154+ Best Art Trivia Questions & Answers

Question: Which 20th century Mexican artist contracted polio as a child?

Answer: Frida Kahlo

Question: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is in which US city?

Answer: New York

Question: Which type of flower features heavily in the work of Claude Monet?

Answer: Water Lillies

Question: Early Dutch painter Jan van Eyck was active in which century?

Answer: 15th

Question: Which 16th century Italian artist painted 'St George and the Dragon'?

Answer: Tintoretto

Question: One of Da Vinci's most famous works was called the Last what?

Answer: Supper

Question: Which eccentric artist believed he was a reincarnation of his dead brother?

Answer: Dali

Question: One of Salvador Dali's most famous paintings was 'The Burning' what?

Answer: Giraffe

Question: Which Spanish painter's works include 'The Tilled Field' and 'The Farm'?

Answer: Miro

Question: What was the surname of German artist Peter Paul, born in 1577?

Answer: Rubens

Question: What boy's name is also the name of Michaelangelo's most famous sculpture?

Answer: David

Question: Artist Claude Monet was born in which year?

Answer: 1840

Question: How many paintings did Vincent Van Gogh sell in his lifetime?

Answer: 1

Question: Picasso's work 'Guernica' depicts events in Spain in which decade?

Answer: 1930s

Question: What color of clothing is the woman wearing in painting 'Whistler's Mother'?

Answer: Black

Question: The Metropolitan Museum of Art is in which American city?

Answer: New York

Question: Canaletto was an 18th century artist from which country?

Answer: Italy

Question: Who painted famous British work 'The Hay Wain'?

Answer: Constable

Question: Who created the 'Angel of the North' sculpture?

Answer: Gormley

Question: Which Italian artist's works include 'The Beheading of St John the Baptist'?

Answer: Caravaggio

Question: Albrecht Durer was a Renaissance artist from which country?

Answer: Germany

Question: Pablo Picasso's work 'Guernica' was painted in which decade?

Answer: 1930s

Question: Anna Pavlova was famous in which field of the arts?

Answer: Ballet

Question: Gerhard Richter is a modern artist from which country?

Answer: Germany

Question: Picasso signed his first art contract in which European city?

Answer: Paris

Question: Which scientist invented the color wheel?

Answer: Isaac Newton

Question: The Splash' and 'A Bigger Splash' are works by which British artist?

Answer: Hockney

Question: Which rebel leader featured in the Pop Art of Andy Warhol?

Answer: Che Guevara

Question: Who had a 70s hit with the song 'Vincent' about Vincent Van Gogh?

Answer: Don McLean

Question: Old Woman Frying Eggs' was a 17th century painting by which Spanish artist?

Answer: Velasquez

Question: What is the first name of British modern artist Ms Emin?

Answer: Tracey

Question: What is the first name of Norwegian artist Munch?

Answer: Edvard

Question: What color of cloth is Jesus wearing over his shoulder in 'The Last Supper'?

Answer: Blue

Question: Which famous artist's surname was Harmenszoon van Rijn?

Answer: Rembrandt

Question: What is the title of a famous painting by Hans Holbein the Younger?

Answer: The Ambassadors

Question: Las Meninas', or the Ladies in Waiting, depicts court life in which city?

Answer: Madrid

Question: Dutch painter Rembrandt lived and worked in which century?

Answer: 17th

Question: Which French artist arrived in Tahiti in 1891 and started painting local women?

Answer: Gauguin

Question: Who painted the masterpiece 'Salvator Mundi', which sold for $407 million at auction in 2017?

Answer: Leonardo da Vinci

Question: What is the first name of painter Cezanne?

Answer: Paul

Question: What comes after 'The Night' in the name of Rembrandt's most famous work?

Answer: Watch

Question: Les Demoiselles d'Avignon' is a 1907 work by which artist?

Answer: Picasso

Question: What is the name of the island famous for its huge sculpted heads?

Answer: Easter Island

Question: What color is the pigment called ochre, extensively used in Australian aboriginal art?

Answer: Red

Question: What is the first name of French impressionist painting Monet?

Answer: Claude

Question: The Musee D'Orsay is in which French city?

Answer: Paris

Question: Renoir was one of the leading artists in which movement?

Answer: Impressionism

Question: Banksy's work started appearing on walls in which decade?

Answer: 1990s

Question: Georgia O'Keeffe was a 20th century artist from which country?

Answer: United States

Question: Which world famous artist was born in Leiden in July 1606?

Answer: Rembrandt

Question: Which female Mexican artist is famous for self-portraits?

Answer: Frida Kahlo

Question: What is the name of the painting of a farming couple, one with a pitchfork, in front of a wooden house?

Answer: American Gothic

Question: A work hanging in the Louvre by which artist is also known as 'La Gioconda'?

Answer: Leonardo da Vinci

Question: What is the name of the art technique of making paintings from lots of little dots?

Answer: Pointillism

Question: The Splash', by which famous artist, sold for £23.1 million in February 2020?

Answer: David Hockney

Question: Which French artist is famous for painting Japanese bridges and water lillies?

Answer: Monet

Question: A famous Japanese painting is called the great what off Kanagawa?

Answer: Wave

Question: Which French artist spent the latter part of his life in French Polynesia?

Answer: Gauguin

Question: Which Dutch artist is known for his colorful paintings featuring geometric shapes?

Answer: Mondrian

Question: In which county would you find 'Constable Country', most associated with the artist of the same name?

Answer: Suffolk

Question: Who painted 'The Hay Wain', 'Dedham Vale' and 'Wivenhoe Park'?

Answer: Constable

Question: The Dessert: Harmony in Red' is by which French artist?

Answer: Matisse

Question: In which UK city is the Kelvingrove art gallery and museum?

Answer: Glasgow

Question: Mexican artist Frida Kahlo suffered from which illness as a child?

Answer: Polio

Question: Which artist painted 'Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird'?

Answer: Frida Kahlo

Question: Which football team did artist LS Lowry support?

Answer: Manchester City

Question: Which artist was born in 1632 and lived all his life in Delft in the Netherlands?

Answer: Vermeer

Question: The Starry Night Over The Rhone' was painted in 1888 by which artist?

Answer: Van Gogh

Question: Roots', by which Latin American artist, set an auction record?

Answer: Frida Kahlo

Question: What was the first name of Spanish 17th century artist Velazquez?

Answer: Diego

Question: Kirk Douglas starred in the 1956 biopic 'Lust for Life' about which artist?

Answer: Van Gogh

Question: Which artist painted 'A Sunday on La Grande Jatte'?

Answer: Seurat

Question: Rembrandt was a leading painter of the Golden Age in which country?

Answer: Netherlands

Question: Wassily Kandinsky was a 19th and 20th century artist from which country?

Answer: Russia

Question: How many figures appear in the Grant Wood painting 'American Gothic'?

Answer: 2

Question: Which 20th century artist had a blue period and a rose period?

Answer: Picasso

Question: Which artist said 'The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls'?

Answer: Picasso

Question: What was Renaissance painter Raphael's surname?

Answer: Santi

Question: What was LS Lowry's job for most of his life?

Answer: Rent Collector

Question: From which material did Michaelangelo carve his statue of David?

Answer: Marble

Question: The Smithsonian, one of the world's largest museums, is in which US city?

Answer: Washington

Question: In which year did Andy Warhol exhibit his famous paintings of soup cans?

Answer: 1962

Question: Which 20th century artist had a wife and muse called Gala?

Answer: Salvador Dali

Question: Albert Namatjira is one of the best known indigenous artists from which country?

Answer: Australia

Question: The main figure in 'The Birth of Venus' is standing in which object?

Answer: Shell

Question: Which famous Spanish artist died in January 1989 at his home in Figueres?

Answer: Salvador Dali

Question: Graffiti artist Jean-Michel Basquiat worked in which US city?

Answer: New York

Question: What is the first name of British artist Mr Hockney?

Answer: David

Question: Andy Warhol was born in which US state?

Answer: Pennsylvania

Question: A Van Gogh painting is about people eating which vegetable?

Answer: Potatoes

Question: The Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa is in which city?

Answer: Cape Town

Question: Which Dutch artist is famous for paintings with abstract cubes and lines?

Answer: Mondrian

Question: What is the first name of British sculptor Ms Hepworth?

Answer: Barbara

Question: A famous Rembrandt picture is about a storm on which sea?

Answer: Galilee

Question: Contemporary artist Ai Weiwei is from which country?

Answer: China

Question: Gustav Klimt is a painter from which country?

Answer: Austria

Question: In which European city would you find the Pergamon Museum?

Answer: Berlin

Question: Van Gogh only produced art over a period of how many years?

Answer: 10

Question: Pop artist Andy Warhol was famous for painting which actress?

Answer: Marilyn Monroe

Question: The 1955 Jasper Johns work 'Flag' is a representation of the flag of which country?

Answer: United States

Question: Which Russian abstract artist painted 'Cossacks'?

Answer: Kandinsky

Question: In which year was infamous con-artist Cassie L. Chadwick born?

Answer: 1857

Question: Salvador Dali kept which type of big cat as a pet?

Answer: Ocelot

Question: What was the first name of Dutch painter Vermeer?

Answer: Johannes

Question: Which Italian artist's real name was Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi?

Answer: Botticelli

Question: The 'Old Guitarist' is a 1903 work by which major 20th century artist?

Answer: Picasso

Question: In what year was the Walter Westley Russell piece 'Studland Beach' completed?

Answer: 1943

Question: Modern artist Joan Miro was born in which country?

Answer: Spain

Question: What was the first name of the artist Holbein the Younger?

Answer: Hans

Question: Jean Paul Sarte died in what year?

Answer: 1980

Question: In what year was the Thomas Lawrence piece 'Portrait of George IV' completed?

Answer: 1840

Question: In which year was Augustus Leopold Egg's studio sale first held at Christie's?

Answer: 1863

Question: In which century was painter Joseph Turner born?

Answer: 18th

Question: In what year was the Winslow Homer piece 'Boys in a Dory' completed?

Answer: 1873

Question: In which city could you see Van Gogh's painting 'The Starry Night'?

Answer: New York

Question: In what year was the Thomas P. Anshutz piece 'A Rose' completed?

Answer: 1907

Question: In which year did French painter Henri Fantin-Latour die?

Answer: 1904

Question: In what year was the piece 'The Titan's Goblet' completed?

Answer: 1833

Question: In what year was the Thomas Lawrence piece 'A Gipsy Girl' completed?

Answer: 1794

Question: Buonarroti was the surname of which artist?

Answer: Michaelangelo

Question: In what year was the Thomas Baxter piece 'Water Crowfoot' completed?

Answer: 1821

Question: Jurgen Habaermas was born in what year?

Answer: 1929

Question: In which year did Mark Rothko commit suicide?

Answer: 1970

Question: Jean Jacques Rousseau was born in which year?

Answer: 1712

Question: Which 20th century artist was born Markus Rothkowitz?

Answer: Mark Rothko

Question: John Keats was born in which year?

Answer: 1795

Question: Which artist painted 'Portrait of Adele Bloch Bauer'?

Answer: Gustav Klimt

Question: The Night Watch' is one of the most famous works by which artist?

Answer: Rembrandt

Question: In which year was Henri Fantin-Latour born?

Answer: 1836

Question: In what year was the William Trost Richards piece 'Moonlight on Mount Lafayette, New Hampshire' completed?

Answer: 1873

Question: In what year was the Walter William Ouless piece 'Portrait of Edward Armitage' completed?

Answer: 1886

Question: The Venus de Milo is a sculpture of which mythological person?

Answer: Aphrodite

Question: Late 18th and 19th century painter Goya was from which country?

Answer: Spain

Question: In what year was the Samuel Palmer piece 'The rising Moon' completed?

Answer: 1850

Question: Artist Hieronymus Bosch was born near which city in around 1474?

Answer: Antwerp

Question: In what year was the Sanford Robinson Gifford piece 'A Gorge in the Mountains' completed?

Answer: 1862

Question: In what year was the Winslow Homer piece 'Fishing Boats, Key West' completed?

Answer: 1903

Question: In which year did the Tate Gallery acquire Constantin Brancusi's 1926 'Fish' sculpture?

Answer: 1996

Question: In what year was the Walter William Ouless piece 'Portrait of Henry Stacy Marks' completed?

Answer: 1877

Question: What does the LS in LS Lowry's name stand for?

Answer: Laurence Stephen

Question: In what year was the Sir Gerald Kelly piece 'Jane XXX' completed?

Answer: 1930

Question: In which century did painter Joesph Turner die?

Answer: 19th

Question: The Potato Eaters' is a famous work by which artist?

Answer: Van Gogh

Question: Anish Kapoor specialises in which type of art?

Answer: Sculpture

Question: Which French artist painted 'The Cotton Exchange, New Orleans' in 1873?

Answer: Degas

Question: Which European city would you have to visit to see 'The Kiss' by Gustav Klimt?

Answer: Vienna

Question: In which year was English artist Reginald G Eves born?

Answer: 1876

Question: What is the first name of famous British painter Mr Bacon?

Answer: Francis

Question: Which artist's works include 'Rain' and 'Portrait of the Artist's Sister Aniuta'?

Answer: Chagall

Question: Martin Heidegger was born in which year?

Answer: 1889

Question: One of Van Gogh's works is of a starry night over which French river?

Answer: Rhone

Question: In what year was the Winslow Homer piece 'A Basket of Clams' completed?

Answer: 1873

Question: The National Gallery is on which London Square?

Answer: Trafalgar Square

Question: In which year did English painter Frederick W. Elwell die?

Answer: 1958