Quiz  /  Everything in Art and Design (Part Two) Quiz

  • 1. 
    Which of these painters, suffering from arthritis, continued to paint by attaching the paintbrush to his hand?

  • Claude Monet
  • Edgar Degas
  • Pierre-Auguste Renoir
  • Alfred Sisley

  • 2. 
    What painter did Pablo Picasso describe as “the father of us all”?

  • Paul Gauguin
  • Vincent van Gogh
  • Henri Rousseau
  • Paul Cézanne

  • 3. 
    What medium is used in the traditional art of etching?

  • stone
  • wood
  • sheet glass
  • copperplate

  • 4. 
    Which of these artists is best known for her studies of mothers caring for small children?

  • Frida Kahlo
  • Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun
  • Mary Cassatt
  • Lee Bontecou

  • 5. 
    Which of these writers is known for his art criticism?

  • John Ruskin
  • John Henry Newman
  • Arthur Hugh Clough
  • George Meredith

  • 6. 
    Which work begins with the escape of people from plague-stricken Florence?

  • John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress
  • William Langland’s Piers Plowman
  • Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales
  • Giovanni Boccaccio’s Decameron

  • 7. 
    Who is the Norwegian painter and printmaker whose painting The Scream has been taken as a symbol of anguished modernity?

  • Edvard Munch
  • James Ensor
  • Max Beckmann
  • Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

  • 8. 
    Whose handbook Pictorial Effect in Photography (1869) was for decades the most influential work in English on photographic practice and aesthetics?

  • Julia Margaret Cameron
  • Matthew B. Brady
  • Henry Peach Robinson
  • William Henry Fox Talbot

  • 9. 
    Who illustrated Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking-Glass (1872)?

  • William Finden
  • Sir John Tenniel
  • Howard Pyle
  • Laura E. Richards

  • 10. 
    Who used the radical poured, or “drip,” technique to create his major works?

  • Jackson Pollock
  • Andy Warhol
  • Larry Rivers
  • Robert Motherwell

  • 11. 
    Who was considered the most violent of the followers of Caravaggio?

  • Jose de Ribera
  • Orazio Gentileschi
  • Artemisia Gentileschi
  • Gerrit van Honthorst

  • 12. 
    Which of these artists is known for intense, brilliantly coloured self-portraits painted in a primitivistic style?

  • Tina Modotti
  • José Orozco
  • Diego Rivera
  • Frida Kahlo

  • 13. 
    What French artist employed Tahitian titles for works he created after he arrived in Tahiti in 1891?

  • Édouard Manet
  • Pierre Puvis de Chavannes
  • Paul Gauguin
  • Vincent van Gogh

  • 14. 
    Which building in Rome was considered revolutionary because of the presence of an oculus in its dome?

  • Pantheon
  • Erechtheum
  • Theatre of Dionysus
  • Parthenon

  • 15. 
    During the reign of which Egyptian pharaoh was the Great Sphinx at Giza erected?

  • Khufu
  • Akhenaton
  • Ramses
  • Khafre

  • 16. 
    What arts movement arose in Europe in the late 19th century in reaction to the perceived ugliness of the industrial age?

  • Cubism
  • Symbolism
  • Realism
  • Aestheticism

  • 17. 
    Who founded the Arts and Crafts movement in England?

  • John Ruskin
  • Arthur H. Mackmurdo
  • William Morris
  • Aubrey Beardsley

  • 18. 
    What photographer, known first for photographs of Yosemite Valley in California, did pioneering work in photographic studies of motion and in motion-picture projection?

  • Ansel Adams
  • Eadweard Muybridge
  • Gertrude Kasebier
  • Imogen Cunningham

  • 19. 
    Where did Suzhou embroidery originate?

  • China
  • Korea
  • Japan
  • Philippines

  • 20. 
    What art style did the painter Claude Monet initiate?

  • Cubism
  • Impressionism
  • Futurism
  • Surrealism
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