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The Geography of Genius: Multiple Choice
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- 01The brilliant but unstable yellow pigment Van Gogh used in his 'Sunflowers' series was based on which chemical element?
- 02Which American composer captured the sound of 1920s New York City with his work 'Rhapsody in Blue'?
- 03What is the French term for an artist's workspace, closely associated with the bohemian studios of 19th-century Paris?
- 04Which Italian appetizer of thinly sliced raw meat was invented at Harry's Bar in Venice and named for a Renaissance painter known for his use of red tones?
- 05Which sitar maestro, who famously collaborated with violinist Yehudi Menuhin and The Beatles, is closely associated with the holy city of Varanasi?
- 06What is the scientific term for the way Impressionist painters like Seurat used dots of pure color that blend in the viewer's eye?
- 07What French term, meaning 'crazy years,' describes the cultural and artistic dynamism of 1920s Paris?
- 08Which powerful banking family were the foremost art patrons in Renaissance Florence, sponsoring artists like Botticelli and Michelangelo?
- 09The former home of composer Edvard Grieg, now a museum called Troldhaugen, is located in which Norwegian city?
- 10Which tango singer, a national icon of Argentina, is buried in a famous mausoleum in Buenos Aires's Chacarita Cemetery?
- 11The woodblock print 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa' was created by which master of the Japanese ukiyo-e school?
- 12Which influential art collector and dealer provided Jackson Pollock with his first solo exhibition at her New York gallery, Art of This Century?
- 13The turn-of-the-century cultural flourishing in Vienna, involving figures like Gustav Klimt and Sigmund Freud, is known by what term?
- 14Which Central European capital, nicknamed the 'City of a Hundred Spires,' hosted Mozart for the premiere of 'Don Giovanni'?
- 15Which Dutch Golden Age painter is so intrinsically linked with the city of Delft that he is often called the 'Sphinx of Delft'?
- 16What expensive pigment, derived from lapis lazuli, created the brilliant blues used by Titian and other Venetian Renaissance painters?
- 17What German Expressionist group, co-founded by Wassily Kandinsky in Munich, took its name from a painting of a 'blue rider'?
- 18The 'Casa Azul' (Blue House), a museum dedicated to a celebrated artist, is a major landmark in the Coyoacán borough of Mexico City. Who was that artist?
- 19Which New Deal program specifically employed artists like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning during the Great Depression?
- 20Which island in the Venetian Lagoon has been the center of the city's renowned glassmaking industry since the 13th century?