Trivia Quiz on Art Movements

1. 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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2. Sylvester Stallone film shares name with Paris art movement

A) Cobra

B) Rambo

C) Rocky

D) Demolition Man

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3. To which group of artists does Vincent Van Gough belong

A) Post Impressionists

B) Impressionists

C) Expressionists

D) Fauvist Artists

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4. Aesthetic principles derived from the literature and art of ancient Greece & Rome, but found as ideals in all ages is called?

A) Neoclassicism

B) Romanticism

C) Classicism

D) Baroque

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5. A style that flourished in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, characterized by exuberant decoration, curvaceous forms, and a grand scale generating a sense of movement; later developments within the movement show more restraint.

A) Rococo

B) Baroque

C) Neoclassicism

D) Renaissance

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6. Were Cabaret Voltaire Named After A French Fashion Magazine Or An Art Movement

A) A French fashion magazine

B) A Swiss political party

C) Art Movement

D) A Parisian fashion house

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7. What arts/literary movement founded by Tristan Tzara in 1915

A) Futurism

B) Expressionism

C) Dadaism

D) Surrealism

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8. 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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9. 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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10. A decorative art movement that emerged in the late nineteenth century. Characterized by dense assymmetrical ornamentation in sinuos forms, it is often symbolic and of an erotic nature.

A) Impressionism

B) Art noveau

C) Art Deco

D) Symbolism

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11. 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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