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Quiz about ArtiFacts Artists and their Masterpieces

Art-i-Facts: Artists and their Masterpieces Quiz

This quiz will test your knowledge of famous artists and their masterpieces. I will provide the name of the masterpiece, and you must select the creator of that work of art. Good luck!

A multiple-choice quiz by Mr_Obscure. Estimated time: 2 mins.

Author
Mr_Obscure

Time
2 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
264,373

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Easy

Avg Score
8 / 10

Plays
2611

Last 3 plays: Jennifer5 (10/10), Guest 209 (10/10), genoveva (10/10).

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Question 1 of 10

1. Who sculpted "David"? Hint

Michaelangelo Buonarroti

Alberto Giacometti

Henry Moore

Auguste Rodin

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Question 2 of 10

2. Who painted "Mona Lisa"? Hint

Brunelleschi

da Vinci

Bellini

Botticelli

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Question 3 of 10

3. Who painted "American Gothic"? Hint

Grant Wood

Marsden Hartley

Albert Twachman

John Marin

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Question 4 of 10

4. Who painted "Guernica"? Hint

Goya

Velazquez

Picasso

Poussin

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Question 5 of 10

5. Who painted "Scream"? Hint

Beckman

Karsten

Sohlberg

Munch

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Question 6 of 10

6. Who painted "Starry Night"? Hint

Paul Gauguin

Claude Monet

Vincent Van Gogh

Paul Cezanne

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Question 7 of 10

7. Who painted "Girl with a Pearl Earring"? Hint

Bramer

Bruegel

Vermeer

Fabritius

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Question 8 of 10

8. Who painted "The Hay Wain"? Hint

John Sell Cotman

Eugene Delacroix

John Constable

Henry Fuseli

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Question 9 of 10

9. Who is credited with sculpting "Venus de Milo"? Hint

Alexandros of Antioch

Kentrotas

Praxiteles

Voutier

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Question 10 of 10

10. Who painted "The Persistence of Memory"? Hint

Deulofeu

Bunel

Dali

Eluard

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. Who sculpted "David"?

Answer: Michaelangelo Buonarroti

Michaelangelo actually sculpted "David" from a piece of marble that was too thin for the project. He told his critics that the statue was already contained within the marble; all he did was remove the unneeded pieces.

2. Who painted "Mona Lisa"?

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."

3. Who painted "American Gothic"?

Answer: Grant Wood

Wood's inspiration for "American Gothic" was a small cottage he had seen in a small town of his native state, Iowa. He asked his dentist and his sister to pose for the painting, as a farmer and his unmarried daughter.

4. Who painted "Guernica"?

Answer: Picasso

Pablo Picasso's "Guernica" was a representation of the suffering experienced during the Spanish Civil War, and was painted entirely in shades of gray. Guernica was also the ancient capital of the proud and independent Basques.

5. Who painted "Scream"?

Answer: Munch

Some say that the reddish sky in the background of "Scream" was inspired by the aftermath of the powerful volcanic eruption of Krakatoa in 1883.

6. Who painted "Starry Night"?

Answer: Vincent Van Gogh

Painted in 1888 while Van Gogh was being treated in Saint-Remy-de-Provence, France, the original title of the work was "Starry Night Over the Rhone". The work has been on display at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City since 1941.

7. Who painted "Girl with a Pearl Earring"?

Answer: Vermeer

Very little is known of Vermeer; he spent his entire life in the small town of Delft, Holland. Nevertheless, he is acknowledged as one of the greatest painters of the Dutch Golden Age.

8. Who painted "The Hay Wain"?

Answer: John Constable

"The Hay Wain" is revered today as one of the most famous British paintings. Interestingly, when it was originally exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1821, it failed to find a buyer.

9. Who is credited with sculpting "Venus de Milo"?

Answer: Alexandros of Antioch

Dated somewhere between 130-90 B.C., "Venus de Milo" in currently on display at the Louvre Museum in Paris. Discovered by a French naval officer in 1820, both its arms and the original plinth are now lost.

10. Who painted "The Persistence of Memory"?

Answer: Dali

Sometimes called 'Soft Watches' or 'Melting Clocks', this famous work by Salvador Dali was painted in the surrealistic style in 1931.

Source: Author Mr_Obscure

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