Trivia Quiz on 20th Century Art

1. What artist was nicknamed "Jack the Dripper" action painting

A) Jackson Pollock

B) Andy Warhol

C) Vincent van Gogh

D) Claude Monet

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2. What year was Picasso born

A) 1881

B) 1870

C) 1886

D) 1890

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3. Which French artist designed ballet sets for Diaghilev

A) Pablo Picasso

B) Henri Matisse

C) Jean Cocteau

D) Marc Chagall

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4. Which artist, born in Russia in 1887, painted Self Portrait With Seven Fingers, Birthday and Bouquet With Flying Lovers

A) Wassily Kandinsky

B) Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin

C) Chaim Soutine

D) Marc chagall

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5. Who painted "The Persistence of Memory"

A) Pablo Picasso

B) Vincent van Gogh

C) Claude Monet

D) Salvador dali

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6. Lb What was the nationality of the abstract artist, Mondrian

A) French

B) Dutch

C) German

D) Belgian

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7. Who founded the Ballets Russe in 1909

A) Marius Petipa

B) Anna Pavlova

C) Michel Fokine

D) Serge diaghilev

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8. What nationality was pablo picasso

A) French

B) Italian

C) Spanish

D) Portuguese

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9. The surrealist painter Salvador Dali was a native of which country?

A) Spain

B) France

C) Italy

D) Portugal

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10. A figurative movement that emerged in the United States and Britain in the late 1960s and 1970s. The subject matter, usually everyday scenes, is portrayed in an extremely detailed, exacting style. It is also called superrealism, especially when referring to sculpture.

A) Hyperrealism

B) Impressionism

C) Photorealism

D) Pop Art

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11. Name The Philadelphian Artist Who Introduced The World To (Pop Art)

A) Roy Lichtenstein

B) Keith Haring

C) Andy Warhol

D) Thomas Eakins

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12. A composition made of cut and pasted pieces of materials, sometimes with images added by the artist.

A) Mosaic

B) Montage

C) Collage

D) Assemblage

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13. What was Picasso's first name?

A) Paul

B) Pablo

C) Diego

D) Paco

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14. What Is The Nationality Of Picasso

A) Spanish

B) French

C) Italian

D) Portuguese

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15. A movement that began in Britain and the United States in the 1950s. It used the images and techniques of mass media, advertising, and popular culture, often in an ironic way.

A) Abstract Expressionism

B) Pop art

C) Neo-Dada

D) Minimalism

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16. With What Art Movement Was (Salvador Dali) Associated

A) Impressionism

B) Cubism

C) Surrealism

D) Abstract Expressionism

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17. Refers to art that uses emphasis and distortion to communicate emotion. More specifically, it refers to early twentieth-century northern European art, especially in Germany c. 1905-23.

A) Impressionism

B) Cubism

C) Expressionism

D) Fauvism

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18. A movement of the 1920s and 1930s that began in France. It explored the unconscious, often using images from dreams. It used spontaneous techniques and featured unexpected juxtapositions of objects.

A) Dadaism

B) Surrealism

C) Abstract Expressionism

D) Cubism

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19. Spanish modernist and cubist Pablo _____

A) Picasso

B) Goya

C) Velázquez

D) Dalí

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