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Art and Sculpture Flashcards

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Which museum of art and culture in Saint Petersburg was founded in 1764 by Catherine the Great and has been open to the public since 1852?

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Hermitage

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Whose works include The Burghers of Calais The Thinker and The Kiss?

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Auguste Rodin

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A branch of the Tate and the Barbara Hepworth Museum and Sculpture Garden can both be found in which town in Cornwall?

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St Ives

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Completed in 1998 what is the name of the 20 metres tall steel sculpture by Anthony Gormley which overlooks the A1 near Gateshead?

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Angel Of The North

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The term ‘Impressionism’ was coined by act critic Louis Leroy after seeing Impression Sunrise by which artist?

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Claude Monet

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Who created a bronze statue of David (c. 1440s) which is housed in the Museo Nazionale del Bargello in Florence?

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Donatello

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Which American artist is known for working with popular culture subjects and his reproductions of banal objects – such as balloon animals produced in stainless steel with mirror-finish surfaces one of which sold for $58 million in 2013?

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Jeff Koons

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Best known for his semi-abstract monumental bronze sculptures who was born in Yorkshire and died in 1986 aged 88?

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Henry Moore

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Apollo and Daphne The Rape of Proserpina and Ecstasy of Saint Teresa are works by which Italian credited with creating the Baroque style of sculpture?

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Gian Lorenzo Bernini

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Which art movement with a name taken from the French for “wild beasts” was led by Henri Matisse and Andre Derain?

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Fauvism

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Work on which art museum in Florence was begun by Giorgio Vasari in 1560 for Cosimo I de’ Medici?

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Uffizi

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The two most expensive sculptures ever sold Pointing Man and The Walking Man I were both created by which Swiss sculptor?

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Alberto Giacometti

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Which museum in Paris which holds mainly French art dating from 1848 to 1914 is housed in a former Beaux-Arts railway station built in 1898?

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Musee D’orsay

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Who sculpted the Statue of Zeus at Olympia which was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World?

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Phidias

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Seen on the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square from 2005 to 2007 who sculpted the marble torso-bust Alison Lapper Pregnant?

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Marc Quinn

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In which city is the Whitney Museum of American Artlocated?

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New York

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The Laughing Cavalier by Frans Hals is part of which art collection in London?

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Wallace Collection

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What is the English translation of the German “entartete Kunst” a term adopted by the Nazi regime in Germany to describe virtually all modern art?

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Degenerate Art

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Alexander Calder was an American sculptor known as the originator of what type of moving sculpture made with delicately balanced or suspended shapes that move in response to touch or air currents?

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Mobile

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Which provincial art movement was founded in 1803 by the landscape artists John Crome and Robert Ladbrooke?

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Norwich School

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Acting as Royal Sculptor to Queen Elizabeth II who created a 6 metre tall bronze statue of Bobby Moore which was erected outside the new Wembley Stadium in 2007?

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Philip Jackson

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In which city is the Mauritshaus which houses the Royal Cabinet of Paintings which consists of 841 objects mostly Dutch Golden Age paintings?

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The Hague

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Also called dramatic illumination which style of painting uses very pronounced chiaroscuro where there are violent contrasts of light and dark?

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Tenebrism

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Rock Drill was a radical work by which British sculptor who was born in New York in 1880?

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Jacob Epstein

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Which international art movement was founded in 1999 by Billy Childish and Charles Thomson to promote figurative painting as opposed to conceptual art?

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Stuckism

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Guernica by Pablo Picasso is housed in which museum in Madrid which is Spain’s national museum of 20th century art?

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Reina Sofia

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Who created a bronze statue based on William Blake’s study of Isaac Newton which is located in the piazza of the British Library?

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Eduardo Paolozzi

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What nationality was Constantin Brâncuși whose works include Bird in Space?

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Romanian

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Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot and Jean-François Millet were leading figures in which art movement named after a village near Fontainebleau Forest?

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Barbizon School

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Which sculpture by Michelangelo housed in St. Peter’s Basilica Vatican City suffered substantial damage when attacked by Laszlo Toth with a geologist’s hammer in 1972?

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Pieta

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In 1932 Eric Gill produced a group of sculptures including Prospero and Ariel for which building in London?

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Broadcasting House

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Founded by Thomas Cole which mid-19th century American art movement was embodied by a group of landscape painters including Frederic Church?

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Hudson River School

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In 1863 Napoleon III instituted which exhibition containing all the works that the Paris Salon had rejected that year?

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Salon Des Refuses

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Which artistic movement was launched by Italian writer Filippo Tommaso Marinetti in a manifesto published in 1909 in La gazzetta dell’Emilia?

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Futurism

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Die Brucke (The Bridge) was a German Expressionist art movement founded by four students of architecture including Ernst Kirchner in which city in 1905?

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Dresden

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Which permanent fast-drying painting medium consists of coloured pigment mixed with a water-soluble binder medium such as egg yolk?

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Tempera

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The Strand block of Somerset House designed by William Chambers has housed which art museum since 1989?

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Courtauld Institute

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The subject of an eponymous opera by Hector Berlioz which goldsmith and sculptor is best known for a salt cellar completed in 1543 for Francis I of France?

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Benvenuto Cellini

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A term also used in electrical engineering what name is given to the framework around which a sculpture is built?

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Armature

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Which American minimalist sculptor created sculptural objects and installations from commercially available fluorescent light fixtures which he called “icons”?

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Dan Flavin

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From a French word originally meaning “varnishing” what term is used for a preview of an art exhibition which may be private before the formal opening?

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Vernissage

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Tubism is a term coined by the art critic Louis Vauxcelles in 1911 to describe the style of which French artist whose version of Cubism emphasized cylindrical shapes?

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Fernand Leger

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The Yellow Christ by Paul Gauguin is often cited as a quintessential work of which style of post-Impressionist painting with bold forms separated by dark contours?

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Cloisonnism

44
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The Armory Show the first modern art exhibition in New York was held in which year?

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1913

45
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What is the name of the sculpture by Damien Hirst which consists of a platinum cast of an 18th century human skull encrusted with 8601 flawless diamonds?

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For The Love Of God

46
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Often called ‘The Wanderers’ in English what name was given to the group of Russian realist artists who formed an artists’ cooperative in protest of academic restrictions in the 1870s?

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Peredvizhniki

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What was the name of the short-lived (1914–15) literary magazine of the Vorticist movement in Britain?

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Blast

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Which controversial work by Carl Andre consisting of 120 firebricks arranged in two layers was first exhibited at the Tate Gallery in 1976?

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Equivalent Viii

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Which art movement was introduced in Italy during the period of upheaval at the end of the 1960s when artists were taking a radical stance? The term was coined by Italian art critic Germano Celant and Alighiero Boetti was a member of the movement.

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Arte Povera

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Who was the designer and sculptor of the unfinished Crazy Horse Memorial in South Dakota who died in 1982?

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Korczak Ziolkowski

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