Pablo Picasso
Pablo Picasso
  • 1. When was Pablo Picasso born?
A) 1900
B) 1925
C) 1881
D) 1856
  • 2. In which country was Pablo Picasso born?
A) Germany
B) Spain
C) France
D) Italy
  • 3. What art movement was Picasso a co-founder of?
A) Abstract Expressionism
B) Impressionism
C) Cubism
D) Surrealism
  • 4. Which famous painting by Picasso depicts the bombing of a Basque town during the Spanish Civil War?
A) The Old Guitarist
B) Guernica
C) The Weeping Woman
D) Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
  • 5. How many wives did Picasso have?
A) 2
B) 4
C) 3
D) 1
  • 6. What type of artwork is Picasso's 'Bust of a Woman'?
A) Print
B) Oil Painting
C) Watercolor
D) Sculpture
  • 7. What was the name of Picasso's first wife?
A) Jacqueline Roque
B) Françoise Gilot
C) Marie-Thérèse Walter
D) Olga Khokhlova
  • 8. Where did Picasso spend most of his adult life?
A) United States
B) France
C) Spain
D) Italy
  • 9. Which art form did Picasso explore towards the end of his life?
A) Fiber Art
B) Woodworking
C) Glassblowing
D) Ceramics
  • 10. What was the name of the artist studio in Paris where Picasso worked for many years?
A) Bateau-Lavoir
B) Montmartre Studios
C) Left Bank Atelier
D) Champs-Élysées Atelier
  • 11. What is the title of one of Picasso's famous self-portraits created in 1907?
A) The Absinthe Drinker
B) Self-Portrait with Striped Shirt
C) Self-Portrait with Palette
D) Blue Self-Portrait
  • 12. What year did Picasso pass away?
A) 1985
B) 1995
C) 1960
D) 1973
  • 13. Which artist was a close friend of Picasso and together they developed Cubism?
A) Salvador Dalí
B) Henri Matisse
C) Georges Braque
D) Vincent van Gogh
  • 14. What was Pablo Ruiz Picasso's full birth name?
A) Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso
B) Pablo Picasso López
C) Tommaso Pablo Ruiz
D) Pablo Ruiz y Blasco
  • 15. What was Picasso's father's profession?
A) Writer
B) Sculptor
C) Musician
D) Painter and art professor
  • 16. At what age did Picasso begin formal artistic training under his father?
A) Seven
B) Thirteen
C) Sixteen
D) Ten
  • 17. What was the subject of Picasso's first words according to his mother?
A) Palette
B) Paintbrush
C) Pencil (piz, piz)
D) Canvas
  • 18. Which city did Picasso consider his true home during times of sadness or nostalgia?
A) Málaga
B) Barcelona
C) Madrid
D) A Coruña
  • 19. What was the name of Picasso's sister who died when he was eight years old?
A) María
B) Pilar
C) Conchita
D) Dolores
  • 20. Which art school did Pablo Ruiz y Picasso's father become a professor at in A Coruña?
A) School of Fine Arts
B) Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando
C) Prado Museum School
D) Cubist Art Institute
  • 21. How long did it take Picasso to complete the entrance exam for the advanced class at the School of Fine Arts in Barcelona?
A) Three days
B) One month
C) Two weeks
D) One week
  • 22. What was Picasso's reaction to formal instruction after moving to Madrid?
A) He excelled in all his courses.
B) He became the top student of his class.
C) He disliked it and stopped attending classes soon after enrolment.
D) He transferred to another school.
  • 23. Which artist's works did Picasso especially admire at the Prado Museum?
A) Vincent van Gogh
B) Claude Monet
C) El Greco
D) Pablo Ruiz y Blasco
  • 24. What did Picasso's father and uncle decide to do for him at age 16?
A) Have him work as an apprentice painter.
B) Allow him to travel Europe for inspiration.
C) Send him to Madrid's Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando.
D) Enroll him in the School of Fine Arts in A Coruña.
  • 25. Under whose training did Picasso begin his artistic education before 1890?
A) Juan-Eduardo Cirlot
B) Francisco de Asís Soler
C) Max Jacob
D) His father
  • 26. In what year did Picasso's career as a painter officially begin?
A) 1893
B) 1900
C) 1896
D) 1894
  • 27. What was Picasso's first Parisian friend who helped him learn the language?
A) Max Jacob
B) Francisco de Asís Soler
C) Juan-Eduardo Cirlot
D) Carles Casagemas
  • 28. Which painting is a well-known etching from Picasso's Blue Period depicting a blind man and a sighted woman?
A) Celestina
B) La Vie
C) The Frugal Repast
D) Portrait of Soler
  • 29. What theme is recurrent in Picasso's works during the Blue Period?
A) Nature and landscapes
B) War and conflict
C) Joy and happiness
D) Blindness
  • 30. During which period did Picasso's style feature lighter tones with orange and pink colors?
A) The Rose Period
B) The Cubism Period
C) The Surrealism Period
D) The Blue Period
  • 31. What character became a personal symbol for Picasso during the Rose Period?
A) The juggler
B) The clown
C) The mime
D) The harlequin
  • 32. Who was Picasso's mistress that he met in Paris in 1904?
A) Dora Maar
B) Marie-Thérèse Walter
C) Olga Khokhlova
D) Fernande Olivier
  • 33. In what year did Picasso join the art gallery opened by Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler?
A) 1904
B) 1907
C) 1910
D) 1905
  • 34. Who was among the first champions of Georges Braque and Cubism along with Picasso?
A) Leo Stein
B) Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler
C) Henri Matisse
D) Fernande Olivier
  • 35. Which area in Paris was a hub for artists like Picasso during the early 20th century?
A) Saint-Germain-des-Prés
B) Montparnasse
C) Latin Quarter
D) Le Marais
  • 36. Which year is considered a transition between Picasso's Blue Period and Rose Period?
A) 1906
B) 1904
C) 1899
D) 1907
  • 37. Which painting marks the beginning of Picasso's African-influenced Period?
A) Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
B) Guernica
C) Nude with Raised Arms
D) Three Women
  • 38. What inspired the two figures on the right in Les Demoiselles d'Avignon?
A) Iberian sculpture
B) Cubist paintings by Georges Braque
C) African artefacts seen at Palais du Trocadéro
D) Works of Matisse
  • 39. In what year did Picasso publicly exhibit Les Demoiselles d'Avignon?
A) 1907
B) 1911
C) 1916
D) 1909
  • 40. In what year was Picasso arrested in connection with the theft of the Mona Lisa?
A) 1916
B) 1911
C) 1923
D) 1907
  • 41. Which style did Picasso adopt following World War I?
A) Impressionism
B) Surrealism
C) Neoclassical
D) Cubism
  • 42. What did Picasso allegedly tell his partner Françoise Gilot about women?
A) 'Women are my muses.'
B) 'Women are machines for suffering.'
C) 'Women are my greatest supporters.'
D) 'Women are the source of inspiration.'
  • 43. What did Picasso do until 3 a.m. the night before his death?
A) Sculpted
B) Wrote poetry
C) Painted
D) Played music
  • 44. In which year did Pablo Picasso make his first trip to Italy?
A) 1939
B) 1925
C) 1940
D) 1917
  • 45. What did Picasso say when asked if he created Guernica?
A) It was a collaborative work with other artists.
B) I was inspired by the events of the time.
C) Yes, I painted it for the war effort.
D) No, you did.
  • 46. What ballet was Picasso designing when he met Olga Khokhlova?
A) The Rite of Spring.
B) Swan Lake.
C) Erik Satie's Parade.
D) Giselle.
  • 47. Who did Picasso begin a romantic relationship with after the liberation of Paris in 1944?
A) Françoise Gilot
B) Geneviève Laporte
C) Olga Khokhlova
D) Dora Maar
  • 48. Who took over Picasso's work after Kahnweiler's contract terminated?
A) Paul Rosenberg.
B) Léonce Rosenberg.
C) Gertrude Stein.
D) Ambroise Vollard.
  • 49. Who influenced Picasso's use of a black and white scheme in Guernica through her photography?
A) Fernande Olivier
B) Marie-Thérèse Walter
C) Olga Khokhlova
D) Dora Maar
  • 50. With whom did Picasso collaborate on Pulcinella in 1920?
A) Igor Stravinsky.
B) Claude Debussy.
C) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
D) Ludwig van Beethoven.
  • 51. What motif replaced the harlequin in Picasso's work during the 1930s?
A) Harpy
B) Minotaur
C) Sphinx
D) Bull
  • 52. Who was the director of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City that held a major retrospective of Picasso's works in 1939 and 1940?
A) André Breton
B) Alfred Barr
C) Francisco Franco
D) Dora Maar
  • 53. In which decade did a Swiss insurance company purchase two Picasso paintings?
A) The 1960s
B) The 1940s
C) The 1970s
D) The 1950s
  • 54. What medium did Picasso contribute to most importantly?
A) Painting
B) Ceramics
C) Prints
D) Sculpture
  • 55. Which journalist described Picasso as 'wayward and even malicious'?
A) Alfred Frankenstein
B) Jonathan Weinberg
C) André Breton
D) Antoine Romand
  • 56. Which painting style did Picasso use for the Woman with a Mantilla in 1917?
A) Neoclassical
B) Surrealist
C) Cubist
D) Pointillist
  • 57. Who was the art patron that hosted Picasso and Khokhlova for their honeymoon?
A) Nadezhda von Meck.
B) Eugenia Errázuriz.
C) Sonia Delaunay.
D) Alice Prin (Kiki de Montparnasse).
  • 58. What was Picasso's age when he received the special honour exhibition at the Louvre?
A) 100
B) 75
C) 85
D) 90
  • 59. Who wrote the catalogue for the 'Picasso: Masterpieces from the Musée National Picasso, Paris' exhibition?
A) Jacqueline Picasso
B) Henri Matisse
C) Anne Baldassari
D) Pablo Picasso
  • 60. What prize did Picasso receive from the Soviet government in 1950?
A) The Nobel Peace Prize.
B) The Franco-Russian Art Award.
C) The Lenin Peace Prize.
D) The Stalin Peace Prize.
  • 61. What type of paint did Picasso often use in his paintings?
A) Watercolor
B) Common house paint
C) Acrylic paint
D) Oil paint
  • 62. Which magazine wrote about Picasso's influence during his 1939 retrospective at New York's Museum of Modern Art?
A) Artforum
B) Time magazine
C) The New Yorker
D) Life magazine
  • 63. How many of his paintings did Picasso assist in putting together for the Avignon Arts Festival?
A) 250
B) 201
C) 150
D) 300
  • 64. What was the name of Picasso's second wife?
A) Olga Khokhlova
B) Marie-Thérèse Walter
C) Dora Maar
D) Jacqueline Roque
  • 65. Which painting by Velázquez did Picasso reinterpret in the 1950s?
A) Portrait of Pope Innocent X
B) Rokeby Venus
C) The Surrender of Breda
D) Las Meninas
  • 66. Who was entrusted by Pablo Picasso to constitute the catalogue raisonné of his work?
A) Mila Gagarin
B) Françoise Gilot
C) Christian Zervos
D) Olga Khokhlova
  • 67. Which city hosted the exhibition 'Picasso: Masterpieces from the Musée National Picasso, Paris' in 2010?
A) Seattle, Washington, USA
B) Chicago, Illinois, USA
C) Los Angeles, California, USA
D) New York City, New York, USA
  • 68. Who did Picasso include declarations of his love for in many Cubist works?
A) Dora Maar.
B) Olga Khokhlova.
C) Eva Gouel (Marcelle Humbert).
D) Françoise Gilot.
  • 69. Who was the director of the Avignon Arts Festival that visited Picasso?
A) Jacqueline Roque
B) Henri-Georges Clouzot
C) Jean Cocteau
D) Paul Puaux
  • 70. How much older was Picasso than Françoise Gilot?
A) 30 years
B) 40 years
C) 20 years
D) 50 years
  • 71. Who supervised the publication of 11 additional volumes after Zervos' death?
A) Françoise Gilot
B) Jacqueline Roque
C) Olga Khokhlova
D) Mila Gagarin
  • 72. Which prize did Picasso receive in 1962?
A) The International Artist of the Year Award.
B) The Lenin Peace Prize.
C) The Nobel Peace Prize.
D) The Stalin Peace Prize.
  • 73. Who wrote about Picasso dominating Western art in the 20th century in 1998?
A) John Berger
B) Robert Hughes
C) Gertrude Stein
D) Salvador Dalí
  • 74. How many volumes did Christian Zervos and Mila Gagarin publish for Picasso's complete works?
A) 40 volumes
B) 15 volumes
C) 25 volumes
D) 33 volumes
  • 75. Who declared Picasso as 'one of ours' in 1925?
A) Alfred Barr
B) Dora Maar
C) André Breton
D) Francisco Franco
  • 76. What did Picasso sometimes add to his paint to vary its texture?
A) Acrylic
B) Water
C) Sand
D) Oil
  • 77. Who smuggled bronze to Picasso for his artwork during the war?
A) The French Resistance
B) His friends in the art community.
C) Local black market dealers.
D) German sympathizers.
  • 78. What caused Pablo Picasso's death?
A) Car accident
B) A heart attack brought on by pulmonary edema
C) Stroke
D) Cancer
  • 79. Where were the two Picasso paintings deposited after being sold by the insurance company?
A) The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
B) Louvre Museum, Paris
C) Museo del Prado, Madrid
D) Kunstmuseum Basel
  • 80. Which artistic medium did Picasso continue to use despite German restrictions during World War II?
A) Oil painting
B) Watercolor
C) Bronze casting
D) Charcoal drawing
  • 81. What was the name of the villa where Picasso stayed during his honeymoon?
A) Palazzo Pitti.
B) Château de Versailles.
C) Villa Medici.
D) Villa near Biarritz.
  • 82. In what year was the Chicago Picasso sculpture unveiled?
A) 1960
B) 1967
C) 1973
D) 1955
  • 83. What was the height of the public sculpture commissioned for Chicago?
A) 50-foot-high (15 m)
B) 40-foot-high (12 m)
C) 60-foot-high (18 m)
D) 30-foot-high (9 m)
  • 84. Until what year was Guernica entrusted to the Museum of Modern Art in New York City?
A) 1945
B) 1975
C) 1960
D) 1981
  • 85. Which art movement was later seen as prefigured by Picasso's late works?
A) Neo-Expressionism
B) Surrealism
C) Cubism
D) Abstract Expressionism
  • 86. How much was Picasso's estate valued at when settled in 1976?
A) $240 million
B) $500 million
C) $1 billion
D) $100 million
  • 87. In which year did Pablo Picasso receive a special honour exhibition at the Louvre Museum in Paris?
A) 1998
B) 1954
C) 1971
D) 1939
  • 88. What was Picasso considered by his friends during the 1939 retrospective?
A) The greatest artist alive
B) A corrupting influence
C) A minor figure in art
D) An ordinary painter
  • 89. How many poems did Picasso write between 1935 and 1959?
A) Less than 100
B) More than 300
C) Exactly 200
D) Over 500
  • 90. Who was Picasso's 'Golden muse' that he met in 1927?
A) Marie-Thérèse Walter
B) Dora Maar
C) Fernande Olivier
D) Olga Khokhlova
  • 91. What concept defined in the Manifeste du surréalisme did Picasso not fully embrace?
A) Cubism
B) Psychic automatism in its pure state
C) Primitivism
D) Neoclassicism
  • 92. In what year was Claude Picasso born?
A) 1950
B) 1949
C) 1945
D) 1947
  • 93. Where was the Museum Picasso Eugenio Arias' Collection established?
A) Barcelona
B) Seville
C) Buitrago del Lozoya
D) Madrid
  • 94. What title was Picasso given by the city of Basel?
A) Artistic director
B) Cultural ambassador
C) Mayor for life
D) Honorary citizen
  • 95. In which year did Picasso's children gain full legal rights to use the name Picasso?
A) 1973
B) 1961
C) 1955
D) 1986
  • 96. According to the text, who had more influence on nominally vanguard art over the past 30 years than Picasso?
A) Henri Matisse
B) Salvador Dalí
C) Pablo Picasso
D) Marcel Duchamp
  • 97. Which painting by Picasso was analyzed using a nanoprobe in 2012?
A) Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907)
B) Guernica (1937)
C) Girl before a Mirror (1932)
D) The Red Armchair (1931)
  • 98. In which year did Picasso marry Olga Khokhlova?
A) 1941
B) 1923
C) 1918
D) 1935
  • 99. In which city was the 3rd Sculpture International held where Picasso exhibited in 1949?
A) Paris
B) Philadelphia
C) New York
D) Chicago
  • 100. How long was Picasso's affair with Geneviève Laporte?
A) One year
B) Two years
C) Six weeks
D) Three months
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