50 Question Art Quiz - Sunday Quiz

Round 1: Art - Sculpture

10 questions all about sculpture.

A famous bust dating from around 1345 BC, unearthed in 1912, and now residing in Berlin, what is the name of the wife of Akhenaten?

Meant to protect the first Emperor of China in the afterlife, what famous Army is believed by some estimates to number more than 8,000 soldiers along with 670 horses and 130 chariots?

'The Little Fourteen-Year-Old Dancer' was the only sculpture that which Impressionist master exhibited in his lifetime?

Created in the mid-1990s when Louise Bourgeois was already in her eighties, what sculture exists in numerous versions of varying scale, including some that are monumental?

The enormous winged monument located near the town of Gateshead in northeastern England, created by Antony Gormley in 1998 is called what?

Standing 98ft tall, what statue has become a symbol of Christianity across the world and is a cultural icon of both Rio de Janeiro and Brazil?

Located in the center of Brussels, Belgium, what is the name of the small bronze sculpture depicting a naked little boy urinating into a fountain’s basin?

The Thinker was originally named The Poet and it is often used as an image to represent philosophy, who sculpted it?

What statue depicts the Roman goddess Libertas holding a torch above her head with her right hand and in her left hand she is carrying a tablet on which is inscribed in Roman numerals the date of the U.S. Declaration of Independence?

What sculpture by Sylvia Shaw Judson, achieved fame when it was featured on the cover of the 1994 novel, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil?

Round 2: Art - Photography

10 questions on the subject of photography.

Which Hollywood star was seven months pregnant with her second child when she graced the cover of Vanity Fair naked in 1991, prompting something of a public outcry?

What image of an adolescent girl with green eyes in a red headscarf looking intensely at the camera appeared on the June 1985 cover of National Geographic?

What photo shows a Vietnam War protester, George Harris, placing a carnation into the barrel of an M14 rifle during the National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam's "March on The Pentagon"?

What is the photograph called, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, of elephant trunks of interstellar gas and dust in the Eagle Nebula, specifically the Serpens constellation, some 6,500–7,000 light years from Earth?

The photograph by Alfred Eisenstaedt that portrays a U.S. Navy sailor embracing and kissing a total stranger (a dental assistant) on August 14, 1945 was taken where?

The photograph depicting 11 men eating lunch, seated on a girder with their feet dangling 840 feet above the New York City streets was taken during the construction of which building?

What is the name popularly given to NASA image AS08-14-2383, taken by astronaut William Anders during the Apollo 8 mission, the first crewed voyage to orbit the Moon?

Photographed for LIFE in 1984, which basketball star was captured soaring through the air for a dunk, legs split like a ballet dancer’s and left arm stretched to the stars?

The iconic photo 'Sunset on Mars', was taken by one of NASA’s Mars Exploration Rovers in 2005. What was the name of the rover?

The photograph of six United States Marines raising the U.S. flag atop Mount Suribachi in the final stages of the Pacific War is known as what?

Round 3: Art - Fashion

10 questions on the subject of fashion.

What English fashion designer, the daughter of a Beatle, is a firm supporter of animal rights, environmentalism, and is particularly known for her use of vegetarian and animal-free alternatives in her work?

An Italian fashion designer who first came to notice working for Cerruti, by 2001 who was acclaimed as the most successful designer of Italian origin, and is credited with pioneering red-carpet fashion?

Which German multinational corporation, founded and headquartered in Herzogenaurach, Germany, is the largest sportswear manufacturer in Europe and has the slogan "Impossible is nothing."?

What is the name of the company that started making an early basketball shoe in 1917 and redesigned it in 1922, when Chuck Taylor asked the company to create a better shoe with more support and flexibility?

Which Italian fashion designer and founder of a famous international fashion house was shot and killed outside his Miami Beach mansion, Casa Casuarina, at the age of 50?

The Paul Newman watch; 'Exotic' Daytona, was sold at auction in 1968 for the price of $17.7m. What brand of Swiss manufactured watch is it?

Which English fashion designer and businesswoman is considered largely responsible for bringing modern punk and new wave fashions into the mainstream?

What is the French term for high sewing, or high dressmaking, where creations are constructed by hand from start to finish and are always limited edition?

What U.S fashion brand was the most valuable of 2020 at $34.8 billion and $32.4 in 2019, almost double that of Gucci in second place?

Which American fashion designer, philanthropist, and billionaire businessman, drew on his interests in sports and named his first full line of menswear 'Polo'?

Round 4: Art - Painting

10 questions on painting and painters.

Known for her paintings of enlarged flowers, New York skyscrapers, and New Mexico landscapes. Who has been recognized as the "Mother of American modernism"?

Which Dutch Baroque Period painter who specialized in domestic interior scenes of middle class life is known for 'Girl with a Pearl Earring' among other work?

A pivotal figure in the transition from Realism to Impressionism, with early works such as 'The Absinthe Drinker', which painter was born in Paris on 23 January 1832?

What 1931 painting by artist Salvador Dalí, one of the most recognizable works of Surrealism, is sometimes referred to by more descriptive titles, such as "The Melting Watches"?

One of the most familiar images of 20th-century American art and widely parodied in American popular culture, what is the famous 1930 painting by Grant Wood called?

Which Austrian symbolist painter, one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement, used the female body as a primary subject, with his works marked by a frank eroticism?

Which oil on canvas painting by Dutch Post-Impressionist Vincent van Gogh, was painted in June 1889 and depicts the view from the east-facing window of his asylum room at Saint-Rémy-de-Provence?

Published sometime between 1829 and 1833, 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa', also known as The Great Wave or simply The Wave, is a woodblock print by which Japanese ukiyo-e artist?

One of the most recognizable paintings in American art, which 1942 oil on canvas painting by Edward Hopper portrays people in a downtown diner late at night?

Which English artist, once the "enfant terrible" of the Young British Artists in the 1980s, is known for her autobiographical and confessional artwork using a variety of media?

Round 5: Art - Styles

10 questions about different styles of art.

Glorifying the past and tending to depict more medieval history, which 19th Century art movement emphasized emotion and individualism?

What is the accurate, detailed, unembellished depiction of nature or of contemporary life rejecting imaginative idealization in favour of a close observation of outward appearances called?

Which art movement emerged during the mid- to late-1950s challenged and traditions of fine art by including imagery such as advertising, and comic books and mass-produced objects?

Flourishing in Europe from the early 17th century, what term is also used to designate the style of music composed during the overlapping period?

With works emphasizing strong color over representational or realistic values, what movement only lasted only a few years, 1905–1908, and had three exhibitions?

In what type of artwork are objects analyzed, broken up and reassembled in an abstracted form—instead of depicting objects from a single viewpoint?

Which art movement originated with a group of Paris-based artists whose independent exhibitions brought them to prominence during the 1870s and 1880s, the name of the style being derived from the title of a Claude Monet work?

Existing since ancient times, with examples dating back to ancient Egypt, ancient Greece, and the Roman Empire, which controversial type of art is associated with the pseudonymous Banksy?

One of the principles of which type of art is to create works that employ natural materials or engage with environmental forces such as wind, water, or sunlight?

What artistic and social movement originated in Italy in the early 20th century and emphasizes dynamism, speed, technology, youth, violence, and objects such as the car, the airplane, and the industrial city?

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