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1
How many pieces of art did Claude Monet produce over his lifetime?
Over 2,500
Over 1,000
Over 1,500
Over 500
25% got this right
By 1890 Monet had sold enough art to buy the house he was renting in Giverny; he loved to garden and paint his garden.
2
What year was the Catalan architect and designer, Antoni Gaudi, born in?
1851 —
1852
— 1874
21% got this right
Gaudi's Sagrada Familia in Barcelona is the largest unfinished Catholic church in the world. Work began in 1882!
3
Where was the visual artist, film director, producer and pop artist, Andy Warhol, born?
16% got this right
'King of Kitsch' Warhol amassed a vast colleciton of cookie jars which sold for over £250,000 after his death in 1988
4
The Italian painter, poet, architect and sculptor, Michelangelo, created which masterpieces of the High Renaissance?
David (sculpture)
The Sistine Chapel's ceiling (frescoes)
Mona Lisa (painting)
Vitruvian Man (drawing)
61% got this right
Raphael was chosen to paint the Sistine Chapel's ceiling but convinced the Pope to pick Michelangelo, hoping he'd fail !
5
Where is Montignac-Lascaux, near which 600 cave paintings, aged roughly 17,000 years old, were found?
13% got this right
The oldest known cave painting is a 64,000 year old red hand stencil, made by a Neanderthal in Caceres, Spain
6
Put these art movements in order, starting wiht the earliest (oldest).
1.
Renaissance
2.
Mannerism
3.
Art Nouveau
4.
Fauvism
84% got this right
The art movement of Cubism only lasted 7 years, from 1907-1914
7
The painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist and theatre designer, Pablo Picasso was born in which coastal city?
12% got this right
The Guinness Book of World Records named Picasso as the most prolific artist
8
What is the name of the 1930 painting by Grant Wood that this GIF is based on?
American Gothic
24% got this right
In 2004 Wood's home state of Iowa produced a quarter in his honour, which depicts a schoolhouse, teacher and students
9
Vincent Van Gogh's Sunflowers (1889) sold at Christie's, London in 1987 for how many millions of pounds?
6 —
24
— 36
£
64% got this right
Van Gogh painted over 900 paintings in 10 years, an average of one painting every 36 hours!
10
Which contemporary English artist rigged their painting to be shredded directly after it sold in an auction in 2018?
Banksy
Damien Hirst
Sarah Lucas
Tracey Emin
