Art quiz: painters and paintings
Checked on 3 November 2026
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What is the first name of "A Bigger Splash" artist Mr. Hockney?
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The answer is David.
A Bigger Splash is a 1967 pop art painting of a swimming pool by the British artist David Hockney.
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In which country was Gustav Klimt born?
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The answer is Austria.
Gustav Klimt was born in 1862 in Baumgarten, near Vienna, in what was then the Austrian Empire.
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Which of the following was a Cubist?
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The answer is Pablo Picasso.
Pablo Picasso pioneered Cubism together with Georges Braque in the early twentieth century.
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Which legendary twentieth-century artist was notorious for taking a pet anteater for walks on a lead?
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The answer is Salvador Dalí.
Salvador Dalí often appeared in public with his pet anteater, and also kept an ocelot called Babou.
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How many humans are featured in Matisse's The Dance?
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The answer is 5.
Matisse's Dance shows five red dancing figures in a ring against a green hill and blue sky.
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Robert Delaunay was what nationality?
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The answer is French.
Robert Delaunay (1885 to 1941) was a French painter of the School of Paris.
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The Ambassadors is a famous work by which artist?
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The answer is Holbein.
The Ambassadors, painted in 1533 by Hans Holbein the Younger, hangs in the National Gallery in London.
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The Menaced Assassin is a work by which painter?
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The answer is René Magritte.
The Menaced Assassin is a 1927 Surrealist painting by René Magritte, held by MoMA in New York.
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Which of these painters would be classed as a first generation abstract expressionist?
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The answer is Philip Guston.
Philip Guston became known in the 1950s as a first-generation abstract expressionist of the New York School.
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Robert Delaunay co-founded which artistic movement?
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The answer is Orphism.
Robert Delaunay co-founded Orphism, a colourful offshoot of Cubism, with his wife Sonia Delaunay and others.