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Nice and Easelly Trivia Quiz

A general quiz to see if you know your arts from your elbow. These are mostly about painters and paintings but I hope you can do more than just look at them.

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

Author
Gmackematix

Time
5 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
148,637

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Difficult

Avg Score
5 / 10

Plays
1371

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Question 1 of 10

1. Whose middle names were Diego Jose Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno Maria de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santisma Trinidad Ruiz? Hint

Goya

Picasso

Velasquez

Dali

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Question 2 of 10

2. Vandyke most commonly refers to a shade of which colour? Hint

Yellow

Red

Brown

Purple

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Question 3 of 10

3. Gauguin painted a famous portrait of Van Gogh painting what? Hint

A wheatfield with crows

His chair

Sunflowers

Irises

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Question 4 of 10

4. Which of the dead subject's arms is being cut in Rembrandt's "The Anatomy Lesson"?

Answer: (Left or Right)

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Question 5 of 10

5. Of which much forged artist is it said "He made two thousand drawings in his lifetime, ten thousand of which are in the United States"? Hint

Corot

Courbet

Pissarro

Van Gogh

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Question 6 of 10

6. Famous for his grids of black lines with some of the rectangles so-formed filled with colour, which Dutch painter's name is an anagram of "I PAINT MODERN"?

Answer: (First name 4 letters, surname 8 letters)

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Question 7 of 10

7. Which famous American painter wrote "The Gentle Art of Making Enemies"? Hint

James Whistler

Jasper Johns

Andy Warhol

Grant Wood

8. Which illegitimate, vegetarian, ambidextrous artist (who wrote with his left hand using mirror writing) is often credited as the first man to record someone as having died from hardened arteries? Hint

Leonardo da Vinci

Botticelli

Cellini

Fra Filippo

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Question 9 of 10

9. The foot at the end of the opening credits of "Monty Python's Flying Circus" is a detail from a painting by whom? Hint

Bronzino

El Greco

Raphael

Botticelli

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Question 10 of 10

10. What colour is the main horse painted in Gauguin's "Le Cheval Blanc"? Hint

Red

Green

Black

Brown

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. Whose middle names were Diego Jose Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno Maria de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santisma Trinidad Ruiz?

Answer: Picasso

At his birth in October 1881, Picasso was originally left on a table as stillborn. Happily an uncle and qualified doctor called Don Salvador spotted that the infant was alive and saved him from asphyxiation. Young Picasso went on to become one of the world's most prolific painters and sculptors, dying 92 years later in 1973.

2. Vandyke most commonly refers to a shade of which colour?

Answer: Brown

As well as a rich deep shade of brown, Sir Anthony Van Dyck (1599-1641) has also given the misspelling of his name to a zigzagged cloth edge, especially seen on collars and a type of pointy beard.

3. Gauguin painted a famous portrait of Van Gogh painting what?

Answer: Sunflowers

Van Gogh painted many pictures of his favourite flower for Gauguin. Gauguin may not have painted it but Vincent was also inspired to paint his chair by Paul Gauguin's painting of his own chair. The friendship soured a little on December 23rd 1888, when Vincent attacked Paul from behind with a razor blade. Paul escaped unscathed but that same night, Van Gogh famously severed part of his left ear and gave it to a prostitute called Rachel.

4. Which of the dead subject's arms is being cut in Rembrandt's "The Anatomy Lesson"?

Answer: Left

It is the arm furthest from the viewer and the corpse is lying face up with head towards the left and feet towards the right of the painting.

5. Of which much forged artist is it said "He made two thousand drawings in his lifetime, ten thousand of which are in the United States"?

Answer: Corot

Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot (1796-1875) is often claimed to be the world's most forged artist. It is said that the artist himself started the rot by putting his signature to his own pupils' works.

6. Famous for his grids of black lines with some of the rectangles so-formed filled with colour, which Dutch painter's name is an anagram of "I PAINT MODERN"?

Answer: Piet Mondrian

Many of these destinctive designs were popular for dresses in the 1960's.

7. Which famous American painter wrote "The Gentle Art of Making Enemies"?

Answer: James Whistler

This was James Abbott McNeill Whistler's only published book. His most famous enemy was art critic John Ruskin. Whistler took him to court for libel after describing his painting "The Falling Rocket" as "flinging a pot of paint in the public's face". Whistler won a mere farthing's damages.

Answer: Leonardo da Vinci

Always unconventional, Leonardo's illegitimacy and charges of immoral conduct for his homosexual behaviour barred him from many professions. None of this slowed Leonardo, who not only revolutionised portrait painting but made notes of his observations in geology, music, acoustics, optics, mathematics, botany, engineering and anatomy.

The diagnosis of hardened arteries came after an autopsy on a Florentine man who had said he was 100 years old and had died peacefully in his sleep.

9. The foot at the end of the opening credits of "Monty Python's Flying Circus" is a detail from a painting by whom?

Answer: Bronzino

To be precise, it is the right foot of Cupid in Bronzino's "Venus and Cupid" which hangs in the National Gallery in London. The opening sequence was, of course, put together by American animator and Python member, Terry Gilliam. The theme music was "The Liberty Bell" by Sousa.

10. What colour is the main horse painted in Gauguin's "Le Cheval Blanc"?

Answer: Green

The title means "The White Horse". There is a reddish horse towards the back of the picture but the main "white" horse is painted green. This doesn't look a bad as it sounds!

Source: Author Gmackematix

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