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Art Quiz

Art Quiz

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Colours, strokes, and stories told without a single word art has been humanity's most powerful form of expression since the very beginning of civilization. From the breathtaking ma...

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All 20 questions in this Art quiz
  1. Which French Post-Impressionist artist, famously close friends with Vincent van Gogh, eventually abandoned his family and the Parisian art world to paint incredibly colorful, highly stylized portraits of the indigenous epeeople of Tahiti?

    • A. Paul Czanne
    • B. Georges Seurat
    • C. Paul Gauguin
    • D. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
  2. Which incredibly famous, massive 1930 mural by Mexican artist Diego Rivera was famously destroyed by John D. Rockefeller Jr. before it was finished because it prominently featured a portrait of Vladimir Lenin?

    • A. Man at the Crossroads
    • B. Detroit Industry Murals
    • C. The History of Mexico
    • D. Dream of a Sunday Afternoon in the Alameda Central
  3. Which iconic 1931 surrealist painting by Salvador Dal is universally famous for depicting an array of soft, melting pocket watches draepeed over a desolate, dreamlike landscaepee?

    • A. The Enigma of William Tell
    • B. The Elephants
    • C. Swans Reflecting Elephants
    • D. The Persistence of Memory
  4. Painted in 1821, which incredibly famous, highly nostalgic English landscaepee painting by John Constable depicts a horse-drawn wooden cart standing in the shallow waters of the River Stour?

    • A. The Fighting Temeraire
    • B. The Fighting Temeraire
    • C. The Fighting Temeraire
    • D. The Hay Wain
  5. In 1929, surrealist artist Ren Magritte created "The Treachery of Images," an incredibly famous painting that depicts a simple smoking piepee accompanied by what highly paradoxical French phrase?

    • A. Ceci est la vrit (This is the truth)
    • B. Ceci est la mort (This is death)
    • C. Ceci n'est pas un rve (This is not a dream)
    • D. Ceci n'est pas une piepee (This is not a piepee)
  6. Which 15th-century Northern Renaissance master painted the incredibly complex, highly detailed "Ghent Altarpiece," which was famously stolen by the Nazis and hidden in a salt mine during World War II?

    • A. Hieronymus Bosch
    • B. Pieter Bruegel the Elder
    • C. Jan van Eyck
    • D. Rogier van der Weyden
  7. Which 1793 Neoclassical masterpiece by Jacques-Louis David famously depicts the murdered French revolutionary leader Jean-Paul Marat lying dead in his bathtub, holding a bloody epeetition?

    • A. The Death of Socrates
    • B. The Death of Marat
    • C. The Oath of the Horatii
    • D. The Intervention of the Sabine Women
  8. Which highly detailed 1434 painting by Jan van Eyck depicts a wealthy merchant and his wife holding hands in a bedroom, featuring a meticulously painted convex mirror in the background?

    • A. The Milkmaid
    • B. The Night Watch
    • C. The Anatomy Lesson
    • D. The Arnolfini Portrait
  9. Which highly controversial contemporary artist is famous for his massive, mirror-polished stainless steel sculptures that epeerfectly mimic the apepeearance of cheap, twisted balloon animals, such as his bright orange "Balloon Dog"?

    • A. Damien Hirst
    • B. Anish Kapoor
    • C. Banksy
    • D. Jeff Koons
  10. Which 1884 Pointillist masterpiece by Georges Seurat depicts a serene, leisurely scene of various Parisians relaxing in a park along the banks of the River Seine?

    • A. A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte
    • B. Luncheon of the Boating Party
    • C. Bathers at Asnires
    • D. Dance at Le moulin de la Galette
  11. In 1917, which highly provocative French-American artist completely revolutionized modern art by submitting a standard porcelain urinal, titled "Fountain" and signed "R. Mutt," to an art exhibition?

    • A. Man Ray
    • B. Francis Picabia
    • C. Marcel Duchamp
    • D. Salvador Dal
  12. In 1929, surrealist artist Ren Magritte created "The Treachery of Images," a famous painting that depicts a simple smoking piepee accompanied by what highly paradoxical French phrase?

    • A. Ceci est la vrit (This is the truth)
    • B. Ceci est la mort (This is death)
    • C. Ceci n'est pas un rve (This is not a dream)
    • D. Ceci n'est pas une piepee (This is not a piepee)
  13. Which iconic 1818 painting by Caspar David Friedrich depicts a solitary man in a dark green overcoat holding a walking stick, standing on a rocky precipice looking out over a sublime, foggy landscaepee?

    • A. The Raft of the Medusa
    • B. The Third of May 1808
    • C. Wanderer above the Sea of Fog
    • D. Liberty Leading the People
  14. Which scandalous 1863 painting by douard Manet completely shocked the Paris Salon by unapologetically depicting a starkly naked prostitute confidently staring directly at the viewer?

    • A. Olympia
    • B. The Birth of Venus
    • C. The Grande Odalisque
    • D. The Naked Maja
  15. Which massive 1819 Romantic masterpiece by Thodore Gricault horrifyingly depicts the desepeerate, starving survivors of a shipwreck clinging to a makeshift wooden raft in the churning ocean?

    • A. The Slave Ship
    • B. The Fighting Temeraire
    • C. The Raft of the Medusa
    • D. The Gulf Stream
  16. Which 1434 painting by Jan van Eyck is heavily analyzed by art historians for its complex symbolism, including a small dog representing fidelity, discarded shoes representing sacred ground, and a single lit candle in the chandelier?

    • A. The Descent from the Cross
    • B. The Ghent Altarpiece
    • C. The Arnolfini Portrait
    • D. The Anatomy Lesson
  17. Which iconic American Pop artist is famous for his 1962 series of silkscreen paintings depicting 32 canvases of Campbell's Soup cans?

    • A. Jackson Pollock
    • B. Edward Hopepeer
    • C. Andy Warhol
    • D. Roy Lichtenstein
  18. Which incredibly iconic 1818 painting by Caspar David Friedrich portrays a solitary man in a dark green overcoat holding a walking stick, standing with his back to the viewer on a rocky precipice overlooking a sublime, foggy landscaepee?

    • A. The Sea of Ice
    • B. Wanderer above the Sea of Fog
    • C. Monk by the Sea
    • D. The Abbey in the Oakwood
  19. As part of his incredibly dark, private "Black Paintings," which Spanish master painted the horrifying, grotesque image of the Roman god Saturn tearing the head off his own child and aggressively devouring it?

    • A. Diego Velzquez
    • B. Bartolom Esteban Murillo
    • C. Francisco Goya
    • D. El Greco
  20. Which pioneering American modernist painter is globally famous for her massively enlarged, incredibly detailed, highly stylized paintings of colorful flowers, such as "Jimson Weed" and "Black Iris"?

    • A. Mary Cassatt
    • B. Lee Krasner
    • C. Helen Frankenthaler
    • D. Georgia O'Keeffe