Matching Artist and Art Trivia

1. Plop and plop the ticking clocks, this painting is by Dali. The MOMA has it on display. What is this painting?

From Quiz Pop! Goes the Easel

Answer: The Persistence of Memory

"The Persistence of Memory" is one of Salvador Dali's best known works. It depicts several clocks melting in a desert landscape. A number of art critics and experts believe the painting is somehow based on Einstein's theory of relativity but Dali rejected that idea. "The Persistence of Memory" is displayed in New York's Museum of Modern Art or MOMA for short. A statue similar to the painting can be found in Shanghai, China.

From Quiz Name the Artist

Answer: Salvador Dali

The painting is one of Dali's most famous paintings. Dali was only 27 when he created the work, two years after officially joining the Surrealist group. The work's impact was large, but the artifact itself is small: only 9 1/2 by 13 inches. The fleshy blob draped over the middle of the painting supposedly approximates Dali's face in profile.

From Quiz Don't Stop Perceiving

Answer: Grant Wood

Grant Wood (1891-1942) is best known for his depictions of the rural Midwest. His most famous work is probably "American Gothic" which he painted in 1930. The painting depicts a farmer standing beside his spinster daughter in front of a white wooden house. The farmer is holding a pitchfork indicating his place in the field and the female is dressed in an apron indicative of her place at home. It has become one of the most parodied paintings created in the 20th century.

From Quiz Small Gods

Answer: Hans Holbein the Younger

Hans Holbein the Younger (1497-1543) was a German. Under the patronage of Anne Boleyn and Thomas Cromwell he became King's Painter to King Henry VIII. Although he is known as one of the great portrait painters of the age, he also produced designs for jewellery and plate. He is not especially known for his miniatures, but when Henry was contracted to marry Anne of Cleves, his fourth wife, Holbein was sent to paint a miniature of her. It turned out to be overly flattering, as Henry was repulsed by her when he saw her. The marriage was never consummated and they divorced within a very few months.

From Quiz Subject and Artist IV

Answer: Pollock

Pollock's paintings have sold for as much as $140,000,000, which, at the time, was the most ever paid for a painting.

From Quiz Artists Alphabetical 1

Answer: Anna Ancher

Anna Ancher (1859-1935), a Danish painter who was the only member of the group to be born in Skagen, used light in a way reminiscent of Van Gogh. Her 'Sewing fisherman's wife' is typical of her work. Hans von Aachen (1552-1615) was a German painter well known for his portrait and 'mythological' work. 'The Triumph of Justice' is a good example. Sofonisba Anguissola (1532-1625), an Italian artist, was a court painter to Elizabeth of Valois (wife of Philip II of Spain), and did noted portraits of both. Her five sisters were also artists, while her brother was a noted musician and composer. Pieter Aertsen (1507-1573) was a Dutch historical painter noted for his religious works and altarpieces. His 'Apostles Peter and John' is perhaps the best surviving example of his work.

From Quiz Historical Events Captured By The Great Artists

Answer: Benjamin West

Wolfe won the battle, but lost his life in the process. Remington is best known for his paintings of the American West.

From Quiz Subject and Artist III

Answer: Mondrian

Red, white, yellow, and blue were his most common colors.

From Quiz Subject and Artist II

Answer: Toulouse-Lautrec

A disabled man with fragile health, he hung out in the Pigalle section of Paris, near Montmartre, and made a sparse living with his now renowned art.

From Quiz Subject and Artist

Answer: Rubens

Women of his time were considered healthy and attractive with the plumper look. Maybe that is why many of his canvases are oversized.

From Quiz The Masters and Their Works II

Answer: Athens

Among the many great figures of ancient Greece depicted within the 'School' are Plato and Aristotle, trodding down the center of the hall discussing something wonderful, to be sure. The painting is not limited to the heroes of ancient Greece, however; one may surely espy a number of anachronisms within this fantastic work. For example, Zoroaster and Averroes, two scholars of medieval Middle East fame, are depicted amongst the Greek geniuses. It must also be noted that the Greeks depicted certainly did not all live during the same time period! One final interesting note...several of the Greek scholars are in fact based on real life contemporaries of Raphael, with Michelangelo as Heraclitus, Leonardo as Plato and Bramante as Euclid. (Raphael himself also appears in the picture.)

From Quiz 20th Century Artists & Their Art

Answer: Judy Chicago

Completed in 1979 "The Dinner Party" invites 39 famed historical females to sit at place settings created specifically for them, featuring stunning vaginal dinner plates.

From Quiz Famous Art Works & Their Artists

Answer: Velasquez

This painting is regularly voted among the ten best paintings ever.

From Quiz 19th Century Artists Challenge

Answer: Turner

Smoke, mist, fog, light, air, water, all the elements combined.

From Quiz Name the Artist II

Answer: Hieronymus Bosch

This strange work, full of monsters and devils, is at the Prado Museum in Madrid, Spain.

From Quiz Artists and Their Works

Answer: Vincent Van Gogh

Vincent Van Gogh was Dutch and lived from 1853-1890.

From Quiz Name the Artist

Answer: El Greco

"The Burial of Count Orgaz", believed by many to be El Greco's finest work, hangs in the tiny chapel of Santo Tome in Toledo, Spain.

From Quiz Pop! Goes the Easel

Answer: A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte

"A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte" is a famous painting by Georges Seurat. It depicts a bunch of people relaxing along the River Seine on a sunny afternoon. There are people lying on the grass and women standing and holding parasols to block out the sun. Seurat painted this work in the technique known as pointillism, which means that many small dots of color come together to form the larger picture. The painting is housed in the Art Institute of Chicago.

From Quiz Name the Artist

Answer: Rembrandt

"Night Watch" was originally titled, "The Company of Captain Frans Banning Cocq and Lieutenant Willem van Ruytenburch preparing to march out." It was given its more common name by Sir Joshua Reynolds because it was so dulled by time that it looked like a night scene. After cleaning, it became apparent that the painting was set in broad daylight. "The Anatomy Lesson" is also a group portrait. In both paintings, Rembrandt demonstrates mastery of chiaroscuro, the contrast of light and shade to create drama, depth, and atmosphere.

From Quiz Don't Stop Perceiving

Answer: Sandro Botticelli

Botticelli's "Birth of Venus" which hangs in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy is probably the most well known painting by this great artiste. It depicts the goddess Venus, standing on a sea shell in the water, nude except for her long knee-length hair. A handmaiden rushes to her with a red garment to cover the newly born goddess. While this painting used Roman Mythology for inspiration, many if not most of Botticelli's paintings dealt with topics found in the Christian Bible.

From Quiz Small Gods

Answer: Nicholas Hilliard

Nicholas Hilliard (1547-1619) is one of the best known English miniaturists. He painted many portraits of the courts of Elizabeth I and James I. Although most of his work consisted of small oval miniatures, he also did some larger ones, and there are two known half length panel portraits of Elizabeth I. His work, which is noted for its exquisite detail, remains highly sought after by collectors.

From Quiz Subject and Artist IV

Answer: Cezanne

Evolving into the "architectural" style where cylinders became trees and heads became spheres. Picasso praised him as the "father of us all".

From Quiz Art-i-Facts: Artists and their Masterpieces

Answer: da Vinci

Perhaps Leonardo da Vinci's most famous work, the "Mona Lisa" featured prominently in the bestselling novel by Dan Brown, "The DaVinci Code."

From Quiz Artists Alphabetical 1

Answer: Vanessa Bell

Vanessa Bell (1879-1961) was a skilled portrait artist, notably of Virginia Woolf, Aldous Huxley and other famous figures of the art and literary world, as well as producing landscapes like "Studland Beach". She was also an interior designer, noted for her complex personal life. Edward Burne-Jones (1833-1898) an artist of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood whose notable works included "Love Among the Ruins" and stained-glass windows (with William Morris) for such places as The Trinity Church, Boston. Robert Bateman (1842-1922) was one of the artists inspired by Burne-Jones. A typical painting is "The Pool of Bethesda". He should not be confused with the Canadian naturalist and painter (born 1930) of the same name. Jasmine Becket-Griffith (born 1979) is a contemporary artist and illustrator of fairy and fantasy pictures whose work has been published under her own name and in books by Brian Froud and Alan Lee.

From Quiz Historical Events Captured By The Great Artists

Answer: Manet

Is a battle an "odd choice" for an Impressionist?

From Quiz Subject and Artist III

Answer: Klimt

This Secessionist painter also painted the famous "Beethoven Frieze".

From Quiz Subject and Artist II

Answer: Warhol

Marilyn Monroe, Elvis, and Campbell's come to mind?

From Quiz Subject and Artist

Answer: Rembrandt

Part of his genius was the ability to focus on a look or expression on a dark canvas. This was, however, not the best technique for group portraits, as the "Night Watch" was criticized for not adequately portraying many subjects to the point of recognition.

From Quiz 20th Century Artists & Their Art

Answer: Gilbert and George

Created in 1991, "Thumbing" is one of the many 'self-portraits' by Gilbert & George, an artistic pair who started out as performance artists and later moved into producing their well known, larger-than-life photo-based works.

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