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Joseph Mallord William Turner

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What was Turner's style?

a)

Crazy lunatic

b)

Realistic

c)

Impressionistic

d)

Free atmospheric

2.

Queen Victoria labeled Turner as..

a)

Genius

b)

Talented

c)

mental

d)

lunatic

3.

Turner was considered...

a)

Eccentric

b)

decades ahead of any other artist of his generation

c)

riddled with fear

d)

a playboy

4.

Turner was criticized for leaving out detail to which he replied..

a)

I paint what I paint

b)

I paint what I see, not what I know

c)

art is in the eye of the beholder

d)

I am my own painter

5.

Turner's art was not exact but...

a)

an impression that those objects caused in the painters mind

b)

impressionistic

c)

a representation of the scene

d)

left the viewer feeling the scene

6.

Joseph William Turner was called a..

a)

dreamer

b)

precocious painter and brilliant student

c)

lazy student

d)

critic

7.

Where did he first study painting?

a)

Amsterdam

b)

Paris

c)

London

d)

Madrid

8.

From the beginning his paintings and watercolours were..

a)

Criticized

b)

disregarded

c)

valuable

d)

admired

9.

Turner painted several..

a)

historical scenes

b)

portraits

c)

stillscapes

d)

war scenes

10.

Turner went to..... to get more inspiration for his works

a)

Russia

b)

Spain

c)

Italy

d)

France

11.

At the end of his career in Venice Turner..

a)

did not paint

b)

died

c)

created his best paintings with oil and watercolour

d)

went crazy

12.

He painted many...

a)

seascapes

b)

landscapes

c)

stillscapes

d)

portraits

13.

This picture is..

a)

final work

b)

representation of light and atmospheric effects

c)

american landscape

d)

when he went crazy

14.

At the end of his career it was believed that he was...

a)

crazy

b)

a lunatic

c)

beginning to experience dementia

d)

happy

15.

J.M.W. Turner, England's most famous painter lived from...

a)

1685-1742

b)

1456-1521

c)

1875-1943

d)

1775-1851