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Art Mix Trivia Quiz

A little bit of everything about art. Hope you enjoy it.

A multiple-choice quiz by vikan. Estimated time: 5 mins.

Author
vikan

Time
5 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
31,952

Updated
Aug 14 23

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Tough

Avg Score
6 / 10

Plays
3544

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Question 1 of 10

1. The ancient Greeks used two styles of painting on their pottery. Which was the oldest, black figure or red figure?

Answer: (choose one of the options)

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Question 2 of 10

2. What is one of the most famous shapes in the skyline of Florence, Italy? Hint

San Lorenzo

San Marco

Santo Spirito

The Duomo

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Question 3 of 10

3. Which famous statue was designed by Bartholdi? Hint

Balzac

Reclining Mother and Child

David

Statue of Liberty

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Question 4 of 10

4. Which artist, born in Rotterdam, moved to the United States and painted a series called 'Woman'? Hint

Kandinsky

de Kooning

Pollock

Rothko

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Question 5 of 10

5. Which Roman monument finished in 113 A.D., commemorates the emperor's campaigns in Dacia, with a continuous relief narrative? Hint

Ara Pacis

Arch of Titus

Column of Trajan

Pantheon

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Question 6 of 10

6. Who was the artist born in Russia, that emigrated to the United States and was known for his color-field paintings? Hint

de Kooning

Rothko

Hooper

Leger

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Question 7 of 10

7. Name the artist born in 1881, who was influenced by the Cubists and whose art involved humans and machines? Hint

Braque

Modigliani

Leger

Klee

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Question 8 of 10

8. After the second World War, what city became a center of creative activity in art that rivalled Paris's position of artistic preeminence in the first half of the century?

New York City

Florence

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Question 9 of 10

9. In the mid-19th century Thomas Cole and his followers became known as the _________________? Hint

Abstract Expressionists

Hudson River School

The New York School

The Ash Can School

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Question 10 of 10

10. The Cloisters is a branch of which New York City Museum? Hint

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Frick Collection

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

The Brooklyn Museum

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. The ancient Greeks used two styles of painting on their pottery. Which was the oldest, black figure or red figure?

Answer: black figure

The black-figure pottery had black silhouette-like black figures (women had white faces) on a reddish clay background, and lines were incised into the surface of the pots to define and decorate. Somewhere around 500 B.C. the red-figure replaced the black-figure style.

The artist set red figures against a black background and painted the faces, bodies, and draperies with a brush to create more complex images.

2. What is one of the most famous shapes in the skyline of Florence, Italy?

Answer: The Duomo

The Duomo in Florence was completed by 1400 with the exception of the cupola (dome). Scaffolding could not span the 140 foot diameter, and current building techniques couldn't support the size and weight of the required dome. Brunelleschi designed the cupola of the Duomo after he studied the building techniques used in the ancient buildings in Rome.

He designed a cupola with an inner and outer shell that were attached with a common ribbing. The smaller inner shell was thicker and carried most of the weight, the outer shell was thinner and lighter.

A stairway between the shells was used by the workers instead of scaffolding.

3. Which famous statue was designed by Bartholdi?

Answer: Statue of Liberty

The "Statue of Liberty", a gift to the United States from France, stands in New York Harbor. "Balzac" was by Rodin, the most famous "David" was done by Michelangelo, and "Reclining Mother and Child" was the work of Henry Moore.

4. Which artist, born in Rotterdam, moved to the United States and painted a series called 'Woman'?

Answer: de Kooning

Willem de Kooning's paintings alternated between pure abstraction and rudimentary subject matter.

5. Which Roman monument finished in 113 A.D., commemorates the emperor's campaigns in Dacia, with a continuous relief narrative?

Answer: Column of Trajan

One hundred feet high , the stone shaft is decorated by a ribbon of continuous relief, describing the exploits of Trajan and his troops. The column was topped by a statue of Trajan.

6. Who was the artist born in Russia, that emigrated to the United States and was known for his color-field paintings?

Answer: Rothko

Rothko's mature works are abstract blocks of color. Many of his final works were somber shades of grey and black. He commited suicide in 1970.

7. Name the artist born in 1881, who was influenced by the Cubists and whose art involved humans and machines?

Answer: Leger

Fernand Leger turned buildings, factories, machine parts, and human bodies into brilliantly colored cylinders, rectangles, circles and cubes.

8. After the second World War, what city became a center of creative activity in art that rivalled Paris's position of artistic preeminence in the first half of the century?

Answer: New York City

In the late 1940s, New York City became the center of informal discussions and stimulating exchanges of ideas, that in the past had centered around Paris. Even further in the past, Florence was the centre of the Renaissance during the 15th and 16th centuries.

9. In the mid-19th century Thomas Cole and his followers became known as the _________________?

Answer: Hudson River School

Thomas Cole and his followers became known as the Hudson River School, the first native school of American landscape painters.

10. The Cloisters is a branch of which New York City Museum?

Answer: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Cloisters located on a hilltop, on the north end of Manhattan, and is devoted to the architecture and art of medieval Europe.

Source: Author vikan

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