Attempts: 5 | Correct: 3 | Accuracy: 60.0% (your overall: 60.0%)
Memorize these and you could recognize 11.2% of all Visual Art clues.
| # | Answer | Appearances | Sample Clue |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rembrandt | 65 | Van Rijn is the last name of this Dutch artist who gave us the masterpiece "The Night Watch" |
| 2 | Pablo Picasso | 65 | Not surprisingly, it was during his Blue Period that he painted "The Blue Room" |
| 3 | Vincent Van Gogh | 61 | In 1888 he painted his "House at Arles", his "Bedroom at Arles" & several still lifes of sunflowers |
| 4 | Michelangelo | 59 | In 1505 he was recalled to Rome to make a tomb for the Renaissance Pope Julius II |
| 5 | Paul Gauguin | 52 | He painted the famous triptych "Whence Do We Come? What Are We? Where Are We Going?" in Tahiti |
| 6 | Andy Warhol | 47 | This pop artist was known for his silkscreens of such idols as Marilyn Monroe & Elizabeth Taylor |
| 7 | Claude Monet | 43 | At his home in Giverny, this artist created the water lily pond that inspired his paintings |
| 8 | Francisco Goya | 35 | Spanish artist who painted the "Milkwoman of Bordeaux" & lithographed the "Bulls of Bordeaux" |
| 9 | Georgia O'Keeffe | 34 | Published in 1987 at $100, "One Hundred Flowers" is a collection of her work |
| 10 | Jackson Pollock | 34 | He painted figurative works such as "Going West" before starting "Drip" painting in 1947 |
| 11 | Auguste Rodin | 32 | Sculptor of "The Thinker" & "The Kiss", museums in Paris & Philadelphia are named for him |
| 12 | Grandma Moses | 31 | At age 80, this American painter had her 1st solo show |
| 13 | Toulouse-Lautrec | 28 | His own stunted physique caused him to seek out & paint outcasts of Paris |
| 14 | El Greco | 28 | Failing to understand his art, Spain's Philip II withdrew patronage from this Greek expatriate |
| 15 | Jacques-Louis David | 28 | After Napoleon's defeat in 1815, this neoclassical French artist went to Brussels, where he died in exile |
| 16 | Peter Paul Rubens | 26 | Known for his buxom nudes, this Flemish artist produced at least 1200 paintings |
| 17 | Mary Cassatt | 26 | She was the only American who exhibited work with the Impressionists |
| 18 | Thomas Gainsborough | 24 | His nephew Gainsborough DuPont apprenticed with him |
| 19 | Edgar Degas | 24 | As his eyesight failed, he turned to sculpting his dancers instead of painting them |
| 20 | Leonardo da Vinci | 23 | Despite how he's known, he was probably actually born in Anchiano, near Florence |
| 21 | Marc Chagall | 22 | This Russian-born artist did murals for the new Met & stained glass for a Jerusalem synagogue |
| 22 | Diego Rivera | 21 | Rockefeller Ctr. destroyed his “Man At The Crossroads” because of a Lenin look-alike in the mural |
| 23 | Andrew Wyeth | 21 | He painted one of his most famous pictures, "Christina's World", 40 years ago |
| 24 | Georges Seurat | 21 | The most famous "Sunday Afternoon" this pointillist painted was on the "Grand Jatte" |
| 25 | Titian | 20 | Born Tiziano Vecellio, he was portrait artist to Emperor Charles V, who knighted him |
| 26 | Salvador Dali | 20 | Critics of this prolific artist point out his name anagrams to "Avida Dollars", meaning eager for bucks |
| 27 | Gilbert Stuart | 20 | The likeness of Washington on the $1 bill comes from his "Athenaeum" portrait |
| 28 | Venice | 19 | The Biennale, world's longest-running art festival, is held every year in this romantic Italian city |
| 29 | Florence | 19 | Art historians tend to agree that Renaissance art began with Vasari in this Italian city |
| 30 | Grant Wood | 19 | This artist's sister nan & dentist B.H. McKeevy were the models for his "American Gothic" |
| 31 | Cubism | 18 | Painting style used in Picasso's "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon", influenced by African tribal art |
| 32 | Alexander Calder | 18 | Naum Gabo created a kinetic sculpture in 1920, but this artist is credited with the first true mobile |
| 33 | Raphael | 17 | He painted “The Transfiguration” & for 6 years directed the construction of St. Peter's Church in Rome |
| 34 | Labor | 17 | (OSHA) The Occupational Safety and Health Administration |
| 35 | Impressionism | 17 | Monet supplied the name for this style of art by titling an 1872 work "Impression, Sunrise" |
| 36 | Edvard Munch | 17 | This Norwegian's woodcut of "Two Women on the Shore" may make you want to "Scream" |
| 37 | the Treasury | 16 | The Federal Financing Bank |
| 38 | the Last Supper | 15 | During Napoleonic Wars, French soldiers used this Da Vinci fresco for target practice |
| 39 | Frida Kahlo | 15 | "Diego and I" by this artist was the 1st painting by a Latin American to sell for more than $1 million |
| 40 | Botticelli | 15 | He chose to eschew worldly things & burned many of his early paintings, though not "The Birth of Venus" |
| 41 | Winslow Homer | 14 | His "Gulf Stream" depicts a forlorn black man on a broken-masted sailboat surrounded by sharks |
| 42 | Venus | 14 | There are 2 folks flying in & a wardrobe lady on hand at her birth in Botticelli painting |
| 43 | Paris | 14 | During her gig as the "Today" food correspondent for the 2024 Olympics, Ina crashed at her pied-à-terre in this city |
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| 45 | the Louvre | 12 | You're snapping a selfie at this museum's main entrance, a glass pyramid designed by architect I.M. Pei |
| 46 | Marcel Duchamp | 12 | His "Nude Descending a Staircase No. 2" was first shown at a Cubist exhibition in Barcelona |
| 47 | Roy Lichtenstein | 12 | The 1st U.S. artist to have an exhibition at London's Tate Gallery, he painted thefollowing |
| 48 | Jan Vermeer | 12 | This Dutch painter, a member of the Delft Guild, had a total output of only about 40 pictures (one with a pearl) |
| 49 | Whistler | 11 | Though his "Mother" is in Paris, the best collections of his work are in Washington & Glasgow |