Arty Allsorts (A Bit Easy)

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1. What did Renaissance architects and sculptors primarily draw their inspiration from? The Middle Ages Nothing. Thorough modernists, they despised all their predecessors as barbarians Ancient Greece and Rome Ancient Egypt

2. Respectively, what are Frank Lloyd Wright, Henry Moore and Jackson Pollock best known as? Sculptor, architect and painter Painter, sculptor and architect Architect, painter and sculptor Architect, sculptor and painter

3. As well as being a great advance in painting, this fifteenth century device also possibly helped Columbus get to the New World. What was it? Painting with a brush Oil painting Perspective Colour

4. "Abstraction" in painting involves the absence of what? Paint Physical images Rational thought - the painting is supposed to be done in a dream-like trance Perspective

5. Which of these sculptures wasn't done in ancient Greece and Rome? The Belvedere Apollo The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa Laocoon and his sons being strangled by the serpent Bust of the Emperor Augustus

6. What is "Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1: Portrait of the Artist’s Mother" better known as? American Gothic The Clothed Maja Christina's World Whistler's Mother

7. What is at the entrance to the Louvre museum in Paris? A miniature replica of the formal gardens at Versailles A huge glass pyramid A giant statue of Napoleon A 1000-yard-long avenue of yew trees

8. What's the most famous painting in the Louvre? Picasso's "Guernica" Leonardo's "la Gioconda" Constable's "The Haywain" "Whistler's Mother"

9. Who painted the "Water Lilies" series of paintings: Monet or Manet? Answer: (One Word)

10. Picasso's "Guernica" was painted as a direct reaction to an event in which war? World War II World War I The Spanish Civil War The Russian Civil War, 1918-1921