Artists

Question 1

Pablo Picasso

Answer 1

Spain. La Guernica, Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, The Weeping Women. Cubist.

Question 2

Vincent Van Gogh

Answer 2

Netherlands. Starry Night, Sunflowers, Wheatfield with Crows. French asylum, cut off ear, suicide.

Question 3

Andy Warhol

Answer 3

USA. Pop Art. Campbell’s Soup Cans, Marilyn Diptych.

Question 4

Michaelangelo

Answer 4

Italy. David, La Pieta, The Last Judgement, Sistine Chapel, Moses.

Question 5

Leonardo Da Vinci

Answer 5

Italy. Mona Lisa, The Last Supper, Vitruvian Man, Virgin of the Rocks.

Question 6

Claude Monet

Answer 6

France (Paris and Giverny). Impressionism. Impression Sunrise, Water Lilies, Haystacks

Question 7

Rembrandt

Answer 7

Netherlands. 1600s. The Night Watch.

Question 8

Salvador Dali

Answer 8

Spain. Surrealism. The Persistence of Memory.

Question 9

Jackson Pollock

Answer 9

USA. Abstract Expressionism. Squiggly lines, throws paint at canvas.

Question 10

Henri Matisse

Answer 10

France. Like Picasso and Faust. La Danse, Woman with a Hat, L’Atelier Rouge

Question 11

Auguste Rodin

Answer 11

France. Sculptor of The Thinker.

Question 12

Titan

Answer 12

Venice

Question 13

James McNeill Whistler

Answer 13

USA. Portraits of mother - Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1

Question 14

Paul Gaugin

Answer 14

France. Polynesia and underage girls.

Question 15

Frida Kahlo

Answer 15

Mexico, unibrow, married to Diego Rivera. Painted The Two Fridas.

Question 16

Edvard Munch

Answer 16

Norway. The Scream, Madonna, The Sick Child.

Question 17

Georgia O’Keefe

Answer 17

USA. Jimson Weed, enlarged flowers, New Mexico landscape.

Question 18

Johannes Vermeer

Answer 18

Netherlands. Girl With a Pearl Earring

Question 19

Grant Wood

Answer 19

American Gothic

Question 20

George Seurat

Answer 20

France. A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of Grande Jatte. Pointilism.

Question 21

Sandro Boticelli

Answer 21

Italy. The Birth of Venus, Primavera. Both in Uffizi Gallery in Florence.

Question 22

Hokusai

Answer 22

Japan. The Great Wave off Kanagawa

Question 23

Edouard Manet

Answer 23

Paris. Impressionist. The Luncheon on Grass, Olympian

Question 24

Peter Paul Rubens

Answer 24

Flanders. Classical, Christian history

Question 25

Francisco Goya

Answer 25

Spain. Romanticism, Prado museum. Saturn Devouring his Son, The Third of May 1808.

Question 26

Velasquez

Answer 26

Spain. Realistic Greek mythology

Question 27

El Greco

Answer 27

Greek, Spanish Renaissance.

Question 28

Rene Magritte

Answer 28

Belgium. Surrealist. Son of Man, The Treachery of Images.

Question 29

Edward Hopper

Answer 29

USA. Nighthawks.

Question 30

Henri Rousseau

Answer 30

France. “The Customs Office / Le douanier” nickname. Post-impressionist, dreamy landscapes.

Question 31

Edgar Degas

Answer 31

France. Sculpture + paintings featuring dancers/ballerinas.

Question 32

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Answer 32

France. Impressionism. Girls at the Piano, Two Sisters, Bal de Moulin de la Galette.

Question 33

Thomas Gainsborough

Answer 33

UK. The Blue Boy, Mr and Mrs Andrews.