Our Look Club Quiz - Part 1
Our Look Club Quiz - Part 1
Our Look Club Quiz - Part 1
Our Look Club Quiz - Part 1
Our Look Club has been meeting monthly for the last 3 years. It's a chance to take some time to really look at, think about, and talk about a piece of art, an exhibition or a particular artist. In the Gallery we are able to combine this with a visit to the Cafe and, for those who want it, a meal at the sharing table. Sadly, over the last few months, and possibly for some time to come, this hasn't been possible, but, thanks to Zoom, we have still been able to enjoy each other's company and share thoughts and ideas. All opinions are valued and listened to.
For the next three months, we'll be sharing our Look Club online with a three part quiz. Each month we will be posting 10 questions about 10 artists or art works which have been discussed in our Look Club. You may know the answers. If you don't, we hope that finding it - Google is your friend! - will let you take a look at an artist's work, learn more about those you know well, and make the acquaintance of those you may not have heard of.
When we publish the next part of the quiz, they will be accompanied by the answers to the previous part!
The images may be clues- or then again.....
1) Which British born artist, a woman now living in New York, donated some of her many studies of Géricualt’s Raft of the Medusa to the Whitworth Gallery?
2) Whose large and colourful canvases , one of which is in the Whitworth Collection, aim to capture, in an abstract expressionist style, a sense of place?
3) Why might we be surprised to discover that Howard Hodgkin, whose work was acquired by the Whitworth with the help of the Friends, considered this particular work, known as Oakwood Court, to be a portrait?
4) Lee Godie, whose work entered the Whitworth as part of the Musgrave Kinley collection, sold her work on the steps of the Chicago Institute of Art and was homeless for many years. Her life had a happy ending, however. What happened?
Trees: Father or son?
5) The 18th century artist, Thomas Cole, was born in Bolton. Where, and how, did he find fame?
6) The work of which artist was the first piece donated to the Gallery by the Friends of the Whitworth in 1934? He was the father of a more famous son who was described by John Constable as, “the greatest genius who ever touched landscape.”
7) Which famous photographer, born in Surrey, studied in Manchester and spent a summer vacation as a student working as a photographer at Butlin’s Holiday Camp?
A Look Club: But who's the artist?
8) L.S.Lowry was born in Rusholme, spent all his working life as a rent collector and is well known for his paintings of Manchester. Which famous landmark in Greater Manchester (NOT the City of Manchester) often appears in his paintings?
9) John Akomfrah’s three screen video, Vertigo Sea, explores the role of the sea in the history of slavery and migration. Where was it filmed?
10) Our Look Club discussed the work of Blackburn born sculptor, Alison Wilding, when it was displayed in the Gallery in 2018. It was the first time that Wilding’s work, In a Dark Wood, had been exhibited. What type of wood is the work made of?
Our Look Club has been meeting monthly for the last 3 years. It's a chance to take some time to really look at, think about, and talk about a piece of art, an exhibition or a particular artist. In the Gallery we are able to combine this with a visit to the Cafe and, for those who want it, a meal at the sharing table. Sadly, over the last few months, and possibly for some time to come, this hasn't been possible, but, thanks to Zoom, we have still been able to enjoy each other's company and share thoughts and ideas. All opinions are valued and listened to.
For the next three months, we'll be sharing our Look Club online with a three part quiz. Each month we will be posting 10 questions about 10 artists or art works which have been discussed in our Look Club. You may know the answers. If you don't, we hope that finding it - Google is your friend! - will let you take a look at an artist's work, learn more about those you know well, and make the acquaintance of those you may not have heard of.
When we publish the next part of the quiz, they will be accompanied by the answers to the previous part!
The images may be clues- or then again.....
1) Which British born artist, a woman now living in New York, donated some of her many studies of Géricualt’s Raft of the Medusa to the Whitworth Gallery?
2) Whose large and colourful canvases , one of which is in the Whitworth Collection, aim to capture, in an abstract expressionist style, a sense of place?
3) Why might we be surprised to discover that Howard Hodgkin, whose work was acquired by the Whitworth with the help of the Friends, considered this particular work, known as Oakwood Court, to be a portrait?
4) Lee Godie, whose work entered the Whitworth as part of the Musgrave Kinley collection, sold her work on the steps of the Chicago Institute of Art and was homeless for many years. Her life had a happy ending, however. What happened?
Trees: Father or son?
5) The 18th century artist, Thomas Cole, was born in Bolton. Where, and how, did he find fame?
6) The work of which artist was the first piece donated to the Gallery by the Friends of the Whitworth in 1934? He was the father of a more famous son who was described by John Constable as, “the greatest genius who ever touched landscape.”
7) Which famous photographer, born in Surrey, studied in Manchester and spent a summer vacation as a student working as a photographer at Butlin’s Holiday Camp?
A Look Club: But who's the artist?
8) L.S.Lowry was born in Rusholme, spent all his working life as a rent collector and is well known for his paintings of Manchester. Which famous landmark in Greater Manchester (NOT the City of Manchester) often appears in his paintings?
9) John Akomfrah’s three screen video, Vertigo Sea, explores the role of the sea in the history of slavery and migration. Where was it filmed?
10) Our Look Club discussed the work of Blackburn born sculptor, Alison Wilding, when it was displayed in the Gallery in 2018. It was the first time that Wilding’s work, In a Dark Wood, had been exhibited. What type of wood is the work made of?
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