Picasso Quiz

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Picasso Quiz

• Created by Ms. Mulry

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First Question

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Picasso was born in Spain, but he spent most of
his life in which country?
A) France
B) America
C) Italy
D) The Netherlands
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Picasso was born Pablo Ruiz in Malaga, Spain.
He later adopted his mothers more
distinguished maiden name, Picasso, as his own.
Though Spanish by birth, Picasso lived most of
his life in France.
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Question 2

• The Old Guitarist was painted during which
  period?
• A) Picassos Blue Period
• B) Picassos Rose Period
• C) Picassos Cubist Period
• D) Picassos Construction
• Period

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Second Question Correct
Correct! The Old Guitarist was Painted during
Picassos Blue Period(1901-1903)
From 1901 to 1903 Picasso initiated his first
truly original style, which is known as the blue
period. Restricting his color scheme to blue,
Picasso depicted emaciated and forlorn figures
whose body language and clothing bespeak the
lowliness of their social status. In The Old
Guitarist (1903, Art Institute of Chicago,
Illinois), Picasso emphasized the guitarists
poverty and position as a social outcast, which
he reinforced by surrounding the figure with a
black outline, as if to cut him off from his
environment. The guitarist is compressed within
the canvas (no room is left in the painting for
the guitarist to raise his lowered head),
suggesting his helplessness The guitarist is
trapped within the frame just as he is trapped by
his poverty. Although Picasso underscored the
squalor of his figures during this period,
neither their clothing nor their environment
conveys a specific time or place. This lack of
specificity suggests that Picasso intended to
make a general statement about human alienation
rather than a particular statement about the
lower class in Paris.
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The Old Guitarist 1901
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Question 3
Clowns and Picasso
Picasso may have felt an especially deep sympathy
for circus performers. Like artists, they were
paid to entertain society, but their itinerant
lifestyle and status as outsiders prevented them
from becoming an integral part of the social
fabric. It was this situation that made the sad
clown an important figure in the popular
imagination. Paid to make people laugh, he must
keep hidden his real existence and true feelings.
Living a life of financial insecurity himself,
Picasso no doubt empathized with these
performers.
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Question 3
What is the Name of This Painting?
A) Two Acrobats and a Dog 1905 The Museum of
Modern Art

• Sad Clowns
• 1903 The Louvre

• Guys on the Blue Street
• 1920 The Getty

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3rd Question Correct!
Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881?1973. To France
1904.) Two Acrobats with a Dog. spring 1905
Gouache on cardboard, 41 1/2 x 29 1/2" (105.5 x
75 cm)? The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. William A. M. Burden
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Question 4
Many scholars have called this painting the mark
of a new visual language.
C)
A)
B)
D)
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Question 4 Correct!
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For many scholars, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon,
with its fragmented planes, flattened figures,
and borrowings from African masks, marks the
beginning of the new visual language, known as
cubism.
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The End
Picasso Quiz by Erin Mulry ?2007
Read for More Enrichment Synthetic Cubism to
Analytical Cubism (50 points Extra
Credit!!!!!!!!!!!!) write 1-2 page summary,
comparing synthetic cubism to analytical cubism
Credits Encarta.msn.com MOMA