Q 01/05

Matisse led which movement, named after the French for 'wild beasts'?

A) Fauvism

B) Cubism

C) Dadaism

D) Futurism

Answer · why

A) Fauvism

The label came from a 1905 jibe about 'Donatello among the wild beasts'.

Q 02/05

What medium did Matisse turn to when illness stopped him painting?

A) Watercolour wash

B) Cut paper collage

C) Bronze casting

D) Wall fresco

Answer · why

B) Cut paper collage

He called his final years a 'second life', wandering gardens in the form of cut-outs.

Q 03/05

What did Matisse's mother bring him during his appendicitis convalescence in 1889?

A) A camera

B) Law books

C) A violin

D) Art supplies

Answer · why

D) Art supplies

He discovered 'a kind of paradise' and abandoned law, deeply disappointing his father.

Q 04/05

What had Matisse studied in Paris before he took up painting?

A) Architecture

B) Medicine

C) Law

D) Music

Answer · why

C) Law

He worked as a court administrator in Le Cateau-Cambrésis after qualifying.

Q 05/05

In which northern French town was Matisse born on New Year's Eve 1869?

A) Le Cateau-Cambrésis

B) Saint-Quentin

C) Boulogne-sur-Mer

D) Valenciennes

Answer · why

A) Le Cateau-Cambrésis

His father was a wealthy grain merchant; the town now has a Matisse museum he founded in 1952.