Tes: How much do you know about art?

Have you ever asked how much yo know about art? Do you think you have a superficial or a complete knowledge? In the following, you will realize about it.

Baroque Art:

1. Between which tow ages is the Baroque?
a) Renaissance and Neoclassical
b) Renaissance and Gothic
c) Romanesque and Gothic

2. Which of the following pictorial construction can not be classified as Baroque Art?
a) "Ladies in waiting" - Velázquez
b) "Saint Pedro's crucifixion" - Caravaggio
c) "Last Supper" -

3. Which of the following cathedrals is a Baroque Art example?
a) Havana's Cathedral
b) Burgo's Cathedral
c) Santiago de Compostella's Cathedral

4. Where was born the baaroque musician Johann Pachelbel?
a) Italy
b) Austria
c) Germany

5. Who composed "Four seasons"?
a) Allegri
b) Vivaldi
c) Bach

Answers: 1a, 2c, 3a, 4c, 5b.

Gothic Art:

1. Which artistic movement follows Gothic?

a) Baroque

b) Romantic

c) Renaissance

2. Which monument is considered as the first of Gothic Art?

a) "San Mabrosio de Milán" basilica

b) "Royal abbey of Saint-Denis" basilica

c) "Saint Maria's church of the Capitol in Colonia" basilica

3. To whom is dedicated the Burgo's cathedral?

a) To Virgin Mary

b) To Saint Pierre

c) To Saint George

4. What is the name of the famous gothic cathedral of Prague?

a) Corleone

b) Saint Vito

c) Vernher

5. Where is bury Ramón Berenguer I, Count of Barcelona?

a) Lugo's cathedral

b) Barcelona's cathedral

c) Palma's cathedral

Answers: 1c, 2b, 3a, 4b, 5b.

Plastic Arts:

1. Who paint "The Circus"?

 a) Verones
 b) Masaccio
 c) Seurat
 d) Giotto

2. Who paint "El pifano"?

 a) Mantegna

 b) Manet

 c) Rafael

 d) Piero della Francesca

3. Who paint "Figure on the Window"?

 a) Miró

 b) Dalí

 c) Klimt

 d) Vermeer

4. Who paint "Woman frying eggs"?

 a) Friedrich

 b) Dalí

 c) Velázquez

 d) Turner

5. Who paint "Young girl bruching"?

  a) Morales

 b) Brueghel el Viejo

 c) Tiziano

 d) Cezanne

6. Who paint "The pretty naked"?

 a) Goya

 b) Friedrich

 c) Hals

 d) Renoir

7. Who paint "Napoleon in Saint Bernard"?

 a) Velazquez

 b) Miró

 c) David

 d) Cezanne

8. Who paint "The Constantine dream"?

 a) Renoir

 b) Piero della Francesca

 c) Giorgione

 d) Ribera

9. Who paint "The sieves of  wheat"?

 a) Picasso

 b) Courbet

 c) Sorolla

 d) Tapies

10. Who paint "Woman with mandolin"?

 a) Delacroix

 b) Tiepolo

 c) Rubens

 d) Chagall

Answers: 1c, 2b, 3b, 4c, 5c, 6a, 7c, 8b, 9b, 10b.

General Art:

1. Who said "Art is intermediary of  inexpressible"?

 a) Goethe

 b) Leonardo

 c) Miguel Angel

2. In which year the Tutankamón tomb was discovered?

 a) 1918

 b) 1920

 c) 1922

 

3. Ishtar Door take you to the palace of the King...?

 a) Nabucondonosor III

 b) Nabucondonosor VII

 c) Nabucondonosor II

 

4. From where is the "Baseboard of Archers"?

 a) Apadana's Palace

 b) Artajerje's Palace

 c) Babylon

5. What is the name of the Greek glass used to mix wines?

 a) Hidria

 b) Lecito

 c) Crátera

6. Why the Chapel Sixtina y called in this way?

 a) Made on memory of Pope Sixto IV

 b) Made on memory of PopeSixto II

 c) Made to honor to Saint Sixta

 

7. On which of these countries did not appear the Renaissance?

 a) France

 b) Spain

 c) The United States of America

 

8. Which culture let us the best cave paintings at the end of the last glaciation?

 a) Achelense

 b) Magdeleniense

 c) Solutrense

9. To whom is address the Renaissance arte?

 a) Shopkeepers

 b) Rich

 c) To all the world

10. How was originally denominated the city where is the temple of Poseidon?

 a) Poseidón

 b) Crotona

 c) Paestum

Answers: 1a, 2c, 3c, 4b, 5c, 6a, 7c, 8b, 9b, 10c.

Translated by Laura

QUESTIONS

1 For you, what is the artistic heritage ?

2 Do you know any artistic heritage?

3 Do you know any Mexican artist?

4 Do you consider that meeting/visiting the artistic heritages is of such importance to you? Or the community?

5 Have you visited any of the art works considered as artistic heritage?

6 Can you say that people respect our artistic heritage ?

7 Do you know any sculpture/ architectonical structure that is artistic heritage of the community?

8 How do you keep the artistic heritage?

9 Do you consider handicraft as part of the artistic heritage of our region ?

10 Do you think that patronage should be increased ?

Translated by: Jared Martinez

Getting Acquainted with Mexican Artists…

Jose Maria Velasco

He was born in Mexico on July, 1840. He’s considered as one of the biggest visionary in XIX. He died on August, 1912

Jose Clemente Orozco.

He was a distinguished muralist and lithographer. He was born in Jalisco, on November 1883 and died in Mexico city on September, 1949.

Frida Kahlo

Her life got marked by the physical pain that started with poliomyelitis had in 1913 and followed by a series of diseases, injuries, accidents and operations. Her art is characterized by the synthesis of expressionism and surrealism elements with a popular thematic and autobiography. She was born and died in Mexico city (1907- 1954)

Jose Guadalupe Posada

He started to work as a lithography teacher in Aguascalientes city; Later he moved to DF where he worked as an Illustrator newspapers.

Diego Rivera

He was a Mexican outstanding muralist of communist ideology, famous for capturing works of high social content in public buildings

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TIPS AND CURIOSITIES

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-TIPS.

·       Avoid the squandering, preserve enough resources for the future.

·       Avoid the enviromental contamination.

·       Use the marine resources and avoid the irrational explotation that can reduce the available stocks.

·       The development and dissemination of aquaculture techniques and the contamination control of the water.

·       The preservation of agricultural lands for being short age and the processes of damage in course.

·       The integral handle of the coalfield and the control of the enviromental contamination.

·       The conservation of vegetation cover, the conservation of basins and generate forest resources to avoid erosion.

·       The conservation of the biological diversity of species and representative ecosystems.

-LAWS.

·       Article 1. This law is for public order and has a purpose; set the bases to research, release declaratories, restore, protect, preserve, record, promote and spread the Cultural Heritage of the state of Quintana Roo.

·       Art. 2. It states for public utility; the investigation, promotion and dissemination of the Cultural Heritage of the state of Quintana Roo.

·       Art. 3. Fort he effects of this law, we understand by:

I.                Town halls: The Towns Halls of the state of Quintana Roo.

II.              Committee: The Ruling Committee of the Cultural Heritage of the state of Quintana Roo.

III.            Convention: the celebrated agreement between the Cultural Secretaryship and the proprietor or owner of a tangible asset; susceptible by being declared Cultural Heritage of the state.

IV.            Federal Law: The Federal Law about Monuments and Archaeological Zones; Artistical and Historical.

V.              Auxiliar Organisms: The civil organizations which essential purpose are the protection of the Cultural Heritage of the state. 



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Did you know that there is art in Cancun?

Archaeological site "the king". 

It is formed by 47 structures, paintings, murals. It is believed, that the first citizens 

inhabited 300 years ago, before of our era. It is located on blvd. Kukulcan km18, Cancun. 

Mayan Museum. 

Blvd. Kukulcan km16.5, hotel zone, Cancun. 

This history place is devoted to the Mayan History. 

Underwater Museum of art in Cancun. 

It is located under the waters sorrounding Cancun, at Punta Nizuc and Isla Mujeres. 

It has  around 470 underwater scultures. 

Mercado 28. 

Located at 2 kilometers of blvd. Kukulcan and 1 kilometer from the Palapas Park. 

 The ideal place to get handicrafts. 

Tulum. 

It is located at 128 km south of the city of Cancun. 

It is an archaelogical site which combines history, culture and nature. 

Konhunlich. 

It is the name of the city and ceremonial Mayan center, it is located at 65 kilometers of Chetumal, Quintana Roo, in the region of Rio Bec, very close to the frontier between Mexico and Belize. 

Chacchoben Ruins. 

It is a Mayan archaelogical site, located near of the Chacchoben homonym town, 70 kilometers from the Mexican city of Chetumal. Its name refers the "colorado corn". 

The site corresponds the  largest  updated settlement reported in the area known as the Lake region. 

Dzinbanche. 

It is a Mayan archaelogical site located in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo, 78 kilometers from the city of Chetumal.



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