.

In what year was Turner appointed professor of perspective at the Royal Academy?

a)

1807

b)

1808

c)

1809

d)

1810

9.

About how many of Turner's sketchbooks still exist today?

a)

100

b)

200

c)

300

d)

400

10.

When did JMW Turner visit Tyneside, a town near Newcastle in northeast England?

a)

1817

b)

1818

c)

1819

d)

1820

11.

What did Turner's paintings focus on the most?

a)

Light

b)

Atmosphere

c)

Color

d)

Texture

12.

What is the true subject and focus of the painting Keelmen Heaving in Coals by Moonlight?

a)

Light

b)

Nature

c)

Reflections

d)

Labor

13.

What is a palette knife?

a)

A tool used for mixing colors

b)

A tool used for polishing paintings

c)

A tool used to cut wood

d)

A tool used for chiseling marble, stone, etc.

14.

What is impasto?

a)

A tool used for mixing colors

b)

A technique of applying paint thickly to a canvas

c)

A technique of applying thin layers of paint to a canvas

d)

A tool used for chiseling at rock, marble, etc.

15.

This is a self portrait of whom?

a)

JMW Turner

b)

Diego Rivera

c)

Edgar Degas

d)

Pablo Picasso

16.

When was this self portrait made?

a)

1797

b)

c. 1799

c)

1787

d)

c. 1789

17.

What is the art medium of this self portrait?

a)

Oil on Canvas

b)

Oil paint on Canvas

c)

Oil on Panel

d)

Oil paint on Panel

18.

Who made this painting?

a)

Joan Miro

b)

Diego Rivera

c)

JMW Turner

d)

Jackson Pollock

19.

What is the name of this painting?

a)

Keelmen Heaving in Coals by Moonlight

b)

Venice: The Dogana and San Giorgio Maggiore

c)

The Dogana and Santa Maria della Salute, Venice

d)

Friday of Sorrows on the Canal at Santa Anita

20.

When was this picture made?

a)

1831

b)

c. 1834

c)

1835

d)

c. 1837

21.

What is the art medium of this picture?

a)

Oil on Panel

b)

Oil on canvas

c)

oil on Limewood

d)

oil on wood

22.

Who made this picture?

a)

JMW Turner

b)

Joan Miro

c)

Romare Bearden

d)

Jackson Pollock

23.

What is the name of this painting?

a)

Venice: The Dogana and San Giorgio Maggiore

b)

The Dogana and Santa Maria della Salute

c)

Keelmen Heaving in Coals by Moonlight

d)

Tomorrow I May Be Far Away

24.

When was this painting made?

a)

1832

b)

1834

c)

1843

d)

1842

25.

What is the art medium of this painting?

a)

oil on limewood

b)

oil on canvas

c)

oil on wood

d)

oil on panel

26.

Who made this painting?

a)

JMW Turner

b)

Joan Miro

c)

Romare Bearden

d)

Alexander Calder

27.

What is the name of this painting?

a)

Venice: The Dogana and San Giorgio Maggiore

b)

The Dogana and Santa Maria della Salute, Venice

c)

The Dogana and San Giorgio della Salute, Venice

d)

Venice: The Dogana and Santa Maria Maggiore

28.

When was this painting made?

a)

1834

b)

1843

c)

1844

d)

1847

29.

What is the art medium of this painting?

a)

Oil on canvas

b)

Oil on Limewood

c)

Oil on Wood

d)

Oil on Panel

30.

Turner traveled to many places during his lifetime. Which of these did he not visit?

a)

Belgium

b)

Cape Verde

c)

Denmark

d)

Austria

31.

Which city was Turner's imagination most captivated by?

a)

Madrid

b)

Venice

c)

Rome

d)

Berlin

32.

What is special about JMW Turner's painting, The Dogana and Santa Maria della Salute, Venice?

a)

It has striking colors

b)

The whole painting is hazy

c)

It is very dark, as if it is nightime

d)

Details are minimized

33.

In Turner's painting, Venice: The Dogana and San Giorgio Maggiore, Turner features two important sites. What are they?

a)

The church of San Giorgio Maggiore

b)

the Dogana

c)

Customs House

d)

Tyneside coal factory

34.

Where was Romare Bearden born?

a)

Mecklenburg County, South Carolina

b)

Mecklenburg County, North Carolina

c)

Harlem, NYC

d)

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

35.

What is Romare Bearden's life span?

a)

1910-1952

b)

1911-1988

c)

1903-1972

d)

1889-1952

36.

How old was Romare Bearden when his family moved to Harlem, NYC?

a)

3

b)

5

c)

7

d)

11

37.

Harlem, NYC was a growing center of African American life and culture during Bearden's time. What did Romare Bearden not experience during his time in Harlem?

a)

diverse people

b)

jazz

c)

varieties of art (including paintings by Picasso and sculpture from Africa)

d)

blues

38.

Using his knowledge and experiences from Harlem, what did Romare Bearden do?

a)

Become a musician

b)

Become an artist

c)

Become an art critique

d)

Build a school concerning the arts

39.

Many of Bearden's paintings come from memories. Which of these is not one of them?

a)

Harlem

b)

return trips to NC to visit grandparents

c)

working in steel mills in Pittsburgh while still a teenager

d)

Watching trains roll by while working in the farm with his family

40.

What is the name of Romare Bearden's cat?

a)

Bearden Jr.

b)

Gypo

c)

Pete

d)

Lars

41.

Who created this painting?

a)

JMW Turner

b)

Romare Bearden

c)

Alexander Calder

d)

Joan Miro

42.

What is the name of this painting?

a)

Tomorrow I may be Far Away

b)

Watching the Good Trains Go By

c)

Keelmen heaving in coals by moonlight

d)

Friday of sorrows

43.

When was this painting created?

a)

1954

b)

1967

c)

1985

d)

1992

44.

What is the art medium of this painting?

a)

Oil on canvas

b)

collage of various papers with charcoal and graphite on canvas

c)

collage of various papers with graphite on canvas

d)

Oil on limewood

45.

Tomorrow I May Be Far Away melds Bearden's memories of Southern Communities. Which of these memories is not one of them?

a)

people

b)

music

c)

landscape

d)

daily activities

46.

Watching the Good Trains Go By is a good example of a ....

a)

collage

b)

cubism

c)

surrealism

d)

photomontage

47.

What did Watching the Good Trains Go By remind Bearden of?

a)

Mecklenburg County in NC

b)

Mecklenburg County in SC

c)

Harlem, NYC

d)

Harlem, Maine

48.

What was Bearden's art influenced by?

a)

His love for jazz

b)

His love for blues

c)

His love for collages

d)

Other artists

49.

For how long did JMW Turner hold the position of professor of perspective at the Royal Academy?

a)

10 years

b)

15 years

c)

25 years

d)

30 years

50.

Flat-bottomed barges, used to transport coal

a)

Tyne

b)

keels

c)

colliers

d)

None of These

51.

Ships specially designed to carry coal

a)

keels

b)

armature

c)

colliers

d)

tynes

52.

What was often the subject of Bearden's work?

a)

culture

b)

music

c)

still life

d)

people

53.

Which of these is a technique that Romare Bearden used?

a)

impasto

b)

improvisation

c)

sgraffitio

d)

drip-splatter process

54.

Romare Bearden had a Studio in Long Island City

a)

True

b)

False

55.

Romare Bearden's Tomorrow I May Be Far Away was inspired from "Good Chib Blues". When was the first recording of "Good Chib Blues"?

a)

1920

b)

1929

c)

1931

d)

1971

56.

"My purpose is the paint the life of my people as I know it."

a)

JMW Turner

b)

Romare Bearden

c)

Joan Miro

d)

Diego Rivera

57.

"The more I played around with visual notions as if I were improvising like a jazz musician, the more I realized what I wanted to do as a painter, and how I wanted to do it."

a)

Joan Miro

b)

Diego Rivera

c)

Romare Bearden

d)

Alexander Calder

58.

Which of these is not in the painting Tomorrow I may Be Far Away?

a)

A man seated in the front of a cabin

b)

A woman peering through the cabin window, her hand resting on the sill

c)

a woman harvesting a melon

d)

A second cabin

e)

A chicken being fed by a woman

59.

Which of these were cut and repeated throughout the collage Tomorrow I May Be Far Away?

a)

A bright red paper

b)

Hand-painted blue paper

c)

Hand-painted red paper

d)

A Bright blue paper

60.

Bearden arranged as many as ____ different magazine cuttings for the man's face, hands, and eyes, in his painting Tomorrow I May Be Far Away

a)

10

b)

13

c)

15

d)

19

61.

There is a train rolling in the left side of the painting Tomorrow I May Be Far Away

a)

True

b)

False

62.

What did trains remind Bearden of?

a)

The time he spend working in steel mills in Pittsburgh when he was a teenager

b)

His travels between the North and the South when he was a child

c)

Watching trains go by while he was working for his parents

d)

Harlem, NYC

63.

Which of these do trains not symbolize in African American history?

a)

Watching trains go by while working in the fields

b)

The Underground Railroad

c)

The escape from slavery

d)

The Great Migration to jobs in the North and West after Emancipation

64.

"Aah, tomorrow I may be far away

Oh, tomorrow I may be far away

Don't try to jive me, sweet talk can't make me stay"

a)

Good Chib Blues

b)

Yelping Hound Blues

c)

Jive Man Blues

d)

Diddie Wah Diddie

65.

Who is the creator of this artpiece?

a)

Joan Miro

b)

Romare Bearden

c)

Edgar DEGAS

d)

Giuseppe Archimboldo

66.

What is the name of this artpiece?

a)

Tomorrow I May Be Far Away

b)

Watching the Good Trains Go By

c)

Untitled (for V. Tatlin)

d)

Friday of Sorrows on the Canal at Santa Anitia, from A Vision of the Mexican People

67.

When was this artpiece made?

a)

1956

b)

1964

c)

1972

d)

1986

68.

What is the art medium of this Artpiece?

a)

collage of various papers on cardboard

b)

collage of various papers with charcoal and graphite on canvas

c)

collage of various papers with charcoal on cardboard

d)

collage of various papers with graphite on canvas

69.

What ethnicity was the artist Dan Flavin?

a)

American

b)

French

c)

German

d)

Spanish

e)

African

70.

What did Dan Flavin make art with?

a)

Standard paint

b)

various papers (collages)

c)

fluorescent lights

d)

wood

71.

Where was Dan Flavin born and raised?

a)

Mecklenberg County, North Carolina

b)

Chicago, Illinois

c)

Los Angeles, California

d)

Queens, New York

72.

What is Dan Flavin's life span?

a)

1924-1987

b)

1962-2008

c)

1941-1987

d)

1933-1996

e)

1987-present

73.

How did Dan Flavin become an artist?

a)

Taking art classes

b)

Reading a lot

c)

getting to know artists while he worked as a guard and elevator operator at museums in NYC

d)

Taking sculpting classes

74.

Dan Flavin made his first notes about "electric light art" while employed at where?

a)

American Museum of Natural History

b)

Royal Academy and Association of the Arts

c)

The National Gallery

d)

The Archives of American Art

e)

Saint Louis Art Museum

75.

Paint, pastels, marble and bronze interested Dan Flavin.

a)

True

b)

False

76.

What did Dan Flavin work with before working with fluorescent lights?

a)

light bulbs

b)

Traditional paint

c)

He always worked with fluorescent lights

d)

marble and bronze

77.

Dan Flavin restricted his palette to ten colors. Which of these is not one of them?

a)

blue

b)

green

c)

pink

d)

red

e)

purple

78.

Dan Flavin restricted his palette to ten colors. Which of these is not one of them?

a)

yellow

b)

ultraviolet

c)

four kinds of white

d)

orange

79.

Dan Flavin used standard straight tubes and one circular shape for his fluorescent light artworks. What were the sizes of the standard straight tubes?

a)

2, 4, 6, and 8 feet

b)

3, 6, 9, and 12 feet

c)

3, 6, 9, and 12 inches

d)

3, 5, 7, and 9 feet

80.

"One might not think of light as a matter of fact, but I do. And it is...as plain and open and direct an art as you will ever find."

a)

Alexander Calder

b)

Dan Flavin

c)

Joan Miro

d)

Martin Puryear

81.

Who made this picture?

a)

Dan flavin

b)

Martin Puryear

c)

Alexander Calder

d)

Edgar Degas

82.

what is the name of this artpiece?

a)

"monument" For V. Tatlin

b)

untitled (to Piet Mondrian)

c)

untitled (toBarnett Newman to commemorate hsi simple problem, red, yellow, and blue)

d)

a primary picture

83.

When was this artpiece created?

a)

1956

b)

1964

c)

1979

d)

1982

e)

1995

84.

What is the art medium of this artpiece?

a)

red, yellow, and blue fluorescent light

b)

red, yellow, blue, and white fluorescent light

c)

Oil paint on canvas

d)

Oil on limewood

85.

Dan Flavin liked to create his art for unlikely locations

a)

True

b)

False

86.

What was untitled (to Barnett Newman to commemorate his simple problem, red, yellow, and blue) created for?

a)

between walls

b)

around a window

c)

around a door

d)

the corner of a room

87.

untitled (to Barnett Newman to commemorate his simple problem, red, yellow, and blue) is made up of how many fixtures?

a)

5

b)

6

c)

8

d)

10

88.

How long were the fixtures in the artpiece untitled (to Barnett Newman to commemorate his simple problem, red, yellow, and blue)?

a)

6 ft

b)

8 ft

c)

10 ft

d)

12 ft

89.

the lamps in the artpiece untitled (to Barnett Newman to commemorate his simple problem, red, yellow, and blue) are facing in several different directions.

a)

True

b)

False

90.

Out of the three colors of light used in the artpiece untitled (to Barnett Newman to commemorate his simple problem, red, yellow, and blue), which of these colors of light were turned towards the wall (so that they were facing the wall and away from the viewer)?

a)

Blue

b)

Red

c)

Yellow

91.

What was light like for Dan Flavin?

a)

Paint

b)

Architecture

c)

Wallpaper

d)

None of these

92.

Dan Flavin called his art "situational" because...

a)

It worked depending on the situation of the electricity in the building

b)

it worked only in certain places indoors

c)

It transformed the surrounding space and architechture

d)

It lightened up the room

93.

What did Dan Flavin do after one of his works stopped working (it burned out)?

a)

He made diagrams of them that served as certificates of ownership

b)

He documented the sizes, types, and colors of the light fixtures used in each artpiece

c)

He did nothing

d)

He kept the frame and painted it to make it look like it was still working

94.

At the National Gallery, what did the museum staff do to conserve the bulbs of Dan Flavin's artworks?

a)

They turned it off at night

b)

They turned it off during idle hours

c)

They constantly replaced the batteries of each bulb

d)

They did nothing

95.

Who made this artpiece?

a)

Dan Flavin

b)

Martin Puryear

c)

Alexander Calder

d)

Roy Lichtenstein

96.

What is the name of this artpiece?

a)

a primary picture

b)

untitled (to Barnett Newman to commemorate his simple problem, red, yellow, and blue)

c)

untitled (to Piet Mondrian)

d)

"monument" or V. Tatlin

97.

When was this artpiece created?

a)

1950

b)

1960

c)

1970

d)

1980

98.

What is the art medium of this art piece?

a)

pink, yellow, and blue fluorescent light

b)

red, yellow, and blue fluorescent light

c)

pink, yellow, and violet fluorescent light

d)

red, yellow, and violet fluorescent light

99.

Who was Dan Flavin's friend and mentor?

a)

Barnett Newmann

b)

Airily

c)

Piet Mondrian

d)

Vladimir Tatlin

100.

Dan Flavin dedicated many of his art pieces to different people/things. Which of these is not one of the things/people that Flavin dedicated his works to?

a)

His mentor Barnett Newman

b)

His friends

c)

His golden retriever Airily

d)

earlier artists he admired (Henri Matisse, Piet Mondrian, and Vladimir Tatlin)

e)

his relatives

101.

What is a concrete poem?

a)

A poem that takes the shape of its subject

b)

A poem that uses concrete details

c)

A poem that uses a letter from the subject in each line

d)

A poem that rhymes

102.

Who made this poem?

a)

Dan Flavin

b)

Martin Puryear

c)

Alexander Calder

d)

Edgar Degas

103.

What is the title of this poem?

a)

untitled

b)

untitled (for V. Tatlin)

c)

a primary poem

d)

untitled (To Piet Mondrian)

104.

When was this poem created?

a)

September 3, 1956

b)

October 2, 1961

c)

January 24, 1975

d)

November 14, 1992

105.

Who made this art piece?

a)

Dan Flavin

b)

Piet Mondrian

c)

Martin Puryear

d)

Romare Bearden

106.

What is the name of this artpiece?

a)

untitled (to Piet Mondrian)

b)

"monument" for V. Tatlin

c)

a primary picture

d)

untitled (to Barnett Newman)

107.

When was this art piece created?

a)

1975

b)

1980

c)

1985

d)

1990

108.

What is the art medium of this painting?

a)

red, yellow, and blue fluorescent light

b)

pink, yellow, and blue fluorescent light

c)

pink, yellow, and purple fluorescent light

d)

red, yellow, and purple fluorescent light

109.

Who made this artpiece?

a)

Dan Flavin

b)

Alexander Calder

c)

Martin Puryear

d)

Edgar Degas

110.

What is the name of this art piece?

a)

"monument" for V. Tatlin

b)

untitled (to Piet Mondrian)

c)

a primary picture

d)

Jackpot

111.

When was this artpiece created?

a)

1962-1963

b)

1969-1970

c)

1981

d)

1956

112.

What is the art medium of this art piece?

a)

cool white fluorescent light

b)

oil on canvas

c)

white and gray fluorescent light

d)

gray fluorescent light

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