Regeneration NE: Trivia Quiz

1. Name the artist who painted this work called 'The Mural, 1943'.

Pablo Picasso

Jackson Pollock

Henri Matisse

Wassily Kandinsky

2. Name the pigment.

Ultramarine

Alizarin crimson

Raw Sienna

Verdigris

3. Name this character created and drawn by American cartoonist, Jim Davis (born 1945).

Heathcliff

Felix

Henry's Cat

Garfield

4. Christopher Ofili, (born 1968) is a British Turner Prize-winning painter who is known for his paintings incorporating what unusual medium?

Vegetable peelings

Toe nail clippings

Elephant poo

Hair plugs extracted from plug holes

5. In 2010, which of these visual artists brought an exhibition to the Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens, called Retrospective?

Gilbert and George

Chapman Brothers

Bob and Roberta Smith

The Singh Twins

6. There is evidence of drawing inks dating back to 3000 B.C. in China. What are the basic ingredients for Chinese or Indian ink?

Soot and water

Earth and alcohol

Dried animal blood and ammonia from urine

Iron filings and water

7. In the late 1700's, Thomas Reeves set up a company which sold artists' colours. What was his original trade (listed in directories of the time)?

Chemist

Scale maker

Teacher

Goldsmith

8. Who is the artist of this sketch of a seated male nude?

Lucian Freud

Francis Bacon

L. S. Lowry

Sir Stanley Spencer

9. Yayoi Kusama (born 1929) is a Japanese contemporary artist who works primarily in sculpture and installation, and is sometimes known as 'The Princess of...' what?

Textiles

The colour pink

Printmaking

Polkadots

10. After ten years of planning and a capital investment of £50m, including £33.4m from the Arts Council Lottery Fund, the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, opened to the public. In what year?

1997

2002

2004

1984

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