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Art History: Movements and Masterpieces

From Gothic cathedrals and the Renaissance to Impressionism, Cubism and Pop Art: match artworks, artists and techniques to the right movement.

by Kill h.14 questionsCreated Nov 8, 2026, 08:03 PM

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1
Andy Warhol's Campbell's Soup Cans (1962) is a defining work of:
- A
  Abstract Expressionism
- Pop Art
- C
  Op Art
- D
  Conceptual Art
Pop Art drew on mass production, advertising and celebrity. Abstract Expressionism (Pollock, Rothko), which came just before, was gestural and nonrepresentational.
2
Which architectural features define Gothic cathedrals such as Notre-Dame de Paris?
- A
  Round arches, thick walls and small windows
- B
  Domes, columns and symmetrical facades
- Pointed arches, ribbed vaults and flying buttresses
- D
  Steel frames and glass curtain walls
Flying buttresses carried the weight outward, letting walls be thinner and filled with stained glass. Round arches and thick walls describe the earlier Romanesque style.
3
Classical Greek statues often stand with weight on one leg, shifting the hips and shoulders. This pose is called:
- A
  Chiaroscuro
- Contrapposto
- C
  Sfumato
- D
  Foreshortening
Contrapposto makes figures look relaxed and natural, and was revived in the Renaissance (as in Michelangelo's David). Chiaroscuro and sfumato are painting techniques.
4
Which Renaissance figure is credited with developing linear perspective with a single vanishing point?
- Filippo Brunelleschi
- B
  Raphael
- C
  Titian
- D
  Jan van Eyck
Brunelleschi demonstrated linear perspective in Florence in the early 1400s, and Alberti later wrote it up in On Painting.
5
Michelangelo painted the ceiling of which building between 1508 and 1512?
- A
  St. Peter's Basilica dome
- B
  Florence Cathedral
- The Sistine Chapel
- D
  Santa Maria delle Grazie
The ceiling includes The Creation of Adam. Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan houses Leonardo's Last Supper.
6
Botticelli's The Birth of Venus is notable because it:
- Was one of the first large-scale paintings since antiquity of a mythological nude
- B
  Was painted in oil on canvas using pointillism
- C
  Depicts a scene from the Old Testament
- D
  Was commissioned by the pope for the Vatican
It reflects the Renaissance revival of classical mythology. It was painted in tempera, not oil, in Florence, where it is still displayed in the Uffizi.
7
Caravaggio's dramatic contrast of deep shadows and bright light, typical of the Baroque, is called:
- A
  Sfumato
- B
  Impasto
- Tenebrism
- D
  Trompe l'oeil
Tenebrism is an extreme form of chiaroscuro. Sfumato is Leonardo's soft, smoky blending, as in the Mona Lisa.
8
Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People (1830), full of emotion, drama and political passion, belongs to which movement?
- A
  Neoclassicism
- Romanticism
- C
  Realism
- D
  Rococo
Romanticism prized emotion and the sublime. Neoclassicism (David, Ingres) favored order, clarity and classical restraint.
9
Impressionism got its name from a painting by:
- A
  Edgar Degas
- B
  Édouard Manet
- C
  Paul Cézanne
- Claude Monet
A critic mocked Monet's Impression, Sunrise (1872) at the 1874 exhibition, and the name stuck. Manet and Monet are a classic mix-up.
10
Japanese woodblock prints such as Hokusai's The Great Wave off Kanagawa belong to which tradition?
- Ukiyo-e
- B
  Sumi-e
- C
  Art Nouveau
- D
  Shin-hanga only
Ukiyo-e ('pictures of the floating world') strongly influenced Impressionists and Post-Impressionists, a trend called Japonisme.
11
Van Gogh's The Starry Night (1889) is usually classified as:
- A
  Impressionism
- B
  Expressionism
- C
  Fauvism
- Post-Impressionism
Post-Impressionists (Van Gogh, Cézanne, Gauguin, Seurat) built on Impressionism but stressed emotion, structure or symbolism over capturing passing light.
12
Which movement, led by Picasso and Braque, broke objects into geometric planes shown from several viewpoints at once?
- A
  Surrealism
- Cubism
- C
  Futurism
- D
  Constructivism
Cubism began around 1907-1908. Futurism, an Italian movement, borrowed from it but focused on speed and machines.
13
Marcel Duchamp's Fountain (1917), a store-bought urinal signed 'R. Mutt,' is a key work of:
- A
  Pop Art
- B
  Minimalism
- Dada
- D
  Bauhaus
Dada rejected traditional art after World War I. Duchamp's 'readymades' asked whether choosing an object can make it art.
14
Salvador Dalí's The Persistence of Memory, with its melting clocks, belongs to which movement?
- Surrealism
- B
  Dada
- C
  Cubism
- D
  Abstract Expressionism
Surrealism explored dreams and the unconscious, influenced by Freud. Dada came first and helped lead to it.