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Modern and contemporary art quiz — Arts & literature The “Modern and contemporary art” quiz — Arts & literature. It has 25 questions in five categories: Iconic Canvases, Art Movements, Names to Know, Beyond the Canvas, Art Destinations. Questions get harder as the points go up, from 100 to 500.
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A peek at the questions The 100- and 200-point questions are open here. The rest show only their first words, and there are no answers: all of that is in the game itself.
Iconic Canvases 100 What is the title of this Van Gogh painting of a swirling blue sky above a quiet village?
200 Name the pictured Munch painting with a figure covering its ears beneath a fiery sky.
300 Name the pictured Grant…
In the game400 What is the title…
In the game500 Picasso’s vast black-and-white canvas…
In the gameArt Movements 100 Which movement brought supermarket goods and comic strips into galleries?
200 Picasso and Braque fractured objects into geometric planes and mixed viewpoints. Name the movement.
300 Which movement looked to…
In the game400 Which postwar New York…
In the game500 Which rebellious movement began…
In the gameNames to Know 100 Who repeated Marilyn Monroe’s face in vivid colors, turning a Hollywood star into gallery art?
200 Which Mexican artist painted herself wearing a thorn necklace with a hummingbird?
300 Which New York painter…
In the game400 Which Japanese artist built…
In the game500 Which Kyiv-born artist made…
In the gameBeyond the Canvas 100 What do you call art made by pasting together cut paper, photos and other fragments?
200 When a creator's live actions become the work, what is this practice called?
300 An artwork fills a…
In the game400 In 1917, Duchamp turned…
In the game500 Robert Smithson built a…
In the gameArt Destinations 100 A visit to the Van Gogh Museum takes you to which Dutch city?
200 Which London art gallery occupies the former Bankside Power Station?
300 Which Paris museum occupies…
In the game400 Which Spanish city has…
In the game500 Which major art exhibition…
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