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Picasso wrote: ‘Music and art are the guiding lights of the world.’ But do you know how much the two are interlinked?
Which artist featured violin cases, often empty, in his work?
Cézanne
Matisse
Manet
Corot
Whether in painting, sculpture or collage, how many guitars did Picasso create?
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More than 60
In terms of portraiture, which of these composers is the odd one out?
Alban Berg
George Gershwin
Cole Porter
Arnold Schoenberg
Thomas Gainsborough painted one of the Bach family. Which?
JS Bach
WF Bach
CPE Bach
JC Bach
Who said, after hearing Wagner’s Lohengrin: 'I saw all my colours in spirit. Wild, almost crazy lines were sketched in front of me.'
Kandinsky
Gaugin
Van Gogh
Renoir
Igor Stravinsky was drawn, painted or photographed by all but one of the following. Which?
Pablo Picasso
Irving Penn
Edward Hopper
Robert Delaunay
Which 18th-century artist, an early member of the Royal Academy of Arts, had to make a choice between art and music as a career?
Angelica Kauffman
Joshua Reynolds
Mary Moser
Johann Zoffany
In 1949, Peter Brook directed a disastrous production of Richard Strauss’s Salome, designed by a well-known artist. Who was the artist?
Andy Warhol
Frida Kahlo
Max Ernst
Salvador Dalí
Who painted this much-loved lute-playing angel, now in Florence's Uffizi gallery?
Piero della Francesca
Rosso Fiorentino
Sandro Botticelli
Filippo Lippi
An image of the sea was reproduced on the 1905 edition of Debussy’s La Mer. Who was the original by?
Monet
Renoir
Hokusai
Toshi Yoshida
Mark-Anthony Turnage’s orchestral work Three Screaming Popes was named after a painting by who?
Francis Bacon
Joseph Beuys
Jeff Koons
Grayson Perry
Which French artist was Stravinsky commemorating in his Double Canon for String Quartet?
Pierre Bonnard
Nicolas Poussin
Raoul Dufy
Marcel Duchamp
In Paulo Veronese’s epic The Wedding Feast at Cana, an ensemble of artist-musicians is at the centre. Who is the man in red playing the violone (an early form of double bass)?
Tintoretto
Palladio
Titian
Veronese
The experimental French-American artist known as Arman was thought sacrilegious by some musicians. Why?
In an essay in the New Yorker, he declared John Cage a fraud, accusing him of plagiarism
He melted down brass instruments
He dismembered violins to reassemble as sculptures
He started booing during a performance of Bach's St John Passion in New York, seeking to disrupt it "as an artistic provocation"
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