WQC PAINTING Flashcards
Isle of the Dead painter
Arnold BOCKLIN
Inspiring a poetry collection by John Ashbery, who painted Self Portrait in a Convex Mrror?
PARMIGIANINO
Italian Jesuit priest founded Cusco school in Peru
BERNARDO BITTI
WHAT ART DEALER AND BIOGRAPHER was the subject of portraits by Paul Cezanne and Pierre-Auguste Renoir? Most famously, he was the first art dealer to put on an exhibition by Pablo Picasso, who later created a set of 100 etchings commonly nicknamed for him.
Ambroise VOLLARD
In 2009, WHAT GRAPHIC DESIGNER became the first commercial artist to be awarded the NEA’s National Medal of Arts? He is best known for creating the I <3 New York logo and the DC Comics logo.
MILTON GLASER
The shirt shown here, from the Fall 2018 Menswear collection by Wales Bonner, uses (with permission) imagery from the Migration Series by WHICH AFRICAN AMERICAN ARTIST? His collection of works at the MoMA is among the largest of any artist.
Jacob LAWRENCE
The painting shown here, depicting Monika Sing-Lee and titled Chinese Girl, is one of the bestselling mass produced art prints of the 20th century, described by the Independent as the “Mona Lisa of kitsch”. WHICH RUSSIAN-BORN SOUTH AFRICAN ARTIST created it?
Vladimir TRECHIKOFF
In the second half of the 1920s, which Minsk born expressionist artist of Lithuanian origin, painted a series of Altar Boys
cHAIM SOUTINE
was a Spanish painter, best known as the teacher and father-in-law of Diego Velázquez and Alonzo Cano, and for his textbook on painting, entitled Art of Painting, that is an important source for the study of 17th-century practice in Spain. He is described by some as the “Vasari of Seville”: vocal and didactic about his theories of painting and thoughts about painters, conventional and uninspired in his executions
Francisco PACHECO
an English artist and poet, and an active communist in the 1930s. A number of his paintings are in the Tate Gallery. Died in Burma 1944
Clive BRANSON
The only painting by Leonardo da Vinci on public display in the Americas is this portrait of which woman on show at the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC?
Ginevra de benei
Who photographed William Gladstone and Queen Victoria, as well as the portrait that forms the basis of the ‘Lord Kitchener Wants You!’ poster?
Alexander BASSANO
Whose 1794 portrait of Sarah Barrett Moulton, traditionally known as ‘Pinkie’, hangs opposite Gainsborough’s ‘The Blue Boy’ in the Huntingdon Library in San Marino, California?
Thomas LAWRENCE
Which painter — born in Milan in 1910 — achieved renown with two portraits of the Queen, in 1956 and 1969?
Pietro ANNIGONI
Which Hungarian artist — the leader of the avant-garde Group of Eights — painted ‘Sleeping Lady With Black Vase’, which was thought lost until spotted in the background of ‘Stuart Little’?
Robert BERENY
