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The International Women’s Day art quiz

International Women’s Day at the Royal Academy

By RA digital team

Published 8 March 2017

Know your O‘Keeffe from your Kahlo? For International Women’s Day, we’re celebrating a few of the great female artists who deserve a wider audience. Take the quiz and let’s see how much you know.

<section><h2>Take the Women's History Month art quiz</h2><p><div>Know your Guerilla Girls from your Gentileschi (I mean, seriously – that's fairly basic)? Take these 15 quick questions on some of the great female artists.</div></p></section><section><h2>How did the Guerilla Girls come to wear gorilla masks?</h2></section><section><h3>Which artist's portrait of the author Henry James was slashed by suffragette Mary Wood in the 1914 Summer Exhibition?</h3></section><section><h3>What did Alice Neel do to keep her sitters from drifting off during long portrait sessions?</h3></section><section><h3>Which Biblical story did the Italian Baroque artist Artemisia Gentileschi depict in two of her best-known paintings?</h3></section><section><h3>Which of these things do Tracey Emin and JMW Turner have in common?</h3></section><section><h3>How old was photographer Dorothea Lange was she opened her own portrait studio?</h3></section><section><h3>Parisian avant garde painter Sonia Delaunay, alongside her husband Robert Delaunay, practised a movement which identified how the appearance of colour is affected by the colours around it. What was it called?</h3></section><section><h3>How did Frida Kahlo arrive at her first and only solo exhibition in 1953?</h3></section><section><h3>The 17th-century noblewoman Lady Elizabeth Wilbraham has been claimed as the first female architect. Who is she believed to have tutored?</h3></section><section><h3>Which of these isn’t the title of a Yoko Ono performance piece?</h3></section><section><h3>Why was the artist Olive Wharry sent to prison in 1913?</h3></section><section><h3>In 1955, Georgia O’Keeffe replied to a letter from a young aspiring artist, encouraging her to pursue art. Who was she?</h3></section><section><h3>Which major gallery appointed its first female director this year?</h3></section><section><h3>The French artist Louise Bourgeois created a series of large steel spiders in the late 1990s. What is the name of the biggest one?</h3></section><section><p><div>Oh dear, this didn't go well, did it? Frida Kahlo is disappointed in you. Even kind old Grandma Moses is quietly shaking her head. In your defence, proportionate representation hasn’t exactly been on their side over the years – but all the more need to get learning and spread the word of these pioneering artists and many more.</div></p></section><section><p><div>Georgia O’Keeffe once said: “Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing – and keeping the unknown always beyond you.” Make your unknown known, people. There is more to know.</div></p></section><section><p><div>You’ve got some work to do, but you certainly know your Kahlos from your O’Keeffes. Just a little more digging on performance art of the ‘60s and suffragette stunts, and you’ll be ready to join the Guerilla Girls. </div></p></section><section><p><div>Well done, sister suffragette! You know there’s more to art than 16th-century Italians – in fact, you’re probably fuming over all the stellar female artists we couldn’t fit into this quiz (so are we, by the way). Now, go forth and share your knowledge!</div></p></section>

Text: Louise Cohen, Sandra MacKenzie, Alice Primrose, Kate Huckle

- International Women’s Day 2018 at the Royal Academy
  
  To mark International Women’s Day 2018, we’re presenting a week-long series of events that explore ideas of feminist futures through art and architecture. Join us as we investigate the power of art practice as a catalyst for social change.
  
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The International Women’s Day art quiz

The International Women’s Day art quiz

By RA digital team

Published 8 March 2017

International Women’s Day 2018 at the Royal Academy

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