Q 01/05

In which two countries did pop art emerge in the mid-to-late 1950s?

A) Italy and the UK

B) The UK and the US

C) France and the US

D) Germany and Japan

Answer · why

B) The UK and the US

British artists studied American consumer imagery from afar; New York became the hotbed almost simultaneously.

Q 02/05

Which London circle, founded in 1952, is regarded as the precursor to pop art?

A) The Camden Town Group

B) The Independent Group

C) The Bloomsbury Group

D) The Vorticists

Answer · why

B) The Independent Group

Its young painters, architects and critics debated advertising, movies, comics and science fiction.

Q 03/05

Whose 1947 collage I was a Rich Man's Plaything holds the first use of 'pop' in art?

A) Peter Blake

B) Eduardo Paolozzi

C) David Hockney

D) Richard Hamilton

Answer · why

B) Eduardo Paolozzi

The word bursts from a cloud of smoke emerging from a revolver.

Q 04/05

Which British critic is usually credited with coining the term 'pop art'?

A) Herbert Read

B) John Berger

C) Clement Greenberg

D) Lawrence Alloway

Answer · why

D) Lawrence Alloway

He later insisted he had meant the products of mass media, not art about them.

Q 05/05

Who made the 1956 collage Just what is it that makes today's homes so different...?

A) Patrick Caulfield

B) Allen Jones

C) Peter Phillips

D) Richard Hamilton

Answer · why

D) Richard Hamilton

It was produced for the Independent Group's This Is Tomorrow exhibition and is considered among the earliest pop works.