Mozart to Monet: take our quiz about art in music and music in art

‘Guiding lights’... Lady Seated at a Virginal, c 1672, by Johannes Vermeer. Photograph: Art Library/Alamy

1. Which artist featured violin cases, often empty, in his work?

   1. Cézanne

   2. Matisse

   3. Manet

   4. Corot

2. 

   Whether in painting, sculpture or collage, how many guitars did Picasso create?

   1. 10-20

   2. 20-35

   3. 40-55

   4. More than 60

3. In terms of portraiture, which of these composers is the odd one out?

   1. Alban Berg

   2. George Gershwin

   3. Cole Porter

   4. Arnold Schoenberg

4. 

   Thomas Gainsborough painted one of the Bach family. Which?

   1. JS Bach

   2. WF Bach

   3. CPE Bach

   4. JC Bach

5. 

   Who said, after hearing Wagner’s Lohengrin: 'I saw all my colours in spirit. Wild, almost crazy lines were sketched in front of me.'

   1. Kandinsky

   2. Gaugin

   3. Van Gogh

   4. Renoir

6. 

   Igor Stravinsky was drawn, painted or photographed by all but one of the following. Which?

   1. Pablo Picasso

   2. Irving Penn

   3. Edward Hopper

   4. Robert Delaunay

7. 

   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?

   1. Angelica Kauffman

   2. Joshua Reynolds

   3. Mary Moser

   4. Johann Zoffany

8. 

   In 1949, Peter Brook directed a disastrous production of Richard Strauss’s Salome, designed by a well-known artist. Who was the artist?

   1. Andy Warhol

   2. Frida Kahlo

   3. Max Ernst

   4. Salvador Dalí

9. 

   Who painted this much-loved lute-playing angel, now in Florence's Uffizi gallery?

   1. Piero della Francesca

   2. Rosso Fiorentino

   3. Sandro Botticelli

   4. Filippo Lippi

10. 

    An image of the sea was reproduced on the 1905 edition of Debussy’s La Mer. Who was the original by?

    1. Monet

    2. Renoir

    3. Hokusai

    4. Toshi Yoshida

11. Mark-Anthony Turnage’s orchestral work Three Screaming Popes was named after a painting by who?

    1. Francis Bacon

    2. Joseph Beuys

    3. Jeff Koons

    4. Grayson Perry

12. Which French artist was Stravinsky commemorating in his Double Canon for String Quartet?

    1. Pierre Bonnard

    2. Nicolas Poussin

    3. Raoul Dufy

    4. Marcel Duchamp

13. 

    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)?

    1. Tintoretto

    2. Palladio

    3. Titian

    4. Veronese

14. The experimental French-American artist known as Arman was thought sacrilegious by some musicians. Why?

    1. In an essay in the New Yorker, he declared John Cage a fraud, accusing him of plagiarism

    2. He melted down brass instruments

    3. He dismembered violins to reassemble as sculptures

    4. He started booing during a performance of Bach's St John Passion in New York, seeking to disrupt it "as an artistic provocation"

Solutions

1:B - A famous example is his Interior with a Violin Case Nice, winter 1918-19, in the Museum of Modern Art (MoMa), New York , 2:D - The exact number is unknown. His love affair with the instrument continued throughout his life. One of the earliest depictions was The Old Guitarist (1903-4), from his blue period. Image: (Detail from) Guitar, 1926, by Pablo Picasso, 3:C - Because Gershwin painted Schoenberg, and Schoenberg painted Berg , 4:D - The 'London' Bach, Johann Christian, moved to England in 1762 and remained here until his death in 1782. Image: Portrait of Johann Christian Bach (1735-1782) by Thomas Gainsborough, (1727-88) , 5:A - Kandinsky's theory of colour was closely connected with music: he reportedly had synaesthesia, seeing colours when he heard music, and hearing music when he painted. Image: Petra Lang as Ortrud in Lohengrin, Royal Opera House, 2009, 6:C - Image: Photograph of Stravinsky by Arnold Newman, 1946, 7:A - A talented musician, the Swiss neo-classical painter depicted this dilemma in her 1794 work, in the National Trust collection at Nostell Priory, West Yorkshire. Image: Self Portrait of the Artist Hesitating Between the Arts of Music and Painting, 1794, by Angelica Kauffman, 8:D - The production, at what is now the Royal Opera House, was derided as a triumph of style over substance, with large head-pieces that reduced audibility. Image: Franz Lechleichner as Herod and Constance Shacklock as Herodias in the Covent Garden Opera production of 1949 , 9:B - Giovanni Battista di Jacopo, known as Rosso Fiorentino on account of his red hair, painted the musical angel, a fragment of an altarpiece, in c 1522. Image: Angel Playing the Lute, 1522, 10:C - It was Katshushika Hokusai's The Great Wave Off Kanagawa, completed between 1829-1833 , 11:A - Turnage saw Bacon’s painting, based on Pope Innocent X by Velázquez, at a Tate Gallery exhibition in 1985 and wanted to create that 'colouristic intensity and emotional immediacy' in his music , 12:C - The work's full title is Double Canon ('Raoul Dufy in Memoriam') String Quartet , 13:C - Veronese also portrayed himself, in white, playing the viola da gamba. Image: (Detail from) The Wedding Feast at Cana by Paulo Veronese, 1563, 14:C - Arman, a friend of Warhol, took instruments apart, once smashing a piano with an axe in the presence of violinist Yehudi Menuhin, in a work called For Chopin’s Waterloo

Scores

1. 14 and above.

   Congratulations. We declare you a Suprematist

2. 13 and above.

   Congratulations. We declare you a Suprematist

3. 7 and above.

   Impressionist

4. 6 and above.

   Impressionist

5. 10 and above.

   Abstract Expressionist

6. 4 and above.

   Dadaist

7. 3 and above.

   Dadaist

8. 2 and above.

   Dadaist

9. 1 and above.

   Dadaist

10. 11 and above.

    Abstract Expressionist

11. 8 and above.

    Impressionist

12. 12 and above.

    Abstract Expressionist

13. 9 and above.

    Impressionist

14. 5 and above.

    Impressionist

15. 0 and above.

    Dadaist