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Each week The Worldwide Art Gallery runs an art quiz for those who would like to test their knowledge of topics relating to art. Many of the answers can be found in the Art Education and Did You Know sections of this site. Others can be found using our Art Directory or Search the Web facility.
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Q#00034 - Challenge Quiz

Q1: Which Pop-art sculptor, best known for his giant soft sculptures, chose objects with close human associations, such as bathtubs, typewriters, light switches, and electric fans. His best known work is Soft Toilet (1966).?

Q2: John Henry Twachtman (1853-1902), Willard L. Metcalf (1858-1925) and Thomas E. Dewing (1851-1938) were part of which group of American painters from New York and Boston who exhibited together from 1898-1919? They had been members of the Society of American Artists, but resigned from this organization upon deciding that its exhibitions were too too large and conservative.

Q3:Name the artist (1844-1910) who said, referring to Picasso "You and I are the greatest painters of our time, you in the Egyptian style and I in the modern!"

Q4:Name the painting by Jean-Antoine Watteau from the Rococo period in which lovers are shown in party dress - some wearing the pilgrim's hooded cape- coming to seek love on the island of Cythera, under the statue of its goddess, Venus.

Q5:Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882) was the leading figure in which group of English artists that formed an association in 1848 to recapture the beauty and simplicity of the medieval world? Their painting style and art movement reacted to the sterility of English art, along with the materialism resulting from England's industrialization.

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Please provide the Title, Date & Artist of this painting of which only a portion is shown.

Q7:What is the French word (literally meaning 'work') which refers to the collection of works of an artist?

Q8:Which Australian artist (b. 1918) was the official artist to the Elkins anthropological excursion to Central Australia which gave him a taste for the primitive nomadic life of North Western Australia, eventually motivating him to move to Port Hedland where his paintings (eg. McLeod and his Mob) became a sympathetic record of Aboriginal life?

Q9: Add the missing letters. _ m _ _ _ _ _ _ _ - In the architecture of ancient Rome, a depression in the floor of an atrium to collect rainwater..

Q10: Who are the two characters in Da Vinci's Madonna of the Rocks who have been called "the most delectable children in the history of art"? They were painted from examples Da Vinci had seen in the sculptures of Donatello and Verrocchio.

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