Art Quiz: 20 Trivia Questions with Answers about Painting for Connoisseurs
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Painting is an art form that can make an enormous impression on the human being. Its study expands our inner world, breaks down barriers in the way of our imagination and perception of this world.
The art quiz we have prepared for you today consists of 20 questions about painting. If you consider yourself a connoisseur of art, you will probably be able to answer each of them.
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1. What is the gummiarbia that is included in watercolor?
A transparent resin
2. What is a work of easel painting?
Painting
3. In 1879 an amateur Spanish archaeologist, Marcelino-Sans de Sautuola, stumbled upon a cave whose vaults were decorated with drawings of ancient people. The modern world had never seen anything like this before. What is the name of this cave?
Altamira
4. What is depicted in Eduard Wilhelm Daghe's painting The Invention of Painting?
Cora of Sikyon traces the shadow of her lover with charcoal on the wall
5. A variety of which genre of painting is Marina art?
Landscape
6. Which king's court painter was Diego Velázquez?
Philip IV
7. Which color dominates most of Van Gogh's paintings?
Yellow
8. What does the strange white bird at the feet of the old woman approaching death represent in Paul Gauguin's famous canvas, "Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?"?
The uselessness of words
9. What does the Latin word minium, from which the name of the work of small forms miniature is derived?
Red paint
10. Which artist is the author of the painting "Chaos. Creation of the World", which was purchased by Pope Gregory XVI?
Ivan Aivazovsky
11. Alphonse Allee, more than a quarter of a century before the famous Black Square by Kazimir Malevich, presented his painting to the public, which was a completely black rectangular canvas. What was it called?
A black man fighting in a cave deep in the night
12. Luchism is one of the early movements of ...
abstractionism
13. Which word can be used to define the Art Nouveau style?
Decorative
14. Who posed Ilya Repin for his painting Nun?
His sister-in-law, Sofia Repina
15. How many earlier works painted in color are hidden under the top layer of Malevich's famous Black Square?
Two
16. What is the pictorial technique of carnation used to paint?
Human skin
17. The natural pigment ochre is ...
iron oxide hydrate with admixture of clay
18. What is a distinctive feature of the Yōga Japanese painting movement?
Borrowings from the Western style
19. What supports the moustache?
The hand of the artist
20. Which famous artist was suspected of stealing Leonardo da Vinci's most famous painting, the Mona Lisa?
Pablo Picasso
