SparkNotes: Pablo Picasso: Review Quiz

1. Where was Picasso born?

(A) Málaga, Spain

(B) Paris, France

(C) Barcelona, Spain

(D) Cannes, France

2. What was Picasso's father's profession?

(A) Art teacher

(B) Bullfighter

(C) Farmer

(D) Hollywood agent

3. What painters did Picasso admire in the Prado as a teenager?

(A) Velázquez and El Greco

(B) Cézanne and Gauguin

(C) Bosch and Dürer

(D) Rembrandt and Vermeer

4. Where did Picasso make most of his Barcelona connections?

(A) A café

(B) Art school

(C) His father's studio

(D) The ballet company

5. When did Picasso first leave for Paris?

(A) 1900

(B) 1898

(D) 1904

6. Which painting of Picasso's was selected for the Exposition Universelle in 1900?

(A) Last Moments

(B) La Vie

(C) Science and Charity

(D) Les Demoiselles d'Avignon

7. Whose suicide in 1901 inspired several of Picasso's paintings?

(A) Carles Casagemas's

(B) Eva Gouel's

(C) Max Jacob's

(D) María Picasso Lopez's

8. Which sequence of major works is in the correct chronological order?

(A) "Portrait of Gertrude Stein," "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon," "Still Life with Chair Caning," "Guernica"

(B) "Guernica," "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon," "Still Life with Chair Caning," "Portrait of Gertrude Stein"

(C) "Still Life with Chair Caning," "Portrait of Gertrude Stein," "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon," "Guernica"

(D) "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon," "Guernica," "Still Life with Chair Caning," "Portrait of Gertrude Stein"

9. Which mistress was a ballet dancer?

(A) Olga Koklova

(B) Dora Maar

(C) Marie-Thérese Walter

(D) Françoise Gilot

10. Who was the leader of the Surrealists?

(A) André Breton

(B) Salvador Dali

(C) Paul Éluard

(D) Henri Matisse

11. When did the Fauvists debut?

(A) 1905

(B) 1900

(D) 1915

12. What was Parade?

(A) A ballet

(B) An opera

(C) A play

(D) An illustrated book

13. During one of Picasso's many liaisons, a friend said that "At no other moment in his life was his painting so undulating, all sinuous curves, rolling arms, and swirling hair." Who was his mistress during this period?

(A) Marie-Thérese Walter

(B) Olga Koklova

(C) Jacqueline Roque

(D) Fernande Olivier

14. With which artistic movement was Picasso associated in the 1920s?

(A) Surrealism

(B) Abstract Expressionism

(C) Symbolism

(D) Fauvism

15. Which was the first old master painting that Picasso made a variation of?

(A) Grünewald's "The Crucifixion"

(B) Velázquez's "Las Meninas"

(C) David's "The Rape of the Sabine Women"

(D) Poussin's "Bacchanale"

16. When did the Museum of Modern Art in New York buy "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon"?

(A) 1939

(B) 1929

(D) 1959

17. Of which politician did Picasso paint a portrait?

(A) Stalin

(B) Churchill

(C) Kennedy

(D) Mussolini

18. When did the Spanish Civil War begin?

(A) 1936

(B) 1916

(D) 1946

19. What was the most miserable year of Picasso's life?

(A) 1935

(B) 1915

(D) 1945

20. What was the Minotaur?

(A) Half man, half bull

(B) Half man, half horse

(C) Half man, half donkey

(D) Half man, half jellyfish

21. Which painting was Picasso's first experiment with neo-classicism?

(A) "Three Women at the Spring"

(B) "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon"

(C) "Girl with Bare Feet"

(D) "The Dance"

22. Which of the following figures inspired Surrealism?

(A) Freud

(B) Nietzsche

(C) Cézanne

(D) Renoir

23. Who worked together on Parade?

(A) Picasso, Cocteau, Satie, Massine

(B) Picasso, Sartre, de Beauvoir, Camus

(C) Picasso, Breton, Aragon, Éluard

(D) Picasso, Braque, Cézanne, Stein

24. Which of the following works would you call Synthetic Cubist?

(A) "Three Musicians"

(B) "Portrait of Gertrude Stein"

(C) "Three Women at the Spring"

(D) "Seated Bather"

25. Which of the following works would you call Analytical Cubist?

(A) "Portrait of Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler"

(B) "Still Life with Chair Caning"

(C) "Portrait of Olga in an Armchair"

(D) "Minotauromachy"

26. Who invented the terms "Analytical Cubist" and "Synthetic Cubist"?

(A) Kahnweiler

(B) Picasso

(C) Braque

(D) Stein

27. Who was "Ma Jolie"?

(A) Eva Gouel

(B) Marie-Thérese Walter

(C) Gertrude Stein

(D) Jacqueline Roque

28. What artist did Braque most look up to?

(A) Cézanne

(B) Renoir

(C) Courbet

(D) Matisse

29. What was the Bateau-Lavoir?

(A) A building filled with cheap artists' studios

(B) An extremely fashionable café

(C) Picasso's favorite yacht

(D) An infamous Parisian bordello

30. Which sequence of artistic movements is in the correct chronological order?

(A) Art Nouveau, Fauvism, Cubism, Surrealism

(B) Fauvism, Surrealism, Art Nouveau, Cubism

(C) Surrealism, Fauvism, Cubism, Art Nouveau

(D) Cubism, Art Nouveau, Surrealism, Fauvism

31. Which of the following was an inspiration for "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon"?

(A) African art

(B) Japanese art

(C) Italian art

(D) Mexican art

32. Who co-invented Cubism with Picasso?

(A) Braque

(B) González

(C) Cocteau

(D) Apollinaire

33. What was Picasso's first collage?

(A) "Still Life with Chair Caning"

(B) "Minotauromachy"

(C) "Violin and Sheet Music"

(D) "Aubade"

34. Which two mistresses did Picasso marry?

(A) Koklova and Roque

(B) Walter and Maar

(C) Koklova and Gilot

(D) Olivier and Gouel

35. Who wrote Les Peintres cubistes in 1913, giving Braque and Picasso crucial early critical support?

(A) Apollinaire

(B) Stein

(C) Kahnweiler

(D) Gilot

36. Who ran the Ballet Russes?

(A) Diaghilev

(B) Koklova

(C) Stalin

(D) Cocteau

37. When did Picasso start signing his work "Picasso"?

(A) 1901

(B) 1896

(C) 1891

(D) 1886

38. Who invented the papier collé?

(A) Braque

(B) Picasso

(C) Matisse

(D) González

39. In what year did Picasso suffer from a creative block?

(A) 1935

(B) 1940

(D) 1950

40. Dora Maar was a:

(A) Surrealist artist

(B) Ballet dancer

(C) Young divorcée

(D) Teenage girl

41. When did Picasso stop painting?

(A) In the seventies

(B) In the sixties

(C) In the fifties

(D) In the forties

42. What does "fin-de-siecle" mean in French?

(A) End of the century

(B) New art

(C) Advance guard

(D) Wild beast

43. To what artistic movement did Gaugin belong?

(A) Primitivism

(B) Surrealism

(C) Impressionism

(D) Cubism

44. Who coined the word "surrealism"?

(A) Apollinaire

(B) Breton

(C) Cocteau

(D) Aragon

45. Who was Picasso's most important patron?

(A) Gertrude Stein

(B) Serge Diaghilev

(C) Jean Cocteau

(D) Erik Satie

46. Which painting did Gertrude Stein describe as "a veritable cataclysm"?

(A) "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon"

(B) "Grand Nu"

(C) "Guernica"

(D) "La Vie"

47. When was Picasso's Blue Period?

(A) 1901-1904

(B) 1895-1898

(D) 1905-1908

48. Which of the following paintings is of Marie-Thérese?

(A) "Nude in a Garden"

(B) "Seated Bather"

(C) "Large Nude in a Red Armchair"

(D) "The Dance"

49. Who said "beauty will be convulsive or not at all"?

(A) Breton

(B) Matisse

(C) Cézanne

(D) Cocteau

50. Of the following people, to whom was Picasso closest personally?

(A) Sabartés

(B) Matisse

(C) Braque

(D) González