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1. Which of these is a paint made from pigments and plastic?

2. Early photographers made their images on which of these materials?

3. To which artistic movement does Paul Gauguin’s The Yellow Christ belong?

4. What does the Venus of Brassempouy represent?

5. Which architect founded the Bauhaus school of design?

6. Who designed the Vietnam Veterans Memorial?

7. What did I.M. Pei design outside the Louvre, in Paris?

8. Which one of these is not a well-known Indian sculptor?

9. What animal often symbolizes peace in art?

10. What was the subject of the earliest known paintings?

11. Name the term to describe a figure that stands with one leg holding its full weight and the other leg relaxed.

12. Which sculptor is best known for his colossal Statue of Freedom?

13. Which artist is known as the creator of Cubism?

14. Which ornamental art style flourished between 1890 and 1910 throughout Europe and the United States?

15. Which art group was founded by a group of women artists devoted to fighting sexism and racism within the art world in 1985?

16. The first artist to receive the MacArthur Foundation "genius" award was:

17. Which artistic movement grew principally out of the earlier Dada movement?

18. Who painted "The Starry Night"?

19. Name the church where Leonardo da Vinci's famous fresco the "Last Supper" is painted.

20. Who coined the term "Post-Impressionism" for a French art movement?

21. Name the type of painting technique done by mixing pigments with hot liquid wax.

22. Which school of painting was founded by the Mongol Il-Khans in the early 14th century?

23. During which dynasty was the Mosul school of painting developed?

24. Name the painting technique that is executed entirely in shades or tints of a single color unnatural to the object.

25. In which year was the German art society Nazarene founded?

26. Which Buddhist portraiture was developed by the Zen sect in 1200?

27. Which art movement, first in painting and later in music, developed in France during the late 19th and early 20th centuries?

28. Which American artist was a pioneer of Abstract Expressionism?

29. Which art movement flourished in Zurich, Switzerland, during the early 20th century?

30. Which art technique uses light and shadow to define three-dimensional objects?

31. Which style of painting flourished in France around the turn of the 20th century?

32. What type of painting depicts scenes from everyday life in a realistic manner?

33. American Gothic painting, used as parodies in popular culture, was painted by which American artist?

34. Name the art group formed from the initials of the founders' home cities

35. Which French painter is called the leader of the Realist movement?

36. Which of these art forms is practiced primarily in East Asia?

37. Who is the founder of the 19th-century school of Neo-Impressionism?

38. Who is known as the father of European painting?

39. Who is the creator of the famous sculptures The Thinker and The Kiss?

40. When did Constructivism in art begin?

41. Who was the teacher of Leonardo da Vinci?

42. Which of these painters is known for making portraits of the leading figures of the American Revolution?

43. What was the artistic movement that originated in Italy in the early 20th-century?

44. Name the form of painting that depicts Christian sacred personages or events.

45. Name the type of sculpture that represents a person dying or in death.

46. Which American filmmaker is also known as one of the originators of the assemblage form of sculpture?

47. In the quarrel of color versus drawing, what are the supporters of the supremacy of disegno (“drawing”) over color called?

48. The motto "Art for art's sake" belongs to which art movement?

49. Which school of the visual arts flourished in Prague under the patronage of Charles IV?

50. When did the Novgorod school of art flourish?

51. What is Chinese landscape painting called?

52. What are Japanese hanging scroll paintings called?

53. The Kishangarh painting belongs to which state of India?

54. What is the other name of the art movement Orphism?

55. Who is the founder of the Rayonism art movement?

56. Which Egyptian art style did Amenhotep IV create?

57. In which country are the Gongbi and Baimiao techniques of painting found?

58. In which year did the German art organization Die Brücke begin?

59. During whose reign did the Carolingian art begin?

60. What school of painting flourished under the Timurid ruler Shāh Rokh?