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MS 3 - Visual Artists and Their Works (Contemporary)

Total questions: 45

Worksheet time: 22mins

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1.

Edward Hopper’s most famous painting, Nighthawks, is set in which of the following locations?

a)

a hospital

b)

a diner

c)

a movie theater

d)

an airport

2.

Identify the artist INCORRECTLY matched with their work.

a)

Mary Cassatt - The Child’s Bath

b)

Francisco de Goya - The Third of May 1808

c)

Pablo Picasso - Sunflowers

d)

Georges Seurat - A Sunday on La Grande Jatte

3.

Grant Wood set many of his paintings, including The Birthplace of Herbert Hoover, in his home state. Which state below was it?

a)

Florida

b)

Connecticut

c)

Iowa

d)

Oregon

4.

Which of the following works did Andy Warhol NOT create?

a)

Guernica

b)

Campbell’s Soup Cans

c)

Double Elvis

d)

Heinz Tomato Ketchup Box

5.

Piet Mondrian used geometric shapes and primary colors to work toward pure abstraction as the leader of what art movement?

a)

Surrealism

b)

Pointillism

c)

De Stijl

d)

Dada

6.

Identify the artist INCORRECTLY matched with his work.

a)

Jackson Pollock - Impression: Sunrise

b)

Piet Mondrian - Victory Boogie-Woogie

c)

Andy Warhol - Mao

d)

Edward Hopper - Automat

7.

The Disasters of War, a series of prints protesting France’s war with Spain, was created by which of the following artists?

a)

Francisco de Goya

b)

Paul Gauguin

c)

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

d)

Henri Matisse

8.

Mary Cassatt was an Impressionist painter. Which of the female artists below was a fellow Impressionist?

a)

Georgia O’Keeffe

b)

Grandma Moses

c)

Frida Kahlo

d)

Berthe Morisot

9.

Georges Seurat painted which of the following works before he invented the pointillist technique for which he

is known?

a)

The Water Lily Pond

b)

Luncheon on the Grass

c)

Bathers at Asnières

d)

Bedroom in Arles

10.

Grant Wood depicted which of the following American revolutionary figures racing through a town square?

a)

Paul Revere

b)

Thomas Paine

c)

Patrick Henry

d)

Benjamin Franklin

11.

In one of his “Black Paintings,” Francisco de Goya depicted which Roman god devouring his child?

a)

Mars

b)

Saturn

c)

Jupiter

d)

Neptune

12.

Identify the artist INCORRECTLY matched with his work.

a)

Piet Mondrian - Tableau I

b)

Edward Hopper - Night Windows

c)

Mary Cassatt - Blue Poles

d)

Andy Warhol - Cow Wallpaper

13.

Which one of the following works did Impressionist Edgar Degas create?

a)

A Bar at the Folies-Bergère

b)

The Magpie

c)

L’Absinthe

d)

Bal du Moulin de la Galette

14.

Fall Plowing and Spring Turning are both rural landscapes by which painter below?

a)

Thomas Hart Benton

b)

Grandma Moses

c)

James Abbott McNeill Whistler

d)

Grant Wood

15.

At right is a version of Young Woman Powdering Herself. Who painted it?

a)

Mary Cassatt

b)

Paul Cezanne

c)

Georges Seurat

d)

Camille Pissarro

16.

Andy Warhol is best known for his screen prints, but he also experimented with which of the following artistic media in works like Sleep and Empire?

a)

filmmaking

b)

playwriting

c)

sculpture

d)

music composition

17.

Identify the artist INCORRECTLY matched with her work.

a)

Grandma Moses - The Boating Party

b)

Mary Cassatt - Young Mother Sewing

c)

Georgia O’Keeffe - Oriental Poppies

d)

Frida Kahlo - Diego and I

18.

Francisco de Goya’s masterpiece The Third of May 1808 depicts the impending execution of men defending which of the following cities?

a)

Buenos Aires

b)

Lisbon

c)

Madrid

d)

Mexico City

19.

He learned to paint urban landscapes while studying under Robert Henri of the Ashcan School. Which artist

below created the similarly-titled Room in Brooklyn, Room in New York, and Rooms by the Sea?

a)

Ansel Adams

b)

Edward Hopper

c)

Grant Wood

d)

Piet Mondrian

20.

For nearly five decades, Norman Rockwell painted a yearly calendar for which of the following organizations?

a)

Boy Scouts of America

b)

Greenpeace

c)

Salvation Army

d)

American Red Cross

21.

Identify the artist INCORRECTLY matched with his work

a)

Norman Rockwell - Saying Grace

b)

Andy Warhol - Sixteen Jackies

c)

Grant Wood - Nighthawks

d)

Piet Mondrian - The Flowering Apple Tree

22.

The Edward Hopper artwork at right depicts a New York City street at what time of day?

a)

Saturday evening

b)

Sunday morning

c)

Monday afternoon

d)

Friday night

23.

He included a self-portrait in Return from Bohemia. Which artist below depicted a tree planting near a rural Midwestern church in Arbor Day?

a)

Grant Wood

b)

Winslow Homer

c)

James Abbott McNeill Whistler

d)

Andrew Wyeth

24.

Francisco de Goya painted which of the following Roman gods devouring his son?

a)

Saturn

b)

Uranus

c)

Neptune

d)

Jupiter

25.

Mary Cassatt exhibited with the Impressionists at the insistence of which artist below, the painter of Before

the Race and The Blue Dancers?

a)

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

b)

Edgar Degas

c)

Edouard Manet

d)

Claude Monet

26.

Witches’ Sabbath, Two Old Men Eating, and Judith and Holofernes were among the fourteen “black paintings” that which artist below completed toward the end of his life?

a)

El Greco

b)

Francisco de Goya

c)

Hieronymus Bosch

d)

Diego Velázquez

27.

Identify the artist INCORRECTLY matched with his work.

a)

Andy Warhol - Diamond Dust Shoes

b)

Edward Hopper - Night Windows

c)

Grant Wood - Spring in the Country

d)

Piet Mondrian - Full Fathom Five

28.

Which Impressionist artist created the work at right?

a)

Alfred Sisley

b)

Mary Cassatt

c)

Camille Pissarro

d)

Berthe Morisot

29.

According to a 1964 Norman Rockwell illustration, what is “the problem we all live with”?

a)

religious persecution

b)

the Cold War

c)

the Vietnam War

d)

segregation

30.

In Still Life with Gingerpot II, pictured here, which artist demonstrated his transition from realistic to abstract painting?

a)

Piet Mondrian

b)

Jackson Pollock

c)

Marcel Duchamp

d)

Henri Matisse

31.

Identify the artist INCORRECTLY matched with his work.

a)

Norman Rockwell - Arbor Day

b)

Andy Warhol - Green Coca-Cola Bottles

c)

Piet Mondrian - Broadway Boogie-Woogie

d)

Edward Hopper - Nighthawks

32.

Grant Wood, the artist best known for American Gothic, is most closely associated with which of the following styles?

a)

Pop Art

b)

Abstract Expressionism

c)

Cubism

d)

Regionalism

33.

Francisco de Goya created three of the works below. Which one did Pablo Picasso paint?

a)

The Old Guitarist

b)

Saturn Devouring His Son

c)

The Disasters of War

d)

The Third of May 1808

34.

Can-Can, Parade, and The Circus are three paintings focusing on Parisian pastimes. Which of the artists below created them?

a)

Vincent Van Gogh

b)

Paul Cezanne

c)

Georges Seurat

d)

Paul Gauguin

35.

Which of the female artists below painted Child in a Straw Hat and Girl Arranging Her Hair?

a)

Grandma Moses

b)

Frida Kahlo

c)

Mary Cassatt

d)

Georgia O’Keeffe

36.

Which of the following men painted Young Woman Powdering Herself, and co-founded the artistic style

sometimes called Neo-Impressionism?

a)

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

b)

Edward Degas

c)

Georges Seurat

d)

Claude Monet

37.

Identify the artist INCORRECTLY matched with his work.

a)

Frida Kahlo - Broadway Boogie Woogie

b)

Francisco de Goya - The Family of Charles IV

c)

Grant Wood - The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere

d)

Mary Cassatt - The Boating Party

38.

He used silkscreen ink to reproduce photographs of automobile wrecks in orange, green, and silver. Which of

the following artists was he?

a)

Salvador Dalí

b)

Edward Hopper

c)

Jackson Pollock

d)

Andy Warhol

39.

Which of the paintings below did Piet Mondrian complete in 1912, before moving into a more abstract, restrictive painting style in De Stijl?

a)

Gray Tree

b)

Victory Boogie-Woogie

c)

Composition with Yellow, Blue, and Red

d)

Broadway Boogie-Woogie

40.

Andy Warhol produced screen prints of twelve-year-old her in National Velvet before painting her as an adult in bright blue eyeshadow. Which actress below was she?

a)

Vivien Leigh

b)

Elizabeth Taylor

c)

Grace Kelly

d)

Audrey Hepburn

41.

Identify the artist INCORRECTLY matched with his work.

a)

Grant Wood - Grey Tree

b)

Mary Cassatt - The Coiffure

c)

Edward Hopper - House by the Railroad

d)

Piet Mondrian - The Flowering Apple Tree

42.

Grant Wood painted the house in West Branch, Iowa where which president was born?

a)

Herbert Hoover

b)

Teddy Roosevelt

c)

Ulysses S. Grant

d)

Calvin Coolidge

43.

Who created the painting of the Eiffel Tower depicted at right?

a)

Paul Cezanne

b)

Georges Seurat

c)

Claude Monet

d)

Pierre Renoir

44.

Which choice below names a mixture of plaster of Paris or chalk and glue that prepares a surface, like a canvas or wood panel, for paint?

a)

slip

b)

gouache

c)

tempera

d)

gesso

45.

Francisco de Goya served as court painter to which of the following monarchs?

a)

Louis XIV

b)

Charles IV

c)

Richard III

d)

Elizabeth I