Q 01/05

Which artist painted the vast anti-war canvas Guernica after bombers destroyed a Basque market town in 1937?

A) Juan Gris

B) Pablo Picasso

C) Julio González

D) Antoni Tàpies

Answer · why

B) Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso made it for the Spanish pavilion at the 1937 Paris world's fair. The canvas then spent decades at New York's Museum of Modern Art and re...

Q 02/05

What bathroom fixture is Marcel Duchamp's Fountain, signed with a false name and sent to a New York art show in 1917?

A) A urinal

B) A bathtub

C) A washbasin

D) A bidet

Answer · why

A) A urinal

A urinal turned on its back, it was kept out of the show area and lost soon afterwards. The versions in museums are replicas Duchamp approved in the 1...

Q 03/05

Which Spanish painter filled The Persistence of Memory with limp pocket watches draped over a branch and a ledge?

A) Yves Tanguy

B) Giorgio de Chirico

C) Salvador Dalí

D) Joan Miró

Answer · why

C) Salvador Dalí

Salvador Dalí said the soft watches came from seeing a Camembert cheese melt in the sun, not from the theory of relativity. The painting first sold fo...

Q 04/05

Which American artist filled a Los Angeles gallery in 1962 with 32 paintings of Campbell's soup cans?

A) Claes Oldenburg

B) Tom Wesselmann

C) Robert Indiana

D) Andy Warhol

Answer · why

D) Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol said he had eaten the same soup lunch every day for twenty years. Each canvas shows a different variety, and the full set was later bought...

Q 05/05

Which street artist's Girl with Balloon slid into a shredder hidden in its frame moments after selling at Sotheby's?

A) Banksy

B) Invader

C) Stik

D) KAWS

Answer · why

A) Banksy

Banksy meant the whole canvas to be destroyed, but the shredder stopped about halfway. The half-cut picture was retitled Love Is in the Bin and resold...