🎨
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
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?