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 Architect, sculptor and painter Architect, painter and sculptor Painter, sculptor and architect

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? Perspective Colour Oil painting Painting with a brush

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

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? The Clothed Maja American Gothic Whistler's Mother Christina's World

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

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

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