Arts: General

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 * Which of these art styles that comes under decorative arts also influenced design and architecture?
 * Art deco
 * When a painting depicts the natural scenery, what is the name of art style?
 * Landscape painting
 * What is the name of the Museum in Paris which houses Monet's water lily murals?
 * The Orangerie
 * While working at what job, Ferdinand Cheval gathered interesting stones he found to build Le Palais Ideal in Hauterives, France?
 * Letter carrier
 * Who painted "Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear" in 1889, probably from a mirror, which explains why the wrong ear is shown bandaged?
 * Vincent Van Gogh
 * In which of these sculptures is nobody sitting down?
 * Venus de Milo
 * Where was paper invented?
 * China
 * In Grant Wood's painting "American Gothic," what is the man holding?
 * A pitchfork
 * In 2006, sculptor Daniel Edwards claimed to have bronzed Suri's poop. Who were her parents?
 * Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes
 * Which of these is a painting by Vincent Van Gogh
 * The Red Vineyard
 * Whose art auction, Beautiful Inside My Head Forever, became itself a work of art?
 * Damien Hirst
 * As part of the Dada movement, who put a mustache on the "Mona Lisa"?
 * Marcel Duchamp
 * Which French artist is famed for his depictions of ballet dancers?
 * Edgar Degas
 * Best known for a nude descending a staircase, who largely abandoned painting to pursue chess?
 * Marcel Duchamp
 * What did Leonardo da Vinci paint the Mona Lisa on?
 * Poplar wood
 * The originals of whose A Harlot's Progress were lost to fire at Fonthill Abbey in 1755?
 * William Hogarth
 * Whose work consists of black-and-white photographs with overlaid political captions set in white-on-red Futura Bold Oblique?
 * Barbara Kruger
 * In 1826, Joseph Niepce took the very first photo, in Saint-Loup-de-Varennes. What was it?
 * A courtyard garden
 * Jacques-Louis David painted a memorial to a friend of his, who had been murdered in his bath. What was it called?
 * Death of Marat
 * Whose 1907 painting, "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon," depicting five prostitutes in a Paris brothel, was a precursor to cubism?
 * Pablo Picasso
 * English painter George Stubbs was famous for his paintings of which animals?
 * Horses
 * What 3-D movie did Andy Warhol make in 1973?
 * Flesh for Frankenstein
 * Henri Rousseau became famous for painting jungle scenes, which is odd, because as far as we know, he never left what city?
 * Paris
 * Located in Fort Tryon Park, New York what is this branch of the Metropolitan Museum of Art called?
 * The Cloisters
 * Leonardo da Vinci was well known for making paintings about what theme?
 * Religious Events
 * Lady Churchill ordered a portrait of Winston Churchill by which of these artists to be destroyed?
 * Graham Sutherland
 * Add a letter to this artist's name, and he'd have the same name as a European country. Who?
 * Roy Lichtenstein
 * What failed talk show shares its name with the period after sunset, when photographers get many of their best shots?
 * Magic Hour
 * Green is created by blending what two colors?
 * Blue and Yellow
 * Whose first ever painting was likely The Torment of Saint Anthony, which he finished in the late 1480s, when he was 12 or 13?
 * Michelangelo
 * What was focus of the Geometric Period of ancient Greek art?
 * Shapes
 * La Grenouillere is one of the many scenes painted simultaneously by which two painters, in this case in 1869?
 * Monet and Renoir
 * Which artist painted 'The Persistence of Memory' that features melting watches?
 * Salvador Dali
 * Which 19th century painter was Pablo Picasso's artistic idol?
 * Goya
 * Giornata means "a day's work" in Italian and in particular means the amount of work you can do at one time in what art?
 * Fresco
 * Particularly in works like A Bigger Splash, Britain's David Hockney often painted scenes of swimming pools in what US state?
 * California
 * What was the only rule of the non-movement in art called "Dada"?
 * Follow No Rules
 * What painter dropped his father's name (Ruiz) and instead painted under his mother's name?
 * Pablo Picasso
 * Which famous film star did Pop artist Andy Warhol make more portraits of than any other?
 * Marilyn Monroe
 * If you're interested in Nihonjinron, you want to know about whose national and cultural identity?
 * Japanese
 * Whose 1967 photo of "Identical Twins" became one of the world's most expensive photographs?
 * Diane Arbus
 * A scene from which 1969 movie was recreated with a sculpture UK's 2012 Cultural Olympics?
 * The Italian Job
 * Created in April 1789 in Dresdon, Dora Stock's most famous portrait was of what composer?
 * Mozart
 * In 1993, who was the first woman to win the Turner Prize?
 * Rachel Whiteread
 * Two of Botticelli's most famous paintings are in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, and both feature what Roman love goddess?
 * Venus
 * Frida Kahlo was almost as famous for facial hair as for her paintings, which celebrated what country's colorful heritage?
 * Mexico
 * Which color generally expresses a calm feeling?
 * Blue
 * What is unusual about MC Escher's drawing called "Relativity"?
 * Stairways go nowhere
 * Which country claims ownership of the Elgin marbles and wants the treasures returned from the British Museum?
 * Greece
 * Long before Al Jaffee did it at Mad, who designed a "fold-in" for the cover of Vogue?
 * Salvador Dali
 * Which of these painters is known by the name of a town near where he grew up, as his dad worked for the Marchese there?
 * Caravaggio
 * A barber named Eugenio Aria donated to a museum 60 invaluable works of art that he had taken in lieu of payment from what artist?
 * Pablo Picasso
 * Called the largest and most expensive book ever made, whose "Sumo" is a coffee table book of photos that comes with its own table?
 * Helmut Newton
 * Which artist was born first, Leonardo da Vinci or Michelangelo Buonarroti, and by how many years?
 * Leonardo, by 23 years
 * In 1943, sandbags saved what painting, even though the Santa Maria delle Grazie was nearly blown to bits by US and UK planes?
 * Last Supper
 * In 1932, who painted 27 fresco panels entitled "Detroit Industry" on the walls of an inner court at the Detroit Institute of Arts?
 * Diego Rivera
 * Who used Paolo Malatesta and Francesca da Rimini as the models for The Kiss?
 * Rodin
 * What is the meaning of the word "Nabis", as used by the artists Pierre Bonnard and Edouard Vuillard to describe themselves?
 * Prophets
 * In which US city is the Metropolitan Museum of Art located?
 * New York City
 * David Herbert's sculpture Monolith is an 8-foot VHS cassette of what film?
 * 2001: A Space Odyssey
 * If you were depicted in an ecorche drawing, what by definition would you be missing?
 * Skin
 * Grisaille is an art form that usually restricts itself to shades of what color to produce a 3-D effect?
 * Gray
 * What New York museum, famous for its collections of musical instruments, also has more than 200,000 baseball cards?
 * Metropolitan Museum of Art
 * The Uffizi Gallery in Forence used the art collection of which family as the basis of their gallery?
 * The Medici family
 * George Bellows was known for his gritty, realistic depictions of urban life in what city?
 * New York City
 * Whose controversial 1897 plaster model of Victor Hugo was not cast in bronze until 1964?
 * Auguste Rodin
 * Which artist is known for using gold leaf during his 'Golden Phase', as seen in his famous painting 'The Kiss'?
 * Gustav Klimt
 * Born February 3, 1894, in New York City, whose birthday is still celebrated as American Painters Day?
 * Norman Rockwell
 * Alberto Korda won a settlement from Smirnoff, after the vodka brand usurped Korda's image of what left-wing icon?
 * Che Guevara
 * Between 5th and 8th century Egypt, the indigenous Christian community produced art works in what style?
 * Coptic Art
 * In about 1957, what pink bird did Don Featherstone create as a lawn ornament?
 * Flamingo
 * Robert Doisneau is famous for an image of two people, doing what on a crowded Paris street in 1950?
 * Kissing
 * Whose first poster, in 1891, was called "Moulin Rouge-La Goulue," an image of a cancan dancer named La Goulue?
 * Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
 * Art created by inscribing, using a sharp tool on a surface is called what?
 * Engraving
 * The world famous artist Pablo Picasso was from which country?
 * Spain
 * From what was the girl's earring made in a famous Johannes Vermeer painting?
 * Pearl
 * What post-impressionist artist is known for painting Tahitian subject matter?
 * Paul Gauguin
 * After the Dutch East India Company got slammed on the Amsterdam Exchange, what painter went bankrupt and sold his house?
 * Rembrandt
 * What is the name given to a 20th-century art uses anything useless such as refuse or scrap metal?
 * Junk art
 * Rodin's The Thinker was originally meant to depict what writer, sitting at the Gates of Hell and contemplating his own poem?
 * Dante
 * Which artist painted "Portrait of Dr. Gachet," which fetched a record $82.5 million at a New York auction in May 1990?
 * Vincent van Gogh
 * Vermillion is a shade of which color?
 * Red
 * Max Ernst's most famous work, Celebes, appears to depict what animal blowing its nose, or perhaps wearing a frilly collar?
 * Elephant
 * What 70-square-foot canvas shows 48 people, 8 boats, 3 dogs, and 1 monkey?
 * A Sunday on the Grande Jatte
 * Vladimir Tatlin founded which art movement in Russia in the 1917 with the use of modern technology and industry materials?
 * Constructivism
 * Which starving artist won 100,000 francs in the 1891 Credit Foncier lottery, which gave him plenty of time to paint water lilies?
 * Claude Monet
 * Who said that his surreal paintings, such as "Persistence of Memory," were just "hand-painted dream photographs"?
 * Salvador Dali
 * What building did Claude Monet paint repeatedly, using his view from St Thomas' Hospital from 1900-04?
 * British Houses of Parliament
 * Domenikos Thetokopoulos was the real name of which of these famous artists?
 * El Greco
 * What nationality was the impressionist painter Edouard Manet?
 * French
 * In which major London Art Gallery would you find "The Turbine Hall"?
 * Tate Modern
 * Which of these artists is known for painting horses, ballet dancers, and female nudes?
 * Edgar Degas
 * Which of these paintings is a famous piece of work by the artist John Vermeer?
 * The Artist's Studio
 * In 2001, the Taliban destroyed two giants statues in Afghanistan's Bamyan Valley. Who did those statues depict?
 * Buddha
 * The poster for Home Alone looks a lot like what famous painting?
 * The Scream
 * In 2010, New York City artist Camomile Hixon posted 2000 missing pet posters for what totally non-existent pet of hers?
 * A unicorn
 * Lady Churchill ordered a portrait of Winston Churchill by which of these artists to be destroyed?
 * Graham Sutherland
 * Which London-born artist became known as "the painter of light"?
 * JMW Turner
 * Played by Nicole Kidman in the movie "Fur," who was known for bold, monochrome portraits?
 * Diane Arbus
 * Gilbert Stuart deliberately dawdled on finishing what president's portrait, hoping to buy time to make copies he could sell?
 * George Washington
 * What artist got all lawsuit-y when a company in San Francisco sold bookends that looked like a balloon-dog sculpture he once made?
 * Jeff Koons
 * Born February 3, 1894, in New York City, whose birthday is still celebrated as American Painters Day?
 * Norman Rockwell
 * Alberto Korda won a settlement from Smirnoff, after the vodka brand usurped Korda's image of what left-wing icon?
 * Che Guevara
 * Between 5th and 8th century Egypt, the indigenous Christian community produced art works in what style?
 * Coptic Art
 * In about 1957, what pink bird did Don Featherstone create as a lawn ornament?
 * Flamingo
 * Robert Doisneau is famous for an image of two people, doing what on a crowded Paris street in 1950?
 * Kissing
 * Whose first poster, in 1891, was called "Moulin Rouge-La Goulue," an image of a cancan dancer named La Goulue?
 * Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
 * Art created by inscribing, using a sharp tool on a surface is called what?
 * Engraving
 * The world famous artist Pablo Picasso was from which country?
 * Spain
 * From what was the girl's earring made in a famous Johannes Vermeer painting?
 * Pearl
 * What post-impressionist artist is known for painting Tahitian subject matter?
 * Paul Gauguin
 * After the Dutch East India Company got slammed on the Amsterdam Exchange, what painter went bankrupt and sold his house?
 * Rembrandt
 * What is the name given to a 20th-century art uses anything useless such as refuse or scrap metal?
 * Junk art
 * Rodin's The Thinker was originally meant to depict what writer, sitting at the Gates of Hell and contemplating his own poem?
 * Dante
 * Which artist painted "Portrait of Dr. Gachet," which fetched a record $82.5 million at a New York auction in May 1990?
 * Vincent van Gogh
 * Vermillion is a shade of which color?
 * Red
 * Max Ernst's most famous work, Celebes, appears to depict what animal blowing its nose, or perhaps wearing a frilly collar?
 * Elephant
 * What 70-square-foot canvas shows 48 people, 8 boats, 3 dogs, and 1 monkey?
 * A Sunday on the Grande Jatte
 * Vladimir Tatlin founded which art movement in Russia in the 1917 with the use of modern technology and industry materials?
 * Constructivism
 * Which starving artist won 100,000 francs in the 1891 Credit Foncier lottery, which gave him plenty of time to paint water lilies?
 * Claude Monet
 * Who said that his surreal paintings, such as "Persistence of Memory," were just "hand-painted dream photographs"?
 * Salvador Dali
 * What building did Claude Monet paint repeatedly, using his view from St Thomas' Hospital from 1900-04?
 * British Houses of Parliament
 * Domenikos Thetokopoulos was the real name of which of these famous artists?
 * El Greco
 * What nationality was the impressionist painter Edouard Manet?
 * French
 * In which major London Art Gallery would you find "The Turbine Hall"?
 * Tate Modern
 * Which of these artists is known for painting horses, ballet dancers, and female nudes?
 * Edgar Degas
 * Which of these paintings is a famous piece of work by the artist John Vermeer?
 * The Artist's Studio
 * In 2001, the Taliban destroyed two giants statues in Afghanistan's Bamyan Valley. Who did those statues depict?
 * Buddha
 * The poster for Home Alone looks a lot like what famous painting?
 * The Scream
 * In 2010, New York City artist Camomile Hixon posted 2000 missing pet posters for what totally non-existent pet of hers?
 * A unicorn
 * Lady Churchill ordered a portrait of Winston Churchill by which of these artists to be destroyed?
 * Graham Sutherland
 * Which London-born artist became known as "the painter of light"?
 * JMW Turner
 * Played by Nicole Kidman in the movie "Fur," who was known for bold, monochrome portraits?
 * Diane Arbus
 * Gilbert Stuart deliberately dawdled on finishing what president's portrait, hoping to buy time to make copies he could sell?
 * George Washington
 * What artist got all lawsuit-y when a company in San Francisco sold bookends that looked like a balloon-dog sculpture he once made?
 * Jeff Koons
 * In which major London Art Gallery would you find "The Turbine Hall"?
 * Tate Modern
 * Which of these artists is known for painting horses, ballet dancers, and female nudes?
 * Edgar Degas
 * Which of these paintings is a famous piece of work by the artist John Vermeer?
 * The Artist's Studio
 * In 2001, the Taliban destroyed two giants statues in Afghanistan's Bamyan Valley. Who did those statues depict?
 * Buddha
 * The poster for Home Alone looks a lot like what famous painting?
 * The Scream
 * In 2010, New York City artist Camomile Hixon posted 2000 missing pet posters for what totally non-existent pet of hers?
 * A unicorn
 * Lady Churchill ordered a portrait of Winston Churchill by which of these artists to be destroyed?
 * Graham Sutherland
 * Which London-born artist became known as "the painter of light"?
 * JMW Turner
 * Played by Nicole Kidman in the movie "Fur," who was known for bold, monochrome portraits?
 * Diane Arbus
 * Gilbert Stuart deliberately dawdled on finishing what president's portrait, hoping to buy time to make copies he could sell?
 * George Washington
 * What artist got all lawsuit-y when a company in San Francisco sold bookends that looked like a balloon-dog sculpture he once made?
 * Jeff Koons
 * Which London-born artist became known as "the painter of light"?
 * JMW Turner
 * Played by Nicole Kidman in the movie "Fur," who was known for bold, monochrome portraits?
 * Diane Arbus
 * Gilbert Stuart deliberately dawdled on finishing what president's portrait, hoping to buy time to make copies he could sell?
 * George Washington
 * What artist got all lawsuit-y when a company in San Francisco sold bookends that looked like a balloon-dog sculpture he once made?
 * Jeff Koons
 * What artist got all lawsuit-y when a company in San Francisco sold bookends that looked like a balloon-dog sculpture he once made?
 * Jeff Koons
 * Jeff Koons