Famous Artists & Paintings Quiz

1. Who painted the Mona Lisa?

1. Botticelli
2. Leonardo da Vinci
3. Michelangelo
4. Raphael

2. Vincent van Gogh cut off part of his own ear. Which other famous work did he paint?

1. Girl with a Pearl Earring
2. The Scream
3. The Starry Night
4. Water Lilies

3. Which Norwegian artist painted 'The Scream'?

1. Edvard Munch
2. Egon Schiele
3. Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
4. Gustav Klimt

4. Pablo Picasso co-founded which revolutionary art movement?

1. Cubism
2. Expressionism
3. Impressionism
4. Surrealism

5. Claude Monet is famous for his series of paintings of what subject?

1. Cathedrals in fog
2. Sunflowers
3. The Eiffel Tower
4. Water lilies and his garden at Giverny

6. Which Dutch Golden Age painter is known for 'Girl with a Pearl Earring'?

1. Frans Hals
2. Rembrandt
3. Rubens
4. Vermeer

7. Frida Kahlo was a celebrated Mexican artist. What was her most famous subject?

1. Abstract geometric forms
2. Mexican landscapes
3. Political murals
4. Self-portraits exploring identity, pain, and femininity

8. Salvador Dalí was associated with which art movement?

1. Abstract Expressionism
2. Cubism
3. Impressionism
4. Surrealism

9. The Sistine Chapel ceiling was painted by Michelangelo. Which figure is at the centre of the most famous panel?

1. Adam
2. God the Father
3. Jesus Christ
4. Moses

10. Which art movement, developed in Paris in the 1860s–70s, rejected academic painting in favour of capturing everyday life and light?

1. Impressionism
2. Post-Impressionism
3. Realism
4. Romanticism

11. What is a 'triptych' in art?

1. A painting done in three colours only
2. A painting technique using three brush sizes
3. A sculpture made from three materials
4. A work of art in three panels

12. Andy Warhol was a leading figure in which art movement?

1. Abstract Expressionism
2. Conceptual Art
3. Minimalism
4. Pop Art

13. The Louvre in Paris houses how many works of art approximately?

1. 10,000
2. 35,000
3. 480,000
4. 8 million

14. Which Spanish architect designed the still-unfinished Sagrada Família basilica in Barcelona?

1. Antoni Gaudí
2. Pablo Picasso
3. Rafael Moneo
4. Santiago Calatrava

15. Banksy is a famous anonymous street artist from which country?

1. England
2. France
3. Italy
4. USA

16. What painting technique involves applying thick paint directly onto a surface, leaving visible brushstrokes?

1. Fresco
2. Gouache
3. Impasto
4. Watercolour

17. Georges Seurat invented which painting technique, using small dots of pure colour?

1. Chiaroscuro
2. Divisionism
3. Impressionism
4. Pointillism

18. Which Flemish Baroque painter was known for dramatic paintings of religious subjects and voluptuous figures?

1. Anthony van Dyck
2. Jan van Eyck
3. Peter Paul Rubens
4. Pieter Bruegel the Elder

19. The famous painting American Gothic depicts two figures. What is the woman's relationship to the man?

1. Daughter
2. Neighbour
3. Sister
4. Wife

20. What are Damien Hirst's 'spot paintings'?

1. A series of paintings featuring rows of coloured circles on white backgrounds
2. Abstract paintings made by flicking paint onto a canvas
3. Paintings of measles and chickenpox cells under microscope
4. Paintings using only polka-dot patterns in a single random arrangement