• 1. 
    Which of these is a paint made from pigments and plastic?

  • tempera
  • gesso
  • acetone
  • acrylic
  • 2. 
    Early photographers made their images on which of these materials?

  • plastic
  • stone
  • paper
  • glass
  • 3. 
    To which artistic movement does Paul Gauguin’s The Yellow Christ belong?

  • impressionism
  • cloisonnism
  • fauvism
  • Bauhaus
  • 4. 
    What does the Venus of Brassempouy represent?

  • an old man
  • a human figure
  • a woman’s head
  • an angel
  • 5. 
    Which architect founded the Bauhaus school of design?

  • Frank Lloyd Wright
  • Frank Gehry
  • Walter Gropius
  • I.M. Pei
  • 6. 
    Who designed the Vietnam Veterans Memorial?

  • Henri Matisse
  • Maya Lin
  • Frank Gehry
  • Frank Lloyd Wright
  • 7. 
    What did I.M. Pei design outside the Louvre, in Paris?

  • pyramid
  • obelisk
  • sarcophagus
  • ziggurat
  • 8. 
    Which one of these is not a well-known Indian sculptor?

  • Krishna Reddy
  • Ramkinkar Baij
  • Henry Moore
  • Kumaradeva
  • 9. 
    What animal often symbolizes peace in art?

  • duck
  • deer
  • dove
  • dog
  • 10. 
    What was the subject of the earliest known paintings?

  • sports
  • landscapes
  • animals
  • flowers
  • 11. 
    Name the term to describe a figure that stands with one leg holding its full weight and the other leg relaxed.

  • Obelisk
  • Model
  • Contrapposto
  • Muse
  • 12. 
    Which sculptor is best known for his colossal Statue of Freedom?

  • Clark Mills
  • Horatio Greenough
  • Thomas Crawford
  • Hiram Powers
  • 13. 
    Which artist is known as the creator of Cubism?

  • Claude Monet
  • Pablo Picasso
  • Rembrandt
  • Salvador Dalí
  • 14. 
    Which ornamental art style flourished between 1890 and 1910 throughout Europe and the United States?

  • Art Deco
  • Baroque
  • Rococo
  • Art Nouveau
  • 15. 
    Which art group was founded by a group of women artists devoted to fighting sexism and racism within the art world in 1985?

  • Women's Caucus for Art
  • Guerrilla Girls
  • LACE
  • subRosa
  • 16. 
    The first artist to receive the MacArthur Foundation "genius" award was:

  • Larry Bell
  • Barnett Newman
  • Robert Irwin
  • Mary Corse
  • 17. 
    Which artistic movement grew principally out of the earlier Dada movement?

  • Surrealism
  • Pointillism
  • Romanticism
  • Expressionism
  • 18. 
    Who painted "The Starry Night"?

  • Georges Seurat
  • Vincent van Gogh
  • Paul Gauguin
  • Pierre-Auguste Renoir
  • 19. 
    Name the church where Leonardo da Vinci's famous fresco the "Last Supper" is painted.

  • Basilica di Sant'Ambrogio
  • Santa Maria delle Grazie
  • San Nazaro in Brolo
  • Duomo di Milano
  • 20. 
    Who coined the term "Post-Impressionism" for a French art movement?

  • Louis Leroy
  • Roger Fry
  • Dora Carrington
  • Chris Reed
  • 21. 
    Name the type of painting technique done by mixing pigments with hot liquid wax.

  • Tempera painting
  • Encaustic painting
  • Acrylic painting
  • Casein painting
  • 22. 
    Which school of painting was founded by the Mongol Il-Khans in the early 14th century?

  • Zhe school
  • Jalāyirid school
  • Tabrīz school
  • Shīrāz school
  • 23. 
    During which dynasty was the Mosul school of painting developed?

  • Hamdanid dynasty
  • Saffarid dynasty
  • Zangid dynasty
  • Bahri dynasty
  • 24. 
    Name the painting technique that is executed entirely in shades or tints of a single color unnatural to the object.

  • Gouache
  • Camaieu
  • Sfumato
  • Sezession
  • 25. 
    In which year was the German art society Nazarene founded?

  • 1819
  • 1913
  • 1809
  • 1924
  • 26. 
    Which Buddhist portraiture was developed by the Zen sect in 1200?

  • Chinsō
  • Shodo
  • Ukiyo-e
  • Manga
  • 27. 
    Which art movement, first in painting and later in music, developed in France during the late 19th and early 20th centuries?

  • Tromp l’oeil
  • Precisionism
  • Impressionism
  • Naturalism
  • 28. 
    Which American artist was a pioneer of Abstract Expressionism?

  • Jackson Pollock
  • John Altoon
  • Romare Bearden
  • Charles Alston
  • 29. 
    Which art movement flourished in Zurich, Switzerland, during the early 20th century?

  • Pop art
  • Rococo
  • Dada
  • Modern art
  • 30. 
    Which art technique uses light and shadow to define three-dimensional objects?

  • Oil painting
  • Impasto
  • Chiaroscuro
  • Grisaille
  • 31. 
    Which style of painting flourished in France around the turn of the 20th century?

  • Fauvism
  • Constructivism
  • Cubism
  • Cloisonnism
  • 32. 
    What type of painting depicts scenes from everyday life in a realistic manner?

  • Bark painting
  • Metaphysical painting
  • Genre painting
  • Deccani painting
  • 33. 
    American Gothic painting, used as parodies in popular culture, was painted by which American artist?

  • Grant Wood
  • Renzo Piano
  • M.F. Hussain
  • Edgar Degas
  • 34. 
    Name the art group formed from the initials of the founders' home cities

  • Section d'Or
  • Puteaux group
  • De Stijl
  • COBRA
  • 35. 
    Which French painter is called the leader of the Realist movement?

  • Eugène Delacroix
  • Édouard Manet
  • Edward Hopper
  • Gustave Courbet
  • 36. 
    Which of these art forms is practiced primarily in East Asia?

  • Sfumato
  • Scroll Painting
  • Landscape Painting
  • Panel Painting
  • 37. 
    Who is the founder of the 19th-century school of Neo-Impressionism?

  • Caravaggio
  • Georges Braque
  • Sandro Botticelli
  • Georges Seurat
  • 38. 
    Who is known as the father of European painting?

  • Giotto
  • Adolf Waldinge
  • Walter Satterlee
  • Pierre Auguste Renoir
  • 39. 
    Who is the creator of the famous sculptures The Thinker and The Kiss?

  • Nicolai Abildgaard
  • Dirck Jacobszoon
  • Hans von Aachen
  • Auguste Rodin
  • 40. 
    When did Constructivism in art begin?

  • 1886
  • 1600
  • 1913
  • 1770
  • 41. 
    Who was the teacher of Leonardo da Vinci?

  • Sandro Botticelli
  • Raphael
  • Andrea del Verrocchio
  • Giorgio Vasari
  • 42. 
    Which of these painters is known for making portraits of the leading figures of the American Revolution?

  • George Barret Sr.
  • Charles Willson Peale
  • Richard Wilson
  • Angelica Kauffman
  • 43. 
    What was the artistic movement that originated in Italy in the early 20th-century?

  • Futurism
  • Stridentism
  • Suprematism
  • Neoplasticism
  • 44. 
    Name the form of painting that depicts Christian sacred personages or events.

  • Icon
  • Tapestry
  • Abstract art
  • Graphics
  • 45. 
    Name the type of sculpture that represents a person dying or in death.

  • Kouros
  • Gisant
  • Acrolith
  • Figurehead
  • 46. 
    Which American filmmaker is also known as one of the originators of the assemblage form of sculpture?

  • Eileen Agar
  • Joseph Bard
  • Joseph Cornell
  • Robert Motherwell
  • 47. 
    In the quarrel of color versus drawing, what are the supporters of the supremacy of disegno (“drawing”) over color called?

  • Modern
  • Poussinist
  • Rubenist
  • Ancient
  • 48. 
    The motto "Art for art's sake" belongs to which art movement?

  • Costumbrismo
  • Expressionism
  • Mannerism
  • Aestheticism
  • 49. 
    Which school of the visual arts flourished in Prague under the patronage of Charles IV?

  • Novgorod school
  • Norwich school
  • Bohemian school
  • Mosan school
  • 50. 
    When did the Novgorod school of art flourish?

  • 12th century
  • 17th century
  • 19th century
  • 20th century
  • 51. 
    What is Chinese landscape painting called?

  • Shan shui
  • Ming
  • Song
  • Jinbi shanshui
  • 52. 
    What are Japanese hanging scroll paintings called?

  • Shigajiku
  • Emakimono
  • Yamato-e
  • Kakemono
  • 53. 
    The Kishangarh painting belongs to which state of India?

  • Rajasthan
  • Uttar Pradesh
  • Madhya Pradesh
  • Odisha
  • 54. 
    What is the other name of the art movement Orphism?

  • Primitivism
  • Vorticism
  • Simultaneism
  • Expressionism
  • 55. 
    Who is the founder of the Rayonism art movement?

  • Robert Delaunay
  • Franz Marc
  • Albert Gleizes
  • Mikhail Fyodorovich Larionov
  • 56. 
    Which Egyptian art style did Amenhotep IV create?

  • Stuart style
  • Severe style
  • Amarna style
  • Proto-Corinthian style
  • 57. 
    In which country are the Gongbi and Baimiao techniques of painting found?

  • Japan
  • Russia
  • France
  • China
  • 58. 
    In which year did the German art organization Die Brücke begin?

  • 1644
  • 1905
  • 1974
  • 1895
  • 59. 
    During whose reign did the Carolingian art begin?

  • Pepin the Short
  • Clovis I
  • Charlemagne
  • Desiderius
  • 60. 
    What school of painting flourished under the Timurid ruler Shāh Rokh?

  • Pskov school
  • Ma-Xia school
  • Kanō school
  • Herāt school
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