Ma Jolie

Question 0

Who did the earliest training of Picasso in the arts?

Answer 0

His father Jose Ruiz y Blasco who was an art professor

Question 1

Where was Picasso born and when?

Answer 1

Malaga, Spain 1881

Question 2

When did Picasso enroll in the Royal Academy of San Fernando in Madrid?

Answer 2

When he was 16 years old

Question 3

What was Picasso’s new individual style influenced by at the end of the 19th century?

Answer 3

By Symbolism and Art Nouveau and also the works of El Greco and Francisco Goya

Question 4

When did Picasso make his first trip to Paris?

Answer 4

In 1900

Question 5

When was Picasso’s Blue Period?

Answer 5

From 1901 to 1904

Question 6

What do Picasso’s paintings from his Blue Period focus on?

Answer 6

On the human figure

Question 7

What is one of Picasso’s most recognizable work from his Blue Period?

Answer 7

The Old Guitarist

Question 8

When was Picasso’s Rose Period?

Answer 8

From 1904 to 1906

Question 9

What were Picasso’s subjects during his Rose Period?

Answer 9

Acrobats and harlequins

Question 10

Who did Picasso travel with to Catalonia in the summer of 1906?

Answer 10

Fernande Olivier

Question 11

Who did Picasso begin a close association with in 1908?

Answer 11

Georges Braquee

Question 12

What did Braque and Picasso create?

Answer 12

Cubism

Question 13

Why did the collaboration between Picasso and Braque end in 1914?

Answer 13

Because Braque enlisted in the army

Question 14

Where did Picasso get a chance to see artworks from Africa and the Pacific Islands?

Answer 14

At the Ethnographic Museum of the Rocadero in Paris

Question 15

The influences of art from Africa and the Pacific in Picasso’s paintings were made obvious in what painting?

Answer 15

His 1907 Les Demoiselles D’Avignon

Question 16

What piece can be seen as a foundational piece in the development of Cubism?

Answer 16

Les Demoiselles D’Avignon

Question 17

Who did Picasso begin a close association with in 1916?

Answer 17

Sergei Diaghilev

Question 18

Who did Picasso marry?

Answer 18

Olga Koklova

Question 19

What was the exception to Picasso’s refusal to express his political beliefs through his art?

Answer 19

Guernica 1937 which depicted the bombing of civilians during the Spanish Civil War

Question 20

Where was Guernica viewed?

Answer 20

At the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Museum of Modern Art in New York

Question 21

What was one of Picasso’s most famous sculptures?

Answer 21

The Chicago Picasso located in Daley Plaza, Chicago

Question 22

What is Ma Jolie?

Answer 22

My pretty girl, the refrain from a popular song as well as Picasso’s nickname for his lover at that time, Marcelle Humbert

Question 23

When did Marcelle Humbert die?

Answer 23

In 1915 of tuberculosis

Question 24

What colors were used in Ma Jolie?

Answer 24

Grays, browns, and cream-colored highlights as well as black lines

Question 25

What can we see in Ma Jolie?

Answer 25

A triangle in the lower right section of the painting, six vertical strings in the center of the compositions as well as four fingers, part of an arm and a bent elbow to the right of the triangle

Question 26

When was Ma Jolie painted and what have art historians labeled the piece?

Answer 26

It was painted from 1911 to 1912 and has been labeled as High Analytic Cubism

Question 27

When did Cubism flourish?

Answer 27

From 1908 to 1914

Question 28

When was Analytic Cubism?

Answer 28

The works of Picasso and Braque from 1909 to 1911

Question 29

What was Analytic Cubism?

Answer 29

Where paintings based on traditional subjects dissected the formal elements of these subjects and placed them rearranged on the canvas

Question 30

When was Synthetic Cubism?

Answer 30

In 1912

Question 31

What was Synthetic Cubism?

Answer 31

When the artists incorporate objects such as wallpaper, newspapers and fabrics into multimedia works

Question 32

What artists besides Braque and Picasso were involved in Cubism?

Answer 32

Juan Gris and Fernand Legar

Question 33

What four movements did Cubism influence?

Answer 33

Constructivism, Futurism, Dada and Surrealism

Question 34

What Mexican muralist painter was inspired by the formal qualities of Cubism?

Answer 34

Diego Rivera

Question 35

Who was Picasso married to when he died?

Answer 35

Jacqueline Roque

Question 36

What salon did the group of artists identified as Cubists participate in?

Answer 36

Salle 41 at the 1911 Salon des Independents

Question 37

When was Ma Jolie?

Answer 37

In 1911 and 1912

Question 38

Who did Picasso study under his father?

Answer 38

The works by the Old Masters and drawing from plaster copies of Ancient Greek and Roman sculptures

Question 39

What did the Royal Academy of San Fernando place an emphasis on?

Answer 39

The naturalistic depiction of space and idealized representations of the human body

Question 40

Where did Picasso and Olivier go in 1906?

Answer 40

To Catalonia

Question 41

What did Picasso paint in the years after World War One?

Answer 41

A more classical style, often depicting women in classical poses

Question 42

What two mediums did Picasso use for reductive works?

Answer 42

Wood and stone

Question 43

What was Chicago Picasso a challenge to?

Answer 43

Traditional public statues in Chicago which generally represented famous individuals in a naturalistic fashion

Question 44

How many marriages did Picasso have?

Answer 44

Two

Question 45

Who did Picasso like to affairs with?

Answer 45

His models

Question 46

Picasso has become the stereotype of the?

Answer 46

Bohemian male artist

Question 47

Who was Picasso married to when he died in 1973?

Answer 47

Jacqueline Roque

Question 48

What was Marcelle Humbert better known as?

Answer 48

Eva Gouel

Question 49

What do black lines in Ma Jolie create?

Answer 49

Geometric shapes

Question 50

Where does the text that spells Ma Jolie lie in the composition?

Answer 50

At the bottom center of the composition

Question 51

Which side of the composition in Ma Jolie is darker?

Answer 51

The upper left which when paired with the light cream-colored highlights on the right creates a sense of depth

Question 52

What did Picasso try to question with Ma Jolie?

Answer 52

The value of representing three-dimensional space and the significance of a painted image of a person

Question 53

What salon did Cubism appear at?

Answer 53

Salle 41 at the Salon des Independents

Question 54

What Mexican muralist painter was inspired by the formal qualities of Cubism?

Answer 54

Diego Rivera

Question 55

How did Diego Rivera encounter Cubism?

Answer 55

While living in Paris during World War One