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Modern Art Movements

Water lilies, melting clocks and soup cans. Stroll from Impressionism to Pop Art and prove you can tell your Cubists from your Dadaists.

🧠 General Knowledge medium 20 questions ~7 min
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What this quiz asks

  • Impressionism took its name from a painting by which artist?
  • Who painted "The Persistence of Memory", the famous picture of melting clocks?
  • Which Pop artist first showed a series of 32 soup can paintings in 1962?
  • Edvard Munch, the painter of "The Scream", came from which country?
  • Vincent van Gogh painted "The Starry Night" while staying at an asylum in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence.
  • Frida Kahlo was married, twice, to which Mexican muralist?
  • Pablo Picasso developed Cubism side by side with which French painter?
  • Select ALL of these painters who took part in the first Impressionist exhibition in Paris in 1874.
  • Claude Monet painted his famous Water Lilies in his own garden in Arles.
  • Did Marcel Duchamp once submit a porcelain urinal to an art exhibition as a sculpture?
  • In what year did Pablo Picasso paint "Guernica"?
  • Which movement led by Henri Matisse got its name from the French for "wild beasts"?
  • Jackson Pollock's drip paintings are a landmark of which movement?
  • Order these art movements by when they began, earliest first.
  • In which city was the Dada movement born, at the Cabaret Voltaire in 1916?
  • Select ALL of these artists who belong to the Surrealist movement.
  • Who wrote the first Surrealist Manifesto, published in 1924?
  • Which Pop artist painted enlarged comic-book panels, copying even their printed Ben-Day dots?
  • Futurism was launched in 1909 by a manifesto written by which Italian poet?
  • Which Russian artist painted "Black Square" in 1915, founding the movement called Suprematism?