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Q#00020 - Challenge Quiz
What was the name given to the group of expressionist artists formed in Dresden in 1905-6 by four architecture students; Kirchner, Heckel, Schmidt-Rottluff & Bleyl? This group wished to integrate art and life and to use art as a means of communication. One of their most important achievements was to revive the wood-cut as a form of art.
_ _ l _ _ r _  is the term describing art based on traditional designs (complete the missing letters). It is often associated with peasant villages and impresses by its fresh and direct approach.
Which German painter and designer (1888-1976) , who became and American citizen in 1939, was a veteran of the Bauhaus? He is well known for his explorations of harmony and proportion in abstract painting, seen in his famous sequence - Homage to the Square.
Which watercolour by Joseph Turner, painted about 1840, shows a lone dog on the shore howling, almost audibly, out over a turbulent sea?
Name the Romanian-French sculptor (1876-1957) who worked briefly with Rodin in 1906-7, and who was inspired by the primitivist carvings of African tribal sculpture as well as the rough-hewn works of his native Romanian folk art. Influenced also by Cubist art, his achievement was to abstract into three-dimensional stone or metal the essence of physical life. His most famous works include Sleeping Muse (1910); Bird in Space (1919) and The Kiss (1910).
Please provide the Title, Date & Artist of this painting of which only a portion is shown.
What is the name of the art prize (first awarded in 1897) which is judged simultaneously with the Archibald and Sulman prizes, given to the best landscape painting of Australian scenery in oils or watercolours, or for the best example of figure sculpture by an Australian artist?
American Gothic (1930) by Grant Wood is possibly the most well known painting in America alongside Whistlers' mother. The fame of this artwork has turned the small wooden-framed house, seen in the painting's background, into a tourist attraction. In which small American town in Southern Iowa is this house situated?
The nucleus of this famous museums' collection was assembled when Spain became a unitary state at the end of the 15th century. The collection includes works by masters such as Goya and Velazquez. What is the name of this famous museum?
What is the term (7 letters), derived from the Italian for 'smoke', used to describe the blending of tones so subtly that the transition is imperceptible. The artist most associated with this is Leonardo who said that light and shade should blend "without lines or borders, in the manner of smoke".
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