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85+ Art Trivia Questions and Answers

Posted on the 25 January 2021 by Smithonepa

Have you remembered the first time you made art? Had an art gallery polished by your first artwork? Maybe not and it is quite possible that you might have used some papery and crayons. Or perhaps it was markers, colored pencils, or paint. Probably a special picture for a friend or family member made by you and it might have been pompously displayed on the opposite of the refrigerator and room doors. So, to have value, art does not have to be hanged next to Mona Lisa.

Art is “something that is created with imagination and skill and that is beautiful”. Is Art only about paintings, drawings, and sculptures? Obviously not because this field includes many other forms of expression. Music, drama, and writing can be Art. The design of buildings, even common items, from teacups to tennis shoes, can be art.

New research revealed that Art could enhance creativity, social development, and self-worth. Here are some exciting art trivia that will reveal how creative and self-worthy you are.

Art trivia

Art trivia

1) How can we communicate our emotions, feelings, and mood illustratively?

Show AnswerThrough arts

2) What we call the forums where are the visual arts being displayed?

Show AnswerMuseums

3) Where is the Metropolitan Museum of Art located?

Show AnswerIn Manhattan

4)What the production of art that is created on a digital platform is called?

Show AnswerDigital art

5) What is the suitable art term for color?

Show AnswerHue

6) What do you call a point with no end?

Show AnswerLine

7) What is art made from commercial items and cultural icons such as product labels, advertisements, and movie stars called?

Show AnswerPop art

8) What does Pop in Pop art stand for?

Show AnswerPop-in Pop Art stands for popular

9) Which two movements are art movements that precede postmodern art?

Show AnswerPop art and minimalism

10) Where is the art capital of the world?

Show AnswerLos Angeles

11) Which city is called the city of art?

Show AnswerAthens

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Art trivia facts

12) Who is the world’s richest tattoo artist, who charges $1,000 for the first hour and only works on the weekends?

Show AnswerScott Campbell

13) In which Century tattoos were used as a punishment, you would be ‘inked’ if you were a criminal so others would recognize you?

Show AnswerThe 19th Century

14) In modern times, what are the most used graffiti materials?

Show AnswerSpray paint and marker pens.

15) Which artist used rice or grains of sand and a surgical blade to create his micro sculptures?

Show AnswerWillard wigan

16) Which statue is the largest hammered copper statue in the world?

Show AnswerStatue of liberty

17) Which artist committed suicide while painting Wheat Field with Crows?

Show AnswerVincent Van Gogh

18) Which painting in history has no eyebrows because it was the fashion in Renaissance Florence to shave them off?

Show AnswerThe Mona Lisa

19) In how many days the first Sculpture Garden was planned?

Show AnswerIn just one night

20) Which famous house of the United States has taken 570 Gallons of Paint to Repaint it?

Show AnswerThe White House

21) For which purpose Andy Brown, an English artist, stitched 1000 used tea bags together?

Show AnswerTo create a portrait of Queen Elizabeth II.

Art trivia crack questions

22) When Art competitions used to be the part of Olympics?

Show AnswerBetween 1912 and 1948

23) The famous painting “The Sunflowers” was made by whom?

Show AnswerVan Gogh

24) Who painted the ‘Mona Lisa’?

Show AnswerLeonardo da Vinci

25) Where was the theater born?

Show AnswerDionysus

26) Which art movement does the painting “The Scream” belong to?

Show AnswerExpressionism

27) In which historical period the Mona Lisa was painted?

Show AnswerThe Renaissance

28) Who was the designer of the Eiffel Tower?

Show AnswerAlexander Gustave Eiffel

29) Which color makes orange when mixed with red?

Show AnswerYellow

30) What is a hue (in art)?

Show AnswerColor

31) Which book is the most translated book?

Show AnswerBible

Visual arts have been changed by articles and critical essays; temporarily, the works themselves have become mute. The curators and critics have taken up the front row in the theater. This could be the difference between modern and traditional art. Some interesting facts about modern art given below will give you great knowledge of modern art.

Modern art trivia

Art trivia

32) Which two mechanical means were invented in the Modern art era?

Show AnswerPhotography and film

33) Analytical cubism was developed by which artist?

Show AnswerPablo Picasso

34) Who made the famous painting called The Scream in 1893?

Show AnswerEdvard Munch

35) Where is the famous painting of Picasso, Family of Saltimbanques hanged?

Show AnswerNational Gallery of Arts, Washington, DC

36) In what Impressionism is the first distinctly modern movement?

Show AnswerIn painting

37) World War 1 brought modern art to which country?

Show AnswerAmerica

38) Which mechanical techniques deprived manually performed drawing and painting?

Show AnswerPhotography techniques

39) which modern art movement was regarded as cutting-edge modern art during the initial period?

Show AnswerLes Nabis

40) Which art museum of the 21st century appears like a large transparent floating island?

Show AnswerMuseum of Art in Kanazawa

41) Who was the contemporary artist that was best known for her “Untitled Film Stills”, a series of self-portraits mean to tackle stereotypes regarding how women look in the media?

Show AnswerCindy Sherman

Art class trivia

42) Research from which university suggests that exposure to the arts for just two hours every week can improve mental health?

Show AnswerUniversity of Western Australia

43) What are the mediums used by the first artists of the world to produce their work?

Show AnswerAshes from fire, plant pigments, and red clay

44) What is a primary color?

Show AnswerA color that cannot be made by mixing other colors together

45) Which colors are come in the category of primary colors?

Show AnswerYellow, Red, and blue

46) What is the primary visual element in Impressionist paintings?

Show AnswerColor

47) Which area of artwork is important?

Show AnswerFocal point

48) What does the best know types of Aboriginal art?

Show AnswerBodypaint and ceremonial artifacts

49) What are Ceramic arts?

Show AnswerArt made from ceramic material, including clay

50) In artmaking what is the most important element of art?

Show AnswerLine

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Art can be divided into three parts. Number one is plastic arts, where something is made like fine arts and literature. Secondly, the performing arts, where something is done by humans in action that is drama (dance, acting, singing) and auditory arts (music, singing). The third part may be practical arts which are done for practical purposes like culinary art(cooking) and art of filming, fashion, photography, video games architecture

Art history trivia questions and answers

51) Which is the oldest public Museum of Art in the world?

Show AnswerKunst Museum Basel (Switzerland)

52) How old is the earliest known human artwork?

Show Answer100,000 years old

53) When and where the pop art emerged?

Show AnswerIn UK and US during the mids of 1950s

54) Who were the artists that shaped the pop art movement?

Show AnswerEduardo Paolozzi and Richard Hamilton

55) What is the oldest metaphorical art discovered by scientists?

Show AnswerCave Painting of Cattle which is 400,000 years old

56) Who is famous for the originator of the modern art movement known as cubism?

Show AnswerPicasso

57) Which era is famous for rock art and cave painting?

Show AnswerThe paleolithic era

58)When was modern art introduced to the United States?

Show AnswerIn 1913

59)The history of which century arts includes expressionism, Fauvism, Cubism, Dadaism, Surrealism, and minimalism?

Show Answer20th century

60)What is the oldest form of art?

Show AnswerPetroglyphs

Over the centuries two countries played the best role in defining western art: Italy and France. Art is one of the major charms of France as a tourist destination in the 21st century. To appreciate French museums and art galleries people come from all over the world. Here are some art trivia about French which may increase your French art taste.

French art trivia

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61) What does French art consist of?

Show AnswerVisual and plastic arts

62) Which French art movement of the 19th century is famous for evoking emotion rather than realism?

Show AnswerPost Impressionism

63) The obsession with ballerinas is famous for which French artist?

Show AnswerEdgar Degas

64) Who painted the most prominent French classical scene The Oath of the Horatii?

Show AnswerDavid

65) Which French painter is known for having pioneered pointillism?

Show AnswerSeurat

66) With what the story of French styles as a diverse and important element in the wider development of the art of Christian Europe begins?

Show AnswerMerovingian art

67) Which century marked as a golden age for French art in all fields?

Show AnswerThe seventeenth century

68) Which terms were used to describe the visual and plastic arts and architecture in Europe from the early eighteenth century to the end of the eighteenth century?

Show AnswerRococo and Neoclassicism

69) What are those actions that brought great changes to the arts in France?

Show AnswerThe French Revolution and the Napoleonic wars

70) Who is the most famous French art usually known as a founder of the impressionism movement?

Show AnswerClaude Monet

Art quiz

71) What is the art in the 20th century that is not representational but explores color and form?

Show AnswerAbstract art

72) The first “photographic paper” was made of what?

Show AnswerAsphalt

73) When Levitsky has made the first portrait by the electric light?

Show AnswerIn 1879

74) Which camera begins the story of a digital photo that produced by the company Sony in 1981?

Show AnswerMavica

75) What is the graphic that is a representation of drawing to show movements within those drawings

Show AnswerAnimation

76) Which animation is the world’s first animation?

Show AnswerThe 1908 Fantasmagorie

77)What was the world’s largest art gallery?

Show AnswerLouvre

78)What is world’s largest art festival?

Show AnswerEdinburgh Festival Fringe

79) The first digital drawing software was performed on which computers?

Show AnswerMac computers

80) In 1968 what was Vera Molnar invented?

Show Answer“Machine Imaginaries”

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Art trivia high school

81) What is the Japanese Art of Flower Arrangement Called?

Show AnswerIkebana

82) Which art movement was encouraged by Catholics?

Show AnswerBaroque Art Movement

83) ‘Everything You Can Imagine Is Real’ is the famous saying of which artist?

Show AnswerPablo Picasso

84) Who learned drawing first before Walking?

Show AnswerPablo Picasso

85) What is the Art of Paper Folding called?

Show AnswerOrigami

86) Which Animal often symbolizes Peace in art?

Show AnswerDove

87) Which French Sculptor Created the Statue of Liberty?

Show AnswerFrederic Auguste Bartholdi

88) Which country is the birthplace of Pop art?

Show AnswerLondon

89) Which type of paint dries very rapidly?

Show AnswerAcrylic paints

90) What was the subject of the earliest known paintings?

Show AnswerAnimals

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