Artists Flashcards
Whose works include Flatford Mill Dedham Mill and The Haywain?
JOHN CONSTABLE
Which painting thought to be a portrait of Lisa Gherardini has been on permanent display at the Louvre since 1797 although it was stolen in 1911?
MONA LISA
Who painted The Fighting Temeraire tugged to her last berth to be broken up 1838?
JMW TURNER
Which French artist who died in the Marquesas Islands in 1903 spent many years in Tahiti and produced a number of paintings of the local women?
PAUL GAUGUIN
What was the name of Andy Warhol’s New York City studio which had three different locations between 1962 and 1984?
THE FACTORY
Born Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi in Florence in 1445 which artist’s nickname means “little barrel”?
(SANDRO) BOTTICELLI
Painted by Rembrandt in 1642 by what name is The Shooting Company of Frans Banning Cocq and Willem van Ruytenburch commonly referred to as?
THE NIGHT WATCH
Whose works include La Maja Desnuda (The Nude Maja) and La maja vestida (The Clothed Maja) painted between1790 and 1805?
FRANCISCO GOYA
Whistlejacket is a 1762 painting by George Stubbs of what type of animal?
HORSE
Which Early Netherlandish painter produced a number of triptychs the most outstanding of which is The Garden of Earthly Delights?
HIERONYMUS BOSCH
The Red Vineyards near Arles painted in 1888 is supposedly is the only piece sold by which artist while he was alive?
VINCENT VAN GOGH
What is the name of the village in France where Claude Monet bought a house and gardens where he painted his series of monumental paintings of water lilies?
GIVERNY
Which painting by Salvador Dali housed in the Museum of Modern Art in New York is sometimes referred to by more descriptive titles such as “The Soft Watches” or “The Melting Watches”?
THE PERSISTENCE OF MEMORY
What is the surname of the Italian merchant and his wife who are subjects in a 1434 full-length double portrait by Jan van Eyck housed in the National Gallery?
ARNOLFINI
The Last Supper is a mural painting by Leonardo da Vinci in the refectory of which Convent in Milan?
SANTA MARIA DELLA GRAZIE
Who painted Three Studies of Lucian Freud a 1969 triptych which was sold in 2013 for $142 million?
FRANCIS BACON
Notable for his pioneering work on visual perspective whose best known works are the three paintings representing the battle of San Romano which are housed in the National Gallery the Uffizi and the Louvre?
PAULO UCCELLO
Which 1793 painting by Jacques-Louis David shows a French revolutionary leader lying in his bath after being stabbed to death by a Girondin?
THE DEATH OF MARAT
The Ambassadors by Hans Holbein includes what object rendered in anamorphic perspective in the bottom centre of the composition?
(HUMAN) SKULL
Which member of the Camden Town Group took a keen interest in the crimes of Jack the Ripper and produced a painting titled Jack the Ripper’s Bedroom?
WALTER SICKERT
The Ditchley Portrait by Marcus Gheeraerts housed in the National Portrait Gallery is a portrait of which British monarch?
ELIZABETH I
Which 1907 cubist work by Pablo Picasso portrays five nude female prostitutes from a brothel?
LES DESMOISELLES D’AVIGNON
Which series of eight paintings by William Hogarth shows the decline and fall of the son and heir of a rich merchant who comes to London and wastes all his money on luxurious living prostitution and gambling?
A RAKE’S PROGRESS
Known for his abstract paintings of brightly coloured animals which member of Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider) movement was killed at the Battle of Verdun in 1916?
FRANZ MARC
IKB is a deep blue hue first mixed by which French artist in 1960?
YVES KLEIN
Which 1573 painting by Paulo Veronese was originally painted as a Last Supper but the title was changed after an investigation by the Roman Catholic Inquisition?
THE FEAST IN THE HOUSE OF LEVI
Giving its name to a series of novels by Anthony Powell A Dance to the Music of Time was painted in the 1630s by which French artist?
NICOLAS POUSSIN
In the painting The Son of Man by Rene Magritte a man’s face is largely obscured by which object?
(GREEN) APPLE
Credited with inventing the genre of fête galante who painted The Embarkation for Cythera also known as Voyage to Cythera and Pilgrimage to the Isle of Cythera?
ANTOINE WATTEAU
Which painting by John Everett Millais originally titled A Child’s World was used over many generations in advertisements for Pears soap?
BUBBLES
The winner of the Turner Prize in 2004 who is best known for his Battle of Orgreave (2001)?
JEREMY DELLER
The drawings of Louis Wain consistently featured anthropomorphised drawings of which animals?
CATS
Which impressionist painter known for The Pink Dress and Family Reunion was killed in the Franco-Prussian war in 1870 aged 28?
FREDERIC BAZILLE
Born in Germany to Dutch parents who became portrait artist to Charles I and served Oliver Cromwell whom he painted “warts and all”?
PETER LELY
Which mountain in Provence was the subject of a series of paintings by Paul Cezanne?
MONT SAINTE-VICTOIRE
Who was painted and drawn extensively by artists of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and married Dante Gabriel Rossetti in 1860?
ELIZABETH SIDDAL
Which pupil of Rembrandt painted The Goldfinch which plays a central role in the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name written by Donna Tartt?
CAREL FABRITIUS
What is the best known work of William Frederick Yeames which depicts the son of a Royalist being questioned by Parliamentarians during the English Civil War?
AND WHEN DID YOU LAST SEE YOUR FATHER?
Which 16th century Italian painter was best known for creating imaginative portrait heads made entirely of such objects as fruits vegetables flowers and fish?
GIUSEPPE ARCHIMBOLDO
In 1958 Mark Rothko was commissioned to create the Seagram Murals for which restaurant in the Seagram building in New York?
THE FOUR SEASONS
Born in Sienna in c. 1255 who was the teacher of Simone Martini and is considered to be the father of Sienese painting?
DUCCIO
Which fresco painting by Pierro della Francesca was spared much damage during World War II when British artillery officer Tony Clarke defied orders and held back from using his troop’s guns to shell the town of Sansepolcro?
THE RESURRECTION
Las Meninas (The Maids of Honour) is a 1656 painting by Velazquez which shows a room in the Royal Alcazar of Madrid during the reign of which king of Spain?
PHILIP IV
Born in England which surrealist painter lived with Max Ernst before moving to Mexico City where she spent most of her adult life?
LEONORA CARRINGTON
In 2008 the National Gallery and National Gallery of Scotland successfully campaigned to acquire which painting by Titian from the Bridgewater Collection?
DIANA AND ACTAEON
Who was known primarily for his religious paintings and for his still-lifes and was known as the “Spanish Caravaggio”?
FRANCISCO DE ZURBARAN
Born in 1929 which Japanese conceptual artist is known as the “Princess of polka dots”? A major retrospective of her work was held at Tate Modern in 2012.
YAYOI KUSAMA
Which 1866 painting by Gustave Courbet is a close-up view of a naked hairy woman lying on a bed with legs spread?
THE ORIGIN OF THE WORLD
The lone woman among the Berlin Dada group who was one of the originators of photomontage?
HANNAH HOCH
Which Russian artist painted Chinese Girl (popularly known as “The Green Lady”) which was one of the best selling art prints of the 20th century?
VLADIMIR TRETCHIKOFF
