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Georges-Pierre Seurat Trivia Quiz

The artist Georges Seurat. Seurat is the fifth of nineteen focus artists featured in the 2001-2002 US Academic Decathlon curriculum and his featured work is 'A Sunday On La Grande Jatte'.

A multiple-choice quiz by SuperRo. Estimated time: 4 mins.

Author
SuperRo

Time
4 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
67,889

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
15

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Question 1 of 15

1. Where was Seurat born? Hint

Nice

Paris

Rouen

Marseille

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Question 2 of 15

2. In 1875, Seurat began taking municipal drawing classes. Who was his teacher? Hint

Ernest Laurent

Camille Pissarro

Edmond Aman-Jean

Justin Lequien

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Question 3 of 15

3. In 1878, Seurat was admitted into university. What was the name of the school? Hint

Ecole des Beaux-Arts

Paris School of Arts and Crafts

Paris School of Municipal Design

Paris School of Optical Design

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Question 4 of 15

4. Who did Seurat study under at this school? Hint

Justin Lequien

Henri Lehmann

Edmond Aman-Jean

Ernest Laurent

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Question 5 of 15

5. What was Seurat's first major work to show the effects of his studies in optical theory? Hint

A Sunday on La Grande Jatte

Port-en-Bessin series

The Models

Bathing at Asnieres

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Question 6 of 15

6. Where did Seurat go for his year of mandatory military service? Hint

Nice

La Reunion

Asnieres

Brest

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Question 7 of 15

7. Did the Salon accept Bathing at Asnieres?

Yes

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Question 8 of 15

8. What did Seurat help to found? Hint

Association des Artistes Independants

Association de Pointillisme

Impressionists

The School of Scientific Art

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Question 9 of 15

9. He aided Seurat in refining some of his experimentation. Who was Seurat's colleague and considered to be his closest follower? Hint

Signac

Pissarro

Gauguin

Chagall

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Question 10 of 15

10. The winter of 1884 saw Seurat spending all of his time working on one large canvas. Which work was this? Hint

Port-en-Bessin series

The Models

A Sunday on La Grande Jatte

Bathing at Asnieres

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Question 11 of 15

11. What was the artistic technique devised by Seurat?

Answer: (One Word)

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Question 12 of 15

12. Which work did Seurat NOT do? Hint

La Parade

Le Chahut

La Boulangerie

The Circus

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Question 13 of 15

13. Which was 'A Sunday on La Grande Jatte' exhibited in? Hint

The Salon

Salon des Independants

the eighth and final Impessionists exhibition

Seventh Impressionists' Exhibition

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Question 14 of 15

14. Who was Seurat's mistress? Hint

Madeleine Knoblock

Belin

Jane Avril

Josette

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Question 15 of 15

15. What did Seurat die of? Hint

polio

throat infection

pneumonia

syphillis

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. Where was Seurat born?

Answer: Paris

Georges-Pierre Seurat was born on December 2, 1859 in paris. His father, Antoine-Chrysostome Seurat, was a property owner and spent most of his time away from home at his garden in La Raincy, where he and his gardener would hold their own Mass.

2. In 1875, Seurat began taking municipal drawing classes. Who was his teacher?

Answer: Justin Lequien

Like most artists, Seurat discovered that he could draw at a young age. Lequien had his students draw pictures of plaster casts of classical sculptures.

3. In 1878, Seurat was admitted into university. What was the name of the school?

Answer: Ecole des Beaux-Arts

He studied under the ultra-academic painter Henri Lehmann, who was a pupil of Ingres.

4. Who did Seurat study under at this school?

Answer: Henri Lehmann

Lehmann gave Seurat as formal an art education as any man could have.

5. What was Seurat's first major work to show the effects of his studies in optical theory?

Answer: Bathing at Asnieres

The Salon rejected it in 1884, leaving Seurat in search of a place to display his art.

6. Where did Seurat go for his year of mandatory military service?

Answer: Brest

There he drew scenes of oceans, beaches, and boats; these themes would resurface in his mature art.

7. Did the Salon accept Bathing at Asnieres?

Answer: No

8. What did Seurat help to found?

Answer: Association des Artistes Independants

He helped to found this after the Salon rejected 'Bathing at Asnieres'.

9. He aided Seurat in refining some of his experimentation. Who was Seurat's colleague and considered to be his closest follower?

Answer: Signac

Signac was very interested in Seurat's techniques.

10. The winter of 1884 saw Seurat spending all of his time working on one large canvas. Which work was this?

Answer: A Sunday on La Grande Jatte

11. What was the artistic technique devised by Seurat?

Answer: pointillism

It was first called Divisionism but is now called Pointillism. Technically, Divisionism is the theory and Pointillism is the technique, but people generally refer to Seurat's art as a whole as Pointillist.

12. Which work did Seurat NOT do?

Answer: La Boulangerie

La Parade is also known as The Side Show. The Circus was Seurat's great unfinished work (unfinished because he died while creating it).

13. Which was 'A Sunday on La Grande Jatte' exhibited in?

Answer: the eighth and final Impessionists exhibition

14. Who was Seurat's mistress?

Answer: Madeleine Knoblock

Jane Avril was a dancer at the Moulin Rouge who knew Henri Toulouse-Lautrec.

15. What did Seurat die of?

Answer: throat infection

His son died of the same infection a few days later.

Source: Author SuperRo

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