Answers To: The Art Is The Deal

By Terri Morrison and Wayne A. Conaway
© Copyright 2004, All Rights Reserved
  1. C. Rocky ordered the entire fresco destroyed. Rivera later recreated it in the Palace of Fine Arts in Mexico City.

  2. False. Klee was neither German nor Austrian — he was born in Switzerland in 1879, and died there in 1940.

  3. E. Critics voiced all of these complaints, from the yellow skin-tones to how the painting corrupted morals. Olympia is now in the Louvre.

  4. False. Light golden-brown hair is Titian hair, named after the Italian painter Titian (1485?–1576). Rubenesque refers to the full-figured women who populate Ruben’s work.

  5. False. Holbein was German, not Dutch.

  6. True. The Spanish-born Picasso (1881–1973) stipulated that Guernica would not return until Spain was again a democracy. That wasn’t going to happen as long as Franco (1892–1975) remained dictator of Spain. The painting was returned to Spain after Franco’s death.

  7. False. Wood’s Iowa neighbors had tremendous admiration for him.

  8. True. The thief, Italian Vincenzo Peruggia, claimed that this masterpiece by Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) belonged back in Italy.

  9. True. Despite his frailty, Aleijadinho spent five years sculpting The Prophets from soapstone.

  10. True. The Group of Seven, who came together in 1913 and disbanded in 1933, examined the relationship of nature and art. The seven were: Franklin Carmichael, Lawren Harris, A.Y. Jackson, Frank Johnston, Arthur Lismer, J.E.H. MacDonald, and Frederick Varley. Their 1920 show at the Art Gallery of Toronto was greeted with violent disapproval. Only after they were praised in the United Kingdom, France, and the USA did the group receive Canadian appreciation.