Trivia questions with answers about things like Coca-Cola, Egypt, Salvador Dali, Rembrandt, and more.
Which artist made his name with paintings of soup cans and Coca-Cola
bottles?
A: Andy Warhol.
Who designed the largest Protestant church in England, St Paul's
Cathedral?
A: Christopher Wren.
In which country can you see the Sphinx?
A: Egypt.
Who was the leading exponent of the 'kitchen sink' school of painters
whose work in the 1950s concentrated on working-class domestic life?
A: John Bratby.
What was the extravagant style of art and architecture that dominated
"Europe during most of the 17th century?
A: Baroque.
Who became potter to King George III in 1806?
A: Josiah Spode.
Which French Impressionist painter was famous for his studies of
ballet, horse racing, and young women working?
A: Degas.
Who painted The Persistence of Memory?
A: Salvador Dali.
Which 17th century artist painted more than 60 self-portraits?
A: Rembrandt.
Who painted The anatomy lesson of Dr Tulp?
A: Rembrandt.
In front of which French art gallery is there a large glass pyramid
designed by I M Pei?
A: The Louvre.
What nationality was Picasso?
A: Spanish.
Which famous painter and sculptor was also an architect and engineer
to Cesare Borgia?
A: Leonardo de Vinci.
Of what type of artist is Kandinsky generally regarded as the first?
A: Abstract.
How many paintings did Van Gogh sell in his lifetime?
A: One.
Which artist was featured in the film A Bigger Splash?
A: David Hockney.
Which English architect's masterpiece is the Banqueting House in
Whitehall, London?
A: Inigo Jones.
Which English sculptress exhibited her Mother and Child in 1930?
A: Barbara Hepworth.
Which Dutch graphic artist painted pictures of visual paradoxes and
optical illusions?
A: M C Escher.
Which Italian artist included a picture of Halley's comet in a fresco
of the Nativity story?
A: Giotto.
In which Italian town was the artist Leonardo born?
A: Vinci.
Which Dutch painter cut off part of his ear after a quarrel?
A: Vincent van Gogh.
Which famous portrait painter's sitters include Mrs. Siddons, Dr
Johnson, Sheridan, and royalty?
A: Gainsborough.
Which American artist was a pioneer of Abstract Expressionism, and a
leading exponent of action painting?
A: Jackson Pollock.
What nationality was the painter Goya?
A: Spanish.
Whose sculptures include The Thinker?
A: Auguste Rodin.
Which European capital city has the Atomium, and iron model of an
atom enlarged many billions of times?
A: Brussels.
Which American painter is famous for capturing the loneliness of city life in the thirties and forties? A: Edward Hopper.
Which French artist painted Napoleon Crossing the Alps in 1800?
A: Jacques Louis David.
Who drew a rhinoceros without ever seeing one?
A: Albrecht Durer.
Which English artist was famous for his industrial Lancashire
townscapes filled with matchstick figures?
A: L S Lowry.
Who painted The Scream?
A: Edvard Munch.
Who illustrated Alice's Adventures in Wonderland?
A: Tenniel.
What is the title of the painting by Picasso inspired by the bombing
of civilians in the Spanish Civil War?
A: Guernica.
Which English landscape artist painted The Fighting Temeraire and
Rain, Steam and Speed?
A: J M W Turner.
Which Italian fresco painter is famous for his Adoration of the Magi?
A: Gentile.
Whose paintings Raising of the Cross and Descent from the Cross are
in Antwerp Cathedral?
A: Rubens.
Which collection is exhibited at Hertford House, London?
A: The Wallace Collection.
What is the collective name for the three goddesses who are said to
be the personifications of pleasure, charm and beauty?
A: The Graces.
Which composer based an opera on the book The man who mistook his
wife for a hat?
A: Michael Nyman.