Quiz  /  Which Artist? Part One Quiz

  • 1. 
    Which American artist was one of the originators of the art of assemblage?

  • Milton Avery
  • Jim Dine
  • Helen Frankenthaler
  • Joseph Cornell

  • 2. 
    What English artist and art critic championed Post-Impressionism?

  • Duncan Grant
  • John Ruskin
  • Roger Fry
  • Wyndham Lewis

  • 3. 
    Which Abstract Expressionist is known for a series of some 150 works collectively entitled “Elegy to the Spanish Republic”?

  • Willem de Kooning
  • Philip Guston
  • Jackson Pollock
  • Robert Motherwell

  • 4. 
    Who was appointed court painter by King Charles I of England in 1632?

  • Francisco de Goya
  • Peter Paul Rubens
  • Hans Holbein the Elder
  • Anthony van Dyck

  • 5. 
    Who is known for his realistic portraits of the court of King Henry VIII of England?

  • Johannes Vermeer
  • Joshua Reynolds
  • Hans Holbein the Younger
  • Nicholas Hilliard

  • 6. 
    Which English artist is known for his autobiographical subject matter, including portraits and self-portraits and quiet incidental scenes such as Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures)?

  • Francis Bacon
  • Lucian Freud
  • Peter Max
  • David Hockney

  • 7. 
    Which Mexican artist reacted against the epic proportions and political rhetoric of the paintings of the Mexican muralists?

  • Rufino Tamayo
  • Frida Kahlo
  • Diego Rivera
  • Jose Guadalupe Posada

  • 8. 
    Which aesthetician dominated English artistic life of the middle and late 18th century and was made the first president of the Royal Academy?

  • Thomas Gainsborough
  • Allan Ramsay
  • Joshua Reynolds
  • William Hogarth
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