Dunedin Public Art Gallery Quiz

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1. What was the name of a major survey exhibition of artist Seraphine Pick developed and toured by Christchurch Art Gallery in 2009/10?

Tell Me Why

Tell me More

Tell Me Later

Tell Me a Story

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2. What 19th century art critic famously compared Whistler's Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket to "flinging a pot of paint in the public's face"?

Lucy Lippard

Nigel Benson

Kenneth Clark

John Ruskin

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3. What was Rembrandt’s first name?

Rijn

Harmenszoon

Everdt

Rembrandt

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4. What triggered Frida Kahlo’s decision to become an artist?

A meeting with Picasso

A dream

The death of her father

A traffic accident

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5. What part of Michelangelo’s David was removed by a vandal?

Ear

Toe

Genitalia

Nose

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6. In what year did artist Shane Cotton receive the Frances Hodgkins Fellowship?

1995

1997

1998

2000

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7. What landmark work came about from a friend's request for a self-portrait of Rene Magritte?

The Son of Man

The Red Model

Black Magic

Evil of the Country

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8. Where was artist Grahame Sydney born?

Bendigo

Dunedin

Geraldine

Christchurch

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9. Which mythological creature replaced the harlequin as Picasso’s favourite subject during the 1930s?

The Siren

The Minotaur

The Medusa

The Cyclops

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10. In what year did Frances Hodgkins first exhibit her work in London?

1920

1912

1902

1922

Dunedin Public Art Gallery Quiz

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* 1. What was the name of a major survey exhibition of artist Seraphine Pick developed and toured by Christchurch Art Gallery in 2009/10?

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* 2. What 19th century art critic famously compared Whistler's Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket to "flinging a pot of paint in the public's face"?

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* 3. What was Rembrandt’s first name?

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* 4. What triggered Frida Kahlo’s decision to become an artist?

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* 5. What part of Michelangelo’s David was removed by a vandal?

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* 6. In what year did artist Shane Cotton receive the Frances Hodgkins Fellowship?

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* 7. What landmark work came about from a friend's request for a self-portrait of Rene Magritte?

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* 8. Where was artist Grahame Sydney born?

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* 9. Which mythological creature replaced the harlequin as Picasso’s favourite subject during the 1930s?

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* 10. In what year did Frances Hodgkins first exhibit her work in London?

1. What was the name of a major survey exhibition of artist Seraphine Pick developed and toured by Christchurch Art Gallery in 2009/10?

2. What 19th century art critic famously compared Whistler's Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket to "flinging a pot of paint in the public's face"?

3. What was Rembrandt’s first name?

4. What triggered Frida Kahlo’s decision to become an artist?

5. What part of Michelangelo’s David was removed by a vandal?

6. In what year did artist Shane Cotton receive the Frances Hodgkins Fellowship?

7. What landmark work came about from a friend's request for a self-portrait of Rene Magritte?

8. Where was artist Grahame Sydney born?

9. Which mythological creature replaced the harlequin as Picasso’s favourite subject during the 1930s?

10. In what year did Frances Hodgkins first exhibit her work in London?