Artists

Question 1

Andrew Wyeth

Answer 1

Dutch painter (1450-1516)
Christina’s World
The Garden of Earthly Delights

Question 2

Andy Warhol

Answer 2

Coined the phrase "15 minutes of fame"
American artist (PA) (1928-1987)
Avant-garde film
Pop art
"Campbell's Soup Cans" (painting)
"Paintings of Marilyn Monroe, Elvis, Mao, etc."

Question 3

Auguste Rodin

Answer 3

The Age of Bronze
French sculptor (1840-1917)
"The Kiss"
"The Gates of Hell"
"The Thinker"

Question 4

Benvenuto Cellini

Answer 4

Italian renaissance man (1500-1571)

“Perseus With the Head Of Medusa” (sculpture)

Question 5

Claude Monet

Answer 5

French impressionist painter (1840-1926)
To England in Franco-Prussian War
Painted his wife (32) on her death bed
Impressionism, Sunrise
Water Lillies
Haystacks
"Cliffs near Dieppe"

Question 6

Constantin Brancusi

Answer 6

Romanian sculptor (1876-1957)
"Bird in Space"

Question 7

Diego Velázquez

Answer 7

Spanish painter (1559-1660)
"Las Meninas"
"Vieja friendo huevos" (Old Woman Frying Egg)

Question 8

Édouard Manet

Answer 8

French impressionist painter (1832-1883)
“Olympia”
“Luncheon on the Grass”

Question 9

Edvard Munch

Answer 9

Norwegian expressionist painter (1863-1944)

“The Scream”

Question 10

Edward Hopper

Answer 10

American painter (1882-1967)
"Nighthawks"

Question 11

Eugène Delacroix

Answer 11

French romantic artist (1798-1863)
Illustrated Shakespeare, Sir Walter Scott, and Goethe
“Liberty Leading the People”

Question 12

Francisco de Goya

Answer 12

Spanish romantic painter (1746-1828)
Deaf for the last 30 years of his life
"The Third of May, 1808 "
"Courtyard with Lunatics"
"Saturn Eating His Son"
"The Clothed Maja and The Nude Maja"

Question 13

Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi

Answer 13

French sculptor (1834-1904)
"Liberty Enlightening the World" AKA "The Statue of Liberty" (sculpture)

Question 14

Georges Seurat

Answer 14

French post impressionist painter (1859-1891)

“The Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte”

Question 15

Georgia O’Keefe

Answer 15

American painter (WI/NM) (1887-1986)
American modernism
Flowers, rocks, shells, animal bones and skulls, landscapes
“Cow’s Skull with Calico Roses”

Question 16

Gian Lorenzo Bernini

Answer 16

Italian artist (1598-1680)
"The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa"

Question 17

Grant Wood

Answer 17

American regionalist painter (IA) (1891-1942)

American Gothic

Question 18

Gustav Klimt

Answer 18

Austrian painter (1892-1918)
Fathered 14+ children by various women
"Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I"
"The Kiss"
"Danaë"
"Judith and the Head of Holofernes"

Question 19

Jackson Pollock

Answer 19

American abstract expressionist painter (WY) (1912-1956)
alcoholic; Died at 44 in drunk driving accident
Studied under Thomas Hart Benton
“No. 5”
“Blue Poles”

Question 20

Jacques-Louis David

Answer 20

French neoclassical painter (1748-1825)
Died after being ran over by a carriage
Supporter of French Revolution, then Napoleon
"The Death of Marat"
"The Death of Socrates"

Question 21

James McNeill Whistler

Answer 21

American-British painter (1834-1903)
Famous signature in the form of a butterfly with a long stinger
A self-promoting dandy; often wore a monocle.
Sued the art critic John Ruskin for libel; won the case and was awarded a single farthing
“art for art’s sake”; anti-sentiment-ality; believed art was related to music
“Arrangement in Grey and Black: The Artist’s Mother”

Question 22

Jan van Eyck

Answer 22

Flemish painter (1395-1441)
Father of oil painting
"The Arnolfini Wedding"

Question 23

Jasper Johns

Answer 23

American modern abstract expresionist artist (Georgia) (1930-?)
“Map”
“Flag”

Question 24

Leonardo da Vinci

Answer 24

Italian Renaissance man (1452-1519)
Early flight machines
"Vitruvian Man" (drawing)
"Last Supper"
"Mona Lisa"

Question 25

Marcel Duchamp

Answer 25

``` French artist (1887-1968) Quit art to play chess, but secretly still painted Dadism & Surrealism "Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2" "Readymades Ex: Fountain" (a urinal) ```

Question 26

Mark Rothko

Answer 26

Russian-American abstract expressionist painter (1903-1970) | "No. 61" (Rust and Blue)

Question 27

Michelangelo

Answer 27

``` Italian Renaissance man (1475-1564) Murals in the Sistine Chapel "Pietá" "David" "The Creation of Adam" ```

Question 28

Pablo Picasso

Answer 28

Spanish-French cubist painter (1881-1973) "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" (1907) "Guernica" (1937) "The Weeping Woman"

Question 29

Paul Cezanne

Answer 29

French post impressionist painter (1839-1906) "Pyramid of Skulls" "The Card Players" "The Bathers"

Question 30

Pierre-August Renoir

Answer 30

``` French impressionist painter (1841-1919) Scenes from daily life & nudes "Luncheon of the Boating Party" "The Bathers" "Nude" "Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette" ```

Question 31

Raphael

Answer 31

``` Italian Renaissance painter (1483-1520) Died at 37 School of Athens Worked in Rome for the Pope "Mond Crucifixion" "Saint George and the Dragon" ```

Question 32

Rembrandt

Answer 32

``` Dutch painter (1606-1669) "The Night Watch" ```

Question 33

Roy Lichtenstein

Answer 33

American pop art painter (NY) (1923-1997) Ben-Day dots, cartoon style "Drowning Girl" (1963)

Question 34

Salvador Dalí

Answer 34

Spanish surrealist painter (1904-1989) Unusual and grandiose behavior "The Persistence of Memory" (1931)

Question 35

Sandro Botticelli

Answer 35

Italian painter (1445-1510) "The Birth of Venus" "Primavera"

Question 36

Sir Peter Paul Rubens

Answer 36

``` Flemish painter (1577-1640) At age 56, married 16-yr-old Hélène, his model Paintings of full-figured women "Baroque" ```

Question 37

Thomas Gainsborough

Answer 37

``` English painter (1727-1788) "The Blue Boy" ```

Question 38

Thomas Hart Benton

Answer 38

American social realist painter (MO) (1889-1975) "America Today" "Persephone" "History of Missouri"

Question 39

Thomas Kinkade

Answer 39

American realist painter (1958-?) Painter of light Comercialized art

Question 40

Titian

Answer 40

``` Italian painter (1488-1576) "Venus of Urbino" ```

Question 41

Vincent Van Gogh

Answer 41

"Starry Night" | "Sunflowers"