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Culture
Quiz: What’s Your Visual Art IQ?
Can you identify these fine art makers, movements and masterpieces? Test your cultural savvy with this quiz that separates the sophisticates from the philistines
By Jessica KellerScroll
1. Let’s start with something simple: Who painted this masterpiece?

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2. This is one of the most recognisable works by eccentric Spanish artist Salvador Dalí. What is it called?

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3. And what artistic movement does it belong to?

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4. Where can you go to see this enigmatic lady in person?

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5. Which city is considered the birthplace of the Renaissance?

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6. Who is synonymous with this bold, graphic, cartoon-like style full of energy and colour?

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7. Mexican artist Frida Kahlo is most noted for what type of art?

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8. Which movement is most closely associated with Pablo Picasso’s mural ‘Guernica’?

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9. We likely don’t have to tell you that this is Auguste Rodin’s ‘The Thinker’. In what century was it completed?

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10. You likely know that this work is titled ‘American Gothic’, but can you pinpoint the American artist who painted it?

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11. To what movement does this iconic work belong?

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12. In recent decades, ‘The Great Wave off Kanagawa’, by 19th-century Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai, has adorned everything from T-shirts to keychains, Lego blocks and the 1,000-yen note. It is an example of what fine printmaking technique?

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13. In 2010, the Tate Modern’s 1,000sq m Turbine Hall was famously filled with 100 million individually hand-crafted porcelain sunflower seeds in a groundbreaking large-scale work by whom?

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14. You’ve heard of Banksy, who emerged in the 1990s to become the most prominent graffiti artist in the world. Where did he/she first start creating street art?

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15. Which contemporary artist is best known for their immersive installations featuring infinity mirror chambers, oversized pumpkins and/or a ubiquitous use of polka dots?

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Image Credits:
Question 1: Ismoon / Wikimedia Commons
Question 2: via Wikimedia Commons
Question 4: Dianelos / Wikimedia Commons
Question 6: Guglielmo Giambartolomei / Wikimedia Commons
Question 7: Photo via Picryl
Question 8: Jules Verne Times Two / Wikimedia Commons
Question 9: Brwz / Wikimedia Commons
Question 10: Rawpixel Ltd / Wikimedia Commons
Question 11: Steven Zucker / Flickr
Question 12: Wiki3689 / Wikimedia Commons
Question 13: Ismoon / Wikimedia Commons
Question 14: Dominic Robinson / Wikimedia Commons
Question 15: M.Ahmadani / Wikimedia Commons
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