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Who is famous for painting swimming pools?

David Hockney. Andy Warhol is famous for his Iconic paintings, Fiona Rae for her frenetic abstract paintings and Mark Rothko for his colour field painting.

Who is known as 'The father of collage'?

Picasso. Picasso collaged many textures including wallpaper.

Gustave Moreau is famous for painting what?

Mythological scenes. Gustave Moreau painted on grand canvases - many were left unfinished.

Which of these is NOT associated with Picasso?

The Grey Period. Picasso was born on the 25 October 1881 in Malaga, Spain.

Who is famous for the sculpture - 'The Kiss'?

Rodin. Auguste Rodin's 'The Kiss' can be seen at Tate Modern in London England.

Who is famous for his 'Action painting'?

Jackson Pollock.

Who said this - 'I am a representational painter but not a painter of appearances. I paint representational pictures of emotional situations'?

Howard Hodgkins. Howard Hodgkins operates on a very much self created border between abstraction and figuration.

Who paints upside down?

Georg Baselitz. His upside down paintings are frequently of animals.

Which art movement came first?

pop art. Pop art started in the mid 50s. Photorealism in the late 60s, Installation art in the mid 70s and Context art in the early 90s.

Name of Damien Hirst's first controversial exhibition?

Freeze. He placed dead animals suspended in formaldehyde inside glass tanks.

Who painted comic book images blown up to epic proportions?

Roy Lichtenstein.

Who was famous for painting Tahitian women?

Gauguin. Gauguin went to Tahiti to paint perfection - what he found there was far from it yet he still painted the dream he had envisioned.

What style was Gustave Courbet famous for painting in?

Realism. Courbet painted everyday life as he saw {it;} not the romanticised images of the Pre-Raphaelites who were painting at a similar time to him.

Who was famous for painting ballet dancers and race horses?

Degas. Edgar Degas made hundreds of studies for his impressionist paintings

Which of these was primarily an architect and engineer, not an artist?

Brunel. Brunel designed part of Paddington Station, London.

Stanley Spencer's paintings often depict his home town. What is it called?

Cookham.

Louise Bourgeois makes giant sculptures of what animal which symbolises her mother?

Spider. Louise's sculpture 'Maman' of a giant spider was on display between May and November 2000 at TATE Modern, London.

Which artist was fascinated with animal anatomy?

George Stubbs. Stubbs' lifelong fascination with animal anatomy from humans to chickens and even cheetahs led to an accomplished ability to provoke the vivid illusion of the creatures presence on the canvas.

Which artist is famous for single block colour canvases with black outlines ?

Patrick Caulfield. Caulfield paints in acrylic.

Hard one to finish.... Which artist won a Grammy for his design on the Beatles' 'Revolver' album cover?

Klaus Voorman. Klaus Voorman went on to designed the cover artwork for the Beatles anthologies.