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Modern Art Quiz and Answers: Explore Key Artists, Movements, and Masterpieces


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  1. Whose 1969 triptych, Three Studies of Lucian Freud, sold in 2013 for 142 million dollars?
  2. Which Japanese artist is famous for her use of polka dots?
  3. Which American artist, along with Andy Warhol and Jasper Johns, became a leading figure in pop art?
  4. Whose best known painting is Nighthawks?
  5. Whose Luncheon of the Boating Party shows life as it was in France?
  6. Which artist died in May 1903, aged 54, in French Polynesia?
  7. Whose 1917 sculpture consists of a porcelain urinal signed "R. Mutt"?
  8. Whose painting, The Broken Column, was painted right after she had spine surgery?
  9. What movement is Pablo Picasso best known for?
  10. Edvard Munch created four versions, two in paint and two in pastels, of which composition?
  11. Which artist is known for his iconic "drip" paintings?
  12. Balloon Dog is a series of sculptures by which American artist?
  13. Which 1931 painting by artist Salvador Dalí has been called "The Melting Clocks"?
  14. The Son of Man is whose best-known artwork?
  15. Whose Bigger Splash captures a moment of tranquility in a swimming pool?
  16. Designed by Frank Gehry and itself considered a work of modern art, The Guggenheim Museum is located in which Spanish city?
  17. Which American modernist painter's Sky Above Clouds IV was inspired by her view from an airplane?
  18. Which artist was born in Latvia in 1903, but when he was ten his family moved to America?
  19. In 1955, who created a multi-media painting entitled Flag?
  20. What is the name of the painting by Pablo Picasso that depicts the horrors of the Spanish Civil War?
  21. Who is considered the pioneer of the Cubism movement, along with Pablo Picasso?
  22. Which Russian painter is considered one of the pioneers of abstract art and wrote the influential treatise "Concerning the Spiritual in Art"?
  23. Which French artist is famous for cut-out works created in his later life, such as The Snail?
  24. Maman is a bronze, stainless steel, and marble sculpture by Louise Bourgeois depciting a giant what?
  25. Who is known for sculptures such as The Thinker, Monument to Balzac, and The Kiss?
  26. Which art movement developed in Europe after World War I allowed artists the unconscious mind to express itself, often resulting in the depiction of illogical scenes?
  27. Which Grant Wood painting was modeled by his sister and their dentist?
  28. Reclining Figure: Festival is a bronze sculpture for the Festival of Britain in 1951 by which English artist?
  29. Which artist created Impression, Sunrise, an 1872 painting credited with inspiring the name of the Impressionist movement?
  30. Can you name the 20th century Australian artist best known for his series of paintings on legends from his country's history?
  31. A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte is the most famous work of which artist?
  32. The Barbara Hepworth Museum and Sculpture Garden is located in which British seaside town?


Answers



  1. Francis Bacon
  2. Yayoi Kusama
  3. Roy Lichtenstein
  4. Edward Hopper
  5. Pierre-Auguste Renoir
  6. Paul Gauguin
  7. Marcel Duchamp
  8. Frida Kahlo
  9. Cubism
  10. The Scream
  11. Jackson Pollock
  12. Jeff Koons
  13. The Persistence of Memory
  14. Rene Magritte
  15. David Hockney
  16. Bilbao
  17. Georgia O'Keeffe
  18. Mark Rothko
  19. Jasper Johns
  20. Guernica
  21. Georges Braque
  22. Wassily Kandinsky
  23. Henri Matisse
  24. The sculpture depicts a spider
  25. Auguste Rodin
  26. Surrealism
  27. American Gothic
  28. Henry Moore
  29. Claude Monet
  30. Sidney Nolan
  31. Georges Seurat
  32. St. Ives, Cornwall