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Picasso Personal Life
Picasso Art
Dali Personal Life
Dali Art
Hodgepodge (Spain)
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What was Picasso's first official word?
Lapiz
100
What are 2 mediums that Picasso dabbled in?
paint, sculpture, print, ceramics, stage design
100
How did Salvador Dali get his name?
Named after father and deceased brother.
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What was Dali's preferred art style?
Surrealism.
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What is the capital of Spain?
Madrid
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What profession was Picasso's father?
An artist
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What were his 3 most famous art periods?
Rose, Blue, Cubism
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How was Dali's relationship with his father?
He resented (disliked) his father, father didn't support him
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Define surrealism
20thC movement on the unconscious mind
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Why did Picasso move to France?
To study different art
300
How long was Picasso's legal name?
23 words
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Describe each of Picasso's 3 art periods.
Blue- dark colors, painted poverty/ vagrants, influenced by depression Rose- brighter colors, painted circus clowns/ happy people, influenced by a new love interest Cubism- sharp geometric shapes, pushed by Gertrude Stein
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Why did Dali get kicked out of art school?
He told the professors that they were incompetent and that he could do better
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What is one of Dali's most famous surrealist works?
"The Persistance of Memory"
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Dali said that one can perfect their own artistic style when...
they have impersonated everyone else.
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What age was Picasso when he completed his first respected painting?
9
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What was Picasso's first cubic work?
Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (The Ladies of Avignon)
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What did Gala (wife) do for Dali? What happened when she died?
Handled the business ($) side of his success, he became very depressed and sick
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What influenced Dali's infamous "Persistence of Memory"?
Cheese melting in the sun
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What type of government does Spain have?
Parlimentary Monarchy
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Where was Picasso buried?
France
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Why did Picasso's father stop painting when Picasso was 13?
He said that his son had surpassed him in talent and that he could never be better than his son.
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What scared Dali most about his mother's death? How did he overcome it?
He was afraid that he would be forgotten, influencing his own museum
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What was Dali afraid of yet still painted? (To try to get past his fear)
Grasshoppers
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What inspired Picasso's "Guernica"? Why was it so different from his other works?
Hitler's bombing of the small Spanish town in Guerncia, Spain (authorized by France). He never did political works, but changed for this because he wanted the world to be aware of what had happened