Famous Artists
What is the full name of the artist who introduced the world to Pop Art?
Andy Warhol
Where is the world’s largest art museum, The Louvre, located?
A museum dedicated to which artist, who painted "Starry Night," experienced the theft of two paintings worth tens of millions in 2002?
Van Gogh
Salvador Dali’s famous “melting clock” painting is called:
The Persistence of Memory
In painting or drawing, what name is given to something executed in a single color?
Monochrome
Which artist painted “The Night’s Watch”?
Rembrandt
The Smithsonian Institution, the world’s largest museum, education, and research complex, is located in which city?
Which very well-known Edvard Munch painting has been stolen at least twice, in 1994 and 2004?
The Scream
What was the most expensive painting ever sold?
Salvator Mundi
Which Latin phrase that means “remember that you will die” is used to describe a reminder of mortality or representation of death (like a skull) in a work of art?
Memento Mori
Les Demoiselles d’Avignon was a groundbreaking work that paved the way for Cubism by what famous painter?
Pablo Picasso
What is the largest art museum in the western hemisphere?
The MET
Which famous painting was marched down the Champs-élysées upon its recovery and return after 2 years?
Mona Lisa
Which of Picasso’s famous paintings was inspired by the bombings of civilians during the Spanish War?
Guernica
A term that refers to art that is innovative, experimental, and pushes the boundaries of what is considered acceptable or mainstream.
Avant-garde
What French artist was a leader of the Fauvism movement and known for using bright and bold colors?
Henri Matisse
The Rijksmuseum—which includes masterpieces by Rembrandt and Vermeer—and the Van Gogh Museum can both be found in what country?
The Netherlands
One of the biggest art heists in history took place at which city's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in 1990?
Boston
One of Renaissance painter El Greco's most famous works is a landscape that depicts a "View of" what city in Spain (not Ohio)?
Toledo
In art, depicting the natural appearance of things as closely as possible.
Naturalism
Surgeons crowd around an anesthetized patient in "The Gross Clinic," an 1875 painting by what American artist?
Thomas Eakins
Designed to resemble a lotus flower, the ArtScience Museum is an iconic museum located in which city?
Singapore
Picasso's painting "The Pigeon with _________" was stolen from a Paris museum in 2010.
Green Peas
What is the one-word name of the 1942 oil painting by American artist Edward Hopper that depicts four people in a downtown diner late at night?
Nighthawks
What 11-letter art term, a combination of the Italian words for "light" and "dark," means the interplay and contrast of light and dark areas in a painting or drawing? This technique was closely associated with Caravaggio.
Chiaroscuro