Art and Artists Quiz: 20 Questions for the Cultured Mind
Question 1: Who painted the Mona Lisa?
A) Vincent van Gogh
B) Leonardo da Vinci
C) Pablo Picasso
Question 2: What is the art movement called that Pablo Picasso is associated with?
A) Impressionism
B) Cubism
C) Surrealism
Question 3: Which artist is famous for cutting off his own ear?
A) Claude Monet
B) Rembrandt
C) Vincent van Gogh
Question 4: What is the name of the style in which Georges Seurat’s “A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte” is painted?
A) Pointillism
B) Fauvism
C) Abstract Expressionism
Question 5: Which artist created the sculpture “The Thinker”?
A) Auguste Rodin
B) Michelangelo
C) Donatello
Question 6: The “Birth of Venus” was painted by which artist?
A) Sandro Botticelli
B) Raphael
C) Titian
Question 7: Which artist is known for the “Blue Period”?
A) Henri Matisse
B) Pablo Picasso
C) Marc Chagall
Question 8: “The Night Watch” is a famous painting by which artist?
A) Johannes Vermeer
B) Rembrandt van Rijn
C) Peter Paul Rubens
Question 9: Who is considered the founder of French Impressionist painting?
A) Édouard Manet
B) Claude Monet
C) Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Question 10: Which artist is known for a series of paintings featuring water lilies?
A) Paul Cézanne
B) Claude Monet
C) Camille Pissarro
Question 11: “The Persistence of Memory” is a famous painting by which Surrealist artist?
A) Salvador Dalí
B) René Magritte
C) Max Ernst
Question 12: Who painted “The Scream”?
A) Edvard Munch
B) Gustav Klimt
C) Egon Schiele
Question 13: Which artist is known for the “Campbell’s Soup Cans” series?
A) Roy Lichtenstein
B) Jasper Johns
C) Andy Warhol
Question 14: “Guernica,” a powerful political statement, was painted by which artist?
A) Joan Miró
B) Pablo Picasso
C) Diego Rivera
Question 15: Which artist is famous for the painting “Girl with a Pearl Earring”?
A) Johannes Vermeer
B) Jan van Eyck
C) Rembrandt van Rijn
Question 16: Who is the artist behind the “Gates of Hell” sculpture?
A) Gian Lorenzo Bernini
B) Auguste Rodin
C) Henry Moore
Question 17: Which artist is known for the “Vitruvian Man” drawing?
A) Michelangelo
B) Raphael
C) Leonardo da Vinci
Question 18: “American Gothic” is a painting by which artist?
A) Grant Wood
B) Edward Hopper
C) Thomas Hart Benton
Question 19: Which artist is associated with the phrase “Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up”?
A) Frida Kahlo
B) Pablo Picasso
C) Georgia O’Keeffe
Question 20: “Starry Night” is a famous painting by which artist?
A) Paul Gauguin
B) Vincent van Gogh
C) Henri Rousseau