ART AND DESIGN 1
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1. Which British sculptor designed the angel of the North?
Anthony Gormley
2. Which artist in his blue period mainly painted prostitutes and beggars?
Pablo Picasso
3. Who painted 'Women of Algiers', sold at auction for a record $160m in 2015?
Pablo Picasso
4. What modern design icon did Henry Beck introduce to London in 1933?
The London underground map
5. Salvador Dali made a surrealist sofa, inspired by whose lips?
Mae West
6. Which American 'Art Nouveau' artist and designer is best known for his stained glass lamps and windows?
Tiffany
7. The birth of Venus and Primavera are paintings by whom?
Botticelli
8. In which Italian city can you find the statue of David by Michelangelo?
Florence
9. The National Centre of Art and Culture in Paris is named after which French president?
Georges Pompidou
10. Which artist’s studio was known as ‘The Factory’?
Andy Warhol
ART AND DESIGN 2
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1. Of which art movement was Picasso a founder?
Cubism
2. Where is US sculptor Gutzon Borglum’s largest and most famous work?
Mount Rushmore
3. Who painted a picture titled Absinthe Drinker in 1901?
Pablo Picasso
4. Which artistic movement of the 19th Century included artists Rossetti and Burne-Jones?
PreRaphaelite
5. Which major art gallery opened in Bankside in London
in 2000?
Tate Modern
6. What was the first name of the artist Rembrandt?
Rembrandt (Van Rijn)
7. For the love of god is a diamond encrusted platinum skull created by which artist?
Damian Hurst
8.Designer Gerald Holtom, in 1958, released which internationally iconic peace symbol?
The C ND peace sign
9. Which artist is best known for his detailed paintings of Venetian canals?
Canaletto
10. What name is given to a picture made up of tesserae?
Mosaic
ART AND DESIGN 3
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1. What are the first names of art duo Proesch and Passmore?
Gilbert and George
2 Dutch artist M C Escher is especially famous for pictures of impossible what?
Staircases
3. What are the three drooping objects in The Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dalí?
Clocks
4. In which city is the famous Uffizi gallery?
Florence
5. Which Leonardo Da Vinci artwork has been described as "the best known, the most visited, the most written about, the most sung about, the most parodied work of art in the world"
The Mona Lisa
6. French artist Rene Lalique was famous for working with which material
Glass
7. The Girl With a….’what’? Is a 17th Century painting by Johannes Vermeer as well as a 1999 book and a 2003 film?
Pearl earring
8. Which English landscape artist painted The Hay Wain and Flatford Mill?
John Constable
9. Which British artist produced the 1991 work ‘The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living’?
Damien Hirst (A tiger shark preserved in formaldehyde)
10. What nationality was the painter Goya?
Spanish
ART AND DESIGN 4
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1. What is the name of the TV presenter and English contemporary artist who is known for his ceramic vases, tapestries and cross-dressing,
Grayson Perry
2. The artist Giovanni Antonio Canal (Canaletto) is famous for his technically precise paintings of where?Venice
3. What is the first name of the artist Michelangelo?
Michelangelo
4. A Russian woman was arrested in Paris in August 2009 for throwing a cup of tea at which work of art?
The Mona Lisa
5. ‘Nighthawks’ is the work of which American artist?
Edward Hopper
6. My Bed' was exhibited at the Tate Gallery in 1999 and consisted of a messy bed. Who was the artist?
Tracy Emin
7. The Tate has four art museums; two are based in London, name one of the other two English locations?
Liverpool and St Ives
8. Which English painter, famous for his portraits, was the founder and first President of The Royal Academy?
Sir Joshua Reynolds
9. What is the name of the annual, often controversial, arts prize that was only open to artists under 50 until 2016 when the rules were changed?
The Turner prize
10.Barbara Hepworth is famous in which field of the arts?
Sculpture
ART AND DESIGN 5
1. In February 1994, which painting by Edvard Munch was stolen after four thieves broke into the National Gallery of Norway?
The Scream
2. The artist Degas is most famous for his paintings depicting what type of entertainment?
Ballet
3. Which artist appears on the updated £20 note released in February 2020
JMW Turner
4.‘Guernica’, ‘The Weeping Woman’ and ‘Le Rêve’ are all works by which artist?
Picasso
5. In which European city would you find The Van Gogh Museum?
Amsterdam
6. The 1930 Grant Wood painting ‘American Gothic’ depicts a woman and a man holding what?
A pitchfork
7. Rene Magritte’s ‘The Son of Man’ shows a man in a suit and bowler hat with which fruit is covering his face?
An apple
8. Which brand of soup features in Andy Warhol’s soup can series?
Campbells
9. What is the craft of making fabric art and jewellery using knots rather than weaving?
Macramé
10. What is the name of the special oven used in the firing of pottery?
Kiln