東京理科大学 B英1: A fun quiz on artists・画家の楽しみクイズ

Hello!

How are you? Today I thought I would try an activity I hope you'll enjoy: A fun kind of quiz about Western painters. 

The painting above is by a 20th century French cubist artist, Jean Metzinger. This is his painting of a soldier playing chess. 

While this is a great example of cubist painting and the following images include some cubist pictures, not all of them are cubist or realist - I thought I would give you a short history of Western art since the Italian Renaissance just for fun!

The word "quiz" might sound boring, or even a little scary - but this is only in fun and nothing more. No-one has to keep score, including me! So this isn't anything like a test. 

Activity

Look at these paintings below. Who painted them? Take some guesses - but please remember that this isn't a serious quiz. You don't have to keep score, and you don't have to feel bad if you get any of the answers wrong! But let's try!

1.

This should be an easy one! Who painted this famous picture? Choose one answer:

a. Raphael

b. Michelangelo

c. da Vinci

2. 

How about this one? A little bit more difficult - but it's a famous one you've seen. Who painted it? 

a. Edouard Manet

b. Eugene Delacroix

c. Claude Monet

3. 

What about this? Maybe just a bit more difficult. Who did it? 

a. Pablo Picasso

b. Claude Monet

c. Edgar Degas

4. 

Okay. Try this one! This artist did one of the most famous paintings of the 20th century. This is another one of his works. So who's the artist? 

a. Vincent van Gogh

b. Edvard Munch

c. Pablo Picasso

5. 

Let's look at this one. Now who did this picture? Take a guess!

a. Claude Monet

b. Edgar Degas

c. Pierre-Auguste Renoir

6. 

What about this? This painting started a whole new movement in Western art. Who's the artist?

a. Georges Braque
b. Henri Matisse
c. Pablo Picasso

7. 

What about this one? Which artist did this? Try it!

a. Paul Cezanne

b. Georges Braque

c. Pablo Picasso

8. 

Check this one out. Getting more difficult? Good! Now name the artist. 

a. Vassily Kandinsky

b. Piet Mondrian

c. Kazimir Malevich

9. 

Now how about this? Maybe a hard one. Who did it?

a. Willem de Kooning
b. Jackson Pollock 

c. Pablo Picasso

10. 

This is the last one. Who did it? It's a famous one!

a. Andy Warhol
b. Yoko Ono 
c. Robert Rauschenberg

So how did you do? Score yourselves - but please remember that this wasn't serious - only for fun!

See you next time! 

Images: Top - By Jean Metzinger - The University of Chicago Library News, Imaging/Imagining the Human Body, Media Images, Download high-resolution images on Dropbox, PD-US, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=46444565/1. By C2RMF: Galerie de tableaux en très haute définition: image page - Cropped and relevelled from File:Mona Lisa, by Leonardo da Vinci, from C2RMF.jpg. Originally C2RMF: Galerie de tableaux en très haute définition: image page, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=15442524/2. By Eugène Delacroix - This page from this gallery., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=38989/3. By Edgar Degas - the-athenaeum.org [1], Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5744729/4. By Edvard Munch - http://samling.nasjonalmuseet.no/no/object/NG.M.00941 Nasjonalmuseet / Høstland, Børre, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=37709496/5. By Claude Monet - The Yorck Project: 10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei. DVD-ROM, 2002. ISBN 3936122202. Distributed by DIRECTMEDIA Publishing GmbH., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=155851/6. By Pablo Picasso - Museum of Modern Art, New York, PD-US, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=547064/7. By Georges Braque - San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, PD-US, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=319386/8. By Piet Mondrian - [1], Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=37642803/9. https://biblio.wiki/wiki/File:Full_Fathom_Five.jpg/10. By http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/

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