The Ultimate Fun Quiz On Great Artists
It’s time to answer some cool questions about General Knowledge
- 1.Which artist's brother was an inept artist and had the nickname of "The Splinter"?
- A.
Michelangelo
- B.
Masaccio
- C.
Titian
- D.
Raphael
- 2.Who was the artist whose painting entitled "White Square" was a white square on a white background?
- A.
Moholy-Nagy
- B.
Mondrian
- C.
El Lissitzky
- D.
Malevitch
- 3.Which British painter and engraver completed the four lions for the Nelson Monument in London in 1866?
- A.
Edwin Henry Landseer
- B.
William Turner
- C.
Joseph Wright
- D.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
- 4.Which of these artists did not appear in the photograph of "The Irascibles" which was published in Life magazine in 1950?
- A.
Rothko
- B.
Kline
- C.
Pousette-Dart
- D.
De Kooning
- 5.Who painted a portrait of Peggy Guggenheim's daughter in 1943 that was reminiscent of Picasso's "Girl Before A Mirror"?
- A.
Pollock
- B.
De Kooning
- C.
Manta
- D.
Pousette-Dart
- 6.Which artist spent a large part of his life abroad because of his refusal to paint for political ends in his own country?
- A.
Klee
- B.
Kandinsky
- C.
Gauguin
- D.
Tamayo
- 7.Which artist suffered from painful spinal damage and ulcers brought on by many falls from horseback?
- A.
Francisco Goya
- B.
Edgar Degas
- C.
Claude Monet
- D.
Theodore Gericault
- 8.Which artist's journals and essays were collected by Osbert Sitwell and published in 1947 under the title of "A Free House"?
- A.
John Singer Sergeant
- B.
Frank Auerbach
- C.
Clovis Corinth
- D.
Walter Richard Sickert
- 9.Which artist finally gave up painting in 1912 because of failing eyesight?
- A.
Degas
- B.
Cezanne
- C.
Courbet
- D.
Renoir
- 10.Which of the following was not a favorite subject for Winslow Homer?
- A.
Seascapes
- B.
Portraits Of Wealthy Bostonians
- C.
Civil War Scenes
- D.
Outdoor Life In The Adirondacks
- 11.Who said "if you paint a big picture, you're in it"?
- A.
Mark Rothko
- B.
De Kooning
- C.
Francis Bacon
- D.
Jackson Pollock
- 12.Which artist said "I paint in order not to cry"?
- A.
Roualt
- B.
Matisse
- C.
Munch
- D.
Klee
- 13.Which of the following artists was so unrecognized in his lifetime that almost nothing is known about him today?
- A.
Johannes Vermeer
- B.
Giotto
- C.
Claude Monet
- D.
Edward Hopper
- 14.Which manga artist was the world's best selling female comic artist in 2008?
- A.
Naoko Takeuchi
- B.
Rumiko Takahashi
- C.
Yuu Watase
- D.
Clamp
- 15.Who painted "Napoleon Bonaparte in 1800", as a general, a first consul and as emperor?
- A.
Boullee
- B.
Fragonard
- C.
David
- D.
Ingres