ARE YOU ART SAVVY? QUICK INFORMATIVE MULTIPLE CHOICE QUIZ TO TEST YOUR GENERAL ART KNOWLEDGE

ANSWERS AT THE BOTTOM OF THE PAGE

1. WHAT IS THE 'VIRGIN OF THE ROCKS' ?

IS IT

1. A COCKTAIL DRUNK IN NIGHT CLUBS?

2. A SKETCH BY LEONARDO DECAPPRIO?

3. A PAINTING BY L. da VINCI DONE IN 1486?

4. THE NAME OF A RENAISSANCE POP GROUP WHO HAD A HIT WITH 'METHINKS I'M IN LOVE?'

2. WHO SAID, 'CREATIVITY TAKES COURAGE?'

WAS IT

1. PLATO?

2. HENRI MATISSE?

3. NOEL COWARD?

4. VINCENT VAN GOGH?

3. WHEN WAS THE PHRASE 'STATE-OF-THE-ART' FIRST RECORDED?

WAS IT

1. IN 1920 WHEN RADIO FIRST BROADCAST?

2. IN VICTORIAN TIMES WHEN PHOTOGRAPHY WAS BORN?

3. WHEN R.L. STEPHENSON INVENTED THE RAILWAY ENGINE?

4. IN THE 195OS WHEN THE CREDIT CARD WAS CREATED?

4. VINCENT van GOGH ONLY SOLD ONE PAINTING IN HIS LIFE TIME - 'THE RED VINEYARD', BUT WHO BOUGHT IT?

WAS IT

1. HIS GRANDMOTHER?

2. ANOTHER ARTIST?

3. HIS LANDLORD?

4. THE LOCAL PUBLICAN TO PAY OFF HIS DRINKING BILL?

5. WHEN THE MONA LISA WAS STOLEN FROM THE LOUVRE GALLERY IN 1911 WHAT HAPPENED IN THE GALLERY AFTERWARDS?

DID THEY

1. CLOSE THE GALLERY FOR SIX MONTHS?

2. DID THE EMPTY SPACE WHERE THE MONA LISA USED TO HANG ATTRACT MORE VISITORS THAN THE ORIGINAL PAINTING ITSELF?

3. DID THEY PLACE A BIG SIGN IN THE SPACE SAYING ' APOLOGIES MESDAMES ET MONSIEURS'?

4. WERE A THOUSAND POLICEMAN SPECIALLY RECRUITED TO FIND THE STOLEN MASTERPIECE?

6. HOW MANY DIFFERENT MEANINGS DOES THE OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY OFFER FOR THE NOUN 'ART' ?

IS IT

1. 3?

2. 12?

3. I?

4. 29?

7. WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING IS TRUE?

is it

1. PICASSO COULD DRAW BEFORE HE COULD WALK?

2. MOST TOILETS FLUSH IN E flat?

3. MOST ROMAN STATUES WERE MADE WITH DETACHABLE HEADS SO THAT THEY COULD BE REMOVED AND REPLACED AS REQUIRED.

4. IN 1961 HENRY MATISSE'S PAINTING 'LE BATEAU' WAS HUNG UPSIDE DOWN IN THE NEW YORK'S MUSEUM OF MODERN ART.

8. WHO SAID, 'I paint forms as I think, not as I see' ?

is it

1. PABLO PICASSO?

2. ANISH KAPOOR?

3. GUSTAV KLIMT?

4. CASSIUS MARCELLUS COOLIDGE?

9. WHAT SCHOOL OF ART WAS SALVADOR DALI A PART OF?

1. The cubist movement?

2. Art Brut?

3. The Surrealist Movement?

4. The Dalinist Movement?

10. WHICH EAR DID VINCENT VAN GOGH CUT OFF?

1. The whole of his left ear?

2. The lower part of his right ear?

3. The lower part of his left ear?

4. The whole of his right ear?

11. WHAT IS THE STATUE VENUS DE MILO MISSING?

1.The left arm?

2. Both arms?

3. The head?

4. A hand?

12. WHICH WELL-KNOWN AMERICAN ARTIST CALLED HIS STUDIO 'THE FACTORY'?

1. Mark Rothko?

2. Andy Warhol?

3. Jean Michel Basquiat

4. Roy Lichtenstein?

13. WHICH ARCHITECT FOUNDED THE BAUHAUS SCHOOL OF DESIGN?

1. Frank Lloyd Wright?

2. Oscar Niemeyer?

3. Walter Gropius?

4. Frei Otto?

14. WHAT DID I.M.PEI DESIGN OUTSIDE THE LOUVRE IN PARIS?

1. The glass pyramid?

2. The medieval foundations of the Sully Wing?

3. The Gambetta monument?

4. The Cour Carree?

15. WHO WAS THE FIRST FAMOUS ARTIST OF THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE?

1. Leonardo da Vinci?

2. Masaccio?

3. Tommaso di Ser Giovanni di Simone?

4. Michelangelo?

16. WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING AMERICAN PRESIDENTS PAINTED FOR A HOBBY?

1. ULYSSES S. GRANT?

2. DWIGHT EISENHOWER?

3. JIMMY CARTER?

4. GEORGE W. BUSH?

17. AND FINALLY, WHO WAS CASSIUS MARCELLUS COOLIDGE ANYWAY?

1. The artist who painted the Blue Dog?

2. The artist who painted anthropomorphic dogs?

3. The artist who created the 'beware of the dog mosaic' in the 'house of the tragic poet' ?

4. The artist who created Snoopy?

ANSWERS

1. ( WHAT IS THE 'VIRGIN OF THE ROCKS' ?) - A painting by Leonardo da Vinci.

2. ( WHO SAID, 'CREATIVITY TAKES COURAGE?') - Henri Matisse.

3. (WHEN WAS THE PHRASE 'STATE-OF-THE-ART' FIRST RECORDED?) - IN THE 195OS WHEN THE CREDIT CARD WAS CREATED.

4. (VINCENT van GOGH ONLY SOLD ONE PAINTING IN HIS LIFE TIME, 'THE RED VINEYARD', BUT WHO BOUGHT IT?) - Poor Vincent van Gogh got his one and only sale from ANOTHER ARTIST.

5. (WHEN THE MONA LISA WAS STOLEN FROM THE LOUVRE GALLERY IN 1911 WHAT HAPPENED IN THE GALLERY AFTERWARDS?) - THE EMPTY SPACE WHERE THE MONA LISA USED TO HANG ATTRACTED MORE VISITORS THAN THE ORIGINAL PAINTING ITSELF.

6. (HOW MANY DIFFERENT MEANINGS DOES THE OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY OFFER FOR THE NOUN 'ART' ?) - 12

7. (WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING IS TRUE?) - They are all true.

8. PABLO PICASSO.

9. The Surrealist Movement.

10. The lower part of his left ear.

11. Both arms.

12. Andy Warhol.

13. Walter Gropius.

14. The glass pyramid.

15. Masaccio, who was also known as Tommaso di Ser Giovanni di Simone, so both 2 and 3 are correct.

16. All the presidents named painted and probably their works today would fetch many hundreds of thousand of dollars! Carter created excellent nature paintings, and Bush did portraits of the famous, dogs and other things. He also did a terrifying 'horses of the apocalypse' painting which, fortunately did not come to pass during his administration! (or did it?)

17. Cassius Marcellus Coolidge is the artist who painted anthropomorphic dogs - namely dogs portrayed as gamblers around a card table!

An average person should have scored at least 3 points. So to qualify as 'art savvy' you need to score anything from 5 and over! Well done if you have! You would also get a free point for question 7 and question 16 as any answer was correct.

Below is a link to another quiz published by the Royal Academy of Art on the subject of great women artists:

https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/article/quiz-great-women-artists-katy-hessel

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