Cathy's Art Diary

Fun online quiz   from the National Gallery based on works and artists in the collection. Verity Babbs, writer, presenter and comedian, led us lightly though five rounds of questions with similar themes to pub quizzes but with an artistic slant. We started with quotes from artists and celebrities and you had to work out which of them said it.   I loved round two, a picture quiz where you matched the couple from pictures in the National Gallery. I was quite proud to get 7/10 on that one. A clever travel round gave you a choice of three maps of where an artist was born and died but the hardest round showed you a landscape of a city and you had to guess the decade in which it was painted with an added clue of an event which also happened in that decade. You got 2 points for the right decade and 1 for a decade either side as it was hard! The final round was general knowledge about the gallery. Who knew that from 1962 to 1972 a guard dog called Rex patrolled the building at...

Fun quiz on the Royal Academy website with questions on women artists in their history. I’m pleased to say I got 9/11 and did feel quite chuffed. Some of the answers gave you links to articles or videos about the artist so it’s easy to get led into other activities. Turns out they have a couple of other quizzes too so I tried “ The Great Art Quiz of 2019 ” (8/14 but I learnt a lot) and“ How Picasso are you ” (Dios mío, you’re practically Picasso which rather surprised me).