Contemporary Era Quiz 2024

What are the dates of the Contemporary Era?

• 1900-present

• 1800-1950

• 1950-2010

• 2000-present

What famous American composer wrote this famous ragtime piece of music?

• Claude Debussy

• John Philip Sousa

• Scott Joplin

• Aaron Copland

Who am I?

• Pablo Picasso

• Leonardo da Vinci

• Claude Monet

• M.C. Escher

Who am I?

• Claude Debussy

• Edvard Munch

• Henri Matisse

• Norman Rockwell

Who am I

Although I wrote operas and ballets, I was best known as the “King of Ragtime.”

• Sousa

• Debussy

• Joplin

• Monet

What is: style of art in which objects and the space around them are broken up into different shapes and then put back together again in new relationships

• Fauvism

• Impressionism

• Cubism

• Expressionism

Who am I?

I am from Spain and was best known for Cubism. I was also a sculptor.

• Picasso

• da Vinci

• Joplin

• Carvaggio

What is the definition of Fauvism?

• A style of art which captures the changes in light on a subject

• Art painted in a studio

• A style of art which focuses on objects in the distance

• A style of art in which artists used intense, often wild color combinations in their paintings.

The opera that Joplin composed was called:

• Maple Leaf Rag

• Broadway Preview

• Ragtime the opera

• Treemonisha

What is the title of this work by Picasso?

• My Wife

• My Grandmother

• The Weeping Woman

• All Mixed Up