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Answers To: The Art Is The Deal
By Terri Morrison and Wayne A. Conaway © Copyright 2004, All Rights Reserved
- C. Rocky ordered the entire fresco destroyed. Rivera later
recreated it in the Palace of Fine Arts in Mexico City.
- False. Klee was neither German nor Austrian he was born in
Switzerland in 1879, and died there in 1940.
- E. Critics voiced all of these complaints, from the yellow
skin-tones to how the painting corrupted morals. Olympia is now in the Louvre.
- 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 Rubens work.
- False. Holbein was German, not Dutch.
- True. The Spanish-born Picasso (18811973) stipulated that
Guernica would not return until Spain was again a democracy. That
wasnt going to happen as long as Franco (18921975) remained
dictator of Spain. The painting was returned to Spain after Francos
death.
- False. Woods Iowa neighbors had tremendous admiration for him.
- True. The thief, Italian Vincenzo Peruggia, claimed that this
masterpiece by Leonardo da Vinci (14521519) belonged back in Italy.
- True. Despite his frailty, Aleijadinho spent five years sculpting
The Prophets from soapstone.
- 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.
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