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Artists - Artists 2

Here is our second Picture Quiz looking at the wonderful world of Art. See how much you know about these ten famous Artists and their creations.

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  1. Damien Hirst had a number 2 hit 'Vindaloo' with which band?

    Photograph courtesy of averymccarthy.blogspot.com
    • Born: 7 June 1965
    • Place: Bristol, England
    • Nationality: British
    • He is internationally renowned and is reportedly Britain's richest living artist
    • In September 2008, he took an unprecedented move for a living artist by selling a complete show, Beautiful Inside My Head Forever, at Sotheby's by auction
    • The auction exceeded all predictions, raising £111 million

  2. Which painting by John Constable is often considered to be one of the greatest watercolours ever painted?

    Photograph courtesy of fabulousmasterpieces.co.uk
    • Born: 11 June 1776
    • Place: Suffolk, England
    • Nationality: English
    • He is known principally for his landscape paintings of Dedham Vale, the area surrounding his home - now known as 'Constable Country'
    • He was never financially successful and sold more paintings in France than England

  3. Where was Bridget Riley educated?

    Photograph courtesy of op-art.co.uk
    • Born: 24 April 1931
    • Place: Norwood, London
    • Nationality: British
    • Bridget is one of the foremost proponents of Op art
    • In 1968, Riley represented Great Britain in the Venice Biennale
    • She was the first British contemporary painter, and the first woman, to be awarded the prestigious International Prize for painting

  4. Who has described Tracey Emin as "William Blake as a woman, written by Mike Leigh"?

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    • Born: 3 July 1963
    • Place: Croydon, London
    • Nationality: British
    • In 1999, she was a Turner Prize nominee and exhibited My Bed
    • She represented Britain at the 2007 Venice Biennale
    • Tracey opened the Turner Contemporary art gallery in Margate with Jools Holland in April 2011
    • In December 2011, she was appointed Professor of Drawing at the Royal Academy
    • She is one of the first two female professors since the Academy was founded in 1768

  5. In 2005, which painting by J M W Turner was voted Britain's 'greatest painting' in a public poll organised by the BBC?

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    • Born: 23 April 1775
    • Place: Covent Garden, London
    • Nationality: British
    • He is commonly known as "the painter of light"
    • Turner left a small fortune when he died
    • A portion of the money went to the Royal Academy of Arts, which occasionally awards students the Turner Medal

  6. The design of the Mines of Moria in which film was largely inspired by M C Escher's work, in particular 'Relativity'?

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    • Born: 17 June 1898
    • Place: Leeuwarden, The Netherlands
    • Nationality: Dutch
    • He is known for his often mathematically inspired woodcuts, lithographs and mezzotints
    • These feature impossible constructions, explorations of infinity, architecture and tessellations
    • His artistic expression was created from images in his mind, rather than directly from observations

  7. In January 1968 which rock band paid tribute to L S Lowry in their single 'Pictures of Matchstick Men'?

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    • Born: 1 November 1887
    • Place: Stretford, Lancashire
    • Nationality: English
    • Lowry is famous for painting scenes of life in the industrial districts of Northern England during the early 20th century
    • He had a distinctive style of painting and is best known for urban landscapes peopled with human figures often referred to as 'matchstick men'

  8. Jackson Pollock's technique of pouring and dripping paint is thought to be one of the origins of which painting term?

    Photograph courtesy of ibiblio.org
    • Born: 28 January 1912
    • Place: Cody, Wyoming
    • Nationality: American
    • During his lifetime, Pollock enjoyed considerable fame and notoriety
    • He was regarded as a mostly reclusive artist
    • He had a volatile personality and struggled with alcoholism for most of his life

  9. In August 2004, Banksy produced a quantity of spoof £10 notes. Who did he replace the Queen's head with?

    Photograph courtesy of en.wikipedia.org
    • Born: Early 1970s
    • Place: Bristol, England
    • Nationality: British
    • Banksy is a pseudonymous graffiti artist, political activist, film director and painter
    • Artistic works of political and social commentary have been featured on streets, walls and bridges of cities throughout the world

  10. Wassily Kandinsky created ten 'Composition' paintings. What number is the one in the image shown?

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    • Born: 16 December 1866
    • Place: Moscow
    • Nationality: Russian
    • He is credited with painting the first purely-abstract works
    • He related that when in the Vologda region of Moscow, the houses and churches were decorated with such shimmering colours that upon entering them, he felt that he was moving into a painting
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