Painting & Sculpture

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1.Which painter covered canvases with gold leaf and patterns?
- A. Claude Monet
- B. Edgar Degas
- C. Pablo Picasso
- D. Gustav Klimt
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Gustav Klimt
Did you know? Klimt was a leading figure of Vienna's art nouveau.
2.Which painting shows a cart crossing a rural stream?
- A. the Mona Lisa
- B. The Hay Wain
- C. Impression, Sunrise
- D. The Angelus
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The Hay Wain
Did you know? John Constable painted The Hay Wain in 1821.
3.Which sculpture sits on a rock at Copenhagen's harbor?
- A. the Venus de Milo
- B. the Thinker
- C. the Little Mermaid statue
- D. the Discobolus
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the Little Mermaid statue
Did you know? The Little Mermaid statue honors Andersen's fairy tale.
4.Which art movement curls its designs into flowing plant forms?
- A. Art Nouveau
- B. Impressionism
- C. the Baroque
- D. Surrealism
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Art Nouveau
Did you know? Art Nouveau shaped Guimard's Paris Métro entrances.
5.Which painter painted vast murals of Mexican life?
- A. Edvard Munch
- B. Diego Rivera
- C. Gustav Klimt
- D. Claude Monet
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Diego Rivera
Did you know? Rivera's murals decorate public buildings in Mexico City.
6.Which painting shows two peasants bowing over a field?
- A. The Hay Wain
- B. Impression, Sunrise
- C. A Sunday on La Grande Jatte
- D. The Angelus
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The Angelus
Did you know? Jean-François Millet painted The Angelus in 1859.
7.Which sculpture shows a headless goddess on a ship's prow?
- A. the Ecstasy of Saint Teresa
- B. the Winged Victory of Samothrace
- C. the statue of David
- D. the Pieta
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the Winged Victory of Samothrace
Did you know? The Winged Victory stands in the Louvre.
8.Which painter painted luminous scenes of Parisian leisure?
- A. Rembrandt
- B. Auguste Renoir
- C. Edvard Munch
- D. Diego Rivera
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Auguste Renoir
Did you know? Renoir was a leading Impressionist.
9.Which painting gave the Impressionist movement its name?
- A. The Garden of Earthly Delights
- B. The School of Athens
- C. Water Lilies
- D. Impression, Sunrise
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Impression, Sunrise
Did you know? Claude Monet exhibited Impression, Sunrise in 1874.
10.Which sculpture freezes an athlete in the middle of a throw?
- A. the Discobolus
- B. the Thinker
- C. the statue of David
- D. the Winged Victory of Samothrace
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the Discobolus
Did you know? Myron's Discobolus survives in Roman marble copies.
11.Which painter painted Mont Sainte-Victoire dozens of times?
- A. Edvard Munch
- B. Paul Cézanne
- C. Hokusai
- D. Edgar Degas
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Paul Cézanne
Did you know? Cézanne bridged Impressionism and Cubism.
12.Which painting shows a farmer with a pitchfork beside a woman?
- A. A Sunday on La Grande Jatte
- B. The Calling of St. Matthew
- C. Guernica
- D. American Gothic
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American Gothic
Did you know? Grant Wood painted American Gothic in 1930.
13.Which sculpture shows Mary holding Christ after the crucifixion?
- A. the Pieta
- B. the Discobolus
- C. the Winged Victory of Samothrace
- D. the Manneken Pis
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the Pieta
Did you know? The Pieta is Michelangelo's only signed work.
14.Which painter left fewer than 40 paintings, mostly quiet domestic scenes?
- A. Johannes Vermeer
- B. Marc Chagall
- C. Claude Monet
- D. Rembrandt
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Johannes Vermeer
Did you know? Vermeer worked in the Dutch city of Delft.
15.Which painting features melting pocket watches?
- A. The Persistence of Memory
- B. The Scream
- C. The Third of May 1808
- D. Nighthawks
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The Persistence of Memory
Did you know? Salvador Dalí painted The Persistence of Memory in 1931.
16.Which painting is a series painted in the garden at Giverny?
- A. Water Lilies
- B. The Birth of Venus
- C. the Mona Lisa
- D. Girl with a Pearl Earring
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Water Lilies
Did you know? Monet painted some 250 canvases of water lilies.
17.Which painting shows the painter at work before a princess and her entourage?
- A. Liberty Leading the People
- B. Girl with a Pearl Earring
- C. Las Meninas
- D. The Birth of Venus
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Las Meninas
Did you know? Diego Velázquez painted Las Meninas in 1656.
18.Which painting was built from tiny dots of pure color?
- A. The Persistence of Memory
- B. The Scream
- C. the Mona Lisa
- D. A Sunday on La Grande Jatte
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A Sunday on La Grande Jatte
Did you know? Georges Seurat painted it using pointillism.
19.Which painting shows a militia company emerging from a dark hall?
- A. The Night Watch
- B. Impression, Sunrise
- C. The Scream
- D. Las Meninas
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The Night Watch
Did you know? Rembrandt painted The Night Watch in 1642.
20.Which painting shows an old woman seated in profile?
- A. The Birth of Venus
- B. Guernica
- C. Whistler's Mother
- D. The Angelus
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Whistler's Mother
Did you know? James McNeill Whistler painted it in 1871.
21.Which painting shows a couple wrapped in golden robes?
- A. Whistler's Mother
- B. The Third of May 1808
- C. The Garden of Earthly Delights
- D. The Kiss
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The Kiss
Did you know? Gustav Klimt painted The Kiss around 1908.
22.Which painting is often called the "Mona Lisa of the North"?
- A. American Gothic
- B. A Sunday on La Grande Jatte
- C. The School of Athens
- D. Girl with a Pearl Earring
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Girl with a Pearl Earring
Did you know? Johannes Vermeer painted Girl with a Pearl Earring around 1665.
23.Which art movement decorates interiors with pastel curls and playful myths?
- A. Fauvism
- B. Cubism
- C. Art Nouveau
- D. Rococo
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Rococo
Did you know? Rococo salons flourished in 18th-century France.
24.Which artist painted giant flowers and desert skies?
- A. Salvador Dalí
- B. Georgia O'Keeffe
- C. Andy Warhol
- D. Frida Kahlo
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Georgia O'Keeffe
Did you know? Georgia O'Keeffe worked in New Mexico.
25.Which printmaking technique did Rembrandt famously master?
- A. fresco
- B. tempera
- C. etching
- D. pastel
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etching
Did you know? Rembrandt's etchings are prized by collectors.
26.Which painter made paper cut-outs when illness kept him from painting?
- A. Caravaggio
- B. Gustav Klimt
- C. Henri Matisse
- D. Diego Rivera
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Henri Matisse
Did you know? Matisse called his late cut-outs "painting with scissors".
27.Which painting is a triptych full of fantastical creatures?
- A. The School of Athens
- B. The Garden of Earthly Delights
- C. The Arnolfini Portrait
- D. The Starry Night
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The Garden of Earthly Delights
Did you know? Hieronymus Bosch painted the triptych around 1500.
28.Which sculpture shows Peter the Great on a rearing horse?
- A. the Thinker
- B. the Manneken Pis
- C. the Little Mermaid statue
- D. the Bronze Horseman
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the Bronze Horseman
Did you know? The Bronze Horseman stands in Saint Petersburg.
29.Which art movement paints with wild, non-natural color?
- A. Cubism
- B. Art Nouveau
- C. Fauvism
- D. the Baroque
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Fauvism
Did you know? Critics called the Fauves "wild beasts".
30.Which painter painted dramatic scenes lit like stage spotlights?
- A. Caravaggio
- B. Vincent van Gogh
- C. Diego Rivera
- D. Rembrandt
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Caravaggio
Did you know? Caravaggio pioneered a sharp contrast of light and dark.
31.Which painting shows an execution lit by a lantern?
- A. The Angelus
- B. the Mona Lisa
- C. The Third of May 1808
- D. The Scream
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The Third of May 1808
Did you know? Francisco Goya painted it in 1814.
32.Which sculpture is a marble group set under a golden ray of light?
- A. the Thinker
- B. the Winged Victory of Samothrace
- C. the Manneken Pis
- D. the Ecstasy of Saint Teresa
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the Ecstasy of Saint Teresa
Did you know? Gian Lorenzo Bernini carved it in Rome.
33.Which art movement strips art down to simple geometric forms?
- A. the Renaissance
- B. Gothic architecture
- C. Minimalism
- D. Pop Art
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Minimalism
Did you know? Minimalism flourished in the 1960s.
34.Which painter painted floating fiddlers and village memories?
- A. Johannes Vermeer
- B. Edvard Munch
- C. Marc Chagall
- D. Caravaggio
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Marc Chagall
Did you know? Chagall drew on his childhood in Belarus.
35.Which painting shows customers at a late-night diner?
- A. Nighthawks
- B. The Starry Night
- C. The Arnolfini Portrait
- D. The Hay Wain
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Nighthawks
Did you know? Edward Hopper painted Nighthawks in 1942.
36.Which painter drew the Great Wave in his seventies?
- A. Johannes Vermeer
- B. Claude Monet
- C. Pablo Picasso
- D. Hokusai
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Hokusai
Did you know? Hokusai signed his prints with changing names.
37.Which painting shows a couple before a round convex mirror?
- A. The Garden of Earthly Delights
- B. The Arnolfini Portrait
- C. The Night Watch
- D. Las Meninas
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The Arnolfini Portrait
Did you know? Jan van Eyck painted the Arnolfini Portrait in 1434.

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