Trivia Quiz on Art History

1. Which is sculptor Gutzon Borghun's most famous work

A) Statue of Liberty

B) Lincoln Memorial

C) Crazy Horse Memorial

D) Mount rushmore

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2. Who painted The Naked Maja

A) Velázquez

B) Goya

C) El Greco

D) Zurbarán

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3. How did Van Gogh dispose of his ear

A) He burned it in his studio

B) Gave it to prostitute

C) Buried it in his garden

D) Kept it in a drawer for years

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4. Sculptors which of the four teenage mutant ninja turtles was named after an artists and/or sculptor that did not occur in the same time period as the other three

A) Leonardo

B) Michelangelo

C) Raphael

D) Donatello

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5. When did Andy Warhol die

A) 1980

B) 1987

C) 1989

D) 1990

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6. Tempera uses water and what to paint with

A) Milk

B) Egg White

C) Egg Yoke

D) Gum Arabic

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7. What artistic term was named after a French finance minister

A) Chiaroscuro

B) Sfumato

C) Silhouette

D) Trompe-l'oeil

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8. The name of what style of painting was taken from, the title of a Claude Monet work

A) Cubism

B) Fauvism

C) Impressionism

D) Realism

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9. There are 72 scenes on what famous article

A) The Sistine Chapel ceiling

B) The Unicorn Tapestries

C) Bayeaux Tapestry

D) The Magna Carta

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10. Impressionism comes from painting Impression Sunrise - Artist

A) Pierre-Auguste Renoir

B) Edgar Degas

C) Édouard Manet

D) Claude Monet

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11. What symbol did 87 year old Arthur Eisenmenger design

A) The Euro symbol

B) The Mona Lisa portrait

C) The Euro note graphic

D) The Google logo redesign

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12. What is the first name of the French painter Matisse

A) Pierre

B) Claude

C) Henri

D) Marcel

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13. Who was the first president of the Royal Academy

A) Sir joshua reynolds

B) Sir Anthony van Dyck

C) Sir Thomas Gainsborough

D) Sir William Hogarth

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14. Which is Edvard Munch's most famous painting

A) The Scream

B) The Kiss

C) The scream

D) Girl with a Pearl Earring

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15. What is Xylography

A) Stone engraving

B) Metal etching

C) Linocut printing

D) Wood Engraving

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16. Who invented painting by numbers?

A) Da Vinci

B) Palmer paint company

C) Bob Ross

D) Walt Disney

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17. This artist cut off his ear & sent it to his lover, before shooting himself dead in a cornfield

A) Vincent van gogh

B) Paul Gauguin

C) Claude Monet

D) Edvard Munch

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18. Who designed the uniforms for the vatican city's swiss guards

A) Michelangelo

B) Leonardo da Vinci

C) Donatello

D) Raphael

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19. The artist Abbott Thayer's developed what for military use

A) Invisibility cloaks for soldiers

B) Camouflage colours

C) Disguise makeup for soldiers

D) Naval hull color schemes

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20. What year was Picasso born

A) 1881

B) 1870

C) 1886

D) 1890

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21. What is the term for a painting of a person

A) Self-portrait

B) Figure painting

C) Portrait

D) Portraiture

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22. Camille Pizarro the impressionist was born in which country

A) France

B) West Indies

C) Spain

D) Jamaica

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23. The middle part of an entablature, often decorated with sculpture.

A) Frieze

B) Architrave

C) Cornice

D) Pediment

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24. In what subject did artist George Stubbs specialize

A) Dogs

B) Cats

C) Birds

D) Horses

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25. Is the product of Greece and the Greek colonies from about 1100B bc to the 1st century bc

A) Greek Art and Architecture

B) Greek Philosophy and Ethics

C) Greek Drama and Theatre

D) Greek Science and Mathematics

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26. Which French artist, in 1883, gave up his job as a stockbroker to paint full time

A) Vincent van Gogh

B) Claude Monet

C) Pierre-Auguste Renoir

D) Paul gauguin

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27. What hobby was developed by the palmer paint company

A) Color by numbers

B) Cross-stitch by numbers

C) Painting by numbers

D) Mosaic by numbers

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28. The Aphrodite of Melos has a more famous name - what

A) The Birth of Venus

B) Aphrodite of Knidos

C) Venus de Milo

D) Venus of Willendorf

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29. Where was El Greco born

A) Spain

B) Greece

C) Cyprus

D) Italy

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30. What is the art of tracing designs and making impressions of them

A) Etching

B) Screen printing

C) Lithography

D) Woodcut printing

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31. European architecture and music,ornate and extravagant

A) Renaissance

B) Gothic

C) Baroque

D) Rococo

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32. Which art gallery is the home of Rodin's ' The Kiss' and Picasso's The Three Dancers'

A) Louvre Museum

B) Musée d'Orsay

C) National Gallery

D) Tate Modern

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33. What nationality was the sculpture Brancusi

A) Bulgarian

B) Romanian

C) Hungarian

D) Greek

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34. What is raku

A) Japanese pottery

B) A type of Japanese pottery glaze

C) A traditional Japanese tea ceremony technique

D) A style of Japanese wooden lacquerware

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35. What can be a font, architectural style or novel type

A) Gothic

B) Baroque

C) Times

D) Romanesque

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36. 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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37. Who painted 'The 3rd of May' (1808)

A) Vincent van Gogh

B) Diego Velázquez

C) Francisco de goya

D) Jacques-Louis David

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38. Who painted The Blue Boy

A) Sir Joshua Reynolds

B) John Constable

C) Caravaggio

D) Thomas gainsborough

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39. Where is the statue 'le petit pissoir'

A) Brussels

B) Paris

C) Antwerp

D) Ghent

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40. What artist cut off his right ear

A) Vincent van gogh

B) Pablo Picasso

C) Claude Monet

D) Salvador Dalí

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41. In art, a form of watercolor that uses opaque pigments rather than the usual transparent watercolor pigments

A) Aquarelle

B) Gouache

C) Tempera

D) Acrylic wash

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42. The art of tracing designs and taking impressions of them is _______.

A) Engraving

B) Etching

C) Woodblock printing

D) Lithography

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43. Which Famous Artists Designed The Chupa Chups Logo In 1969

A) Pablo Picasso

B) Salvador Dahli

C) Frida Kahlo

D) Andy Warhol

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44. Which famous artist lost an ear

A) Pablo Picasso

B) Claude Monet

C) Salvador Dalí

D) Vincent van goch

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45. What is the name for a painting depicting objects such as fruit and flowers

A) portrait

B) landscape

C) abstract

D) Still life

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46. What is the more common name for serigraphy

A) Silk screen printing

B) Screen printing

C) Stencil printing

D) Lithography

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47. Rodin's The Thinker is really a portrait of what Italian poet

A) Dante

B) Homer

C) Virgil

D) Petrarch

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48. Who painted Starry Night

A) Paul Gauguin

B) Claude Monet

C) Edvard Munch

D) Vincent van gogh

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49. Who, in 1874, painted the picture called La Loge

A) Edgar Degas

B) Auguste Renoir

C) Claude Monet

D) Vincent van Gogh

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50. What nationality was the artist Whistler

A) British

B) Canadian

C) French

D) American

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