Painting & Sculpture

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1.Which art movement draws on dreams and the unconscious?
- A. Cubism
- B. Surrealism
- C. Impressionism
- D. the Baroque
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Surrealism
Did you know? Salvador Dalí and René Magritte were Surrealists.
2.Which artist is famous for self-portraits with flowers and animals?
- A. Salvador Dalí
- B. Andy Warhol
- C. Frida Kahlo
- D. Georgia O'Keeffe
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Frida Kahlo
Did you know? Frida Kahlo was a Mexican painter.
3.Which drawing shows a man inscribed in a circle and a square?
- A. a proverb
- B. henna
- C. the Vitruvian Man
- D. Impression, Sunrise
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the Vitruvian Man
Did you know? Leonardo da Vinci drew the Vitruvian Man around 1490.
4.Which city is home to the Prado Museum?
- A. Lisbon
- B. Seville
- C. Barcelona
- D. Madrid
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Madrid
Did you know? The Prado holds masterpieces by Velázquez and Goya.
5.Which painter painted nearly a hundred self-portraits over his life?
- A. Caravaggio
- B. Rembrandt
- C. Claude Monet
- D. Marc Chagall
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Rembrandt
Did you know? Rembrandt was a Dutch master of light and shadow.
6.Which painting shows a woman with an enigmatic smile?
- A. the Mona Lisa
- B. The Night Watch
- C. Impression, Sunrise
- D. Whistler's Mother
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the Mona Lisa
Did you know? The Mona Lisa hangs in the Louvre.
7.Which sculpture was found on the Greek island of Melos in 1820?
- A. the Winged Victory of Samothrace
- B. the Venus de Milo
- C. the Ecstasy of Saint Teresa
- D. the Pieta
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the Venus de Milo
Did you know? The Venus de Milo has no arms.
8.Which woodblock print shows a towering wave and a distant Mount Fuji?
- A. Tiananmen Square
- B. The Great Wave off Kanagawa
- C. the State Hermitage Museum
- D. the trampoline
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The Great Wave off Kanagawa
Did you know? Hokusai published the print around 1831.
9.Which art movement revived classical art in Italy from the 1400s?
- A. Art Nouveau
- B. Surrealism
- C. Gothic architecture
- D. the Renaissance
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the Renaissance
Did you know? The Renaissance began in Florence.
10.Which artist cut off part of his own ear in 1888?
- A. Paul Gauguin
- B. Edvard Munch
- C. Claude Monet
- D. Vincent van Gogh
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Vincent van Gogh
Did you know? Van Gogh was living in Arles, in the south of France.
11.Which painter is famous for paintings and sculptures of ballet dancers?
- A. Edgar Degas
- B. Diego Rivera
- C. Pablo Picasso
- D. Gustav Klimt
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Edgar Degas
Did you know? Degas loved to study movement backstage.
12.Which painting shows the bombing of a Basque town in grayscale?
- A. The Garden of Earthly Delights
- B. The Starry Night
- C. Las Meninas
- D. Guernica
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Guernica
Did you know? Pablo Picasso painted Guernica in 1937.
13.Which sculpture sits hunched above the gates of hell he contemplates?
- A. the Discobolus
- B. the Winged Victory of Samothrace
- C. the Venus de Milo
- D. the Thinker
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the Thinker
Did you know? Rodin's Thinker was first named The Poet.
14.Which art movement swells with drama, motion, and gilded detail?
- A. Fauvism
- B. Surrealism
- C. the Baroque
- D. the Renaissance
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the Baroque
Did you know? Bernini and Caravaggio shaped the Baroque.
15.Which is the classic painter's color trio?
- A. red, yellow, and blue
- B. black, white, and gray
- C. orange, purple, and green
- D. red, green, and blue
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red, yellow, and blue
Did you know? These three pigments can mix nearly every color.
16.Which painter cofounded Cubism and painted Les Demoiselles d'Avignon?
- A. Pablo Picasso
- B. Edgar Degas
- C. Johannes Vermeer
- D. Diego Rivera
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Pablo Picasso
Did you know? Picasso also worked in sculpture and ceramics.
17.Which painting shows a swirling night sky over a French town?
- A. The Starry Night
- B. The Angelus
- C. Las Meninas
- D. The Persistence of Memory
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The Starry Night
Did you know? Van Gogh painted The Starry Night in 1889 at his asylum in Saint-Rémy.
18.Which sculpture is a tiny bronze fountain boy in Brussels?
- A. the Manneken Pis
- B. the Pieta
- C. the Ecstasy of Saint Teresa
- D. the Bronze Horseman
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the Manneken Pis
Did you know? The Manneken Pis owns a wardrobe of hundreds of costumes.
19.Which art movement grew from Monet's hazy harbor scene of 1874?
- A. Minimalism
- B. Pop Art
- C. Impressionism
- D. Gothic architecture
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Impressionism
Did you know? Critics coined "Impressionism" as an insult.
20.Which instrument family sits at the front of an orchestra?
- A. the strings
- B. the woodwinds
- C. the percussion
- D. the brass
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the strings
Did you know? Violins and violas anchor the orchestra's front rows.
21.Which painter painted the same cathedral at many different hours?
- A. Pablo Picasso
- B. Diego Rivera
- C. Johannes Vermeer
- D. Claude Monet
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Claude Monet
Did you know? Monet's Rouen Cathedral series shows the changing light.
22.Which painting shows a woman carrying a flag over a barricade?
- A. American Gothic
- B. The Third of May 1808
- C. Liberty Leading the People
- D. The Calling of St. Matthew
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Liberty Leading the People
Did you know? Eugène Delacroix painted it after the 1830 revolution in France.
23.Which sculpture shows the biblical hero before the battle?
- A. the Ecstasy of Saint Teresa
- B. the statue of David
- C. the Little Mermaid statue
- D. the Bronze Horseman
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the statue of David
Did you know? Michelangelo carved David from a single block of marble.
24.Which art movement breaks objects into geometric fragments?
- A. Cubism
- B. Rococo
- C. Impressionism
- D. Art Nouveau
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Cubism
Did you know? Picasso and Braque developed Cubism together.
25.Which painter made four versions of The Scream?
- A. Henri Matisse
- B. Marc Chagall
- C. Edvard Munch
- D. Claude Monet
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Edvard Munch
Did you know? Munch was a Norwegian painter.
26.Which painting shows Plato and Aristotle at the center of ancient thinkers?
- A. A Sunday on La Grande Jatte
- B. Las Meninas
- C. The School of Athens
- D. Nighthawks
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The School of Athens
Did you know? Raphael painted The School of Athens in the Vatican.
27.Which art movement borrows imagery from advertising and comics?
- A. the Renaissance
- B. Rococo
- C. Art Nouveau
- D. Pop Art
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Pop Art
Did you know? Warhol and Lichtenstein led Pop Art.
28.Which painter painted sunflowers and cypresses in swirling brushstrokes?
- A. Auguste Renoir
- B. Diego Rivera
- C. Johannes Vermeer
- D. Vincent van Gogh
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Vincent van Gogh
Did you know? Van Gogh sold very few paintings during his lifetime.
29.Which painting shows the goddess arriving on a giant shell?
- A. the Mona Lisa
- B. Water Lilies
- C. American Gothic
- D. The Birth of Venus
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The Birth of Venus
Did you know? Sandro Botticelli painted The Birth of Venus in the 1480s.
30.Which painting shows a figure holding its face under a blood-red sky?
- A. Girl with a Pearl Earring
- B. The Starry Night
- C. The Hay Wain
- D. The Scream
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The Scream
Did you know? Edvard Munch painted The Scream in 1893.
31.Which art movement reaches for the sky with pointed arches and flying buttresses?
- A. Art Nouveau
- B. the Renaissance
- C. the Baroque
- D. Gothic architecture
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Gothic architecture
Did you know? Chartres Cathedral is a Gothic masterpiece.
32.Which artist painted dreamscapes with melting clocks?
- A. Georgia O'Keeffe
- B. Salvador Dalí
- C. Frida Kahlo
- D. Andy Warhol
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Salvador Dalí
Did you know? Dalí also designed the dream sequence for Hitchcock's film Spellbound.
33.Which Italian city was the cradle of Renaissance art and the Medici family?
- A. Milan
- B. Florence
- C. Rome
- D. Venice
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Florence
Did you know? The Uffizi gallery grew from the Medici collections.
34.Which painter dripped and poured paint onto huge canvases?
- A. Claude Monet
- B. Marc Chagall
- C. Hokusai
- D. Jackson Pollock
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Jackson Pollock
Did you know? Pollock's method was called action painting.
35.Which painting shows light falling on tax collectors in a tavern?
- A. The Hay Wain
- B. The Angelus
- C. The Scream
- D. The Calling of St. Matthew
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The Calling of St. Matthew
Did you know? Caravaggio painted it in 1600.
36.Which portrait shows a woman seen from the front and in profile at once?
- A. the portrait of Dora Maar
- B. the Channel Tunnel
- C. Windsor Castle
- D. the statue of David
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the portrait of Dora Maar
Did you know? Picasso painted Dora Maar in his Cubist style.
37.Which sculpture shows six robed men with ropes around their necks?
- A. the Discobolus
- B. the Burghers of Calais
- C. the Bronze Horseman
- D. the Ecstasy of Saint Teresa
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the Burghers of Calais
Did you know? Rodin's Burghers recall a 1347 siege episode.
38.Which art movement builds images from dots of pure color?
- A. Impressionism
- B. Pointillism
- C. Fauvism
- D. Art Nouveau
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Pointillism
Did you know? Seurat and Signac developed Pointillism.
39.Which artist made silkscreen prints of soup cans and celebrities?
- A. Andy Warhol
- B. Frida Kahlo
- C. Salvador Dalí
- D. Georgia O'Keeffe
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Andy Warhol
Did you know? Warhol led the American Pop Art movement.
40.Which Japanese art turns a single sheet of paper into sculptures?
- A. origami
- B. bonsai
- C. sumi-e
- D. ikebana
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origami
Did you know? "Ori" means fold and "kami" means paper.

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