Q 01/05

Which painter cut off part of his own left ear with a razor in the French town of Arles?

A) Paul Gauguin

B) Pierre-Auguste Renoir

C) Vincent van Gogh

D) Paul Cézanne

Answer · why

C) Vincent van Gogh

Vincent van Gogh wrapped the severed ear in paper and delivered it to a woman at a local brothel after a row with Paul Gauguin. He later painted himse...

Q 02/05

Which portrait did Louvre worker Vincenzo Peruggia steal in 1911 and hide in his apartment for two years?

A) Mona Lisa

B) La Fornarina

C) The Blue Boy

D) Ginevra de' Benci

Answer · why

A) Mona Lisa

The Mona Lisa owes much of its worldwide fame to the theft. Peruggia, an Italian patriot who thought it belonged in Italy, was caught when he tried to...

Q 03/05

Which artist's 'Girl with Balloon' began shredding itself moments after selling at a Sotheby's auction in 2018?

A) Damien Hirst

B) Tracey Emin

C) Keith Haring

D) Banksy

Answer · why

D) Banksy

Banksy had hidden a shredder in the bottom of the frame, and it stopped about halfway through the canvas, which the artist says was unplanned. The pie...

Q 04/05

Which pop artist painted 32 Campbell's soup cans, one for each variety, for a Los Angeles gallery show?

A) Jasper Johns

B) Andy Warhol

C) Robert Rauschenberg

D) Claes Oldenburg

Answer · why

B) Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol said he had eaten the same lunch every day for twenty years. The gallery showed the canvases in a single row on narrow ledges, like grocer...

Q 05/05

Which objects droop and melt across the landscape of Salvador Dalí's painting 'The Persistence of Memory'?

A) Rotary telephones

B) Chess pieces

C) Pocket watches

D) Grand pianos

Answer · why

C) Pocket watches

Pocket watches gone soft became his best-known image. Dalí said they were inspired by a Camembert cheese melting in the sun, not by the theory of rela...