Trivia Tuesday is a weekly feature where I try and stump our readers with interesting art facts. Test your knowledge of the art world and let’s see if you have what it takes to be an art master.

Question: Earth colors are made from blending natural pigments together. Which of the following are all earth colors?

Parched Earth of Dead Vlei by John Macdonald

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**polls close next Tuesday, 7/21/09 and the correct answer will be shared then.

Last week’s poll answer: #2; Silver Stars on Blue

Trivia Tuesday is a weekly feature where I try and stump our readers with interesting art facts. Test your knowledge of the art world and let’s see if you have what it takes to be an art master.

Question: What was on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel before Michelangelo painted over it?

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**polls close next Tuesday, 7/14/09 and the correct answer will be shared then.

Last week’s poll answer: #3; The MoMA

Trivia Tuesday is a weekly feature where I try and stump our readers with interesting art facts. Test your knowledge of the art world and let’s see if you have what it takes to be an art master.

Question: What famous museum hung Matisse’s ‘Le Bateau’ upside-down for 47 days before an art student noticed the error?

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**polls close next Tuesday, 7/7/09 and the correct answer will be shared then.

Last week’s poll answer: #3; Medium

Trivia Tuesday is a weekly feature where I try and stump our readers with interesting art facts. Test your knowledge of the art world and let’s see if you have what it takes to be an art master.

Question: In painting, what is the name of the substance you mix with the paint to give it different qualities?

Paint Macro: 10 of 18 by Jef Harris

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**polls close next Tuesday, 6/30/09 and the correct answer will be shared then.

Last week’s poll answer: #2; Photographic paper coated with gelatine and silver

Trivia Tuesday is a weekly feature where I try and stump our readers with interesting art facts. Test your knowledge of the art world and let’s see if you have what it takes to be an art master.

Question: In photography, what does a gelatin-silver print refer to?

a photo is meant to hang on the wall by Lisa KC

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**polls close next Tuesday, 6/23/09 and the correct answer will be shared then.

Last week’s poll answer: #1; Wassily Kandinsky

Trivia Tuesday is a weekly feature where I try and stump our readers with interesting art facts. Test your knowledge of the art world and let’s see if you have what it takes to be an art master.

Synesthesia is a “neurologically based phenomenon in which stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to automatic, involuntary experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway. In one common form of synesthesia, known as grapheme or color synesthesia, letters or numbers are perceived as inherently colored, while in ordinal linguistic personification, numbers, days of the week and months of the year evoke personalities.”

Question: Which famous painter was known for creating a list of colors and linking them to the sounds of individual instruments? Whereby warmer colors were said to posses greater movement than cooler tones; red rings like a strong trumpet, where blue sounds like an organ.

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To learn more about synethesia, you can read the story one of our local news stations ran titled, When you can taste colors, feel time as space.

**polls close next Tuesday, 6/16/09 and the correct answer will be shared then.

Last week’s poll answer: #1; Acrylic

Trivia Tuesday is a weekly feature where I try and stump our readers with interesting art facts. Test your knowledge of the art world and let’s see if you have what it takes to be an art master.

Question: Which type of paint dries the quickest?

Circle O Paint! by LightBox

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**polls close next Tuesday, 6/9/09 and the correct answer will be shared then.

Last week’s poll answer: #5; $2.9 million

Trivia Tuesday is a weekly feature where I try and stump our readers with interesting art facts. Test your knowledge of the art world and let’s see if you have what it takes to be an art master.

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Question: The world record for the most expensive photograph ever sold was shot by photographer Edward Steichen in 1904 of a pond in Long Island, New York and was sold in February 2006. How much did the photograph sell for?

Camera by Cool Art Cool Gifts

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**polls close next Tuesday, 6/2/09 and the correct answer will be shared then.

Last week’s poll answer: True; Art has surpassed the stocks.