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Art Movements - Impressionism & Surrealism

Total questions: 29

Worksheet time: 21mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

In Impressionism, the primary objective when painting was to show the effects of _____

a)

converging lines

b)

complimentary colours

c)

light on colour

d)

linear perspective

2.

Which was not an acceptable subject before

Impressionism?

a)

mythology

b)

people in every day life

c)

historical figure

d)

religion

3.

Which was not a subject of Impressionism?

a)

portraits of high class people

b)

theatre people

c)

ballet dancers

d)

people at a café

4.

During the time period of Impressionism, the invention of cameras and photography _____ .

a)

freed the artists to paint emotion rather than reality

b)

allowed artists to take pictures of things and paint them later

c)

meant that artists could now focus on other subjects besides portrait painting

d)

all of the above

5.

Impressionism was an art movement between the years _____ .

a)

1750 - 1800

b)

1800 - 1860

c)

1860 - 1900

d)

1900 - 1950

6.

Who painted the following?

a)

Renoir

b)

Monet

c)

Cassatt

d)

Degas

7.

Which Impressionist artist made this painting?

a)

Van Gogh

b)

Matisse

c)

Seurat

d)

Renoir

8.
"En plein air" refers to painting ______.
a)
with lots of air
b)
outdoors
c)
fully
d)
in the spring
9.

Impressionist Edgar Degas was best-known for his paintings of:

a)

Water lilies

b)

Architecture

c)

Ships

d)

Dancers

10.

Which Impressionist was famous for his series of Water Lilies paintings?

a)

Edouard Manet

b)

Claude Monet

c)

Georges Seurat

d)

Henri Toulouse-Lautrec

11.

Using small dots of paint is a technique called _____.

a)

Dot value

b)

pointillism

c)

stippling

d)

point dot

12.

The term "Impressionists" was used in 1874 to ________

a)

Praise

b)

Insult

c)

Compliment

d)

Value

13.

Which one is an Impressionist painting?

a)
b)
c)
d)
14.

Which artwork was painted by Edgar Degas?

a)
b)
c)
d)
15.

In which country did Impressionism start?

a)

Spain

b)

Italy

c)

France

d)

Finland

e)

England

16.

Surrealist artists were influenced by a famous psychoanalyst called...

a)

Sigmund Freud

b)

Rene Magritte

c)

Vincent Van Gogh

d)

Leonardo Da Vinci

e)

Lucien Freud

17.

This famous Surrealist painting is called...

a)

"The Persistence of Memory" by Salvador Dali

b)

"The Persistence of Time by" by Salvador Dali

c)

"The Persistence of Aging" by Salvador Dali

d)

"The Memory of You" by Salvador Dali

18.

SHORTLY before the start of Surrealism, which event happened that had a big impact on this art movement?

a)

World War I

b)

World War 2

c)

Invention of the first computer

d)

Battle of Hastings

19.

Identify the artist of this piece, "The Future of Statues"

a)

Rene Magritte

b)

Salvador Dali

c)

Claude Monet

d)

Vincent Van Gogh

20.

Which of the following is NOT a Surrealist piece by Salvador Dali?

a)
b)
c)
d)
21.

The sort of things Surrealist painter Rene Magritte painted include:


(Choose THREE)

a)

Familiar objects-such as pipes, apples, eggs, birds, clocks, or candles.

b)

Men in suits and bowler hats

c)

Blue skies with clouds and views of the sea.

d)

Forests and animals

22.

Rene Margritte's bold paintings grabbed peoples' attention because they showed...

a)

normal objects in weird places.

b)

normal people doing normal things.

c)

animas in buckets

d)

the ocean and land

23.

Which of the following is a Surrealist artwork?

a)
b)
c)
d)
24.

Which artist created this artwork?

a)

Rene Magritte

b)

Salvador Dali

c)

Auguste Renoir

d)

Andy Warhol

e)

Rene Zellweger

25.

Salvador Dali was born in 1904 in Figueres, Spain which is near the seaside town of Cadaques. Surrounded by this landscape as he was growing up, Dali often included in his future artworks ...

a)

the unusual rock formations that he saw as a boy.

b)

the hotel his family used to stay in.

c)

people swimming at the beach.

d)

clocks that tell the time.

26.

True or False - Salvador Dali designed the logo of ‘Chupa Chups’ lollipops?

a)

True

b)

False

27.

When did the Surrealism art movement take place?

a)

1920s

b)

Late 1400s to early 1500s

c)

Mid 1600s

d)

Early 1900s

e)

Late 1900s to early 2000s

28.

Which of the following is a characteristic of Surrealist art?

a)

Scenes from everyday life

b)

They painted with small dots of color

c)

Images that explored the subconscious mind

d)

All of the above

e)

None of the above

29.

Surrealism is...

a)

artwork that depicts dream-like scenes and, or situations that would be bizarre or impossible in real life.

b)

artwork that shows realistic paitnings and sculptures of people and places.

c)

artwork that depicts nature in a way that is realistic.