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What Spanish Surrealist is known for his works like The Persistence of Memory and The Elephants?
Jan Van Eyck
Hodge Van Der Linde
Stefan Wallier
Salvador Dali
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Grant Wood is an American painter perhaps most famous for what painting that depicts an elderly couple in front of their farmhouse?
The Wellington Farm
Look Back
American Gothic
The Wonder Years
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Claude Monet was one of the founders of what artistic style that aimed to capture vague senses of images rather than concrete reproductions of them?
Cubism
Impressionism
Dadaism
Verinism
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The Ballet Class and The Absinthe Drinker are two works by what famous Impressionist who is known for paining indoor scenes unlike others in his style?
Thomas Hancock
Richard Franks
Edgar Degas
Edvard Munch
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The artist Domenikos Theotokopulos who created Portrait of an Old Man is more commonly known by what nickname?
Mercury
Donatello
Polaris
El Greco
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What is the name of the Renaissance master who created the famous work The School of Athens?
Raphael
Leonardo da Vinci
Michelangelo
Donatello
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What is the name of the American Realist painter known for his masterpiece The Nighthawks?
Edward Hopper
Louis Stoltz
Gregg Donnovan
Michael Thurnbridge
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Edvard Munch was a Norwegian painter famous for his mastery of expressions. What is the name of his 1893 magnum opus that depicted a person in the midst of shrieking in terror?
The Scream
Number 13
Sunset Visions
The Son of Man
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What is the name of the Polish artistic legend who painted works like Stanczyk the portrayal of a brooding jester?
Ladislov Stoklasa
Jan Matejko
Gosa Leibowitz
Login Stanczyk
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What Roman master of Baroque art is known for his mastery of depicting dramatic light as seen in paintings like The Musicians and Saint Francis of Assisi in Ecstasy?
Caravaggio
Donatello
Miguelus
Ulster
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What Dutch Renaissance painter famously incorporated symbolism in his Realist paintings as can be seen in The Arnolfini Wedding?
Louis Franklin Byer
Weston Hier
Jan van Eyck
Gottard Lisbourne
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The Night Watch and The Return of the Prodigal Son are two of the most prominent works by what Dutch master of the Golden Age?
Banksy
Pasco
Rembrandt
Lugdern
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What artist helped bring about Modernist Pop Art as seen in works like Campbell's Soup Cans?
Daul Felton
Raineri Walton
Andy Warhol
Jackson Pollock
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The Belgian Surrealist Rene Magritte is perhaps best known for creating what painting that shows a man with an apple in front of his face?
Broken Down
The Son of Man
Painting 2
Fruits
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Diego Velazquez was a Spanish master who helped develop what artistic style that made heavy use of shadow to convey mood to the viewer?
Pointillism
Tenebrism
Dadaism
Roanism
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Sandro Botticelli became recognized as a master of the Renaissance thanks to his painting "The Birth of (BLANK)." Please fill in the blank.
Saturn
Venus
Mercury
Mars
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Thanks to works like The Desperate Man and The Painter's Studio, the artist Gustave Courbet became a trend-setter of what artistic period that valued dramatic and individual expressiveness?
The Romantic Period
The Modernist Period
The Postmodernist Period
The Renaissance
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What German Romanticist is famous for works like Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog?
Allons Dier Gallagher
Jackson Pollock
Caspar David Friedrich
Wesley Herminster
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What British Figurative painter is known for the unsettling and often religious content of his paintings like Three Studies for Figures at the Base of the Crucifixion?
Francis Bacon
James Harlowe
Roger Erhart
H. R. Giger
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What abstract Expressionist famous for dripping paint on canvases is the creator of works like The She Wolf and Number 17A?
Michael Redcliff
Stephen Gourey
Andy Warhol
Jackson Pollock
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Hieronymus Bosch was a Dutch painter whose most famous works were often painted in three distinct parts upon wooden panels. What is the technical name for such a work?
Trepar
Trentveaux
Triptych
Trial
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What Dutch oil painter is the creator of the famous Girl with a Pearl Earring?
Rohan Bryn
Odahan Kellig
Johannes Vermeer
Yohan Westridge
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What is the name of the abstract artist behind works like Nude Descending a Staircase 2 and also famously submitted a urinal to an exhibition?
Beauregard Tilden
J. H. Auden
Logain Reidmont
Marcel Duchamp
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The artist Zdzilaw Beksinski was a painter who specialized in nightmarish Surrealism. What country was the native homeland of Beksinski?
Romania
Poland
France
The U.S.A.
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What is the name of the famous anti-war oil painting by Pablo Picasso that shows a farmhouse in the midst of a bomb's explosion?
Monsoon
Guernica
Voivode
Cristarchs
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The famous painting by Francisco Goya which shows a titan eating a human being is called "(BLANK) Devouring His Son." Fill in the blank.
Pluto
Uranus
Mars
Saturn
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Michelangelo painted The Creation of Adam upon the ceiling of what famous holy site?
The Temple of Jerusalem
St. Paul's Basilica
Notre Dame Cathedral
The Sistine Chapel
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What Flemish painter became a voice for Counter-Reformation art with works like Samson and Delilah as well as The Descent from the Cross?
Vincent van Gogh
Peter Paul Rubens
Joshua Mozart
Aaran Estel
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What is the name of the Renaissance master who painted works like The Last Supper and Mona Lisa?
Miguel D'Angelas
Sandro Botticelli
Leonardo da Vinci
Johann Wolfgang van Goethe
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The Starry Night is one of the quintessential masterpieces by what Dutch artist?
Vincent van Gogh
Andrew H. Chapman
Timothy Lundquest
Frederick de Gaulle
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