• 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. 
    What animal often symbolizes peace in art?

  • duck
  • deer
  • dove
  • dog
  • 9. 
    Which fashion designer is credited with having launched the skinny silhouette for menswear in the 2000s?

  • Ralph Lauren
  • Karl Lagerfeld
  • Raf Simons
  • Hedi Slimane
  • 10. 
    Which term describes a dress with a triangular silhouette?

  • A-line
  • ball gown
  • macaroni dress
  • shift
  • 11. 
    The paper dress was a short-lived fad in which decade?

  • 1890s
  • 1960s
  • 1920s
  • 1990s
  • 12. 
    Which artist invented the ready-made?

  • Marcel Duchamp
  • Edgar Degas
  • Jeff Koons
  • Jenny Holzer
  • 13. 
    Which artist designed a flying machine?

  • Hiëronymus Bosch
  • Sandro Botticelli
  • Albrecht Dürer
  • Leonardo da Vinci
  • 14. 
    Which artist died of a drug overdose at age 27?

  • Amedeo Modigliani
  • Egon Schiele
  • Jean-Michel Basquiat
  • Frida Kahlo
  • 15. 
    Which artist invented pointillism?

  • Édouard Manet
  • Camille Pissarro
  • Anni Albers
  • Georges Seurat
  • 16. 
    Which artist’s primary medium was the quilt?

  • Louise Nevelson
  • David Hockney
  • Faith Ringgold
  • Helen Frankenthaler
  • 17. 
    Which artist made sculptures of writers Victor Hugo and Honoré de Balzac?

  • Auguste Rodin
  • Gutzon Borglum
  • Antoine-Louis Barye
  • Eva Hesse
  • 18. 
    The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel was painted by:

  • Michelangelo
  • Titian
  • Raphael
  • Leonardo da Vinci
  • 19. 
    Titian was the great painter of which city in Italy?

  • Siena
  • Venice
  • Rome
  • Florence
  • 20. 
    Which family became the greatest patrons of the arts during the Renaissance?

  • Medici family
  • Botticelli family
  • Savonarola family
  • Giorgione family
  • 21. 
    Which artist or architect is credited with mastering the design and construction of the dome?

  • Leon Battista Alberti
  • Donatello
  • Filippo Brunelleschi
  • Lorenzo Ghiberti
  • 22. 
    Renaissance artists looked to which ancient civilization for inspiration?

  • Maya
  • Egypt
  • Sumer
  • Greece
  • 23. 
    Who designed Hearst Castle?

  • Julia Morgan
  • William Randolph Hearst
  • Marian Davies
  • Orson Welles
  • 24. 
    The Seagram Building was designed by a team of architects. Who were they?

  • Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright
  • Mies van der Rohe and Philip Johnson
  • Rem Koolhaas and Zaha Hadid
  • Charles Correa and I.M. Pei
  • 25. 
    Who designed the Hagia Sophia?

  • Justinian I
  • Theodora
  • Sinan
  • Saladin
  • 26. 
    What great Ottoman architect designed the Mosque of Süleyman I the Magnificent?

  • Saladin
  • Sinan
  • Omar Khayyam
  • Nūbār Pasha
  • 27. 
    What prolific female architect merged Modernism and populism in works she built largely in Brazil?

  • Clarice Lispector
  • Lota de Macedo Soares
  • Tarsila do Amaral
  • Lina Bo Bardi
  • 28. 
    Which artist’s first name was Claude?

  • Monet
  • Manet
  • 29. 
    This artist has the reputation for painting the same subject over and over again.

  • Monet
  • Manet
  • 30. 
    Who painted a self-portrait that features the artist with a bandaged ear, with a Japanese print of Mount Fuji visible in the background?

  • Vincent van Gogh
  • Claude Monet
  • Paul Gauguin
  • Édouard Manet
  • 31. 
    Who painted a portrait of a young woman, who may have been the mistress of the artist’s patron, with a pet ermine?

  • John Singer Sargent
  • Peter Paul Rubens
  • Leonardo da Vinci
  • Mary Cassatt
  • 32. 
    Who painted a watercolour portrait featuring the artist’s sister and niece sitting on a divan with an unfinished background?

  • Mary Cassatt
  • Judith Leyster
  • Alice Neel
  • Berthe Morisot
  • 33. 
    Whose self-portrait features the artist with a thorn necklace adorned with a hummingbird?

  • Frida Kahlo
  • John Singer Sargent
  • Paul Gauguin
  • Georgia O’Keeffe
  • 34. 
    Who painted Guernica?

  • Gino Severini
  • Juan Gris
  • Pablo Picasso
  • Georges Braque
  • 35. 
    With which printmaking technique is 18th-century artist Francisco de Goya associated?

  • aquatint
  • etching
  • engraving
  • lithography
  • 36. 
    Who was the first American artist to make welded metal sculpture?

  • Charles Sheeler
  • David Smith
  • Joseph Cornell
  • Lee Bontecou
  • 37. 
    Francesco Borromini

  • architect
  • artist
  • 38. 
    Louise Blanchard Bethune

  • painter
  • architect
  • 39. 
    Andrea Mantegna

  • architect
  • painter
  • 40. 
    Jan van Eyck

  • architect
  • painter
  • 41. 
    Helen Frankenthaler

  • architect
  • painter
  • 42. 
    Jean Nouvel

  • architect
  • painter
  • 43. 
    For what is Henry Moore best known?

  • Expressionist painting
  • bronze and stone sculptures
  • tensile structures
  • lithography
  • 44. 
    What term is used to describe the fixing of pigments with heated wax?

  • fresco
  • encaustic
  • emboss
  • etch
  • 45. 
    Which style of painting uses water-based pigments on freshly applied plaster?

  • casein
  • fresco
  • sand painting
  • trompe l’oeil
  • 46. 
    Of what material is the spire of the Chrysler Building in New York City made?

  • gold-plated metal
  • stainless steel
  • marble
  • granite
  • 47. 
    Who painted the highly controversial Luncheon on the Grass (1863)?

  • Manet
  • Monet
  • 48. 
    The name for which type of trousers originated in Genoa, Italy?

  • jodhpurs
  • capri
  • culottes
  • jeans
  • 49. 
    A duffle coat is fastened with what?

  • a zipper
  • toggles and loops
  • snaps
  • it’s a pullover
  • 50. 
    A garment wrapped around the body and tucked in at the waist or the armpits is called what?

  • sarong
  • waistcoat
  • chemise
  • bathrobe
  • 51. 
    Which artist is known for self-portraits?

  • Cindy Sherman
  • Rembrandt
  • Vincent van Gogh
  • all of these
  • 52. 
    Which fashion designer ushered in the New Look for womenswear in the late 1940s?

  • Cristóbal Balenciaga
  • Christian Dior
  • Coco Chanel
  • Mariano Fortuny
  • 53. 
    Which Spanish painter of Greek descent acquired in Italy the nickname by which he is known?

  • El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos)
  • “the Turkish painter” (Jean-Étienne Liotard)
  • Luca Fa Presto (Luca Giordano)
  • Masaccio (Tommaso di Giovanni di Simone Guidi)
  • 54. 
    Who is generally regarded as the greatest artist of the German Renaissance?

  • Hiëronymus Bosch
  • Albrecht Dürer
  • Michael Wolgemut
  • Rogier van der Weyden
  • 55. 
    Which of these women was associated with the nihilistic art movement called Dada?

  • Paula Modersohn-Becker
  • Käthe Kollwitz
  • Gabriele Münter
  • Hannah Höch
  • 56. 
    Pablo Picasso was born in France.

  • fact
  • fiction
  • 57. 
    Which Abstract Expressionist is known for a series of some 150 works collectively entitled Elegies to the Spanish Republic?

  • Jackson Pollock
  • Willem de Kooning
  • Robert Motherwell
  • Philip Guston
  • 58. 
    Bichitr was an Indian painter in the 17th century Mughal court.

  • fact
  • fiction
  • 59. 
    Peter Fabergé was famous for eggs.

  • fact
  • fiction
  • 60. 
    Monet and his paintings are most closely associated with the region of Aix-en-Provence, France.

  • fact
  • fiction
  • 61. 
    The French painter Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec was also an Olympic athlete.

  • fact
  • fiction
  • 62. 
    Who painted the mural Last Supper in a monastery in Milan?

  • Peter Paul Rubens
  • Leonardo da Vinci
  • Michelangelo
  • Francisco de Goya
  • 63. 
    Jacopo Robusti painted under the name Jackson Pollock.

  • fiction
  • fact
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