Name that Artist!
Judith Slaying Holofernes (1612-13)
Artemisia Gentileschi
What motif describes the relaxed, asymmetrical position of the hips where a figure's weight is shifted onto one leg? Creating a natural and dynamic appearance, this artistic tool originated in ancient Greek sculpture.
Contrapposto
Anish Kapoor's public sculpture "Cloud Gate," installed in Chicago's Millennium Park, is better known by what legume-y nickname?
The Bean
In 1990, thieves stole over $500 million dollars worth of artwork from which Boston art museum? The pieces lost include a Vermeer, a Rembrandt, and a Manet, and are still lost as of 2021.
The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Which Italian word that means “light-dark” describes contrast in a work and was a favorite technique of Caravaggio for creating dimensionality and drama?
Chiaroscuro
The Great Wave off Kanagawa (1831)
Hokusai
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
Named "Girl With Balloon" before it was partially shredded at a 2018 auction, "Love Is in the Bin" is an artwork that sold for $25.4 million in 2021 by what one-named artist?
Banksy
In March 2020, the piece "The Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in Spring" by this artist was stolen from the Singer Laren Museum in the Netherlands. That the unexpected theft took place against the backdrop of COVID-19 and international lockdowns seemed to be a sign that thieves were using the unprecedented circumstances to their advantage.
Vincent van Gogh
In a famous painting by Johannes Vermeer, the subject is a young woman wearing a particular piece of jewelery, after which the painting is named. What specific gemstone features both in the jewelery and the name of the painting?
a Pearl
Fallingwater (1937)
In Renaissance and Baroque art, a particular shade of blue paint made from lapis lazuli was so expensive it was primarily used for painting the robes of which religious figure?
The Virgin Mary
Polka dots and mirrored installations called "Infinity Rooms" are both hallmarks of what Japanese contemporary artist?
Yayoi Kusama
Italian Vincenzo Peruggia is a famous name in the history of art for stealing which iconic painting in 1911? One theory regarding his motivation for stealing the painting was that he wanted to return the painting from France to its country of origin.
Mona Lisa
Orphism is an early 20th century art movement that focused on colorful abstract paintings. Orphism is considered a derivative of which other art movement associated with Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso?
Cubism
Riding with Death (1988)
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Which French term that means “advanced guard” refers to novel, unusual, or experimental art?
Avant-Garde
In 2018, D.C.'s National Portrait Gallery unveiled an official portrait of former president Barack Obama, created by what renowned African-American portrait painter?
Kehinde Wiley
In 2008, a post-impressionist oil painting, “The Boy in the Red Vest,” was stolen from a museum in Zurich, only to be found in Serbia in 2012. Which artist painted it?
La Primavera and The Birth of Venus, two masterworks by Sandro Botticelli, are among the collection of what famous art museum in Florence, Italy?
The Garden of Earthly Delights (circa 1490)
Hieronymous Bosch
What is the name of the protective, glossy varnish that is applied to wood and metal that’s usually made from the sap of the Toxicodendron vernicifluum tree?
Lacquer
The Government of Flanders has received criticism after announcing its plan to close which contemporary art museum? The move would abolish this institution's status as a national museum and render it a kunsthalle.
Antwerp Museum of Modern Art (M HKA)
"Thousand thanks for the bad security!" read a note left behind at the National Museum in Oslo. Edvard Munch's "The Scream" was stolen during which 1994 international event?
The name for which European art movement, which was chosen by randomly selecting a word from the dictionary, comes from a French word for a hobbyhorse?
Dadaism