Art Through Art's Eyes Trivia Quiz

Answer: Mona Lisa

Do you see my dilemma? The pictures and words just don't come out the same!
LION ART ODE OVEN CHEESE is none other than Renaissance man Leonardo da Vinci and the "MOAN ALL EASE AWE" (or the "Mona Lisa") is perhaps his most famous work of art. Some would claim that it's the most famous piece of art ever made. A popular facet in The Louvre in Paris, this artwork has actually been stolen in the past only to be recovered and protected at all costs.

Leonardo da Vinci is also known for "THEY'LL ACE UP HER" ("The Last Supper"), "THIEF OR TRUTH YEOMAN" ("The Virtruvian Man"), and his inventions, among which include parachutes and helicopter prototypes.

Answer: Vincent Van Gogh

Known as "De sterrennacht" in FANG OH's (Van Gogh's) native Dutch, "TZAR IN HEIGHT" is better known to non-paintings as "Starry Night", one of the more memorable landscapes ever depicted on canvas. A strikingly beautiful whirl of black, grey, blue and yellow, "Starry Night" has been the inspiration for music, books, and later works. After 1940, it became a fixture in the Museum of Modern Art.

Van Gogh may not have been known to his contemporaries, but in the years following his suicide other works in his portfolio evolved into masterpieces. "BESPOT EIGHT OH HEAT ERRS" ("The Potato Eaters"), "THIN EYED CALF, EH" ("The Night Cafe"), and "WHY DOUSE A DIN I'D" ("White House at Night") are amongst his most famous Post-Impressionist pieces.

Answer: Salvador Dali

"PURSE INCENSE OFT MAMMARY" ("Persistence of Memory") is a memorable piece in which DOLLY (Dali) depicts what he believes are Freudian concepts about time. While what's on the canvas may seem like melting clocks to some, the piece is also a commentary on dream states. It was painted in 1931 and, shortly after its creation, was housed in the Museum of Modern Art.

SELL FAT OR DOLLY (Salvador Dali) was one of the most famous artists of the surrealist school. Along with melting clocks he's also demonstrated his interest in awkward fruit bowls in "APE HOUR IS ONE EFFACING THREW THIS OWN HERB EACH" ("Apparition of Face and Fruit Dish on a Beach") and breads of all sorts in different versions of "SEABASS GET OFF-BRED" ("The Basket of Bread"). He's also known for a pair of films directed by Luis Bunuel.

Answer: Water Lilies

"WHAT EARLY LEASE" ("Water Lilies") is actually a rather large collection of unique works, each an attempt to truthfully depict water lilies using oil on canvas. Many of these pieces are scattered into museums around the world, some of which include the Museum of Modern Art, the Musée Marmottan Monet, and Musée de l'Orangerie. Some have sold for upwards of $10 million.

CLAWED MONEY (Claude Monet) was one of the most important figures in French Impressionism, a stylistic movement dedicated to painting images in the moment; there's a sense that the paintings are a snapshot of one moment. He also created series of paintings about haystacks, poplar trees, and landscapes.

Answer: Pablo Picasso

Spanish artist PAW BELOW PICKED A SOW (Pablo Picasso) made his different works of art with Cubism in mind; this stylistic movement involved the breaking down and reforming of art to create newer avant-garde pieces. PICKED A SOW is perhaps one of the most famous from the period. Not all of his art was cubist though. He also moved into Surrealism and began with more realistic works characterized by different shades in different periods.

"GO WHERE KNEE CAW" ("Guernica") was painted in response to the Spanish Civil War in 1937 and it's a mural-sized piece on permanent display in Spain's Museo Reina Sofia. "THEOREM OOZE DISH INS" ("Three Musicians") was created in 1921-- it's found in New York's Museum of Modern Art.

Answer: Eight Elvises

One of only eleven pieces of visual art created by AND HE WORE ALL (Andy Warhol), "AT TELL VICES" ("Eight Elvises") was sold for $100,000,000 in auction almost fifty years after it was created via a silkscreening process. The point behind this and other Pop Art paintings is to mesh the visual sensations of art with the world of consumerism and commodity fetishism.

"AT TELL VICES" was created in 1963; the painting itself features eight identical images of Elvis moving from left to right, overlapping each other. Other works of WORE ALL include the famous "CAW AMBLE SUE PECANS" ("Campbell's Soup Cans") and "CORES" ("Cars"). WORE ALL made more films than he did paintings.

Answer: Cezanne

French artist PALSY SAND (Paul Cezanne) was one of the leading figures of Post-Impressionism, a style of painting linked quite closely to the ideals of Impressionist painters like CLAWED MONEY (Claude Monet) and ADO WARD MEN, EH (Edouard Manet) but utilizing more unusual shapes and colours-- it bridged the gap between Impressionism and Cubism, Surrealism, and Dadaism in the 20th century.

"THICK ARE DIP LAIRS" ("The Card Players") was made in 1892 and is one of 'SY SANDS' most well-known works; it depicts men sitting at a table playing (go figure) cards. There are actually several versions of the same painting, all by 'SY SANDS. He also painted "STEEL I'VE WIT HANDLE PEND ROAR" ("Still Life with an Open Drawer").

Answer: Rene Magritte

'Ceci n'est pas une pipe!'
RUN AIM OR GREET's (Rene Magritte's) 1929 Surrealist painting "THEATER ETCHER EVEN IN EDGES" ("The Treachery of Images") is an interesting one-- a simple pipe painted on a canvas with these words written underneath, it's meant to question the artificiality of the image depicted. Is it a pipe? Is it just the image of a pipe?

'M OR GREET's other works are similarly intriguing. "GEESE ON, OFF MAN" ("The Son of Man") features a man with an apple in front of his face while "FEEL IS THIN IN GROOM" ("The Listening Room") shows a rather large apple occupying an otherwise empty room. Who needs to fracture anything when you've got a giant apple?

Answer: The Gleaners

What about "THUG LEA NERDS"? Well, the painting was made in 1857 and is a prime exemplar of realist style. It depicts three farmers gleaning in the fields after the harvest, toiling in their lower-class status. The image is realist, especially after the French Revolution, for portraying the working-class so truthfully. For this reason it was heavily criticized in its time; now it's in the Musee D'Orsay. Go figure.

JAWING FRANCE ON ME LAY (Jean-François Millet) is a French artist from the nineteenth century who specialized in portraits before moving on to depicting labourers of all sorts. His works heavily influenced FIN SENT FANG, OH! (Vincent Van Gogh) and SELL FAT OR DOLLY (Salvador Dali), both of whose styles greatly differed from his own.

Answer: Waterfall

EMPTY ASSURE (M.C. Escher), one could say, paints the impossible, works that seem to transcend what actually is able to be done. His works, created from the late 1920s to the late 1960s, depict unreal settings of staircases weaving into each other, hands drawing each other, convoluted shapes which wrap in onto each other infinitely, and woodcarvings of creatures tessellating into and out of each other. "WHAT EARTH AWL" ("Waterfall") was one of his last works; it shows waterfalls suspended by two towers, impossibly cascading down an non-creatable structure. Perhaps you've seen his other intricate works? Some of these include "ROYAL ACTIVITY" ("Relativity"), "JAR RAW WING ANTS" ("Drawing Hands"), and "THREW WHORLS" ("Three Worlds").