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.

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: True or False? Art has surpassed the stock market in appreciation over the past twenty years.

Bull and Bear Business Metaphor by loveliestdreams

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**polls close next Tuesday, 5/26/09 and the correct answer will be shared then.

Last week’s poll answer: #4; Can cause a yellowish layer to rise to the surface

Trivia Tuesday is a new feature on the Imagekind blog, which features a weekly trivia question. Some might argue that not all the questions are really trivia, because they lack a solid answer. Thus, they are more like opinion questions, not trivia. Well, that might be true, but because both “trivia” and “Tuesday” start with the same letter, and there is no day of the week that starts with the letter “O”, we’re sticking with the name.

Question: pink panther 2 online Why should you not leave your completed oil painting to dry in the dark?

Elephant Oil Painting by David Bleakley

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**polls close next Tuesday, 5/19/09 and the correct answer will be shared then.

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Last week’s poll answer: #1; Frida Kahlo