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WorksheetsFine Arts General Knowledge Quiz 2.0
Total questions: 30
Worksheet time: 15mins
What artist was known for being a "Renaissance Man"...draftsman, sculptor, architect, and engineer whose genius, perhaps more than that of any other figure, epitomized the Renaissance humanist ideal? His Last Supper (1495–98) and Mona Lisa (c. 1503–19) are among the most widely popular and influential paintings of the Renaissance. His notebooks reveal a spirit of scientific inquiry and a mechanical inventiveness that were centuries ahead of their time.
Steve Harvey
Vincent Van Gogh
Leonardo DaVinci
Andrea del Verrocchio
Which artist was a Dutch post-impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art? In a decade, he created about 2,100 artworks, including around 860 oil paintings, most of which date from the last two years of his life. They include landscapes, still lives, portraits and self-portraits, and are characterized by bold colors and dramatic, impulsive and expressive brushwork that contributed to the foundations of modern art.
Melissa Fitzsimons
Vincent Van Gogh
Ken Jennings
Paul Gauguin
Which artist painted the famous Marie Antoinette, Queen of France and her children?
Lee Krasner
Kiim Kardashian
Louise Bourgeois
Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun
Which colors are the primary colors?
Red-violet, Cornflower & Amber
Violet, Orange, & Green
Red, Yellow & Blue
Black, White & Gray
Which are the secondary colors?
Red, Yellow, & Blue
Marshmallow, Macaroni & Cheese, & Scarlet
Red-orange, Blue & Yellow-Green
Green, Orange & Violet (Purple)
Which are the tertiary colors?
Magenta, Lemon yellow & Lime Green
Red-Orange, Red-violet, Blue-Green, Blue-Violet, Yellow-Orange, & Yellow-Green
Red, Yellow & Blue
Green, Yellow & Violet
Which artist was credited with discovering "Abstract Art" and sometimes called the "Father of Abstraction." _____________was a modern master who is credited with painting the first purely abstract works
Wassily Kandinsky
Pablo PIcasso
Rosa Bonheur
Bridget RIley
Which artist painted this painting?
Pablo PIcasso
Jackson Pollock
Paul Cezanne
Vincent Van Gogh
Which famous mountain appears in the background of this image?
Mount Everest
Snake Hill in Secaucus
Yosemite National Mountain
Mount Fuji
Which artist was known for Abstract Cubist art, was a child prodigy and a painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist and stage designer considered one of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century? _______________ is credited, along with Georges Braque, with the creation of Cubism.
Mickey Mouse
Calvin Harris
lil' Wayne
Pablo Picasso
Which artist was sometimes called the "Father of Cubism?" He was a French painter, one of the greatest of the Post-Impressionists, whose works and ideas were influential in the aesthetic development of many 20th-century artists and art movements, especially Cubism.
Pablo PIcasso
George Braque
Paul Cezanne
Doug DePice
What colors would an artist mix together besides Black and White to make a very beautiful rich gray?
Primary colors
Complementary Colors like: yellow & purple, red & green, or orange and blue
Tertiary colors
Neon Pink and Neon Green
What are the elements of art?
Sushi, pizza, ice cream & Jersey mike's
Paint brushes, canvas, oil paint & watercolor
Love, marriage, kids, career & finances
Line, shape, form, value, color, texture, space
Balance, Contrast, Emphasis, Movement, Pattern, Rhythm, Unity are known collectively as the _____________________.
Code of Hammurabi
Elements of Art
Rosetta stone
Principles of Design
____________________________is an oil painting by Dutch Golden Age painter Johannes Vermeer, dated c. 1665. Going by various names over the centuries, it became known by its present title towards the end of the 20th century after the large pearl earring worn by the girl portrayed there. The work has been in the collection of the Mauritshuis in The Hague since 1902 and has been the subject of various literary treatments. In 2006, the Dutch public selected it as the most beautiful painting in the Netherlands
"The Lady with the Beautiful Face and Pearls"
"The Man with the Beard and Pearls"
"The woman with the Pearl Blue Eyes"
the "Girl With the Pearl Earring"
This painting of the Farmer and his sister was painted by which artist?
Melissa Fitzsimons
Doug DePice
Kanye West
Grant Wood
Potato Eaters was one of which artist's first subjects? He was known as an abstract expressionist...
Vincent Van Gogh
Theo Van Gogh
Kurt Vonnegut
Pablo Picasso
This is a very famous painting... One which we did not study: _________________________ represents all the greatest mathematicians, philosophers and scientists from classical antiquity gathered together sharing their ideas and learning from each other. These figures all lived at different times, but here they are gathered together under one roof.
CLUE:
The painting is a fresco by the Italian Renaissance artist Raphael. It was painted between 1509 and 1511 as a part of Raphael's commission to decorate the rooms now known as the Stanze di Raffaello, in the Apostolic Palace in the Vatican....Name the painting using context clues.
HINT: The painting is NOT set in Italy, though it is set in one of the GREATEST ancient societies known to man.
The School of Secaucus Middle
The School of the Byzantine Empire
The School of Egypt
The School of Athens
This is the painting that changed Mrs. Fitzsimons' ideas about art when she went on a field trip with master teacher Doug DePice to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC in 1997. It is by Jackson Pollock. What style of art is this painting?
Realism
Pointilism
Cubism
Abstract Expressionism
When asked why he chose to paint _____________________, Pop Artist Andy Warhol offered a deadpan reply: “I used to have the same lunch every day, for twenty years, I guess, the same thing over and over again.” That daily meal is the subject of this work consisting of thirty-two canvases—one for each of the flavors then sold by Campbell’s—using a combination of projection, tracing, painting, and stamping. Repeating the nearly identical image, the canvases at once stress the uniformity and ubiquity of the product’s packaging and subvert the idea of painting as a medium of invention and originality.
Name the Painting
Marilyn Diptych 1962
Coca-Cola 1962
Campbell's Soup Cans1962
Brillo Box 1964
Cave Art: The first “artists” of the world used which mediums to produce their work?
Ashes from fire, plant pigments, and red clay
Paint from Michael's art supply store in Secaucus
Sharpie Marker
Glitter and Glue
Leonardo DaVinci studied anatomy by observation but also by illegally paying grave diggers to exhume dead bodies from cemeteries in the 1500's.... What is the image an example of?
The Vitruvian Man
The Proportion of the Face
The National Weather System
The Magna Carta
This is an example of what artistic drawing device or technique?
Flat Table Drawing
37 - point perspective
Portrait Painting
One-Point Perspective
Vincent Van Gogh painted this image from the window of his asylum room at Saint-Rémy-de-Provence in France... What is the name of this very famous painting which is housed at the MOMA in NYC?
"The Crazy Nightmare"
"The Bluest Sky in France"
"The Fire Tree in Stars"
"The Starry Night"
"The Mona Lisa"
In which city and country is The Louvre art museum located?
Brussels, Belgium
Paris, France
Moscow, Russia
Paramus, New Jersey
New York, New York
Known for their pattern, bold color, fauvism style and modern design these room interiors were painted by which famous artist?
Georges Braque
Post Malone
Henri Matisse
Lil' Baby
Jean Georges
Cave Art was found in France and Spain among other parts of the world.... The oldest known cave paintings are more than 44,000 years old (art of the Upper Paleolithic), found in both the Franco-Cantabrian region in western Europe, and in the caves in the district of Maros (Sulawesi, Indonesia). The oldest type of cave paintings are hand stencils and simple geometric shapes; the oldest undisputed examples of figurative cave paintings are somewhat younger, close to 35,000 years old.
Why do Scientists think this "art" was created which pre-dated human language?
To make a beautiful art gallery
In order to communicate with each other, document daily life, teach about hunting and gathering and warn the young of wild beasts/dangers outside the cave walls.
To have entertaining videos for cave kids to watch
To impress modern humans and archaeologists
Which famous woman artist painted this still life of flowers?
Khloe Kardashian
Nicki Minaj
Bridget Riley
Rachel Ruysch
"Washington Crossing the Delaware" by Emanuel Leutze is a famous painting found at which NYC museum?
Hint: ____________________is the largest art museum in the United States. With 6,479,548 visitors to its three locations in 2019, it was the fourth most visited art museum in the world. It's permanent collection contains over two million works, divided among 17 curatorial departments. The main building at 1000 Fifth Avenue, along the Museum Mile on the eastern edge of Central Park in Manhattan's Upper East Side, is by area one of the world's largest art galleries.
The Frick Collection
The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The American Museum of Natural History
Who was Leonardo DaVinci's mentor?
HINT: He was the older artist who taught Leonardo everything about art and the one in which whose studio Leonardo worked within.)
Clue: He was an Italian painter, sculptor, and goldsmith who was a master of an important workshop in Florence. He apparently became known as "___________" after the surname of his master, a goldsmith. Few paintings are attributed to him with certainty, but a number of important painters were trained at his workshop. His pupils included Leonardo da Vinci, Pietro Perugino and Lorenzo di Credi.
Pablo Picasso
Andrea del Verrocchio
Pietro Perugino
Massimo Battura
Gordon Ramsay
