Art - general knowledge / pub quiz Flashcards
What was Picasso’s Guernica about?
About the bombing of Guernica , a Basque Country village in northern Spain , by German and Italian warplanes at the request of the Spanish Nationalists .
Upon completion, Guernica was displayed around the world in a brief tour, becoming famous and widely acclaimed, and believed to have helped bring worldwide attention to the Spanish Civil War .
How many wives & children did Pablo Picasso have?
Picasso had two wives
1. Olga - a ballerina
- Jacqueline
Mistress - Marie-Therese.
He had 4 children by 3 women.
les Demoiselles d’Avignon
Picasso
Painting of a brothel - nudity that was aggressive.
What 2 Picasso watercolours were stolen & sold to Russian billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev?
- Woman Arranging Her Hair
- Spanish Woman with a Fan
Bought from from art merchant Yves Bouvier.
Bought by Dmitry Rybolovlev for €27m (£20m) in 2013.
Mr Rybolovlev (who owns Monaco football club), handed over the two paintings to French authorities as they investigating whether they were stolen.
Feud between art-dealer and Picasso’s step-daughter, Catherine Hutin-Blay.
Her mother posed for the paintings,
Catherine Hutin-Blay says they were stolen from her private collection two years ago.
Bouvier’s Singapore bank accounts were frozen for a while, but this was overturned by a judge.
http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/sep/25/russian-billionaire-picassos-art-dealer-feud
Francisco Goya
Spanish painter. Very graphic with his depiction of damaged bodies in bullfighting.
What was the name of Picasso’s Croatian mistress.
Dora - Croatian photographer and surrealist.
Legend has it they met whilst she was showing a challenge of stabbing a knife along her hand (between her fingers). She stabbed her hand & Picasso reportedly offered to buy the bloodied glove.
His other mistress - Marie-Therese had just given bed to his child.
A replica of Picasso’s Guernica was covered up where & when?
At the United Nations in New York.
Colin Powell had just argued for the invasion of Iraq at the UN.
The press conference was due to be held afterwards, but a large reproduction of Guernica was on the wall.
It was covered up by a blue drape for the interview.
When were the Chauvet cave paleolithic drawings discovered?
December 18, 1994.
- granted World Heritage status on June 22, 2014
What types of animals are drawn in the Chauvet Cave?
at least 13 different species.
Hundreds of animal paintings
Not just depicting herbivores that dominate cave art (horses, cattle, mammoths etc) it also includes predatory animals: cave lions, panthers, bears, cave hyenas & rhinoceroses (rhino is unconfirmed).
These are rarely or never found in other ice age paintings.
