Q 01/05

In which bohemian quarter of Paris were Picasso and Braque both living when they invented Cubism?

A) Montparnasse

B) The Latin Quarter

C) Montmartre

D) Le Marais

Answer · why

C) Montmartre

Montmartre. The two lived close enough to compare canvases constantly, and for a time their pictures grew so alike that even experts struggle to tell ...

Q 02/05

Which design style took its sharp, faceted geometry from Cubism?

A) Art Nouveau

B) Art Deco

C) Arts and Crafts

D) Pop Art

Answer · why

B) Art Deco

Art Deco. Designers of the 1920s folded the Cubists' angles and fragments into furniture, fashion and buildings, so an avant-garde experiment ended up...

Q 03/05

Whose late works, especially their handling of three-dimensional form, chiefly influenced Cubism?

A) Claude Monet

B) Paul Cézanne

C) Édouard Manet

D) Vincent van Gogh

Answer · why

B) Paul Cézanne

Paul Cézanne's late landscapes and bathers, shown in a Salon d'Automne retrospective the year after his death, taught the young Cubists to build form ...

Q 04/05

Picasso was questioned by police in 1911 over the theft of which painting from a Paris museum?

A) The Gleaners

B) Mona Lisa

C) Olympia

D) La Grande Odalisque

Answer · why

B) Mona Lisa

Mona Lisa. Picasso and a poet friend were both cleared, and the real thief, an Italian handyman who had once worked at the museum, was caught two year...

Q 05/05

Two faces in Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon are widely traced to which art?

A) Japanese prints

B) African masks

C) Russian icons

D) Persian miniatures

Answer · why

B) African masks

African masks. Picasso saw them at a Paris ethnographic museum midway through his work on the picture, yet later denied the debt and pointed to ancien...