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The Art Quiz
QM: ANIRBAN BISWAS
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Q#1.
Details of one 1998 work
from Ganesh Pyne’s
workbook, painted upon a
graph paper with mixed
media.
Whom did he portrayed?
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A#1.
Banalata Sen
Other than Satyajit Ray, there
are many modern
representations of Banalata
Sen including Pyne’s.
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Q#2.
The School of Athens is one of the most famous frescos,
painted by Raphael upon a commission from Vatican.
In the painting, you will see almost all the famous
philosophers Greece had ever produced. Aristotle,
Plato, Euclid, Pythagoras and Socrates to name a few.
At the centre, we can see a young Aristotle is standing
with an older Plato. Upon whom Raphael modeled his
Plato?
(picture next slide)
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A#2
Leonardo Da Vinci
Raphael incorporated many of
his contemporaries in the
painting including Da Vinci,
Michelangelo and himself.
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Q#3.
Commissioned on
November 26, 1949, the
decorative edition of the
Constitution of India was
written and illustrated by
hand and took five years
to complete.
The calligraphy was done
by Prem Behari Narain
Raizda. Who did the
illustrations?
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A#3.
Nandalal Bose
The illustrations represent
motifs from the different
civilizations of the
subcontinent, from
Mohenjodaro to present.
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Q#4.
Hong Yi is a Malaysian born
artist, who is also known as
a painter who 'paints
without a paintbrush’.
Most famous in this genre is
the portrait of the
Taiwanese singer-
songwriter Jay Chou.
What had been used to
paint the portrait?
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Q#5.
The Age of Bronze is a seminal
work by Auguste Rodin. This life
sized bronze sculpture of a
naked man is often lauded for
its realistic details.
Upon its display in Paris in
1877, it created a scandal when
critics accused Rodin of
something.
What was Rodin accused of?
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A#5.
Murdering the model.
The statue was so realistic that some critics
believed Rodin actually made the cast directly
upon the model, a charge Rodin denied
vigorously.
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Q#6.
Connect this MF Hussain painting with
the 2008 Hindi film.
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A#6.
Safdar Hashmi
The painting was titled Safdar
Hashmi and dated ‘2 Jan, ’89’,
the day Hashmi was
murdered. The Hindi film
was named after the street
play, which he was
performing during his death.
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Q#7.
Regime changes, so do portraits. We have seen this
change in our Govt. offices, where currently Pranab
Mukherjee and Narendra Modi are decorating the
walls.
Long back in Rome, artistes found a way to do
away the statues of old rulers and persons in
disfavour.
What brilliant idea they came up with?
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A#7.
Statues with detachable
heads.
Now that's what I call
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.
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Q#8.
Jacopo Comin was a Venetian
painter and a notable figure in
the late Renaissance period.
In this part of the world
however, he was popular for a
certain painting, he not even
painted.
Which painting, I am talking
about?
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A#8.
Tintorettor Jishu from the Feluda novel of the same
name.
Tintoretto was the nickname of Jacopo Comin and though
he was famous painting Jesus, he did not painted any
such portrait of Jesus as described and illustrated in the
story by Satyajit Ray.
While adapting the story for his film, Sandip Ray used a
Renaissance-ish copy of his father’s illustration.
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Q#9.
A still from the Malayalam
movie Makaramanju (2010).
Directed by Lenin Rajendran,
this is the first biopic of an
Indian artist, played by
Santhosh Sivan in his debut
appearance.
Which artist I am talking
about?
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A#9.
Raja Ravi Varma
Later played by Randeep Hooda in more popular Rang
Rasiya (2014)
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Q#10.
Bak was the chief sculptor to
the pharaoh Akhenaten.
Whom we see along with his
wife Teheri in this work , kept
in the Egyptian Museum,
Berlin.
Dated back from 1365 BC, this
is considered the earliest
surviving example of what?
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A#10.
Self portraits
It is the first self portrait
in the history of arts.
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Q#11.
Details from The Stag.
For this sculpture,
Great Britain won the
silver medal in1948
London Olympic
Games (the last time
Olympic Committee
gave away arts
medals).
Who was the artist?
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A#11.
Chintamoni Kar
Though India was
independent by that time, Kar
sent his work some time
before, making him registered
as a British.
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Q#12.
Haiga is a style of Japanese
painting that was developed
during the first half of the 17th
century.
They deals with a certain topic,
painted in a minimalistic
approach.
What do they usually contain
with?
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A#12.
A haiku.
Haiga are painted to depict the haiku poems they
accompany with.
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Q#13.
William G Archer was a British colonial officer, posted in
Bihar. While inspecting the damages caused by the great
Bihar earthquake of 1934, he saw something in the
interior walls of the now damaged houses.
As an art fanatic, he was struck by the similarities of what
he saw to the works of Miro and Picasso and immediately
took some B&W photos of them.
What did he saw?
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A#13.
Madhubani
paintings.
It was through him
that the world
‘rediscovered’ the art
of the Madhubani
paintings, which was
usually painted in the
interior walls during
the marriages in the
Mithila region.
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Q#14.
While studying the history of
the western arts, one may
notice that the painters
started to leave their studios
by 1850 to paint in outdoors.
As a result the landscapes
thrived, bright colours started
to appear. All these ultimately
led the way to Impressionism.
Which important1841
invention made it possible?
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A#14.
Paint tubes.
Before its invention, painters
had to carry their paints in a
pig’s bladder. Which were
non airtight and vulnerable
to puncture. Paint tubes
made them handy to carry.
Renoir once said, “without
the paints in tubes, there will
be no Impressionism”.
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Q#15.
Camembert is a type of soft,
creamy cheese, made from the
cow’s milk and primarily
produced in Normandy.
About which famous 1931
painting, its painter once said it
was inspired by ‘the surrealist
perception of a Camembert
melting in the sun’?
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A#15.
The Persistence of
Memory .
When asked if the
melting clocks have
anything to do with
Theory of Relativity,
Salvador Dali said
that.
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Q#16.
Commissioned by
Boroline, this 30 ft tall
fiberglass statue was
inaugurated in 1987.
Who was the sculptor?
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A#16.
Shanu Lahiri
The statue was called Parama
and was situated at the
Parama Island at EM Bypass.
The statue was demolished
overnight on 25th November,
2014 by KMDA, as they
thought the work is ‘too old!
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Q#17.
Shah Jahan, Standing with a
Flower and a Sword is a 1654
miniature drawing.
Drawn with brown ink upon
the Japanese paper, the
drawing is a part of 25
Mughal drawings from the
notebook of which painter?
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A#17.
Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn
Rembrandt was fascinated by
the exotic Mughal miniatures,
that he saw in a Dutch
collection , depicting the
contemporary Mughal ruler of
the era, Shah Jehan.
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Q#18.
Drowning Girl is a 1963 oil and
acrylic on canvas painting by
Roy Lichtenstein.
Housed at the Museum of
Modern Arts, this painting is
thought to be one of the iconic
work in pop-art.
This is the first painting to
introduce something in it.
What?
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A#18.
Speech balloons.
This is the first painting to incorporate the speech
balloons as in the comic books.
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A#19.
Nataraj statue.
The particular pose of Lord Shiva, as
we found in all Nataraj statues, comes
from the depiction of a dancing Shiva
on the walls of Chidambaram temple,
Tamil Nadu (top left).
In 2004, one 2m long Nataraj statue
was famously unveiled at CERN,
Geneva (bottom left).
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Q#20.
For nearly four centuries, the origin of the pigment Indian yellow was a
mystery to the western art world.
In the year 1886, a Royal Society of Arts representative was sent to
Munger, Bihar to investigate.
There, he met a small group of cattle owners and from them, found out
the secret of making Indian yellow.
Which main ingredient was required?
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A#20.
Cow urine
A cow was fed on only mango
leaves and water, its urine
collected and dried up to
make crystals.
Once known, its use lessened
and soon became prohibited
by the laws against cruelty to
animals.
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