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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.

  • 25 questions · 5 categories

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Buzzo quiz: Modern and contemporary art

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

  1. 100Picture for the question

    What is the title of this Van Gogh painting of a swirling blue sky above a quiet village?

  2. 200Picture for the question

    Name the pictured Munch painting with a figure covering its ears beneath a fiery sky.

  3. 300

    Name the pictured Grant…

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  4. 400

    What is the title…

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  5. 500

    Picasso’s vast black-and-white canvas…

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Art Movements

  1. 100

    Which movement brought supermarket goods and comic strips into galleries?

  2. 200Picture for the question

    Picasso and Braque fractured objects into geometric planes and mixed viewpoints. Name the movement.

  3. 300

    Which movement looked to…

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  4. 400

    Which postwar New York…

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  5. 500

    Which rebellious movement began…

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Names to Know

  1. 100

    Who repeated Marilyn Monroe’s face in vivid colors, turning a Hollywood star into gallery art?

  2. 200

    Which Mexican artist painted herself wearing a thorn necklace with a hummingbird?

  3. 300

    Which New York painter…

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  4. 400

    Which Japanese artist built…

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  5. 500

    Which Kyiv-born artist made…

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Beyond the Canvas

  1. 100

    What do you call art made by pasting together cut paper, photos and other fragments?

  2. 200

    When a creator's live actions become the work, what is this practice called?

  3. 300

    An artwork fills a…

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  4. 400

    In 1917, Duchamp turned…

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  5. 500

    Robert Smithson built a…

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Art Destinations

  1. 100

    A visit to the Van Gogh Museum takes you to which Dutch city?

  2. 200

    Which London art gallery occupies the former Bankside Power Station?

  3. 300

    Which Paris museum occupies…

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  4. 400

    Which Spanish city has…

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  5. 500

    Which major art exhibition…

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