Monday 14 December 2009

Answers to Picasso's quiz

Dear friends,

These are the answers to Picasso's quiz. Thanks for having a go and hope you have all of them right!!

1. true
2. false, Malaga is the capital of the Costa del Sol.
3. true
4. true
5. true
6. true
7. false, during the blue period Picasso painted beggars, blind people, poor friends, himself. The colour blue dominated his paintings during this period and the color blue sygnifies misery and despair.
8. true
9. false, Picasso is best known in relation to Cubism.
10. true
11. true
12. false, he painted the 'Guernica' after the bombings of the Basque town of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War.

London Teamxx

Thursday 10 December 2009

Polish students at work







We have tried to copy work of our Polish painter Makowski. You can see our work in our STUDENTS' ART GALLERY

From Slovakia - Quiz: How much do you know about Pablo Picasso?




Our team working on the quiz. Here is our solution. We hope our answers are right:


1. true
2. false
3. false
4. true
5. true
6. true
7. true
8. false
9. false
10. true
11. false
12. true

Thank you, English team, we had fun.

Friday 4 December 2009

We visited our Fine Arts Museum



Quiz: How much do you know about Pablo Picasso?

As our next work is going to be inspired by the great Spanish painter Pablo Picasso, we would like to know how much people know about him. Have a go at this quiz. Good luck!

1. Picasso was born in Malaga, Spain.

a) true
b) false

2. Malaga is the capital of the Costa Brava.

a) true
b) false

3. Picasso's father was a painting teacher.

a) true
b) false

4. Picasso's father drew mostly pigeons.

a) true
b) false

5. Picasso was a brilliant student.

a) true
b) false

6. Picasso didn't like school.

a) true
b) false

7. During his 'Blue Period' Picasso painted mainly circus people: saltimbanques, clowns, arlequins...

a) true
b) false

8. Arguably, Picasso's most important painting is the 'Guernica'

a) true
b) false

9. Picasso is best known in relation to the art style of 'Impressionism'

a) true
b) false

10. In cubist artworks, the artist depicts the subject from a multitude of viewpoints to represent the objects in a greater context as if the objects had had all their faces visible at the same time.

a) true
b) false

11. Cubist painters are interested in the simplification of natural forms into geomatric forms: cylinders, spheres and cones.

a) true
b) false

10. Picasso painted the 'Guernica' after knowing about the atrocities of the Second World War.

a) true
b) false


Answers to be found in the text about Picasso in the European Art Gallery-Famous Artists link.

LONDON TEAM