
Which artist featured violin cases, often empty, in his work?
Cézanne
Matisse
Manet
Corot
Whether in painting, sculpture or collage, how many guitars did Picasso create?
10-20
20-35
40-55
More than 60
In terms of portraiture, which of these composers is the odd one out?
Alban Berg
George Gershwin
Cole Porter
Arnold Schoenberg
Thomas Gainsborough painted one of the Bach family. Which?
JS Bach
WF Bach
CPE Bach
JC Bach
Who said, after hearing Wagner’s Lohengrin: 'I saw all my colours in spirit. Wild, almost crazy lines were sketched in front of me.'
Kandinsky
Gaugin
Van Gogh
Renoir
Igor Stravinsky was drawn, painted or photographed by all but one of the following. Which?
Pablo Picasso
Irving Penn
Edward Hopper
Robert Delaunay
Which 18th-century artist, an early member of the Royal Academy of Arts, had to make a choice between art and music as a career?
Angelica Kauffman
Joshua Reynolds
Mary Moser
Johann Zoffany
In 1949, Peter Brook directed a disastrous production of Richard Strauss’s Salome, designed by a well-known artist. Who was the artist?
Andy Warhol
Frida Kahlo
Max Ernst
Salvador Dalí
Who painted this much-loved lute-playing angel, now in Florence's Uffizi gallery?
Piero della Francesca
Rosso Fiorentino
Sandro Botticelli
Filippo Lippi
An image of the sea was reproduced on the 1905 edition of Debussy’s La Mer. Who was the original by?
Monet
Renoir
Hokusai
Toshi Yoshida
Mark-Anthony Turnage’s orchestral work Three Screaming Popes was named after a painting by who?
Francis Bacon
Joseph Beuys
Jeff Koons
Grayson Perry
Which French artist was Stravinsky commemorating in his Double Canon for String Quartet?
Pierre Bonnard
Nicolas Poussin
Raoul Dufy
Marcel Duchamp
In Paulo Veronese’s epic The Wedding Feast at Cana, an ensemble of artist-musicians is at the centre. Who is the man in red playing the violone (an early form of double bass)?
Tintoretto
Palladio
Titian
Veronese
The experimental French-American artist known as Arman was thought sacrilegious by some musicians. Why?
In an essay in the New Yorker, he declared John Cage a fraud, accusing him of plagiarism
He melted down brass instruments
He dismembered violins to reassemble as sculptures
He started booing during a performance of Bach's St John Passion in New York, seeking to disrupt it "as an artistic provocation"
Solutions
1:B - A famous example is his Interior with a Violin Case Nice, winter 1918-19, in the Museum of Modern Art (MoMa), New York , 2:D - The exact number is unknown. His love affair with the instrument continued throughout his life. One of the earliest depictions was The Old Guitarist (1903-4), from his blue period. Image: (Detail from) Guitar, 1926, by Pablo Picasso, 3:C - Because Gershwin painted Schoenberg, and Schoenberg painted Berg , 4:D - The 'London' Bach, Johann Christian, moved to England in 1762 and remained here until his death in 1782. Image: Portrait of Johann Christian Bach (1735-1782) by Thomas Gainsborough, (1727-88) , 5:A - Kandinsky's theory of colour was closely connected with music: he reportedly had synaesthesia, seeing colours when he heard music, and hearing music when he painted. Image: Petra Lang as Ortrud in Lohengrin, Royal Opera House, 2009, 6:C - Image: Photograph of Stravinsky by Arnold Newman, 1946, 7:A - A talented musician, the Swiss neo-classical painter depicted this dilemma in her 1794 work, in the National Trust collection at Nostell Priory, West Yorkshire. Image: Self Portrait of the Artist Hesitating Between the Arts of Music and Painting, 1794, by Angelica Kauffman, 8:D - The production, at what is now the Royal Opera House, was derided as a triumph of style over substance, with large head-pieces that reduced audibility. Image: Franz Lechleichner as Herod and Constance Shacklock as Herodias in the Covent Garden Opera production of 1949 , 9:B - Giovanni Battista di Jacopo, known as Rosso Fiorentino on account of his red hair, painted the musical angel, a fragment of an altarpiece, in c 1522. Image: Angel Playing the Lute, 1522, 10:C - It was Katshushika Hokusai's The Great Wave Off Kanagawa, completed between 1829-1833 , 11:A - Turnage saw Bacon’s painting, based on Pope Innocent X by Velázquez, at a Tate Gallery exhibition in 1985 and wanted to create that 'colouristic intensity and emotional immediacy' in his music , 12:C - The work's full title is Double Canon ('Raoul Dufy in Memoriam') String Quartet , 13:C - Veronese also portrayed himself, in white, playing the viola da gamba. Image: (Detail from) The Wedding Feast at Cana by Paulo Veronese, 1563, 14:C - Arman, a friend of Warhol, took instruments apart, once smashing a piano with an axe in the presence of violinist Yehudi Menuhin, in a work called For Chopin’s Waterloo
Scores
14 and above.
Congratulations. We declare you a Suprematist
13 and above.
Congratulations. We declare you a Suprematist
7 and above.
Impressionist
6 and above.
Impressionist
10 and above.
Abstract Expressionist
4 and above.
Dadaist
3 and above.
Dadaist
2 and above.
Dadaist
1 and above.
Dadaist
11 and above.
Abstract Expressionist
8 and above.
Impressionist
12 and above.
Abstract Expressionist
9 and above.
Impressionist
5 and above.
Impressionist
0 and above.
Dadaist
