Culture and Arts

giant moth

What is the largest insect native to the Philippines?

Father Diego Cera

The Bamboo Organ of Las Piñas, Philippines is a musical instrument made up of 1,031 pipes, 902 of which are bamboo (the rest are metal). Who created the famous Bamboo Organ?

Gregoria de Jesus

Which Filipino revolutionary was tagged the "Lakambini of Katipunan"?

Mga Ibong Mandaragit

Amado V. Hernandez was the first posthumous recipient of the National Artist for Literature award in 1973. What was the title of his first Filipino sociopolitical novel that exposed the ills of society as evident in the agrarian problems of the 1950s?

Carlos Quirino

Who was the first National Artist for Historical Literature in the Philippines?

Jose Garcia Villa

Which Philippine national artist used the pen name Doveglion?

Frank Murphy

Who was the last American Governor General in the Philippines?

Mickey Mouse Money

The money used during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines in WWII was called what?

Fernando C. Amorsolo

Who was the first Philippine National Artist in 1972, recognized for outstanding contribution to Philippine art?

Bundok Buntis

Andres Bonifacio (1863-1897) was often called the Father of the Philippine Revolution. Name the one of the two mountains where he was said to have been executed

Ceramics

What is the art of making pottery known as?

Origami

What is the art of paper-folding known as?

Hieroglyphics

What type of art did ancient Egyptians use to communicate with?

Engraving

The art of creating images by chiseling or scraping away at a surface is known as what?

China

Where did the art form of calligraphy originate

Mosaic

What is the art of creating images with an assemblage of small pieces of colored glass, stone, or other materials known as?

The art of carving designs into wood or stone.

What is relief carving?

Abstract art

What is the name for art that does not depict recognizable objects and instead uses shapes, color, and textures to create an effect?

Ikebana

What is the Japanese art of flower arranging called?

Terracotta

What form of pottery takes its name from the Italian for “baked earth”?

7 (painting, architecture, sculpture, literature, music, performing, and cinema.)

How many types of art are there?

Leonardo da Vinci

What famous Italian artist was also an inventor, musician, and scientist?

Jackson Pollock

What artist was known for his unique style of drip painting, and creating abstract expressionist works?

Claude Monet

What artist had a famous series of water lilies paintings inspired by the pond in his garden in Giverny?

Rembrandt

What artist is regarded as one of the greatest artists of Holland’s “Golden Age” and was a master of light and shadow, creating dramatic effects in his paintings?

Gustav Klimt

Who painted the famous portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer, also known as the Woman in Gold?

Georgia O’Keeffe

What artist is famous for her paintings of flowers, southwestern landscapes, and animal skulls?

Andy Warhol

What artist was a leading figure in the pop art movement and created iconic images of celebrities and everyday objects?

Mary Cassatt

What American painter and printmaker was known for her images of the social and private lives of women?

Wassily Kandinsky

What Russian artist is credited as a pioneer of abstract art and believed that colors and shapes had spiritual qualities?

Marc Chagall

Which Russian-French artist was known for his dreamlike, surreal paintings?

Michelangelo

What artist painted the ceiling of the famous Sistine Chapel over a period of four years?

Salvador Dali

What artist is known for his surrealist paintings, including The Persistence of Memory?

Henri Matisse

What French artist was a leader of the Fauvism movement and known for using bright and bold colors?

Johannes Vermeer

This Dutch painter was especially known for his use of light and color in paintings of 17th-century daily life. Who was it?

Frida Kahlo

What Mexican artist, remembered for her self-portraits, was born and died in the same house? It is now a museum in Mexico City.

Pablo Picasso

This Spanish artist is considered one of the most influential artists of the 20th century for his role in pioneering Cubism. Who is it?

Edward Hopper

What realist artist’s paintings captured the loneliness and isolation of modern life in America?

Banksy

What England-based street artist and political activist has used a pseudonym and whose real identify has never been discovered?

Vincent Van Gogh

What famous artist’s paintings became very popular after his death?

Salvador Dali

What Spanish surrealist painter and printmaker was expelled from art school saying that no one on the faculty was qualified to examine him?

Paris, France

Where is the world’s largest art museum, the Louvre, located

Water Lily

What flower is Claude Monet particularly known for?

The Statue of Liberty

What famous sculpture was a gift from France to the United States in 1886 and has welcomed all who have come to New York Harbor since?

Blue

What primary color has been used in art for over 6,000 years and is the most expensive color to produce?

The Mona Lisa

What famous work of art was stolen from the Louvre in 1911 and recovered two years later?

Vincent Van Gogh

What famous painter cut off his own left ear?

Renaissance

What French term meaning rebirth, refers to a period of renewed interest in classical art and learning?

The Starry Night

What famous painting by Vincent Van Gogh was painted while he was in a mental asylum?

David

What famous Michelangelo sculpture stands 17 feet tall and has unusually large hands and head, which was intentional to make it appear proportional from a distance?

Bob Ross

What artist hosted the PBS television program “The Joy of Painting” and is recognized by his abundant hair and has a love of happy trees?

Red, blue, and yellow

What are the three primary colors?

Secondary colors

What are the colors called by mixing equal amounts of two primary colors?

Contemporary

What type of art refers to art produced from the 1960s until today?

Avant-garde

What term can be applied to art and comes from the French military term meaning “advance guard”?

The Persistence of Memory

What famous painting by Salvador Dali features melting clocks?

The Thinker

What famous sculpture by Rodin was originally intended to depict Dante Alighieri contemplating his poem, “The Divine Comedy”?

The Kiss

What famous painting by Gustav Klimt is a symbol of eternal love?

Vestige

In 2000, Karen LaMonte created a monumental lifelike glass sculpture of a dress. What did she call this sculpture?

The Scream

This famous painting by Edvard Munch in 1893 was actually a series of four paintings. What is it?

India

The tallest statue in the world is the Statue of Unity which stands 597 feet. Where is this statue located?

The Great Wall of Los Angeles

One of the world’s largest public murals is in Los Angeles, CA. It stretches over half a mile. What is it called?

View From the Window at Le Gras

In 1826, Joseph Nicéphore Niépce took the first photograph ever taken at his family’s country home. What was it called?

Trevi Fountain

What famous fountain in Rome, Italy was designed by Italian architect, Nicola Salvi?

Water Lilies

What famous painting by Claude Monet is actually a series of about 250 oil paintings?

Pablo Picasso

Les Demoiselles d’Avignon was a groundbreaking work that paved the way for Cubism by what famous painter?

Salvator Mundi

What painting by Leonardo da Vinci is the world’s most expensive painting selling for $450.3 million in 2017?

Impression, Sunrise

The term ‘impressionism’ was coined after the painting of this work of art by Claude Monet. What is it?

The Last Supper

What famous painting by Da Vinci is painted on a wall in a monastery in Milan, Italy?

American Gothic

What famous painting by Grant Wood was inspired by a farmhouse in Eldon Iowa?

David

What famous statue of Michelangelo’s was originally intended to be placed on the roof of Florence Cathedral?

Whistler’s Mother

This famous 1871 painting by James McNeill Whistler is actually titled “Arrangement in Grey and Block No. 1.” But it is better known as what

A piece of shiny metal

In the famous painting Girl with a Pearl Earring by Johannes Vermeer, instead of an actual pearl earring, what is the girl wearing?

The Birth of Venus

What famous painting pictured here by Sandro Botticelli was originally commissioned by the Medici family?

Within the Vatican.

Where is Michelangelo’s work on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel located?

The Mona Lisa

This is arguably the most famous painting in the world.

War (He painted it in response to the 1937 bombing of Guernica)

Pablo Picasso’s famous painting, Guernica, depicts what?

Las Meninas

This is Diego Velázquez’s most famous painting. It depicts Spanish royalty and also a self-portrait of the painter.

A Starry Night 

This Vincent Van Gogh painting is one of the most recognized and beloved paintings in history. What is it?

True

True or False: Pablo Picasso’s full name was Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso.

True

True or False: The art movement known as Surrealism was influenced by Freud’s theories of dreams and the subconscious mind.

Pablo Picasso

What famous painter was questioned by the police about the theft of the Mona Lisa?

It was intentionally destroyed by vandals.

What happened to the nose of the Great Sphinx of Giza?

Melting cheese

What food was the inspiration for the famous painting The Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dali?

A monkey

The artist Rembrandt had what type of pet? He often painted it into his artwork.

An Anteater

What animal did Salvador Dali use to carry around with him for inspiration?

Cataracts

Claude Monet suffered from this condition in his later years which influenced his use of color.

True

True or False: The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows.

Bus accident

Frido Kahlo’s self-portraits were a way for her to cope with chronic pain after what type of accident?

Inhaled Alice

While sculptor Willard Wigan was creating a microscopic scene from Alice in Wonderland, what did he accidentally do?

Andrew Warhola

What was Andy Warhol’s real name?

Two

The Scream, by Edvard Munch was stolen how many times from museums in Oslo, Norway?

A banana

In 2019, Maurizio Cattelan sold an art installation of what item taped to a wall? He called it Comedian and sold it for $120,000?

Ocelot

What type of pet did Salvador Dali have that was named Babou?

Michelangelo

What famous painter was left-handed but trained himself at a young age to be right-handed?

He was a lawyer

What did Henri Matisse do before becoming an artist?

Her death

At 44, Frida Kahlo had her first solo exhibition of paintings in Mexico in 1953, a year before what?

False. Iraq.

The Sumerian “Standard of Ur” was discovered in the ancient city of Ur – present day Turkey.

True

True or False: There are five versions of The Scream by Edvard Munch.

False. They are located in Indonesia. And are over 40,000 years old.

True or False: The oldest known cave paintings are located in Greece.